Marty Khan is co-founder and Director of Outward Visions, Inc., a not-for-profit arts service organization founded in 1976. A 35+ year veteran manager...(more)
A style of American music that originated in the South, started by African Americans; it is characterized by a strong , prominent meter; improvisation; and dotted or syncopated patterns.
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Probably since its inception, people have argued over the definition of Jazz - what it is, what it isn’t, what is it and what isn’t it – with the same futility an...(more)
Grammy Award winning jazz saxophonist Gary Bartz first came to New York In 1958 to attend the Julliard Conservatory of Music. Just 17 years old, Gary ...
One of the most talked about guitarists, composers and bandleaders today. The world renowned American magazine JAZZIZ has listed Anatholi as Number O...
“Fred Ho’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Chinese America,’ performed…at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater, unspooled to one of the best dance scores...
Oliver Lake is one of the most distinctive and readily indentifiable voices in Black Music. Born in Marianna, Arkansas in 1942, his family moved to St...
Born August 6, 1942, and raised in the Germantown section of Philadelphia to a well known local family. Educated at the Berkley School of Music in Bos...
As a multitalented musician, Harold E. Smith makes music out of anything he picks up. He plays drums, wind and percussion instruments from many cont...
Over the past 35 years Pianist/Composer Michael Jefry Stevens has been associated with some of the most important figures in modern jazz. Beginning wi...
Trombonist, composer, arranger Papo Vazquez has continued to write for big band orchestras; when not performing with his small group Pirates Troubadou...
GCALVIN WESTON WAS BORN JUNE 6 1959 IN PHILDELPHIA PA. AT THE AGE 6 HIS NEIGHBORS DISCOVERED HIS TALENT FOR RHYTHM AS HE BEAT ON EVERY CAR ON THE BL...
