Festival calendar of events is available on the Internet at http://www.cbjcjazz.org/, or by phone at 718.569.1896. Contact our exclusive travel partner Evette Dorham, at Travel Counsellors at 800.807.9142, cell 404.634. 6662 or email [email protected].
This year's festival theme is BROOKLYN - In the JAZZ Tradition. “Tradition makes reference to our ancestors and the cultural legacy they left behind. Eubie Blake (in the 1920's), Billie Holiday and Betty Roche (in the late 1930's), Max Roach, Cecil Payne, Chief Bey, Willie Jones, Kenny Dorham and C. Scoby Stroman (in the late 1940's and beyond) paved a path for the jazz legacy of Brooklyn, New York. Today in 2008, we must research and study the Jazz legacy of Brooklyn and use it to mold and shape the future of our lives - 'Music is the healing force of the universe (Albert Ayler),'" said Jitu Weusi, Chairman of Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium.
BROOKLYN - In the JAZZ Tradition is a cultural celebration which also brings together our borough's creative communities (literature, film, photography and education) with Jazz. Programs and performances will be held at Weeksville Heritage Center, Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Branch, Medgar Evers College, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Historical Society, Concord Baptist Church of Christ; as well as Brooklyn's popular entertainment venues: Sista's Place, Solomon's Porch, BAMcafe Live, Jazz Spot, Williamsburg Music Center, Sugar Hill Restaurant & Supper Club and Jazz 966 just to name some.
9th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival highlights this year include an award presentation to legendary jazz stylist Nancy Wilson; presentation by Member of the Executive Council, Department of Economic Development and Tourism from North West Province, Republic of South Africa, Mr. Darkey Ephraim Africa; Olu Dara's “Stranded in Brooklyn" free concert; swing dance party with Ray Abrams Big Band featuring vocalist Donna Tulivu Cumberbatch; famed jazz photographer Chuck Stewart displays his works at Afroarts Design gallery; film screening of “The Music Inn" with Randy Weston; Alma Carroll and Emme Kemp in Jazz! The Women's Viewpoint; Jazz great Houston Person; Ray Anderson & The Versatiles featuring Jann Parker at Janes United Methodist Church; history of Brooklyn Jazz lecture/jam session with The New Cookers; Latin Jazz with Arturo O'Farrill featuring Steve Turre; and a special tribute to the life of Brooklyn's native son Max Roach.
Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium, founded in 1999, is an amalgam of jazz musicians, entertainment venues, patrons of the music, community and faith based organizations. Over the past eight years, they have presented an annual spring festival, established a Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame, and produced yearly programs of events and activities that feature local jazz musical talents. CBJC is a nonprofit organization committed to preserving, promoting and supporting jazz music, musicians and programs.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
