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A Harlem Jazz Museum Grows Up

The fourth-floor space on East 126th Street does not look anything like a museum. Flourescent-lighted and largely bare, the room appears to be an office but for a weathered grand piano that sits in the middle of the floor and a few faded photographs that adorn the walls. Continue reading

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Harlem Speaks with Sandra Reeves-Phillips

Event

sandraHarlem Speaks: Featuring Sandra Reeves-Phillips, Vocalist, Thursday, October 8th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm @ the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, 104 East 126th Street, Suite 2C (FREE)

Songstress and dramatic actress Sandra Reaves-Phillips is a modern day griot, a keeper of the musical traditions of her artistic ancestors, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington. and Mahalia Jackson. By integrating blues, gospel and jazz into one production, Ms. Reaves-Phillips secures the continuity of the founding musical styles of black American culture. Ms. Reaves-Phillips has been in performing as a professional for almost 50 years and has developed insights into the truth of the blues. Don’t miss this conversation. For more details call (212) 348-8300.