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The Harlem Blues Project has been a staple on the New York City Blues scene for over a decade.
Led by Jerry Dugger on bass and vocals, and joined by David ”Doc“ French, Barry Harrison, Junior Mac, they bring together the best of New York City’s Blues talent.
The band is geared toward historic, rhythmic, listenable, and danceable Blues. Audience participation is expected, as it enhances the total experience. You’re guaranteed a funky, bumpin, jumping good time.


Jerry Dugger, bass
Barry Harrison, drumc
Jr. Mack, guitar & vocal
David "Doc" French, guitar & vocal


JERRY DUGGER
Jerry was raised in Harlem and caught the music bug early in life. He was introduced to the NewYork City Blues scene by way of the now infamous Dan Lynch Blues Bar.
Jerry spentthirteen years learning to play Bass and sing, while also hosting the Saturday and Sunday Blues Jams.
Jerry Shared his stage with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Copeland, James Cotton and many more influential Blues Artists.
His Bass baritone voice and thunderous bass playing have earned him a place in New York's Blues Hall of Fame.
JerryDugger.Com
JerryDugger@Hotmail.Com

DAVID “DOC” FRENCH
For the past forty plus years, guitarist Dave ‘Doc’ French has been a fixture of the Big Apple blues scene playing what he calls “City Blues, New York Style”.
Best known as leader of the long-running band French Cookin’, Doc has performed in suchiconicManhattan venues as The Bitter End and held a ten year residency at Lucille’s Grill inTimes Square and they were inducted into The New York Blues Hall of Fame in 2015
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JUNIOR MACK
Junior Mack, a New York Blues Hal lof Fame inductee,deftly displays his influences, his playing lies in the soulfulness of Gospel and Blues.
An opportunity to play for the late Pops Staples and the encouraging reaction from both Pops and Mavis Staples was the first in a chain of eventsthat drove Mack to present his interpretation of the blues to a wider audience.
He has sat in or worked with The Allman Brothers Band, Derek Trucks, Robert Randolph, Dickey Betts, and Honeyboy Edwards.
JuniorMack.Com

BARRY HARRISON
Barry Harrison, a New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee, spent five and a half years with thelegendary Johnny Copeland, and after his passing, Harrison went on to spend six years workingwith his daughter, Shemekia Copeland. He has also worked with Sonny Rhodes, Eddie Kirkland, Phil Guy, and Lonnie Shields.
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On Saturday, December 17th, 2022, the New York State Jazz, and Literature Society is sponsoring A Holiday tribute to Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and John Coltrane at the world-class NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM (Performance Center 58 W 129th Street from
5:30 pm to 8:30 pm



These great artists will be together once again in the person of award-winning jazz vocalists/instrumentalists John Satchmo Mannan, Terri Davis, Bertha Hope. Denton Darrien Norbert Marius and others.



These artists will perform America’s Best Jazz classics spanning from the Great Jazz Era and covering contemporary 21st-century gems of jazz. with the hope of raising awareness of the importance of Satchmo, Ella, and Coltrane to American and World Music culture and their connection to the City of New York and Harlem.

Mana Contemporary is pleased to present, The You Voice, a nine-channel video installation by filmmaker Derrick Belcham. This powerful work explores the often-contradictory inner voice that both drives and stalls creativity and personal agency. Filmed in black and white, nine performers speak directly and candidly to the camera. Using texts drawn from journals and memories, the nine actresses perform characterizations of this voice, their own self-critic. By inviting an audience to engage with them in a physical space, their individual thoughts are universalized, transforming self-criticism into a practical process of work creation and exhibition.

Each actress is filmed against a stark, black background with a single soft light source that flutters on and off in a sound-reactive relationship to the volume of the speakers’ voices. Each performs three pages of material in a single long take, referred in the film and theater industry as an “impossible monologue,” in order to elicit authentic emotion and capture improvisation based on the material. They speak in their native languages of either English, Spanish or German.

Created during the pandemic, this work meaningfully grapples with the isolation, grief, hope, and revelation that we, as a society, both collectively and individually, experienced. Visitors to The You Voice may determine for themselves whether these monologues are meant as soliloquies, confessions, or invitations into intimate conversations. By courageously sharing their vulnerabilities, the performers foster connection and resilience with the audience.

Vibraphonist Behn Gillece leads a trio with guitarist Bob DeVos and bassist Steve LaSpina. Two sets at 7:30pm and 9:00pm.

To those who know, drummer and composer Vanderlei Pereira is one of New York’s most treasured individualists. His music translates boundless joy, emotional complexity, and a staggering mastery of Brazilian rhythmic traditions and straight ahead vocabulary. Members of his critically acclaimed outfit perform certain tunes alongside Pereira fully blindfolded in order to "level the playing field" for Vanderlei, who is blind. More than a performance, each set invites listeners to experience new dimensions of sound.

Performance lineup:

Thiago Fernandes - tenor sax and flute

Susan Pereira - voice and percussion

Vitor Gonçalves - piano

Vinicius Gomes - acoustic guitar

Eduardo Belo - acoustic bass

Vanderlei Pereira - drums

https://vanderleipereira.com

“Dealing with the pandemic, being in separate places, trying to survive without our best friends, without touring, not to mention the political divide in this country,” says Lettuce drummer Adam Deitch. “We really needed to unify.”

So, here it is, right on time. Unify. The eighth studio album from Lettuce, it’s also a third consecutive record made at Denver’s Colorado Sound Studios, completing a loose trilogy starting with 2019’s Grammy-nominated Elevate, and continuing with 2020’s Resonate.

It’s, as well, a benchmark moment for the sextet: Adam Deitch (drums), Ryan Zoidis (saxophone), Adam Smirnoff (guitar), Erick Coomes (bass), Nigel Hall (keyboards/vocals), Eric ‘Benny’ Bloom (trumpet). Approaching thirty years since its humble Boston beginnings, the relentlessly soulful funk outfit has essentially lived on the road, embodying, night after night, the sly wink of its moniker: Let us play! And now, endorsed on Unify by none other than the legendary icon of funk, Bootsy Collins, singing and playing bass on “Keep That Funk Alive”.

“We dreamed this up when we were teenagers, and here we are. We’re doing it,” says Zoidis.

Featuring:

David Mann, sax
Mark Egan, bass
Mauricio Zottarelli, drums
Matt king, keyboards
Fernando Saci, percussions
Olivia Foschi, vocals

Pianist Cory Smythe has worked closely with pioneering artists in new, improvisatory, and classical music, including multi-instrumentalist-composer Tyshawn Sorey, violinist Hilary Hahn, and transdisciplinary composers from Anthony Braxton to Zosha Di Castri. Tonight, he'll be improvising speculative fictions at the piano, in support of the release of his new record, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Arts for Art is excited to bring you Studio RIVBEA REVISITED, at 24 Bond Street in NYC, the site of Sam River’s loft.

Released in the late 70s, the five-volume compilation LPs “Wildflowers,” captured a few of the better-known bands that played at the iconic Studio Rivbea in the 1970s, but Rivbea was also where many legends of today got their start including William Parker, Cooper-Moore (aka Gene Ashton), William Hooker, David S. Ware and David Murray. Studio RIVBEA REVISITED is a concert series starting Wednesday, January 4th, that features musicians who played Rivbea back in the 1970s and others who certainly would be playing there now, if Studio Rivbea still existed.

3:00pm | Melanie Dyer We Free Strings: Melanie Dyer - viola / Charles Burnham, Gwen Laster - violin / Alex Waterman - cello / Newman Taylor Baker - percussion
4:30pm | Amina Claudine Myers Solo - piano, voice

In-Person Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-person-studio-rivbea-revisited-2023-0108-tickets-484425368317?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Livestreaming: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestreaming-studio-rivbea-revisited-2023-0108-tickets-484426822667?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Get your tickets now for an exclusive appearance by Seven String Jazz Guitarist, Educator, and Social Media Personality, Ron Jackson.

This event takes place on 17th dec., Brothers Smokehouse, Ramsey, NJ

Ron will bring BIG CITY JAZZ and jazz education to your town!

This event will include an educational piece on the history of the Seven String Guitar. Ron will perform jazz standards and original songs, some bebop, and soul. And a special treat will be the jazz reimaginings of (yacht) rock, R&B, and pop songs all from his critically acclaimed new release, "Standards And My Songs".


TICKETS AND INFO
Ron Jackson: https://ronjacksonmusic.com/shows

Sneak peek of the first single for the album, "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)": https://youtu.be/sVZQJAXcsVQ