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INWOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL
Bringing JAZZ All The Way UP Uptown! It’s all about the music 🎶

INWOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL
(Bringing JAZZ All The Way UP Uptown)

BRUCE REYNOLDS GARDEN is proud to present the 1st Annual free, one day, outdoor, Inwood Jazz Festival! WHY do we want to create the first ever outdoor jazz festival in Inwood, free of charge, and open to all?

1) Bringing this exciting new cultural offering to Inwood and thereby highlighting this vibrant (yet sometimes overlooked) part o

f NYC will benefit both visitors and residents and enrich the community, and the city in more ways than one. Whether it's the economic, cultural, or even educational benefit - there are only upsides to this idea!

2) Festival will be another way to support and engage local businesses, many of whom are still recovering from economic blows handed to them by the pandemic.

3) With IJF, we will be adding another new platform for all the jazz artists in NY, who have lost so many venues during shutdowns, and with them - their livelihoods.

4) This event will allow the local community (families and youth in particular), to experience first-hand, and in their very own "backyard", the magnificent power and beauty of the American classical art form - JAZZ. New York's jazz clubs, while admirable staples of our City, tend to be unattainable to youngest New Yorkers, either due to cost or the "bedtime" incompatibilities (parents will know what we mean here!)

02/16/2025

The Early Life section of this page is a ‘must read’!

Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French: [ɑ̃twan ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894)[a] was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba, and redesigned the bass clarine...

02/16/2025

02/16/2025

Provided to YouTube by Epic/Associated/LegacyEverything Must Change · Nina SimoneBaltimore℗ 1978 Sony BMG Music EntertainmentReleased on: 1995-07-18Backgroun...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead -

02/16/2025

On February 10, 1937, Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Roberta Flack was born in Black Mountain.

The daughter of two pianists, Flack herself began playing piano at age 9 and was heavily influenced by the sound and style of gospel music. She graduated high school at 15 and received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Howard University.

Flack's big break came in 1968 when jazz pianist Les McCann sent a copy of one of her performances to Atlantic Records. Flack released her first studio album, First Take, with Atlantic Records in 1969.

In all, Flack has won four Grammy awards and her album 1973 Killing Me Softly was certified double platinum.

Read more of her story here: https://bit.ly/40RHjmz

Image: A Roberta Flack mural by artist Scott Nurkin in Black Mountain, North Carolina. This Mural is a part of the NC Musicians Mural Trail.

02/15/2025

What are you listening to today?

Charles Mingus Quintet - Haitian Fight Song (1957)Personnel: Jimmy Knepper (trombone), Curtis Porter (alto sax), Wade Legge (piano), Charles Mingus (bass), D...

02/14/2025

Reminder: Qwest TV is Live Streaming The Billy Harper Quintet in 30 mins - that’s 2:30 EST - Happy Valentines Day

Address

218th. St. & Indian Road
New York, NY
10034

Website

http://www.inwoodjazzfestival.com/, http://www.brucesgarden.net/

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African Rhythms Alumni Ensemble TK Blue on sax; Frank Lacy on trombone, Chief Baba Neil Clarke on percussion; Alex Blake on Bass and Sharp Radway on piano