Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium

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.