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Germaine Ingram

Return Engagement For "Last Call At The Downbeat" In April!

February 20, 2014

In November 1942, 25-year-old trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie is in Philadelphia leading his own quartet for a 7-week engagement at the Downbeat Club. He’s just been fired by Lucky Millinder after a stint at the famed Earle Theatre at 11th and Market Streets—right around the corner. It’s war time, and big band swing is still the rage, ...

Jazz Bridge Presents Dizzy Gillespie Play "Last Call at the Downbeat" on April 5-6 and 12-13

February 17, 2013

Last Call at the Downbeat, an original show about Jazz pioneer Dizzy Gillespie’s famous stint at Philadelphia’s Downbeat nightclub in November of 1942, will open in the Red Room of the Society Hill Playhouse—507 South 8th Street in Philadelphia—on Friday April 5th and run through the first two weekends in April (International Jazz Month) ending on ...

The Spirits Break to Freedom - Jazz Collaboration for the President's House on June 12th

May 9, 2011

On Sunday, June 12th, at the Christ Church Neighborhood House at 20 N. American Street in Philadelphia, dancer/choreographer Germaine Ingram, composer/musician Bobby Zankel, and visual artist John Dowell will present the latest version of their ongoing creative collaboration commemorating the nine African Americans enslaved by President George Washington in the President's House, the first American “white ...