Sat, Feb 1 @ 6PM
Bethany Baptist Church
Free Jazz!
The Bethany Baptist
Church of Newark celebrates 25 years of monthly Jazz Vespers! Join us at Bethany Baptist
for this free concert combining jazz music and worship.
February’s featured artist is Sheila
Jordan. At age 93, the jazz vocalist is renowned as a
pioneer of bebop and scat singing. “Whether singing well-known standards or
original material, she makes it all sound like no one else,” the National
Endowment for the Arts says about the Jazz Master.
Double bassist Harvie
S will join her with his “tasty, melodic playing” (Arts Fuse), alongside
“limber and inventive guitarist” (The
Village Voice) Roni
Ben-Hur and drummer Billy
Drummond, who “command[s] the attention of a room without
saying a word” (JazzTimes).
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Sheila Jordan with Roni Ben-Hur, Billy Drummond and Harvie S
are part of the TD Jazz Series and this event is co-sponsored with the
Bethany Baptist Church Jazz Vespers
Books on the Move, a program of NJPAC Community Engagement, is affiliated with
the Newark Public Library and Jersey City Public Library
Generous support for Standing In Solidarity provided by ADP, official
Community Engagement Partner of NJPAC, and PSEG Foundation
Jazz Jams at Clement’s Place is part of the TD Jazz Series
Generous support for Arts Training is provided, in part, by the Devil's
Youth Foundation, Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, Horizon Blue Cross
Blue Shield of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby Foundation, M&T Bank, Merck
Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, NJ Advance Media,
Richmond County Savings Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, Turrell Fund,
Victoria Foundation, WBGO Jazz 88.3FM, Women@NJPAC, Judith Bernhaut, The
Joan and Allen Bildner Family Fund, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.,
The Office of U.S. Senator Cory Booker, The Arts Education Endowment Fund
in honor of Raymond C. Chambers, Jennifer A. Chalsty, Judy and Stewart
Colton, Toby and Leon Cooperman, Mimi and Edwin Feliciano, The Izzo Family,
Don Katz & Leslie Larson, McCrane Foundation, Inc., care of Margrit
McCrane, The MCJ Amelior Foundation, Albert+ and Katharine Merck+, The
Pershing Square Foundation, Bill Ackman, and Neri Oxman, David & Marian
Rocker, The Sagner Companies/The Sagner Family Foundation, Joyce and George
Wein Foundation and an anonymous donor
+ deceased
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