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Christopher Kennedy Lawford to host Jazz Concert Benefiting the Dizzy Gillespie Memorial Fund In NYC at Cotton Club

Courtesy of Lemurian | Posted on September 19, 2012

Where

Cotton Club
656 West 125th Street
New York, NY
Map
212-663-7980

When

Tue, October 16, 2012
7:30 pm

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Musicians

Alex Garcia
percussion
Blaise Siwula
saxophone
Ras Moshe
multi-instrumentalist
Steve Dalachinsky
poet / spoken word
Bern Nix
guitar

About

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE COTTON CLUB HARLEM
TUESDAY OCTOBER 16, 2012
7:30 PM
$70

The Historic Cotton Club Harlem, Ruby Flower Productions and a stellar line up of musicians present on October 16, 2012 the Dizzy Gillespie/Englewood Fundraiser. Dizzy Gillespie is one of the most influential figures in many American musical forms, having first revolutionized jazz in the 40s by being one of the acknowledged inventors of bebop; and then again in the decades that followed when he championed the rich rhythms of Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, and Brazilian music that, to a large extent, still dominate jazz to this very day. Born October 21, 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina, John Birks Gillespie, Dizzy moved to Philadelphia with his family at age 18 and joined Frankie Fairfax’s band before moving on to New York City and Teddy Hill’s big band in 1937....

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