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Harlem Speaks Series Continues in April - Jam Session (April 7) Milt Grayson (April 21)
April 3, 2005
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]
The Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Harlem Speaks Series Continues in April
Jam Session (April 7) Milt Grayson (April 21)
New York, NY (April 1, 2005) Harlem Speaks, the ongoing discussion series of the Jazz Museum in Harlem (held on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m.) which gives overdue tribute to people whose lives and legacy keep jazz alive in Harlem, will feature four illustrious sidemen and singers during March and April of 2005.
Jam Session (April 7) Due to a scheduling conflict, the Ed Cherry appearance has been postponed, to be replaced by a JAM SESSION on April 7th! Loren Schoenberg, tenor saxophonist and Executive Director of the Jazz Museum, will lead a group of special guest musicians who are friends of the museum. Instead of a verbal conversation, the usual fare for the Harlem Speaks series, come experience an exhilarating musical conversation!
Milt Grayson, a Juilliard graduate with a uniquely rich and velvety baritone voice, closes out the set on April 21st. He began his career by touring Europe and South America with dance legend Katherine Dunham during the 1950s, and recorded and toured with Duke Ellington from 1960-1963. Grayson is also an accomplished actor who’s performed on Broadway (Raisin, Bubbling Brown Sugar, and Purlie), and, recently, in Black Nativity, with whom he sang for Pope Paul II by special invitation. The Harlem baritone played the role of The Undertaker in George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with the Metropolitan Opera during the mid-1980s. Grayson’s resonant pipes are a preference of Wynton Marsalis’, who tapped the elegant gent to hold forth with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra from 1991-1995, and more recently on its “For Dancers Only" Spring 2000 U.S. Tour.
The wondrous Gloria Lynne, a member of a generation of contralto singers embodying the sound of the golden era of jazz, was a pure delight on Thursday, March 10, 2005. Ms. Lynne related stories of her early years as a songstress, and with grace and poise, shared experiences of difficult dealings in the recording industry to the filled the offices of the Jazz Museum in Harlem.
Last Thursday renowned session drummer and baritone vocalist Grady Tate beamed as he shared remembrances of his remarkable career. This interview, as are all in this continuing series, is preserved on video for the museum archives.
The bi-weekly series, co-produced by the Jazz Museum in Harlem and Greg Thomas Associates, is held at the offices of the Jazz Museum in Harlem, located at 104 East 126th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, from 6:30pm-8:00pm, beginning on March 10, 2005 until April 21st.
The series is free to the public. Please call for reservations: 212 348-8300.
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]
The Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Harlem Speaks Series Continues in April
Jam Session (April 7) Milt Grayson (April 21)
New York, NY (April 1, 2005) Harlem Speaks, the ongoing discussion series of the Jazz Museum in Harlem (held on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m.) which gives overdue tribute to people whose lives and legacy keep jazz alive in Harlem, will feature four illustrious sidemen and singers during March and April of 2005.
Jam Session (April 7) Due to a scheduling conflict, the Ed Cherry appearance has been postponed, to be replaced by a JAM SESSION on April 7th! Loren Schoenberg, tenor saxophonist and Executive Director of the Jazz Museum, will lead a group of special guest musicians who are friends of the museum. Instead of a verbal conversation, the usual fare for the Harlem Speaks series, come experience an exhilarating musical conversation!
Milt Grayson, a Juilliard graduate with a uniquely rich and velvety baritone voice, closes out the set on April 21st. He began his career by touring Europe and South America with dance legend Katherine Dunham during the 1950s, and recorded and toured with Duke Ellington from 1960-1963. Grayson is also an accomplished actor who’s performed on Broadway (Raisin, Bubbling Brown Sugar, and Purlie), and, recently, in Black Nativity, with whom he sang for Pope Paul II by special invitation. The Harlem baritone played the role of The Undertaker in George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with the Metropolitan Opera during the mid-1980s. Grayson’s resonant pipes are a preference of Wynton Marsalis’, who tapped the elegant gent to hold forth with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra from 1991-1995, and more recently on its “For Dancers Only" Spring 2000 U.S. Tour.
The wondrous Gloria Lynne, a member of a generation of contralto singers embodying the sound of the golden era of jazz, was a pure delight on Thursday, March 10, 2005. Ms. Lynne related stories of her early years as a songstress, and with grace and poise, shared experiences of difficult dealings in the recording industry to the filled the offices of the Jazz Museum in Harlem.
Last Thursday renowned session drummer and baritone vocalist Grady Tate beamed as he shared remembrances of his remarkable career. This interview, as are all in this continuing series, is preserved on video for the museum archives.
The bi-weekly series, co-produced by the Jazz Museum in Harlem and Greg Thomas Associates, is held at the offices of the Jazz Museum in Harlem, located at 104 East 126th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, from 6:30pm-8:00pm, beginning on March 10, 2005 until April 21st.
The series is free to the public. Please call for reservations: 212 348-8300.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
