The Institute for Studies in American Music

The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium

The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities

in collaboration with the Conservatory of Music, the Department of Africana Studies, the American Studies Program, and the Office of the Provost at Brooklyn College present:

The 9th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival: “Brooklyn - In the JAZZ Tradition”

The New Cookers Concert and Jam Session

with an introduction to Brooklyn’s jazz history by ISAM Director Jeffrey Taylor

Thursday, 1 May, 5pm, Levenson Recital Hall, Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College, Campus Road and Hillel Place

$10, free for students with valid college ID

The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium is an amalgam of jazz musicians, venue owners, churches, community-based organizations, and music patrons. Over the past nine years, they have presented an annual spring festival (of which this concert is one of the final events), established a Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame, and produced yearly programs of events and activities that feature local jazz musical talents. The New Cookers (named after a famous recording by Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan, “The Night of the Cookers,” recorded live in Brooklyn in 1965) is a group of rising stars in Brooklyn’s jazz community that includes trumpeter Kenyatta Beasley and pianist Anthony Wonsey. The ensemble references the hard bop and free jazz of the 1950s and 1960s, while transforming its rhythm and energy into an exhilarating new sound. The concert will be preceded by a presentation on Brooklyn’s significance to jazz history by Jeffrey Taylor, I.S.A.M. Director, and followed by an informal discussion and jam session with members of The New Cookers.

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