Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Memphis Soulphony, Ravi Coltrane, Quiana Lynell, Camille Thurman, Nikara Warren, Brandee Younger at Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER / RAVI COLTRANE / QUIANA LYNELL / RECLAMATION: CAMILLE THURMAN, NIKARA WARREN AND BRANDEE YOUNGER
Saturday, August 24, 2019

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Marcus Garvey Park

18 Mt. Morris Park West, New York, NY 10027

Jazz scion Ravi Coltrane, the son of jazz pianist Alice Coltrane and saxophonist John Coltrane, finds himself sandwiched by a cadre of powerful and talented women on this jazz-centric bill headlined by the three-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter and jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater. Bridgewater, produced in association with Jill Newman Productions, who also happens to be a Tony Award-winning stage actress and was the host of NPR’s syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater for 23 years, is joined by Quiana Lynell, the winner of the 2017 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and who trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has called a “unique talent” in possession of “the maturity of a well-seasoned vocalist while having a forward-thinking approach to creativity”...

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DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER / RAVI COLTRANE / QUIANA LYNELL / RECLAMATION: CAMILLE THURMAN, NIKARA WARREN AND BRANDEE YOUNGER
Saturday, August 24, 2019

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Marcus Garvey Park

18 Mt. Morris Park West, New York, NY 10027

Jazz scion Ravi Coltrane, the son of jazz pianist Alice Coltrane and saxophonist John Coltrane, finds himself sandwiched by a cadre of powerful and talented women on this jazz-centric bill headlined by the three-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter and jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater. Bridgewater, produced in association with Jill Newman Productions, who also happens to be a Tony Award-winning stage actress and was the host of NPR’s syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater for 23 years, is joined by Quiana Lynell, the winner of the 2017 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and who trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has called a “unique talent” in possession of “the maturity of a well-seasoned vocalist while having a forward-thinking approach to creativity”. They are joined by “Reclamation” a piece honoring Charlie Parker, commissioned in association with The Joyce and George Wein Foundation and The Jazz Gallery, featuring Queens native Camille Thurman – what NPR All Things Considered has called a “Rare Jazz Double Threat” – an award winning composer, vocalist and saxophonist whose latest project “Waiting For The Sunrise” made its debut at #2 on the Billboard Jazz Charts and was nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award; Nikara Warren, a Brooklyn-born vibraphonist whose latest project, Black Wall Street, is designed as an ode to excellence in Black music; and harpist Brandee Younger , a modern talent playing an ancient instrument under the influence of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane.

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