JAZZ EVENT - NEW YORK CITY

June 8-12, 2015 Events 2015 Benefit Concert  Featuring Dianne Reeves and Joe Lovano June 10 at 7:30 PM THE KAYE PLAYHOUSE AT HUNTER COLLEGE East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues Tickets are now available online ($35 and $55). Student and senior tickets available for $20. Join us for a special evening featuring Five-time Grammy Award winner Dianne Reeves along with Grammy Award winning saxophonist Joe Lovano. We are honoring legendary bassist Reggie Workman with the Legends of Jazz Award and acclaimed filmmaker Albert Maysles (in memoriam) and the Maysles Institute with the Jazz and Community Leadership Award. The host for the evening will be WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton.  You can purchase online tickets HERE.  Corporate and private sponsorships currently available. Please click here for more information.  Become a Member of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem  Special Offer: Support The National Jazz Museum in Harlem today and receive discount on tickets to our June 10, 2105 Benefit Concert featuring Dianne Reeves. Renew/Become a member at the Minton's Playhouse level ($75), and above, by May 22nd and receive a discount on tickets for our  June 10th Benefit Concert, featuring Dianne Reeves. Join our community of jazz lovers today!  Join Here From Our Friends at Film Forum JAZZ ON A SPRING DAY and SYNCOPATION - Movie Double Feature! Enjoy this special offer from FILM FORUM (209 W. Houston St.) and join us for a Jazz double feature. Admission price of $13 will get you into both films. ($7.50 if you're a member of Film Forum) JAZZ ON A SPRING DAY is a program of nine newly-restored shorts from the 1920's and 1930's featuring giants of 20th century jazz and blues, including St. Louis Blues (1929) with Bessie Smith; Black and Tan Fantasy (1929), with Duke Ellington and Fredi Washington; Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932), with Louis Armstrong; Symphony in Black (1935), with Ellington and Billie Holiday; and more!  The 8:10 screening will have a special introduction by Jazz Historian and columnistt Will Friedwald. SYNCOPATION (1942) is a musical saga tracing jazz's evolution from Dixieland and ragtime right into the swing era, as Adolphe Menjou, George Bancroft, and Todd Duncan (Gershwin's original "Porgy") look on. Featuring cameos by Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, and Joe Venuti. Showtimes: JAZZ ON A SPRING DAY: 12:30PM, 4:20PM and 8:10PM*  *The 8:10 show will be introduced by Jazz historian and columnist Will Friedwald SYNCOPATION: 2:30PM, 6:20PM, 10:20PM Current Exhibit  Bebo Valdés: Giant of Cuban Music    Pianist, arranger, bandleader, and composer Bebo Valdés had two splendid careers separated by more than thirty years of obscurity. Mambo, filin, batanga, descarga - he was a great innovator in Cuba music. For ten years he was music director of the famed Tropicana orchestra. His big band backed Cuba's greatest stars. He was the pianist on Nat "King" Cole's famed Havana recordings. Then everything changed. He left Cuba in 1960 and settled in Sweden. While his music was largely forgotten by the world, his son Chucho Valdés became a dominant musical figure in post-revolutionary Cuba, and one of the world's great pianists. Then, beginning in 1994, Bebo Valdés began a dramatic career resurgence via a brilliant series of concerts, recordings, and movies that brought his knowledge, skills, and inimitable style into the twenty-first century, making him a bigger star than every before and culminating in an electrifying series of collaborations with Chucho. We'll tell the story and play the music....   Stay Connected All programs are free unless noted otherwise. These programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State.  Come Visit Us!     The National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Visitors Center is open to the public and features our extensive library of all sorts of media, plus brand new collections of photographs, and exhibits. Please come by and see us from Monday to Friday from 10AM to 4PM. We look forward to seeing you! The Jazz Museum in Harlem is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. All donations are fully tax deductible. Copyright © 2015 The National Jazz Museum in Harlem. All Rights Reserved.