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Jazzmob: Flashback

Read "Flashback" reviewed by Nic Jones


This mob, perhaps as a kind of homage to “the mob," takes no prisoners. It deals in a brand of fusion in which the immediacy of the moment is of paramount importance and the niceties and established intensities of the medium smack too much of politeness and a lack of engagement with the urgency of being alive. This set, caught live at the Molde International Jazz Festival in July 2006, proclaims it all from the rooftops.

From the opening “Pathfinder," ...

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Jazzmob: Infernal Machine

Read "Infernal Machine" reviewed by Nic Jones


This isn't so much a recreation as it is a reinvestigation of the fusion genre in that brief period thirty odd years ago when the idea was rife with positive implications and before the sterility set in.

While this program isn't as radical in its departure from the norm as Miles Davis' music from that period was (what is?) it still burns with greater intensity than more established names seem to muster. Even on the relatively tranquil “One For Simmons" ...

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Jazzmobile & 2015 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival

Jazzmobile & 2015 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

JAZZMOBILE CONTINUES CELEBRATING ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4-9 Presented by the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile This year the Festival will also pay tribute to the iconic Jazzmobile as a Shrine “Harlem is a dream-place where so much important cultural history has been enacted that as we explore the power of Harlem’s past we also feel its presence. Take the M60- bus along 125th, or emerge from the A-train at 125th ...

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Jazzmobile, Inc. Celebrates 2014 Harlem Shrines Jazz Festival

Jazzmobile, Inc. Celebrates 2014 Harlem Shrines Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

Jazzmobile, Inc. Celebrates 2014 Harlem Shrines Jazz Festival with a Series of Concerts Saluting Minton’s Playhouse, Savoy Ballroom and the King of the Lindy Hop, Frankie Manning Jazzmobile Continues Annual Partnership with Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Columbia University to Bring Emerging and Established Artists to Venues All Over Harlem Harlem, NY – Jazzmobile, the oldest, not-for-profit jazz arts and education organization famous for its iconic New Orleans-inspired bandstand/floats which bring live jazz to generations of people throughout New York ...

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Apollo, Harlem Stage And Jazzmobile Announce Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest Schedule

Apollo, Harlem Stage And Jazzmobile Announce Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest Schedule

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Present Fourth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4-10 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival The Prestige of the Past... the Pulse of the Present HARLEM, USA, February 19, 2014 – When the Harlem Renaissance was in vogue at the dawn of the 20th Century, the jazz clubs around Jungle Alley, between Lenox and Seventh Avenue – The Savoy Ballroom, Small’s Paradise, Minton’s Playhouse, Clark Monroe’s Uptown House, The Ubangi Club, Park Palace, Connie’s Inn, ...

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TV / Film

A Behind The Scenes Look At Billy Taylor's JazzMobile!

A Behind The Scenes Look At Billy Taylor's JazzMobile!

Source: Patricia DeArcy

We are pleased to announce that Patricia DeArcy, Director of the documentary “The Harlem Cultural Council,” a behind the scenes look at the formation of Billy Taylor's JazzMobile as well as other Harlem Cultural Council endeavors like the DanceMobile, is in post production and taking a giant leap forward producing a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.com. After interviewing key members of the founding branch of the Harlem Cultural Council like jazz pianist Billy Taylor, Barbara Ann Teer, Ademola Olegubefola, Woody King ...

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Great Jazz On The Great Hill With Jazzmobile On August 10

Great Jazz On The Great Hill With Jazzmobile On August 10

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

GREAT JAZZ ON THE GREAT HILL RETURNS TO CENTRAL PARK Central Park Conservancy and Jazzmobile Partner for an Afternoon of Jazz The free Great Jazz on the Great Hill returns for its seventh year in Central Park. Bring your family, friends, and blanket to enjoy live musical performances by world-renowned musicians, snacks from food trucks and family games and activities. Performers will include Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, a swing band that’s played everywhere from Dinosaur BBQ to Lincoln Center, and the ...

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Apollo, Harlemstage & Jazzmobile Announce 3rd Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest May 6-11

Apollo, Harlemstage & Jazzmobile Announce 3rd Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest May 6-11

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Reunite in Partnership to Present Third Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 6-11, 2013 Partners Celebrate Legacy of Jazz in Harlem Featuring Concerts by Emerging and Established Artists, Panel Discussions, Films and More Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival The Prestige of the Past... the Pulse of the Present NEW YORK, NY: Renewing their partnership for the third year, the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, Inc., in collaboration with Columbia University, will join forces ...

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Jazzmobile Presents First Annual Jazzy Awards Celebration, October 10, 7:00 pm

Jazzmobile Presents First Annual Jazzy Awards Celebration, October 10, 7:00 pm

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

Jazzmobile Presents First Annual Jazzy Awards Celebration: In Honor of Dr. Billy Taylor's 90th Birthday Monday, October 10, 7:00 pm, Hudson Theatre Special Performances by Dianne Reeves, Frank Wess, Jimmy Heath, Wycliffe Gordon and the Jazzmobile Big Band Evening Also Honors George Wein and JPMorgan Chase Foundation NEW YORK: Jazzmobile, Inc., the Harlem-based organization that pioneered the concept of bringing jazz into the community and creating new audiences with mobile jazz performances, hosts its first annual ...

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Apollo/Harlem Stage/Jazzmobile Present NY's Newest Festival: Harlem Jazz Shrines

Apollo/Harlem Stage/Jazzmobile Present NY's Newest Festival: Harlem Jazz Shrines

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Join Forces to Celebrate Unique Legacy of Music in Harlem First Ever Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Set for May 9-15, 2011 Events Include Concerts by Emerging and Established Artists, Panel Discussions, Films, and More NEW YORK, NY—Three esteemed Harlem cultural organizations—the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile—have joined forces to present the first Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 9㬋, 2011. Celebrating the unique legacy of jazz in the uptown community, the Festival will ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazzmobile Presents Award Winning Jazz Vocalist, iTunes Lynette Washington with Dennis Bell Jazz NY

Jazzmobile Presents Award Winning Jazz Vocalist, iTunes Lynette Washington with Dennis Bell Jazz NY

Source: Dennis Bell

Lynette Washington Location: Manhattan Friday, July 30th 2010 7:00 pm--8:30 pm--129th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues--Host: St. Nicholas Houses Residents Association-FREE Featuring Dennis Bell Jazz NY with Casey Benjamin-Saxophones, Noriko Ueda-Bass, Victor Jones--Drums

About Lynette Washington

LYNETTE WASHINGTON, jazz vocalist, is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her extensive music career in jazz, R&B, and gospel, has taken her across the globe travelling as far as Australia. She has the ...

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Summer 2010: Jazzmobile Heads Back to the Streets of New York

Summer 2010: Jazzmobile Heads Back to the Streets of New York

Source: Cheryl Duncan & Company

JAZZMOBILE'S SUMMERFEST RETURNS TO NEW YORK CITY Oldest Continuous Summer Jazz Festival to Return on June 21; Series Brings Top Talent to Neighborhoods Across the Five Boroughs NEW YORK, NY--New York's oldest continuous--and mostly free--summer jazz festival will swing into neighborhoods across the city this summer with an eclectic mix of artists. Among the more than 40 concerts throughout the five boroughs being presented in the Jazzmobile Summerfest are the next generation of jazz innovators, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, saxophonist Yosvany ...

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