Category Archives: HArlem Jazz

Young Chefs Show Off New Culinary Skills While Racing Against the Clock

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Elementary and middle school chefs slice and dice their way to glory in the 4th Annual Children’s Aid Society Iron Go!Chefs Competition. Continue reading

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“Swinging with the Big Bands” in Jazz At Lincoln Center

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During the 1930s, when times were tough, big bands criss-crossed the U.S. by road and rail, their tunes ballyhooed via radio. Their stars were household names. Continue reading

Ramsey Lewis At Aaron Davis Hall In Harlem

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Jazzmobile is proud to support Aaron Davis Hall’s program presenting NEA Jazzmaster and longtime Dr. Billy Taylor friend and collaborator Ramsey Lewis!  Continue reading

HW Pick: ‘Walkin’, Miles Davis, 1967 (video)

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Don’t let that cool Harlem swagger fool you, Miles Davis and the Miles Davis Quintet dig into this classic ‘Walkin’, from November 7, 1967:

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HW Pick: Jazz Shrines Festival At Ginny’s Supper Club

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National Jazz Museum in Harlem May 2013 Schedule

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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz’s most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. Continue reading

Jazz’s Top Female Artists to Headline Smoke

Smoke - InteriorMarch is National Women’s History Month, so Smoke Jazz and Supper Club-Lounge in South Harlem will host shows featuring several of the most celebrated female artists on modern jazz: Cynthia Holiday, Brianna Thomas, Dee Daniels and more. Continue reading

Jazzmobile’s Jazzy Awards Presentation With Jimmy Heath

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Richard Parsons Time To Revive Harlem Jazz Spot

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This old dive in Harlem has been shuttered for about as long as it had been open. Yet Minton’s Playhouse will always be known as the cradle of bebop, where the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker jammed into the night. Continue reading

Ornette Coleman’s Harmolodic Studios, Harlem

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Harmolodic Recording Studios founded, designed by the American jazz composer and alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and his son (and manager and drummer) Denardo at Harlem’s historic Lee Building at 103 East on West 125th in East Harlem, New York. Continue reading