All-Star Newark Arkestra produced by Amiri Baraka at Lincoln Park Music Festival

The Jazz All-Star Newark Arkestra hosted by Amiri Baraka will open the 5th Anniversary Lincoln Park Music Festival with an afternoon concert on Friday, July 30, 2010 from 12pm – 2pm. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will invoke the “Tickler’s Town” spirit of Newark’s past and perform a historical overview of Newark Composers and a concomitant sampling of Great Ladies of the music. The Afternoon of Jazz at the 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival will go back to early in the century with Willie The Lion’s Smith “Echoes of Spring”, and Besse Smith’s great “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out”, to James P. Johnson’s “Charleston”. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will highlight the great Ethel Waters and the mood of the period with the song that made her famous “Taking a Chance on Love” and “Cabin in the Sky” from the marvelous film. For more information and a complete list of this year’s performances and attractions for seniors, families and children, visit http://www.lpccd.org/mf2010....

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The Jazz All-Star Newark Arkestra hosted by Amiri Baraka will open the 5th Anniversary Lincoln Park Music Festival with an afternoon concert on Friday, July 30, 2010 from 12pm – 2pm. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will invoke the “Tickler’s Town” spirit of Newark’s past and perform a historical overview of Newark Composers and a concomitant sampling of Great Ladies of the music. The Afternoon of Jazz at the 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival will go back to early in the century with Willie The Lion’s Smith “Echoes of Spring”, and Besse Smith’s great “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out”, to James P. Johnson’s “Charleston”. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will highlight the great Ethel Waters and the mood of the period with the song that made her famous “Taking a Chance on Love” and “Cabin in the Sky” from the marvelous film. For more information and a complete list of this year’s performances and attractions for seniors, families and children, visit http://www.lpccd.org/mf2010.

This will be a concert of swinging memory and funky education that revives Billie Holiday ‘s “Strange Fruit” and Ella Fitzgerald singing Ellington’s “Beginning to See The Light”. The Arkestra will pay tribute to Newark composers and cover James Moody’s “Moody’s Mood for Love”, Babs Gonzalez & Dizzy Gillespie’s “Oo Pappa Da” and bring back the “Divine One” Sarah Vaughan singing her BeBop version of “Lullaby of Birdland”. More music by Newark’s great hipsters include Wayne Shorter’s “One By One” and “Hipnosis” by Grachan Moncur III. The modern age and BeBop zone will converge with a sing out to Abbey Lincoln and Thelonious Monk of “Blue Monk”. The Newark All-Stars will also pay homage to two Newark icons, Woody Shaw with a big band version of " Rosewood" and Larry Young Jr’s “Mother Ship”. There will also be a fully contemporary introduction of Adegoke Steve Colson’s “The Outcast”.

This concert is a chance for Newarkers and concert attendees to relive swinging memories, dance on the floor and get a funky musical education. The Arkestra big bands will pay homage to two jazz icons, Composer Woody Shaw Rosewood, and organist, Larry Young Jr Mother Ship, two of Newark’s greatest contributors to the Jazz genre. The afternoon of Jazz explores the music of Willie “The Lion’s Smith” Echoes of Spring and Bessie Smith’s Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out, and songs likes James P Johnson’s Charleston and Ethel Waters’s Taking a Chance on Love, and Cabin Love from the historical film.

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