Jazz Masters Perform For Harlem Teens On June 17, 2006 For Free

NEW YORK, NY (Jazz Museum in Harlem) - In a rare free public date in Harlem, Grady Tate and Sarah McLawler will perform live on June 17, 2006 uptown at the Oberia D. Dempsey Center auditorium.

Both artists participated in the Jazz Museum in Harlem's Harlem Speaks Education Initiative this spring at the Thurgood Marshall Academy (TMA).

A class of high school students from TMA and the neighboring Bread and Roses High School interviewed the musical living legends about their lives and career in music on two separate occasions each. They obliged the students' questions and also gave impromptu master classes, with Tate demonstrating his drum mastery, and giving instructions to young drummers, and McLawler playing keyboard and singing for the captivated youth.

In addition to Tate, who will lead a quartet on vocals, and McLawler on solo piano and vocals, the co-executive directors of the jazz museum, saxophonist Loren Schoenberg and bassist Christian McBride, will perform for the teenagers, parents, members of the Thurgood Marshall Academy and Bread & Roses high school communities as well as the general public.

Flautist and singer Terri Davis, the music instructor who hosted the 8-week series of Saturday morning classes in TMA's music room, will also perform.

A dramatic rendition of Langston Hughes's The Simple Stories by actor Sandy Moore (adapted and directed Charles E. Gerber) rounds out the performances.

WHO:
Grady Tate Quartet
Sarah McLawler (piano and vocals)
Loren Schoenberg and Christian McBride
Terri Davis (vocalist, TMA music instructor)
Sandy Moore (dramatic actor)

WHAT:
Closing Celebration of the Harlem Speaks Education Initiative

WHEN:
Saturday, June 17, 2006

TIME:
11am-2pm

WHERE:
Oberia D. Dempsey Multi-Service Center
127 West 127th Street (between Lenox and 7th Avenues)

RSVP:
Wilhelmina Grant, e-mail protected from spam bots

The Harlem Speaks Education Initiative is a program of the Jazz Museum in Harlem, and is sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.