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Major R. Owens Health & Wellness Community Center is proud to present its first concert inside The Betty Carter Auditorium for the Arts. The Rome Neal Quintet features artists... Rome Neal (Vocalist), Andre Chez Lewis (Piano), Yoshi Waki (Bass), Phil Young (Drums) and Patience Higgins (Sax)As a Jazz Vocalist.

Sets at 7 and 8:45pm. Reservations recommended. $15 music charge.

Part of NBJP's mission is to showcase the next generation of jazz musicians...the future "greats!" This is a chance to see them NOW! Tuesday, April 26, Solomon Alber leads the band and the jam session. Open Session - ALL WELCOME - at 8:30.

Voices from the community examine how art can communicate new perspectives, question the status quo and inspire its viewer to take action. Join The Newark Museum of Art in an intimate panel discussion on art, equity, and activism and how the creative power of the arts helps keep the legacy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. alive. Panelists: Jacari Harris, Executive Director at George Floyd Memorial Foundation Nina Cook Jones, architect and designer of the Harriet Tubman monument in Newark Linda Street, Chief Chick, Pink Dragon Artist Syndicate LLC The panel will be moderated by artist and historian Noelle Lorraine Williams. This program will be available on Zoom and live on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch.

To continue safely serving our community of artists and audience members, Arts for Art is filming and releasing new performances on Tuesdays and Thursdays in January, February, and March. A pay-what-you-can donation is required to view each video. All donations will go towards AFA’s Artists & Friends Campaign. About Steve Swell: Born in Newark, NJ, Steve Swell has been an active member of the NYC music community since 1975. His breadth of versatility has allowed him to tour and record with such mainstream artists as Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich in the past, as well as more contemporary artists like Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor and William Parker. He has over 50 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artists on more than 125 other releases. He runs workshops around the world and is a teaching artist in the NYC public school system focusing on special needs children. Swell has worked on music transcriptions of the Bosavi tribe of New Guinea for MacArthur fellow, Steve Feld in 2000. His CD, "Suite For Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers" (CIMP) ranked number 2 in the 2004 Cadence Readers Poll. He has also received grants from USArtists International in 2006, MCAF (LMCC) awards in 2008 and 2013 and has been commissioned three times for the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall in 2006 and at Roulette in 2012 and 2017. Steve was nominated for Trombonist of the Year 2008, 2011 & 2020 by the Jazz Journalists Association, was selected Trombonist of the Year 2008-2010 , 2012 and 2014-2020 by the magazine El Intruso of Argentina and received the 2008 Jubilation Foundation Fellowship Award of the Tides Foundation. Steve has also been selected by the Downbeat Critics Poll in the Trombone category each year from 2010-2018 & 2020. His recording "Soul Travelers" with Jemeel Moondoc, Dave Burrell, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver was chosen as Album of the Year in 2016 by the New York City Jazz Record. His performance of "Kende Dreams" with Connie Crothers, Rob Brown, Larry Roland and Chad Taylor at the 2016 Vision Festival was cited as one of the best performances of the year by the same journal. This was also one of Connie's last performances. We miss her dearly. Steve is presently a teaching artist through the American Composers Orchestra, Healing Arts Initiative , Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center (Bronx), the Jazz Foundation of America, Leman Manhattan Preparatory School and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Steve was also awarded the 2014 Creative Curricula grant (LMCC) for the project: "Metamorphoses: Modern Mythology in Sound and Words" which was taught in a month long residency at Baruch College Campus High School in Manhattan. Steve's CD Music for Six Musicians: Hommage à Olivier Messiaen was listed in NPR's top 50 albums for 2018. Steve is an inaugural recipient of a Jazz Road Tours grant (SouthArts.org) begun in 2019 and received a 2020 Creative Engagement grant (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) for performances to take place in Manhattan. In 2021 Steve received the City Artists Corps Grant (NYC).

Ingrid Laubrock - saxophones / Jose Davila - tuba / Tom Rainey - drums To continue safely serving our community of artists and audience members, Arts for Art is filming and releasing new performances on Tuesdays and Thursdays in January, February, and March. A pay-what-you-can donation is required to view each video. All donations will go towards AFA’s Artists & Friends Campaign. About Ingrid Laubrock: Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock is a saxophonist/composer based in Brooklyn since 2009. Laubrock is interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and often evocative sound worlds. She’s worked with: Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richards Abrams, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, The Continuum Ensemble, Wet Ink and many others. Laubrock's main projects as a leader are Anti-House, Sleepthief, Ingrid Laubrock Septet and Ubatuba. Collaborations include Paradoxical Frog, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey Duo and Crump/Smythe/Laubrock. She is a member of Anthony Braxton's Falling River Music Quartet, Nonet and 12+1tet, Tom Rainey Trio and Obbligato, Mary Halvorson Septet, Kris’ Davis Quintet, Nate Wooley’s Battle Pieces and Luc Ex’ Assemblée. She was one of the featured soloists in Anthony Braxton’s opera Trillium J.

Yoni Kretzmer - tenor saxophone / Shanir Blumenkranz - bass / Randy Peterson - drums To continue safely serving our community of artists and audience members, Arts for Art is filming and releasing new performances on Tuesdays and Thursdays in January, February, and March. A pay-what-you-can donation is required to view each video. All donations will go towards AFA’s Artists & Friends Campaign. About Yoni Kretzmer: Born and raised in Jerusalem, Kretzmer relocated to Brooklyn (via Tel Aviv) in 2010. Yoni leads many groups including trios, quartets, quintets and a chamber sextet alongside writing for larger groups. Kretzmer has also ran a bunch of north-Brooklyn music series curating over 100 shows. Yoni attended the American School of Modern Music in Paris, France. He has releases 14 albums under his own name and co-released a bunch more. "In the past few years Israeli jazz has advanced in leaps and bounds, but nothing prepared the ear for this fantastic album. Yoni Kretzmer is a young musician, and passion and daring virtually burst out of his saxophone. Although, together with that, Kretzmer has maturity, depth and the experience of a veteran jazz musician. He is an outstanding composer, a wonderful melodist, an amazingly accurate player and together with the fine group that he assembled for the album he has created an inspired meeting between written and improvised music and jazz and contemporary music." Ben Shalev - Ha`aretz, September 2009 “In my humble opinion, Kretzmer is one of the finest contemporary saxophonists of the genre. He knows how to create wonderful melodies and licks that are surrounded by, what seems to be, a controlled chaos. Which allows breathing room for each player to have their moment under the sun.” - Matthew Ditullo – This Shape of Jazz to Come, August 2012

Parisian Cabaret Revival features Margot Sergent, an acclaimed parisian born cabaret singer, actress, and harpist who sang her way up from Parisian clubs to prestigious venues such as Olympia, almost mirroring the career path of Edith Piaf. So French Cabaret is a trad jazz ensemble featuring the voice of Margot Sergent soaring over her lyrical harp. Accompanied by upright bass and guitar, Margot croons timeless classics. She embodies the longtime exchange between France and America, Paris and New York, evoking a midcentury spirit. Her golden harp adds that “je ne sais quoi” to their irresistible hot jazz groove. Experience the romance and excitement of the prohibition era as you lapse into french reverie. On the encouragement of mentors, she then attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music to nourish her passion for jazz, and was trained by renowned masters Ed Tomassi and Maggie Scott (former mentors of Diana Krall and Esperanza Spalding). Making a splash in New York City, Margot Sergent will take you by storm with her infectious passion and dedication to French chansons and torch ballads in the unforgettable French legacy of Parisian Cabaret storytelling. Her voice enriched with emotion, Margot distills the essence of each lyric, weaving together a greater narrative. Margot is, without a doubt, the preeminent ambassador of Piaf’s legacy at this time. This enchanting show is not one to be missed. Allow yourself to be transported in time to the sonic worlds of “La Vie en Rose”, “Non, je ne regrette rien”, “l’Hymne à l’Amour” and other jewel songs that revolutionized the cabaret-genre and made Piaf, Trenet, Aznavour some of the greatest singer-storytellers of all time. “Her lyrical voice, with a native French accent, is perfect for a set of French and American chanson from the 1930s and 1940s,.. depicting the highly emotional lyrics of heartbreak and tragedy.” -InfocusVisions Music Magazine- “Margot’s live performances convey a physical delight in playing music as well as an artist’s sensitivity to the complicated harmonies and rhythms of jazz; her harp is a perfect instrument, attached to a musician of superb instincts, capable of expressing profound human experiences, with a wholly original voice. Margot’s technique and interpretative skills are at the pinnacle of the musical industry; what she does is pure poetry. No doubt she is one of the most captivating artists of her generation.” -Archie Sheep, legendary jazz saxophonist.

Louise Rose is a living Canadian treasure. She studied classical voice in Pennsylvania with John Duddy and Todd Duncan; pipe organ with Catharine Brooke Morgan; piano with Oscar Peterson; conducting with Leonard Bernstein and arranging with Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington. Some of her independent studies have been with Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald and B.B. King. She has served as artist/mentor in residence at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA and at The Frank DeMiero and Soundsation Vocal Jazz Camps. Louise is a sought after vocal jazz ensemble clinician who has played and sung with symphony orchestras in Canada and the United States, appeared in night clubs, operas, theatrical productions, touring shows and on cruise ships all over the world. She served as host of Vision Televisions long-time national show "Let's Sing Again". Audiences are captivated by the wealth of experience, grace and charisma she brings to the stage. Rose will perform solo jazz piano and vocals in this special night. Limited tickets available for in-house seats, livestream available to watch by donation.