Concerts Spring 2011

Apr 5

The East Cultural and Educational Center: A Jazz Celebration featuring the Charles Tolliver Quartet and Salim Washington & the Brooklyn College Jazz Ensemble firefox Pre-concert talk with Africana Studies Scholar W.S. Tkweme and East founding members Jitu Weusi, Basir Mchawi, and Nana Carmen Ashhurst.
7:00 pm
Studio 312, Roosevelt Hall, Brooklyn College

Originally located at 10 Claver Place in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, The East Cultural and Educational Center had its roots in the Black Nationalist and the Black Arts movements of the late 1960s and 1970s. In the sixteen years of its existence, The East hosted a staggering array of jazz talent as part of its Black Experience in Sound series. Pharaoah Sanders, Freddie Hubbard, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Sun Ra, Hugh Masekela, Betty Carter, James Spaulding, and Charles Tolliver were among the jazz legends that appeared at The East.

Charles Tolliver and the Brooklyn College Jazz ensemble will present a tribute to the music of The East and the Black Arts Movement.

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Concerts Fall 2010

Oct 23

Black Brooklyn Renaissance Concerts
Saturday, October 23, 2010

The Harlem Renaissance is the project's symbolic point of departure, in that the literary and jazz-infused Harlem era of the early-20th century finds a powerful counterpoint in Brooklyn of the mid- to late-20th century to the present. In this era, Brooklyn has evolved as a site of diverse Black cultures: African American, Afro-Caribbean, and West African diasporic.

MUSIC PERFORMANCES

1:00 PM - Brooklyn College Library
Afro-Caribbean Drumming and Up-rocking Brooklyn Style with Frisner Augustin, José Ortiz, the Dynasty Rockers, and others

6:00 PM - Levenson Recital Hall
Brooklyn Jazz with the New Cookers, featuring Kenyatta Beasley (trumpet), Keith Loftis (sax), and Anthony Wonsey (piano).

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