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NJPAC and Montclair State University Launch New All-Female Jazz Education Residency for Summer 2014

NJPAC and Montclair State University Launch New All-Female Jazz Education Residency for Summer 2014

Grammy-Nominated New Jersey Pianist Geri Allen to Serve as Artistic Director New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), in collaboration with Montclair State University will offer a new, All-Female Jazz Residency as part of NJPAC’s arts education offerings. The residency will be led by Grammy-nominated New Jersey pianist Geri Allen, who will serve as the program’s artistic ...

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News: Education

NJPAC's Brick City Jazz Orchestra debuts in Newark's Branch Brook Park

Music blossomed in Newark when the Brick City Jazz Orchestra made its premiere under blue skies. With the opening notes of Kenny Dorham’s “Blue Bossa,” NJPAC’s Brick City Jazz Orchestra heralded its official debut in Newark’s Branch Brook Park. The sun was hot, but the student musicians were the epitome of cool. The park’s famed cherry ...

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News: Event

All Hail Jazz!

All Hail Jazz!

“I’ll remember April, and I’ll smile,” sang Frank Sinatra, who would have made a great pitchman for New Jersey’s role in Jazz Appreciation Month. April brings good reason to smile in the State’s jazz circles, but the proud epicenter is Newark, which practically claims parental rights to many jazz royals. Jazz’s triple crown in the downtown ...

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NJPAC Celebrates Governor Brendan T. Byrne’s 90th Birthday With A Celebrity Comedy Roast Benefit Featuring Roastmaster Governor Chris Christie, Five Additional Former NJ Governors And Special Guest Comedians

NJPAC Celebrates Governor Brendan T. Byrne’s 90th Birthday  With A   Celebrity Comedy Roast Benefit  Featuring Roastmaster Governor Chris Christie,  Five Additional Former NJ Governors And  Special Guest Comedians

NEWARK, NJ – NJPAC will celebrate Governor Brendan T. Byrne’s 90th birthday on Tuesday, April 1 at 5:30pm with a Roast and toast of the former Governor by his predecessors in the New Jersey governor’s office, celebrity comedians and other New Jersey politicians. Held in NJPAC’s intimate Chase Room and benefiting the Arts Center’s education initiatives, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Acclaimed Hip-Hop/Classical String Duo Black Violin Makes Classical Music Cool At NJPAC

Acclaimed Hip-Hop/Classical String Duo Black Violin Makes Classical Music Cool At NJPAC

Black Violin brings their much heralded version of classical music to NJPAC’s Victoria Theater, Saturday, February 22nd at 2pm and 7pm. They will also do a special performance for over 500 Newark area students in grades four through eight. A mixture of hip-hop, rock, R&B and bluegrass, Black Violin comprised of members Wilner “Wil B” Baptiste ...

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Jazz Meets Sports At NJPAC

Jazz Meets Sports At NJPAC

Why do jazz musicians share a longstanding affection and admiration with athletes and vice-versa? Besides having some obvious commonalities—great hand-eye coordination, for instance—it all points to high-octane performance. “Preparation, performance and the ability to change things up and make decisions and movements freely, on the spot,” says Doug Doyle, News and Sports Director at WBGO Jazz ...

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Dance Theatre Of Harlem To Headline NJPAC's Martin Luther King Celebration

Join NJPAC as we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with two very special events Dance Theatre of Harlem Friday, January 17th at 7:30PM At NJPAC’s Prudential Hall Performing arts workshops “Embodying the Dream” Saturday, January 18th from 10AM to 12 Noon Experience the poetry-in-motion of ...

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Lizz Wright And Savion Glover Light Up Ellington At Christmas

Lizz Wright And Savion Glover Light Up Ellington At Christmas

AN ELLIGINTON CHRISTMAS: THE ELLINGTON NUTCRACKER A joyful holiday salute to the Duke’s “Nutcracker Suite” and “Sacred Music,” featuring tap master Savion Glover and the Dance Theater of Harlem School 48 member Arts High Advanced Choir will perform with the David Berger Jazz Orchestra Sunday, December 8th, 4:00pm NJPAC’s Prudential Hall NJPAC is proud ...

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NJPAC's Sunday brunch series at Dorthaan’s Place

NJPAC's Sunday brunch series at Dorthaan’s Place

The finest in jazz is on the menu at Dorthaan’s Place, NJPAC’s Sunday brunch series. Anticipation runs high at Dorthaan’s Place, whether you’re there for the music, the food, the scene, Dorthaan, or all of the above. The Sunday brunch jazz series, hosted by Newark’s peerless “First Lady of Jazz” Dorthaan Kirk, made its debut during ...

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The TD James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival celebrates Newark author Amiri Baraka’s “Blues People” at 50

The TD James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival celebrates Newark author Amiri Baraka’s “Blues People” at 50

Past and present journeys of all kinds – spiritual, professional, musical and cultural—intersected at the Newark Museum, where poet and playwright Amiri Baraka was honored and musician Craig Harris was featured during NJPAC’s TD James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival. The celebrated Newark author was there in recognition of his seminal exploration of African-American music and ...


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