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Drom NYC Summer Jazz Festival: Live Jazz Returns to the East Village, Beginning July 28th As New York's live music scene comes roaring back to life, East Village venue Drom brings live jazz back to the neighborhood with their new NYC Summer Jazz Series: Nine shows over two separate weeks in July and August, featuring some of the city's most dynamic performers, running from July 28th to August 22nd (Full lineup below). While such storied jazz venues as Tonic and The Stone are long gone from the neighborhood, and other beloved rooms like The Pyramid Club went permanently dark during the pandemic, Drom keeps the flame of live music burning, and celebrates the end of our collective lockdown by going big. The series marks a milestone for Drom: their first ever dedicated jazz festival -- a surprising first from a venue that's been home to many contemporary jazz greats over its 14 year history, including Robert Glasper, Marc Ribot, Jeff "Tain" Waits, and Arturo O Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. NYC SUMMER JAZZ SERIES LINEUP: Wed, July 28 - MARS: Tim Berne, David Torn, Craig Taborn, Ches Smith Thurs, July 29 - Mingus Big Band Fri, July 30 - Greg Osby Quartet and Oran Etkin: Open Arms Project Sat, July 31 - Groove Collective Wed, Aug 18 - Ravi Coltrane and Juke Joint Jelis feat. Brianna Thomas Thurs, Aug 19 - Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Trio, and Conrad Herwig Quintet Fri, Aug 20 - Johnathan Blake and Edmar Castaneda & Ari Hoenig Sat, Aug 21 - Russell Malone Quartet Sun, Aug 22 - Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment

Drom NYC Summer Jazz Series: Live Jazz Returns to the East Village, Beginning July 28th As New York's live music scene comes roaring back to life, East Village venue Drom brings live jazz back to the neighborhood with their new NYC Summer Jazz Series: Nine shows over two separate weeks in July and August, featuring some of the city's most dynamic performers, running from July 28th to August 22nd (Full lineup below). While such storied jazz venues as Tonic and The Stone are long gone from the neighborhood, and other beloved rooms like The Pyramid Club went permanently dark during the pandemic, Drom keeps the flame of live music burning, and celebrates the end of our collective lockdown by going big. The series also marks a milestone for Drom: their first ever dedicated jazz festival -- a surprising first from a venue that's been home to many contemporary jazz greats over its 14 year history, including Robert Glasper, Marc Ribot, Jeff "Tain" Waits, and Arturo O Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. NYC SUMMER JAZZ SERIES LINEUP: Wed, July 28 - MARS: Tim Berne, David Torn, Craig Taborn, Ches Smith Thurs, July 29 - Mingus Big Band Fri, July 30 - Greg Osby Quartet and Oran Etkin: Open Arms Project Sat, July 31 - Groove Collective Wed, Aug 18 - Ravi Coltrane and Juke Joint Jelis feat. Brianna Thomas Thurs, Aug 19 - Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Trio, and Conrad Herwig Quintet Fri, Aug 20 - Johnathan Blake and Edmar Castaneda & Ari Hoenig Sat, Aug 21 - Russell Malone Quartet Sun, Aug 22 - Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment

Drom NYC Summer Jazz Series: Live Jazz Returns to the East Village, Beginning July 28th As New York's live music scene comes roaring back to life, East Village venue Drom brings live jazz back to the neighborhood with their new NYC Summer Jazz Series: Nine shows over two separate weeks in July and August, featuring some of the city's most dynamic performers, running from July 28th to August 22nd (Full lineup below). While such storied jazz venues as Tonic and The Stone are long gone from the neighborhood, and other beloved rooms like The Pyramid Club went permanently dark during the pandemic, Drom keeps the flame of live music burning, and celebrates the end of our collective lockdown by going big. The series also marks a milestone for Drom: their first ever dedicated jazz festival -- a surprising first from a venue that's been home to many contemporary jazz greats over its 14 year history, including Robert Glasper, Marc Ribot, Jeff "Tain" Waits, and Arturo O Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. NYC SUMMER JAZZ SERIES LINEUP: Wed, July 28 - MARS: Tim Berne, David Torn, Craig Taborn, Ches Smith Thurs, July 29 - Mingus Big Band Fri, July 30 - Greg Osby Quartet and Oran Etkin: Open Arms Project Sat, July 31 - Groove Collective Wed, Aug 18 - Ravi Coltrane and Juke Joint Jelis feat. Brianna Thomas Thurs, Aug 19 - Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Trio, and Conrad Herwig Quintet Fri, Aug 20 - Johnathan Blake and Edmar Castaneda & Ari Hoenig Sat, Aug 21 - Russell Malone Quartet Sun, Aug 22 - Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment

Drom NYC Summer Jazz Series: Live Jazz Returns to the East Village, Beginning July 28th As New York's live music scene comes roaring back to life, East Village venue Drom brings live jazz back to the neighborhood with their new NYC Summer Jazz Series: Nine shows over two separate weeks in July and August, featuring some of the city's most dynamic performers, running from July 28th to August 22nd (Full lineup below). While such storied jazz venues as Tonic and The Stone are long gone from the neighborhood, and other beloved rooms like The Pyramid Club went permanently dark during the pandemic, Drom keeps the flame of live music burning, and celebrates the end of our collective lockdown by going big. The series marks a milestone for Drom: their first ever dedicated jazz festival -- a surprising first from a venue that's been home to many contemporary jazz greats over its 14 year history, including Robert Glasper, Marc Ribot, Jeff "Tain" Waits, and Arturo O Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. NYC SUMMER JAZZ SERIES LINEUP: Wed, July 28 - MARS: Tim Berne, David Torn, Craig Taborn, Ches Smith Thurs, July 29 - Mingus Big Band Fri, July 30 - Greg Osby Quartet and Oran Etkin: Open Arms Project Sat, July 31 - Groove Collective Wed, Aug 18 - Ravi Coltrane and Juke Joint Jelis feat. Brianna Thomas Thurs, Aug 19 - Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Trio, and Conrad Herwig Quintet Fri, Aug 20 - Johnathan Blake and Edmar Castaneda & Ari Hoenig Sat, Aug 21 - Russell Malone Quartet Sun, Aug 22 - Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment

Drom NYC Summer Jazz Series: Live Jazz Returns to the East Village, Beginning July 28th As New York's live music scene comes roaring back to life, East Village venue Drom brings live jazz back to the neighborhood with their new NYC Summer Jazz Series: Nine shows over two separate weeks in July and August, featuring some of the city's most dynamic performers, running from July 28th to August 22nd (Full lineup below). While such storied jazz venues as Tonic and The Stone are long gone from the neighborhood, and other beloved rooms like The Pyramid Club went permanently dark during the pandemic, Drom keeps the flame of live music burning, and celebrates the end of our collective lockdown by going big. The series marks a milestone for Drom: their first ever dedicated jazz festival -- a surprising first from a venue that's been home to many contemporary jazz greats over its 14 year history, including Robert Glasper, Marc Ribot, Jeff "Tain" Waits, and Arturo O Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. NYC SUMMER JAZZ SERIES LINEUP: Wed, July 28 - MARS: Tim Berne, David Torn, Craig Taborn, Ches Smith Thurs, July 29 - Mingus Big Band Fri, July 30 - Greg Osby Quartet and Oran Etkin: Open Arms Project Sat, July 31 - Groove Collective Wed, Aug 18 - Ravi Coltrane and Juke Joint Jelis feat. Brianna Thomas Thurs, Aug 19 - Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Trio, and Conrad Herwig Quintet Fri, Aug 20 - Johnathan Blake and Edmar Castaneda & Ari Hoenig Sat, Aug 21 - Russell Malone Quartet Sun, Aug 22 - Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment

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Jazz guitarist Abe Ovadia will perform at the Englewood Public Library on Sunday, September 12 at 5 p.m. on the library’s front plaza. The concert series is free and open to the public. Registration is required for this concert and is available on Eventbrite or go to tinyurl.com/abeovadia. This concert is part of the Second Sunday concert series co-sponsored by Age-Friendly Englewood and the Friends of the Englewood Library. Please bring your own chair and/or blanket. Since his New York City arrival in 2009, Abe Ovadia has emerged as one of the preeminent guitarists on the New York City jazz scene, winning Best Guitarist in the 2016 Hot House Jazz Awards, and frequently performing at its top venues such as The Blue Note & The Iridium. As Musicvox Guitars describes, Ovadia is a "Jazz phenom, one of the most innovative guitarists of our time." Abe is a graduate of Berklee College of Music later on earned his master’s degree in jazz performance from the highly acclaimed jazz program at New York University. In 2010, Jeff Levenson of Warner Bros. Records honored Abe as a “Promising Artist of the 21st Century” which lead to an international tour. His music has quickly gained the respect of his peers and jazz veterans alike, such as Grammy-award winning trumpeter, Brian Lynch who said, “It has been very enjoyable to play with him, as well as to perform his original music. He is playing at a world-class level.” Abe has developed a unique identity on the guitar and as a bandleader, featuring an innovative and emotionally charged energy that is unrelenting. For further information on the concert, please e-mail programming@englewood.bccls.org; or visit https://www.abeovadia.com. The Englewood Public Library is located at 31 Engle Street, Englewood, NJ.