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Attucks Jazz Featuring Drummer Howard Curtis at Virginia Arts Festival at Attucks Theatre
Courtesy of Alli Pereira | Posted on August 19, 2022
When
Sat, October 22, 2022
7:30 pm
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Musicians
T. Howard Curtis III
drumsAbout
Howard Curtis first knew we wanted to be a drummer when he heard a high school drum line. “It was the most powerful sound I’d ever heard,” he said. Born in Williamsburg, he made a career in music right here in Virginia—despite years of professional urging that he make the New York jazz scene. A sought-after player up and down the East Coast, he has played at major jazz festivals across the U.S. and around the world, and has performed and/or recorded with such great artists as Lionel Hampton, Rosemary Clooney, Amiri Baraka, Rene Marie, Jon Faddis, Ellis Marsalis, and many more. A veteran educator at several Virginia universities, Curtis is now a full professor at Kunst University in Graz, Austria...