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"Tell It Like It Is" Wayne Shorter Birthday Celebration at Birdland Theater

Where

Birdland Theater
315 West 44th Street
New York, NY
Map
(212) 581-3080

When

Sun, August 24, 2025
9:30 pm

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About

Wayne Shorters rise to fame as one of the greatest jazz musicians/composers started at Birdland as a member of Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers. For our birthday tribute, Wayne Escoferry (tenor sax), Helen Sung (piano), Lonnie Plaxico (bass), and Billy Kilson (drums), will perform Toys In The Attic and Tell It Like It Is From the Blakey years, and Armageddon, Footprints, Infant Eyes, Tom Thumb, and Yes and No from Shorters Blue Note Records years, as well as Pinnochio from his tenure with Miles Daviss second quintet.Produced by Milan Simich


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