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Brooklyn's Live Music Cafe
OPEN 2 NIGHTS A WEEK:
MONDAY: Jazz & Open Mic Session 8pm to 12am, $5
Monday night is open mic for all musicians, vocalist and poets.
Chess players are welcome to play and learn new moves.
SATURDAY: Live Jazz
9pm to 1am,- $10
Month of March:
"LADY GOT CHOPS" Women Month Jazz Festival,
Co-Produced by Kim Clarke (Bassist)
ADDRESS:
THE JAZZ SPOT
375 KOSCIUSZKO STREET
(entrance on Marcus Garvey Blvd)
BED-STUY, BROOKLYN
NEW YORK
PHONE: 718-453-7825
WEB SITES:
http://thejazz.8m.com
OR
http://myspace.com/jazzandcoffee
TRAIN DIRECTIONS: J TRAIN TO KOSCIUSZKO STREET/WALK 4 LONG BLOCKS TO MARCUS GARVEY BLVD
OR
A,C,F,2,3,4,5 TRAIN TO DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, WALK 1 BLOCK TO FULTON STREET, TAKE BUS B38 (15 minute ride)TO LAFAYATTE AND MACUS GARVEY BLVD, WALK 1 BLOCK TOWARDS DEKALB TO CLUB.
MAILING ADDRESS:PLEASE MAIL ALL PROMOTIONAL & OTHER INFOMATION TO THE FOLLOWING: The Jazz/Dewal Corp., P.O Box 25252
Brooklyn New York 11202
THE JAZZ HAS AVAILABLE REHEARSAL & MEETING SPACE (Great prices)
We at The Jazz Spot love to meet people with a love for music in all it's forms. Our interest at the Jazz spot is serving some of the best coffee,over 50 selections of herbal teas, hottest chicken wings in Brooklyn New York and listening to some of the best jazz.
Below is information about our Yahoo Jazz Group. You are welcome to join.
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THIS GROUP ARE FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO DISCUSS PERFORMANCES, EVENTS IN JAZZ CLUBS OR VENUES THROUGH OUT THE WORLD,OR FOR THOSE WHO JUST WANT TO KNOW THE SCHELDULE OF PERFORMANCES EVENTS AT JAZZ VENUES. NETWORK AND LEARN ABOUT THE DIFFERENT CLUB VENUES THROUGH OUT THE WORLD. ALL CLUB OWNERS, MUSICANS, VOCALIST,AND EVENT PLANNERS ARE WELCOME TO POST THEIR EVENTS.
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THE MEET UP GROUP BELOW IS OUR SPECIAL JAM SESSION / OPEN MIC GROUP.
COME JOIN US AND JAM WITH SOME OF THE GREATEST MUSICIANS.
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JANUARY & FEBRUARY THE JAZZ SPOT IS ON VACATION- RE-OPENS IN MARCH FOR "THE LADY GOT CHOPS" WOMEN MONTH JAZZ FESTIVAL
The Jazz Spot is closed the month of January and February. We will re-open in March to begin our "Lady Got Chops" Woman Month Jazz Festival For more information please log on to our Web Site: http://thejazz.8m.com
718-453-7825
718-453-7825
Posted on March 8, 2008 at 9:20am —
EVERY MONDAY NIGHT: JAZZ JAM SESSIONS 8PM T0 12AM
THE JAZZ SPOT
"Jazz and Coffee Please"
MONDAY NIGHTS:
JAZZ & BLUES OPEN MIC JAM SESSIONS
"WHERE THE JAZZ KATS MEOW"
8PM TO 11:30PM
ADMISSION $5
MUSICAL DIRECTOR KIM CLARKE
718-453-7825
http://thejazz.8m.com
THE JAZZ SPOT
375 KOSCIUSZKO STREET
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
(Between Kosciuszko & Dekalb)
(ENTRANCE ON MARCUS GARVEY BLVD)
J Train to Kosciuszko Street /
Walk 4 long blocks on kosciuszko to Marcus Gavey Bvld
or
A,C,F,D, 4, 5,2, 3, to Downtown Brooklyn / walk 1 block to Fu… Continue
"Jazz and Coffee Please"
MONDAY NIGHTS:
JAZZ & BLUES OPEN MIC JAM SESSIONS
"WHERE THE JAZZ KATS MEOW"
8PM TO 11:30PM
ADMISSION $5
MUSICAL DIRECTOR KIM CLARKE
718-453-7825
http://thejazz.8m.com
THE JAZZ SPOT
375 KOSCIUSZKO STREET
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
(Between Kosciuszko & Dekalb)
(ENTRANCE ON MARCUS GARVEY BLVD)
J Train to Kosciuszko Street /
Walk 4 long blocks on kosciuszko to Marcus Gavey Bvld
or
A,C,F,D, 4, 5,2, 3, to Downtown Brooklyn / walk 1 block to Fu… Continue
Posted on March 8, 2008 at 9:00am —
A FEW SATURDAYS: (Check Web Site http://thejazz.8m.com performance Dates)LIVE JAZZ 9PM-1AM, PERFORMANCES FROM KNOWN & UP AND COMING MUSICIANS
THE JAZZ SPOT
"Jazz and Coffee Please"
A FEW SATURDAY NIGHTS A MONTH: (Check Web site http://thejazz.8m.com for
performance dates)
LIVE JAZZ
FEATURING GREAT MUSICIANS
FROM STANDARD TO FUNK
9PM TO 1AM
ADMISSION $10
718-453-7825
http://thejazz.8m.com
THE JAZZ SPOT
375 KOSCIUSZKO STREET
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
(Between Kosciuszko & Dekalb)
(ENTRANCE ON MARCUS GARVEY BLVD)
J Train to Kosciuszko Street /
Walk 4 long blocks on kosciuszko to Marcus Gavey Bvld
or
A,C,F,D, 4, 5,2, 3, to… Continue
"Jazz and Coffee Please"
A FEW SATURDAY NIGHTS A MONTH: (Check Web site http://thejazz.8m.com for
performance dates)
LIVE JAZZ
FEATURING GREAT MUSICIANS
FROM STANDARD TO FUNK
9PM TO 1AM
ADMISSION $10
718-453-7825
http://thejazz.8m.com
THE JAZZ SPOT
375 KOSCIUSZKO STREET
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
(Between Kosciuszko & Dekalb)
(ENTRANCE ON MARCUS GARVEY BLVD)
J Train to Kosciuszko Street /
Walk 4 long blocks on kosciuszko to Marcus Gavey Bvld
or
A,C,F,D, 4, 5,2, 3, to… Continue
Posted on March 8, 2008 at 9:00am —
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Dear Tamm E:
Just a note to tell you that it is nice to read about you!!!
You share so much great info about others and about the music, but nice to know that you are WAILIN' yourself and getting appreciation!!
Global Jazz Network is a really important way for all of us to keep hooked up and informed and to SLOWLY BUT SURELY SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY of what Jazz is in its many different forms and what the styles are/is all about.
Just played for Paquito's honoring and received gold medal
John Faddis, save Brubeck, James moody and a bunch of KILLER YOUNG players and we all played and spoke about Paquito and jazz and all fine music
and Roberta Gamborini, who was excellent.
wish you had been there!
Through you, Donald Harrison hooked me up with Pittsburgh Jazz info and I feel like i am living there just reading about all the great happenings.
As Fall is here, I am back to my normal insane schedule, but wanted to write you back BEFORE The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS goes into effect. I am my own secretary, so I am dedicated but SLOW!
And I can't fire myself as my own secretary or I might get hit with an Age Discrimination Lawsuit (in case I decided to sue myself for clerical incompetence).
As of this moment, a new documentary film is being made about me, to be released a few months after my 80th birthday, which is coming up next year Nov. 17, 2010. (12 months from now).
The film will end with the videoing of the big 80th birthday bash at Symphony Space in NYC and then have snippets of films from the past, with all kinds of fun stuff from the 50's thru today.
It will be called "David Amram: The First 80 Years"
Fortunately, I don't have to edit the hundreds of hours of footage or do new music the score, since the film maker, Larry Kraman is also the founder of Newport Classics recordings and knows all my symphonic as well as operatic, theater, film and jazz and world music work, so I am in good hands!!
The same people at Newport Classics Recordings are also making a Spoken Word series for I-Tunes, with me reading from my three books Vibrations, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.
And they are also recording some of my chamber music compositions and a new jazz record,
Next Spring my opera "12th Night", with libretto by Joe Papp (all words of Shakespeare), is having its eighth production and being FILMED!! Even most dead composers aren't that lucky!!!
This last five weeks I have appeared all over the country at concerts of my music, conducting and playing, doing spoken word with music, jazz, folk and world music festivals, film festivals and readings from my books.
Just the first week of October, I played Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival in Lowell Mass, then the at midnight , following my last concert there , drove all night to Lagaurda Airport to catch the early Sunday mornng flight for the annual Farm Aid Concert in St Louis, where i played with Willie Nelson's band. The next morning (Monday the 5th , I flew bck to NYC in tme for my monthly concert at Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
The next night (Tuesday the 6th) the memorial at Symphony Space for Frank Mccourt, and the next day Wednesday the 7th) the celebration of the new authorized biography of Thelonious Monk with members of his family and musicians I have known since I first arrived in NYC in 1955!!
The 11th i flew off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates,( i got at least get a few hours sleep) and tried to catch up on over 200 e-mails during the 13 hour flight, before arriving there and performing a concert of global music in conjunction with the score I composed for Teri McLuhan's new documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi.
Then back in the USA in time to do programs centered around a performance of my Saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley, in Loudoun Virginia ..
Then I went off to Toronto Nov 1st for a concert and appearance at the Diaspora Film Festival .
Now i am back at home hiding out composing and writing!
I am starting my fourth book "David Amram: The First 80 Years", (the same name as the new doc film being made about me), which will be finished at the end of next year and will end, like the film, with the monstro birthday bash concert for my Big 80... 12 months from now....(Nov 17 2010) in New York.
And every day, still finding time to continue composing a new orchestral work, having been doing it while on the run, and now every minute when I can hide out at the Farm in between travels.
And performing whenever possible with my three kids, each of whom have their own bands.
So as the BIG 80 approaches twelve months from now, (2010) while I may be still shy, I am not yet the retiring type.
Most of my ever-changing my schedule info. when i can get my elderly secretary (unfortunately myself) to type it up, is posted on my web page www.davidamram.com under Upcoming Events.
And my e-mail amramdavid@aol.com is always the best way to reach me as I carry my laptop with me everywhere, and Facebook, MySpace, etc., is hard to deal with and not always reliable!
You might find it fun to access an old performance of my 1971 Rondo a la Turca on the Internet for FREE!!!
The person who is conducting the Chicago Symphony and playing the middle eastern flute (who looks like my grandson) is actually a much younger looking me in 1977, recording for a PBS network TV show about my music. Pepper Adams and Jerry Dodgion are also playing.
In 1977, most of members of the Chicago Symphony who appear on the recording of this performance had never heard, much less ever played, very much music from the Middle East, and since I write everything out on paper accurately to indicate the way it should be played, that's what they were playing, and they actually began to sound like the Radio Beirut Orchestra, and suddenly as the piece went on, they started feeling something different than they had ever felt before, as they played.
It is really fun to watch their faces as they started getting ingo the old time magical groove that Middle eastern music creates and takes you into.
During the first few minutes of the piece, you can see the musicians all playing up a storm but looking as if they were thinking that I was an alien from another planet in outer space, and had brought some extra terrestrial music with me for them to play.
And then as the piece progresses, you can see, as well as hear, that by the end of the piece, the idiom of this music got them excited enough to be actually enjoying playing it!!
And playing it really well!
That's what music, like film, novels, poetry, painting, dance, language and good HOME COOKING does for all of us.
It takes you to that place from where it comes, and makes you feel that you now have a new home in a new part of the world.
I send cheers from that endless road and wish you joy and energy for all you do
David
I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.
I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!
You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.
xoxo,
Janie
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Thanks for dropping by. I am sorry I did not respond sooner. I hope everyone here at GJN is well.
Can somebody give me a short list of artists to get acquainted with their music. Especially in the Baltimore area. where I listen to Heaven600 and they always have inspirational jazz onSunday nights. I would love a collection of inspirational Jazz.
One day I will be in New York and I look forward to visiting some Jazz Spots, too.
Peace and love.
Founder/President of Levine-Oliver Publisher
www.levineoliverpublisher.com
Author of the Newly Released: "Cooling Well Water: A Collection of Work By An African-American Bipolar Woman" ISBN 13 978-0-54612-0-4.
This is a brief revelatory book about the brain disorder Bipolar. It contains poetry that transcends time and can be set to music. In addition, I candidly discuss living with this brain disorder to encourage others to walk away from the shame and darkness of the brain disorder and live a purposeful life. The book sells for $15.95 and is available on my website: www.levineoliverpublisher.com as well as Amazon.com.
Check out the blog I posted with an excerpt from the book.
Airborne the Musical Peacemakers of Contemporary Jazz "Winds of Change" Video
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Thanks for the friendship.
I wish you a great weekend!
Peace,
Luiz
Host: Kim Clarke, Jimmy Wormworth Sr.Stanley Banks, Jitu Weusi
Location: FORT GREENE SENIOR CENTER AKA 966 CLUB
966 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN, NY
(FULTON BETWEEN PUTNAM AVE .AND CAMBRIDGE PL.)
When: Monday, March 24, 7:00pm ( the day after Easter)
Phone: 718 429 3681
NOTHING BUT LOVE AND SUPPORT FOR ONE OF OUR OWN JAZZ FAMILY Vocalist MARY , daughter of Drummer JIMMY WORMWORTH ,WHO IS HAVING HEALTH AND OTHER ISSUES AT PRESENT
...YOU KNOW HOW WE DO!♥☺☻☼
OUR SISTER NEEDS A BIT OF HELP SO PLEASE COME JOIN US.IF YOU WANT TO PERFORM OR HELP WITH PLANNING PLEASE CALL THE NUMBER ABOVE. THERE WILL BE A DOOR FEE TBA
SO FAR THESE KIND MUSICIANS AND FRIENDS ARE LENDING THEIR SERVICES TO THE CAUSE:
966 CLUB
VINNYS MUSIC SERVICES
PIANISTS:BERTHA HOPE
BASSISTS:STANLEY BANKS
CHULO GATEWOOD
CHRIS SULLIVAN
SULEIMAN WRIGHT
KIM CLARKE
SAXOPHONISTS: GEORGE BRAITH
DAVID LEE JONES
KIT MC CLURE
VIBRAPHONIST:BRYAN CARROTT
CELLIST:AKUA DIXON
DRUMMERS:COOKE BROADNAX
WADE BARNES, BERNICE BROOKS
FENIX RIVERA
GUITAR: JANE GETTER,
DEBBIE KNAPPER
ANDRE LASSALLE
TRUMPET: AJAX
VOCALISTS: LOUISE BETHUNE AND…
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THE JAZZ SPOT & KIM CLARKE PRESENT
THE 6TH ANNUAL
"LADY GOT CHOPS"
WOMEN'S MONTH JAZZ FESTIVAL
ONCE AGAIN THE JAZZ SPOT PRESENTS A MONTH OF FANTASTIC
WOMEN JAZZ MUSICIANS BOTH VOCALIST AND INSTRUMENTAL
PERFORMING THEIR BEST ON STAGE.
Web site: http://Thejazz.8m.com
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE FOLLOWING PERFORMANCES:
MARCH 8th:
VOCALIST,BASSIST GILLIAN HARWIN QUARTET
Mireya Ramos- Violin & Vocals
Sarah Town- Piano
MARCH 15th:
MAMIKO WATANABE TRIO
Mamiko Watanabe- Pianist
Linda Oh- Bass
MARCH 22nd:
BERTHA HOPE QUARTET
Bertha Hope- Pianist
Lakecia Benjamin- Sax
Maeve Royce- Bass
Sylvia Cuenca- Drums
MARCH 29th:
VOCALIST LOUISE BETHUNE QUARTET
Mala Waldron- Pianist / Vocalist
Cathy Harley- Multi Instrumentalist
Bernice Brooks- Bass
All performances are held Saturdays 9pm to 1am
Admission: $10
For more information:718-453-7825
Web site: http://thejazz.8m.com
The Jazz Spot
375 kosciuszko Street
(Entrance on Marcus Garvey Blvd)
Bed-stuy, Brooklyn New York
(Between Kosciuszko & Dekalb)
Train:
A,C,F,4,5,2,3 take to Downtown Brooklyn
walk one black to Fulton Street
take Bus 38 (ride 15 minutes)to
Lafayette & Marcus Garvey Blvd Walk
1 & half blocks to Marcus Garvey
OR
J train to Kosciuszko Street/ walk 4
long blocks on Kosciuszko to
Marcus Garvey Blvd
JAM/OPEN MIC SESSION RETURNS EVERY MONDAY @ THE JAZZ SPOT FROM 8PM TO 12AM. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!