George V Johnson Jr Voices of Our Ancestors at Blues Alley

A musical tribute to our ancestors through Music, Poetry & Song.

THE LEGACY CONTINUES.... O

Deemed Next In Line by he Late Eddie Jefferson Father of of the Art of Jazz Vocalese. George V Johnson is one of the foremost practitioners of the art form today. Has performed with John Malachi, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, Lou Donaldson, Pharoah Sanders, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Bobby Watson and more..

JOHNSON, writes lyrics about complex things: personal experiences, love, history, family, home, heaven and most of all Jazz! Phrases turn, emotions connect, melodies soar. It’s a fuel that burns full-throttle, ignited by the heat of his soulful voice and the power and passion of his performance. You sing along even though you’ve never heard the tune before. George writes from a perspective of distances, of interludes between lovers and lives and the roads that lead from small towns to big cities....

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A musical tribute to our ancestors through Music, Poetry & Song.

THE LEGACY CONTINUES.... O

Deemed Next In Line by he Late Eddie Jefferson Father of of the Art of Jazz Vocalese. George V Johnson is one of the foremost practitioners of the art form today. Has performed with John Malachi, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, Lou Donaldson, Pharoah Sanders, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Bobby Watson and more..

JOHNSON, writes lyrics about complex things: personal experiences, love, history, family, home, heaven and most of all Jazz! Phrases turn, emotions connect, melodies soar. It’s a fuel that burns full-throttle, ignited by the heat of his soulful voice and the power and passion of his performance. You sing along even though you’ve never heard the tune before. George writes from a perspective of distances, of interludes between lovers and lives and the roads that lead from small towns to big cities.

Reservations are recommended!


Blues Alley, founded in 1965,is a jazz dinner-and-nightclub in an alley off Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood

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