CBJC Festival Magazine 2016
Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium produces a Jazz Festival every year. 2016 brings our 17th Annual Festival. The Brooklyn grassRoots festival this year runs from April 15th until May 15. This years event was fantastic. View our magazine for a look inside.
Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium produces a Jazz Festival every year. 2016 brings our 17th Annual Festival. The Brooklyn grassRoots festival this year runs from April 15th until May 15. This years event was fantastic. View our magazine for a look inside.
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Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (<strong>CBJC</strong>) has presented it’s Gala event<br />
from its inception in April of 2000. This special occasion is the premier<br />
event to bring <strong>CBJC</strong>’s mission to Brooklyn and the world.<br />
This “high style” affair is the culmination of the 17th Annual Central<br />
Brooklyn Jazz <strong>Festival</strong>’s <strong>2016</strong> programs. A performance, reception, dinner<br />
event for Brooklyn’s jazz circle and cultural populace. Host venue<br />
this year, Weeksville Heritage Center, is Brooklyn’s largest African<br />
American institution; located in one of America’s first free black communities,<br />
Playthell G. Benjamin, noted for his commentaries and positive<br />
essays on Black Folks, will deliver the keynote address. Live music by<br />
the George Gray Jazz Coalition.<br />
This <strong>CBJC</strong> event is at Weeksville Heritage Center, 150 Buffalo Ave.,<br />
Brooklyn NY. Playthell G. Benjamin is the keynote speaker.<br />
George Gray<br />
Consortium Premier Events<br />
Jazz! The Women’s Viewpoint an idea that was realized when Rosalind<br />
Blair inaugurated a program in 2000 that would give a voice, venue and<br />
visibility to women musicians, wives and loved ones. It was her admiration<br />
of these women for their enormous roles in preserving and keeping<br />
one of our life forces current and accurate that gave birth to this annual<br />
programming extravaganza.<br />
On Saturday April 16, <strong>2016</strong> “Jazz! The Women’s ViewPoint” RSVPopening<br />
reception with a trio performance, panel discussion with Jazzmeia<br />
Horn, Ebony JoAnn, others, 4PM, RSVP-master class with Geri<br />
Allen, 7PM, $20-“Jazz Salon” performance w/ pianist Geri Allen and<br />
vocalist Vivian Sessoms, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation/<br />
Center for Arts and Culture @Skylight Gallery, 1368 Fulton St., info:<br />
718.773.2252 x102, RSVP<br />
Jazz!<br />
The Woman’s<br />
Viewpoint<br />
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