African Rhythms Alumni Ensemble at Inwood Jazz Festival at Inwood Hill Park

The 2nd Annual Inwood Jazz Festival is honored have the African Rhythms Alumni Ensemble presenting the music of NEA Jazz Master Dr Randy Weston on Sunday, September 29th in Inwood Hill Park - NYC -

NEA JAZZ MASTER RANDY WESTON transformed the music’s global impact. From Brooklyn, New York to Rabat, Morocco, the pianist, composer, and community ambassador integrated popular sounds and folkloric traditions from across the African continent into his own legendary performances with fellow artists from across the world.
After joining the ancestors in 2018, his spiritual and musical legacy continued to live on and impact listeners worldwide. This we greatly owe to a group of outstanding musicians who were an irreplaceable part of Randy Weston’s musical family and life journey – the former members of Randy Weston’s African Rhythms. ...

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The 2nd Annual Inwood Jazz Festival is honored have the African Rhythms Alumni Ensemble presenting the music of NEA Jazz Master Dr Randy Weston on Sunday, September 29th in Inwood Hill Park - NYC -

NEA JAZZ MASTER RANDY WESTON transformed the music’s global impact. From Brooklyn, New York to Rabat, Morocco, the pianist, composer, and community ambassador integrated popular sounds and folkloric traditions from across the African continent into his own legendary performances with fellow artists from across the world.
After joining the ancestors in 2018, his spiritual and musical legacy continued to live on and impact listeners worldwide. This we greatly owe to a group of outstanding musicians who were an irreplaceable part of Randy Weston’s musical family and life journey – the former members of Randy Weston’s African Rhythms.

T.K. Blue, Chief Baba Neil Clarke, Alex Blake, Sharp Radway and Frank Lacy, all extraordinary musicians and leaders in their own right, have joined together as the African Rhythms Alumni Ensemble to carry on and celebrate Dr. Weston’s music, spiritual message, and the close connection they each shared with their beloved “Baba Randy”, and with each other.

They are united and led by a shared mission, one that is quite brilliantly defined by the title of T.K. Blue’s 2019 album dedicated to Dr. Weston, which they all contributed to, entitled “The Rhythms Continue”.

AFRICAN RHYTHMS ALUMNI Ensemble - featuring the music of NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston • T.K. Blue, sax, flute, kalimba • Frank Lacy, trombone • Sharp Radway, piano • Alex Blake, bass • Chief Baba Neil Clarke, percussion

*IPRP 1970 Inc. presentation African Rhythms Alumni Ensemble is supported through Chamber Music America 2024 Artistic Projects grant.

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