Jazz News

Smokey Robinson At Lehman Center For The Performing Arts

Source: Joe Alterman
April 3, 2012

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts continues its tremendous 31st season with a superstar of popular song – the GRAMMY Award-winning “poet laureate of soul music,” Smokey Robinson, on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 8pm. The velvet-voiced singer/songwriter, whose $60-million-plus in record sales helped turn Motown into the largest Black-owned corporation in the world, recorded 37 Top 40 Motown hits between 1960 and 1987, including mega-hits “Tears of a Clown,” “Ooo Baby Baby,” “Shop Around,” and “The Tracks of My ...

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Gloria Gaynor At Lehman Center For The Performing Arts

Source: Joe Alterman
April 2, 2012

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts continues its superb 31st season with a spectacular night of dance hits on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 8pm. One of dance music’s biggest stars for over three decades, GRAMMY® Award winner GLORIA GAYNOR will perform with a full band. Her 1979 #1 hit, the greatest disco anthem of all time, “I Will Survive,” is her signature song of inspiration that has touched the hearts of people all over the world. The song was ...

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Gilberto Santa Rosa At Lehman Center For The Performing Arts

Source: Joe Alterman
April 2, 2012

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts continues its unforgettable 31st season with one of Salsa’s greatest voices for the past three decades, GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY winner GILBERTO SANTA ROSA, whose unique style of soneo (improvisational singing) revolutionized Salsa. His world-wide tour stops at Lehman Center on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 8pm. Countless mega-hits, including “Conciencia,” “Conteo regresivo,” “Perdóname” and “Que alguien me diga,” have made him one of the most prolific masters of popular tropical music. For this ...

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Bobby McFerrin at Bronx's Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on February 4

Source: Joe Alterman
January 25, 2012

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 31st season with an EXCLUSIVE New York City appearance by a true genius of vocal improvisation, ten-time GRAMMY® Award winner BOBBY McFERRIN on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 8pm. Since the 1980s, McFerrin has amazed audiences around the world with his four-octave range and his capacity for improvisation on par with the greatest jazz instrumentalists. At the same time, the sophistication and soulfulness of his singing put him in a class all ...

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Lehman Center For The Performing Arts Announces Spectacular 2011-12 Season

Source: Joe Alterman
September 26, 2011

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts proudly announces the lineup for its 2011-12 Season, which continues its 31-year tradition of bringing world-class entertainment to the Bronx. The season will include the return of multi-Grammy Award-winning legend Smokey Robinson and Latin jazz master Paquito D'rivera with the great Mambo Legends Orchestra. Audiences will thrill to the hot salsa of Grupo Niche, Sonora Ponceña, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Raphy Levitt Y La Selecta and Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and Salsa Palooza, featuring Tito Nieves, ...

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May 5-11 at Tutuma Social Club (NYC)

Source: Joe Alterman
April 27, 2011

Thursday May 5 @ 7pm Jonghun Song Quartet. Straight ahead jazz music Jonghun Song (guitar), Ji-yong Park (Piano), Younchul Kim (Bass) Ray Kim (Drums) @8:30pm: Lando Tap—Passion of Rythym. Modern Afro-Peruvian song and dance Toño Vilchez (percussion, zapateo, & tap), Alex Da Silva (Bass), John Doing(Drums), Laurandrea Leguia (sax) Grant Fisher (guitar). Reservations recommended @10:30pm: Afro Peruvian Quartet with Daniel Susnjar. Afro Peruvian jazz Daniel Susnjar (perc), Paul Bollenback (guitar), Alex Norris (trpt), Joseph Lepore (bass) Friday May 6 @ ...

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May at Tutuma Social Club (NYC)

Source: Joe Alterman
April 20, 2011

Tutuma Social Club 164 East 56th Street New York, NY 10022 (646) 300-0305 Thursday May 5

@ 7pm Jonghun Song Quartet. Straight ahead jazz music Jonghun Song (guitar), Ji-yong Park (Piano), Younchul Kim (Bass) Ray Kim (Drums) @8:30pm: Lando Tap—Passion of Rythym. Modern Afro-Peruvian song and dance Toño Vilchez (percussion, zapateo, & tap), Alex Da Silva (Bass), John Doing(Drums), Laurandrea Leguia (sax) Grant Fisher (guitar). @10:30pm: Afro Peruvian Quartet with Daniel Susnjar. Afro Peruvian ...

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