JAZZ EVENT - NEW YORK CITY

We are pleased to announce our 2015 Spring Benefit Concert on June 10 at 7:30 PM Dianne Reeves, 2015 Grammy Award winner will be the featured performer along with special guests! SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 7:30 PM The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College East 68th Street btw. Park & Lexington Tickets available in mid-April. Corporate and private sponsorships currently available. Please click here for more information.  April 2015 Events Thursday, April 9th Something to Live For: The Strayhorn Centennial, Part Two NJMH Chamber Jazz Series  7:00-8:30pm Pianist/Vocalist   Eric Comstock, with bassist Boots Maleson and special guest Barbara Fasano  Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Suggested Admission $20.00 2015 is the centennial of one of jazz's greatest composers - Billy Strayhorn. NJMH will celebrate his life and music in a series of concerts and events. Please join us this evening as we present acclaimed pianist/vocalist Eric Comstock in an intimate cabaret and jazz session devoted to not only LUSH LIFE, but all the other sophisticated songs that only Billy Strayhorn could have written. Join the Facebook event here.  Tuesday, April 14th NJMH Highlights: The Night We Met Mr. Jones Jazz for Curious Listeners 7:00-8:30pm Location: National Jazz Museum in Harlem Suggested Admission $10.00 Host: Loren Schoenberg Over the past 10 years, NJMH has documented several hundred of its sessions, and tonight we start a new series of sharing highlights of our burgeoning archives. Hank Jones had sixty year career, of the course of which he remained one of jazz's most sought after and creative pianists In 2006, Mr. Jones graced us for an evening interview, conducted by museum directors Christian McBride and Loren Schoenberg that was as funny as it was serious - Jones could have had a second career as a comedian! Please join us for this special evening celebrating a true jazz icon.  Join the Facebook event here.  Tuesday, April 21st A Night at the Cotton Club Jazz for Curious Listeners 7:00-8:30pm Host: Greg Thomas The National Jazz Museum in Harlem $10 Admission at the Door    Join author/historian Greg Thomas for a provocative look into the worlds of Alain Locke, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, four of the most innovative and original literary voices to emerge out of the Harlem of the 1920's. The focus will be on race, art and culture, and the blues idiom as presented in their poetry and prose during the 1920s and beyond, influencing countless writers and scholars here and abroad. Rare recordings and video footage will supplement the lectures. Join the Facebook event here.      Thursday, April 30th International Jazz Day Special Event 7:00-8:30pm DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY - CHECK IN AT WWW.JMIH.ORG NJMH Artsitic Director At Large is producing a slam-bang evening of music highlighting our commitment to the new sounds reverberating around the world with jazz as the common denominator. Stay tuned for details to be announced shortly.