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The Oak Fire started Friday afternoon southwest of the park near the town of Midpines. By Sunday, it had rapidly grown to 22 square miles.

McKay covers Dorough's "Small Day Tomorrow" on her upcoming album, Sister Orchid. She and the late composer, known his work on the beloved Schoolhouse Rock!series, were longtime friends.

The Jimmy Heath Big Band, under the direction of Antonio Hart, is the next artist at the Bryant Park Picnic Performances

John started working for WBGO in June 2010 as the Interim Marketing Manager, coming on full-time in January 2011 as a Major Gifts Officer. During his time in the Development Department, John’s responsibilities have included managing both the Individual and Institutional giving programs for WBGO. His current responsibilities consist of working as part of the core development team in our fund-raising activities in the areas of: Jazz Leadership Society/Major Gifts; Travel/Events and as director of WBGO’s efforts in Legacy Giving.

Trombonist/composer John Yao reconvenes his audacious three-horn quintet Triceratops in celebration of its bold, inventive second album. Musically scratching that prehistoric itch, trombonist/composer John Yao has once again unleashed his three-horn terror Triceratops on unsuspecting listeners with the band’s even more audacious second outing, Off-Kilter. The album title is an apt one, vividly capturing the exhilarating sense of risk-taking and disconcerting invention that make up this boldly unpredictable album.

"Yao’s compositions hold the kind of steady, swinging cadence of classic Blue Note bop, but with a definite post-bop edge in their spikey harmonies.” – Jackson Sinnenberg, DownBeat

"[Yao’s] music swings, lopes and races forward. All five of the bandmembers share command of their instruments and a likeminded sense of joy that makes the album feel like an amusement park ride: energetic, exciting, yet safe." – Franz A. Matzner, All About Jazz

While How We Do featured some of Yao’s most envelope-pushing music to date, he deliberately stretched the limits even further on Off-Kilter. The compositions are at once daringly complex yet expansive and open, challenging these gifted players while offering limitless space in which to venture and discover.

John Yao, Trombone
Bill Drewes, Alto and Soprano Saxes
Mitch Marcus, Tenor Sax
Robert Sabin, Bass
Jason Tiemann, Drums

America’s Got Talent Champion Sal “The Voice” Valentinetti., Live at the Brook Arts Center on Friday, February 18, 2022. Valentinetti is a crooner from Long Island, New York, whose early influence was his Italian American grandmother’s love of the classic crooner sounds of Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, and Frank Sinatra. In 2016, America's Got Talent was taken by storm by Sal “The Voice” Valentinetti. Sal not only received a standing ovation from the audience but was awarded the coveted “Golden Buzzer”, he was a top-five finalist since AGT, he tours the country and sells out venues of all sizes – from intimate jazz clubs to the legendary Madison Square Garden. He continues to win over the hearts of fans through his emotional and comical storytelling-style performances. Sal Valentinetti released his first debut EP - The Voice and an original holiday single, “When Christmas Comes to Town” in 2017. He will be releasing more original music later this year. Join his over 220,000+ fans on social media by following Sal (@salthevoice. Tickets at www.brookarts.org or 732-469-7700. Early Bird discount for the holiday season - tickets $40, offer expires January 2. All seats are reserved socially distanced. Concessions, Bar and Free Parking are available. The Brook Arts Center is in Bound Brook, NJ, one block from the Bound Brook Train station and a few short miles from Rt 22, 287, and 78.

The Stonewall Chorale and Deanna Witkowski Present the U.S. Concert Premiere of Mass for the Lenten Season by Mary Lou Williams. Led by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell and accompanied by Mary Lou Williams scholar and jazz pianist Deanna Witkowski and her trio, the concert also includes Williams’s “Tell Him Not to Talk Too Long” and “I Have a Dream,” both inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Margaret Bonds’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” set to the poetry of Langston Hughes. The concert also features the world premiere of Witkowski’s a cappella setting of the Rabindranath Tagore poem, “Where the Mind is Without Fear.” Witkowski will give a pre-performance talk about the life and work of Mary Lou Williams at 7 p.m. All season concerts held at the acoustically beautiful Holy Apostles (28th & 9th) in Chelsea. Artistic Director, Cynthia Powell

Abdullah Ibrahim is South Africa’s most distinguished pianist and a world-respected master musician.

Born in Cape Town, Dollar Brand, as he became known, was exposed to a melting pot of cultural influences: African traditional music, Christian hymns, gospel tunes and spirituals, as well as American jazz, township and classical music. Out of this blend of the secular and religious, the traditional and the modern, Abdullah Ibrahim’s distinctive sound and musical vocabulary was born.

His grandmother arranged for him to have piano lessons at the age of six. She was also a founding member of the AME church, a branch of the original church in Philadelphia, USA. His mother was the church pianist and played piano for silent movies at the local cinema.

The restrictions of access to the learning establishment forced the young knowledge seeker and budding composer to spend hours and days at Cape Town libraries reading and studying all inclusive works of global masters in culture, music, philosophy and world history.


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“All the music in this album was written during a very blue period in my life,” the bassist Charles Mingus observed in the liner notes to Tijuana…

Eleven of the 12 victims were city employees; one was a contractor. "They leave a void that we will never be able to fill," City Manager Dave Hansen said Saturday.