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"A Festival Grows in Brooklyn"


"BROOKLYN - In The JAZZ Tradition" is the theme for CBJC's festival 2008.

CBJC Thankful.

“Our 9th Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival was our most successful to date and we are truly thankful to the broad support we received from our musicians, community leaders, venues and the public”.

Jitu K. Weusi, Chairperson, Board of Directors, CBJC.

We presented more than 34 events (we had one cancellation because of the illness of Nancy Wilson) at 26 different locations.  These locations included: Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Renaissance Café, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Sugar Hill Restaurant and Supper Club, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Williamsburg Music Center, Solomon’s Porch, Sistas’ Place, Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch Dweck Center, Jazz 966, Brooklyn Academy of Music Café, Medgar Evers College, Janes United Methodist Church, Paul Roberson Theatre, Long Island University’s Kumble Theatre, Afroart Design, Food 4 Thought Café, Rustik Neighborhood Tavern, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Boys and Girls High School, Brooklyn Historical Society, Our Lady of Victory R.C. Church’s McGuiness Hall and Brooklyn College.

We pay homage to the participating musicians, especially the chairperson of our Gala, Dr. Randy Weston.  Participating musicians include: Houston Person, Alex Harding, Sam Newsome, The New Cookers, Max Roach Tribute participants, Tulivu Donna Cumberbatch, Arturo O’Farrell Quintet, Dwight Brewster’s Afro-Caribbean Jazz Experience, Rome Neal, Beareatha Reddy, Dick Griffin, Donald Smith Trio, Brooklyn College Jazz Band, Middle School 35 Jazz Band, Ron Anderson and Jann Parker, Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, Ray Abrams Big Band, Wade Barnes Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble, Olu Dara, Jeff King Band, Antoinette Montague, Gerry Eastmond and the Williamsburg All-Stars, Bertha Hope, JaRone Ames and Emme Kemp, Ulysses Slaughter, Patsy Grant, Poet Louis Reyes Rivera and the Restoration Dance Troupe.
 

We also sponsored a film – “The Music Inn” and four (4) panel presentation on various aspects of “Brooklyn – In The Jazz Tradition”.  These panels held at three local colleges helped bolster the foundation of Jazz studies of Brooklyn as one of the creative centers of Jazz in the United States in the last one hundred years.

We thank the following sponsors for providing resources that allowed the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium to produce such a lavish and meaningful event.  Sponsors included:

    • New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
    • Jazz Improv Magazine
    • Brooklyn Tourism (Borough President’s Office)
    • Our Time Press
    • Con Edison
    • WABI 99.5 FM (Pacifica Radio)
 


Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium founded in 1999 is an amalgam of jazz musicians, entertainment venues, faith based organizations, community based organizations, and patrons of the music. Over the past eight (8) years, they have presented an annual spring festival, established a Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame, and produced yearly programs of events and activities that feature local jazz musical talents. CBJC is a nonprofit organization committed to preserving, promoting and supporting jazz music, musicians and programs.