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[INSiDE] THE JAZZ NOTE® presents Soul Jazz Listening Party hosted by Christian McBride and The Apollo Theater

[INSiDE] THE JAZZ NOTE® presents Soul Jazz Listening Party hosted by Christian McBride and The Apollo Theater

May 12 @ 6:30 pm ET — "Soul Jazz Listening Party" hosted by Christian McBride and The Apollo Theater Spend a night with Christian McBride groovin’ to the funk and gospel inspired jazz that provided the soundtrack for Juke Boxes across 1960s Black America. Hear how artists like Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, Gene Ammons, Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Smith, The Jazz Crusaders, and Lee Morgan combined their be-bop roots with a heavy dose of blues, back beat, gospel, and soul, to get their audiences out of their chairs and on to the dance floor. Featured Educational Partner: The Apollo Theater. FREE to all jazz lovers and students. Click here to register! https://jazzhousekids.org/events This program was curated by TED CHUBB, trumpeter & JAZZ HOUSE Director of Cultural Programming, and is made possible thanks to the support of Brandenberg Productions, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Gia Maione Prima Foundation, The Herb Alpert Foundation, Kenneth Goldman Donor Fund, Manhattan Mechanical Contractors, the National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey State Council for the Humanities, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, TD Bank Charitable Fund and our many generous individual donors.

Free
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM on Wed, 12 May 2021