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Featured in the music player the "Go Down Moses & Feeling Blue" The 1975 Re-Release: Larry Ridley, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Sonny Fortune, Errol Crusher Bennett, Grady Tate, Cornell Dupre. Strata-East was a magical record label. By giving its artists a strong creative voice in their work, it managed to capture a moment in music like no other. An excellent accompanist and a thoughtful soloist, Larry Ridley has appeared on a countless number of sessions as a sideman. After gigging in his hometown with Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, and Wes Montgomery, Ridley relocated to New York, where he has been active ever since. Among his more significant musical associations in the 1960s were with Slide Hampton, Max Roach, Red Garland, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, and George Wein's Newport All-Stars (1969). Thelonious Monk's regular bassist during 1970-1973, Ridley became involved in jazz education, heading the jazz program and music department at Rutgers. He worked with Philly Joe Jones' Dameronia (1981-1985) and has been active up until the present time. Larry Ridley only recorded sparingly as a leader (including an obscure Strata East LP in 1975), but he has been a valuable sideman on many dates. Click to purchase:


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Born September 3, 1937, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

The oral history interview with Larry Ridley, double-bass player and jazz history teacher, begins with his childhood in Indiana. Born September 3, 1937 in Indianapolis, Ridley began playing violin at the age 3. He recalls having had fine music instructors and the influence of many musicians who lived in or passed
through the area.

At age 5 Ridley began attending a neighborhood music school and played violin in the elementary school orchestra and into high school. When a sophomore in high school Ridley switched to double-bass and decided he wanted to play jazz after hearing Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Herb Ellis in a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert.

Ridley had his first road gig at age 16, and tells how he got his first professional gig at the Turf Club in Indianapolis filling in for Monk Montgomery with Wes Montgomery and his band. Ridley discusses the importance and benefits of using the bow with the bass and the differences between the acoustic bass and the Fender bass. Ray Brown, Percy Heath, Wilbur Ware, George Morrow, Leroy Vinnegar, Slam Stewart and Paul Chambers, among others, influenced his attraction to the bass. Ridley then plays "GO "DOWN MOSES" using the bow.

The late 1960's Ridley played with Duke Ellington and describes his charisma, intelligence, talent and tells of a particular performance at the Rainbow Grill in NYC.





Rainbow Grill, NYC

Ridley recalls meeting Louis Armstrong at the Atlanta Jazz Festival and talks about his stage persona and genius;

on Dizzy, Ridley describes his incredible Knowledge of music, how he stressed the importance of the piano, and his introduction of the Afro-Cuban influence into jazz. Dr. Larry Ridley has perform with many Jazz Greats. See list below:

Philly "Joe" Jones

Hank Mobley & Art Blakey

Others he has played with: Ray Nance,

Joe Venuti,



and Stephane Grappelli.

Record Session, Tokyo, 1970
Teddy Wilson, Helen Merrill, Thelonious Monk, Larry Ridley



JAZZ CONTEMPORIES
Larry Ridley, Freddie Hubbard, Walt Millerm, James Spaulding, Paul Parker

David Baker, Slide Hampton, Larry Ridley

Horace Silver Quintet (w/Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson,

Walter Bishop




Mercer Ellington



Jimmy Heath

Frank Foster

Tootie Heath

Wynton Kelly

Kenny Barron Larry Ridley Freddie Waits, James Moody



Freddie Waits

Kenny Barron



James Moody

Max Roach, Billy Taylor, Virgil Jones

Papa Joe Jones

Elvin Jones

Sonny Stitt

Cootie Williams

Benny Goodman

Al Hibbler

Cedar Walton

Art Blakey

Charles Mingus;

Charles McPherson




Benny Golson



Jackie McLean

Danny Moore

Milt Jackson

Johnny Mathis



Freda Payne

Carmen McRae

Grady Tate

Diana Washington

"Babs" Gonzalez

Abby Lincoln

Joe Williams;

Everett Green

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Larry Ridley & The Jazz Legacy Ensemble features George V Johnson Jr "OPENING NIGHT part II" original composition composed by GVJ & Wayne Prentice (C)1974. Performed @ Up Over Jazz Cafe w/Virgil Jones, trumpet, Richard Wyanns, piano, Jed Levy, tenor sax, Jimmy Wormworth, drums, Larry Ridley, bass, George V Johnson Jr, voice 2001

Phillis Diller

Clifford Jordan

Tony Williams;

Larry Willis;

Gerald Wilson;

Woody Shaw;



Wayne Shorter;

Kenny Washington



Herbie Hancock;

Eric Dolphy;

Lou Donaldson

Dexter Gordon

Harold Vick

Ronnie Mathews

Onaje Allan

Sun Ra Arkestra

Sonny Fortune

John Hicks

Jimmy Cobb

Zoot Simms & Al Cohn

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie;

Sonny Clark

Wes Montgomery;




Lee Morgan;



Benny Morton;

Larry Young, Grant Green, J.C. Moses;

Ray Nance;

Phineas Newborn;

Donald Byrd

Jaki Byard;

Charlie Byrd;

David "Fathead" Newman;

Joe Newman;

Cecil Payne

George Wein "Newport Jazz All Stars"

Herbie Nichols;

Bary Bartz

"Big Nick" Nicholas;

Sir Roland Hanna;

Hugh Masekela;

Harold Mabern

Barry Harris;

Sun Ra Arkestra;

George Benson;

Leonard Bernstein


Walter Perkins;

Coleridge Taylor Perkinson;

Charli Persip;

Oscar Peterson

Frank Wess;

Herb Ellis;

Booker Ervin;

Tal Farlow;

Art Farmer/Jim Hall Quartet

Randy Weston;

Grady Tate;

Coleman Hawkins;



Louis Hayes;




Roy Haynes Quartet;

Arthur Taylor Jr.;

Billy Taylor Trio,



George Coleman;

Ornette Coleman;

George Cables

Junior Cook;

Bill Hardman

Keith Copeland;

Chick Corea;

Charles Davis

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis;

Walter Davis Jr.

Benny Carter;

Betty Carter;

Nell Carter;

Joe Chambers;

Tommy Turrentine;

Red Garland

Tommy Flanagan


Dr. Larry Ridley has perform with many Jazz Greats. See list below:





Ridley taught jazz history for 25 years at universities in various countries including Rutger's University, he received an M.A. in cultural policy from the State University of New York, he has worked for the National Endowment for the Arts as a panelist, and was the national coordinator for the Jazz Artists in Schools Program. Ridley expresses his viewpoints on the subsidization of the arts in the U.S. and in Europe, the intent and purpose of endowing the arts and humanties, and its surrounging controversy during the Reagan Administration.

Ridley talks about his Jazz Legacy Ensemble and its objective to perform and perpetuate the music of the masters. He concludes the interview with his advice to young people to practice, do research, and learn from the masters.



2005 -- Doctor of Performing Arts - University of Maryland Eastern Shore.



1993 -- Master of Arts, Cultural Policy - State University of New York/Empire State College.



1971 -- Bachelor of Science, Music Education - Indiana University (1955-1959)/New York University (1968-1971).




Professor of Music, Emeritus - Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, beginning 1999
Professor of Music - Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1971-1999
Chairman - Music Department, Livingston College of Rutgers University, 1972-1980
Chief Architect, beginning 1971, Rutgers University undergraduate/graduate Jazz performance degree programs.

Adjunct Professor of Jazz Bass - Manhattan School of Music, NYC, 1991 - Present.

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National Endowment for the Arts: Jazz Panelist, 1974-1978 (Panel Chairman, 1976-1978); National Coordinator - Jazz Artists in Schools Pilot Program, 1978-1982.



Music Panelist - NY State Council on the Arts, 1987-1990; United States Information Agency, 1992; and numerous other State arts agencies beginning in the 1970s to the present, e.g., NC, PA, MI, NJ, OH,



Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation;



New York Foundation for the Arts;

Executive Director - African American Jazz Caucus (AAJC) (a former affiliate of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE), beginning in the Fall of the year 2000 to the present.

9/16/2001 - 6/30/2002 Member Board of Directors, Madame C.J. Walker Theatre Center, Indianapolis, IN

2001 - Recipient of the Howard University "Benny Golson Award".



1999 - Inducted into the Down Beat Magazine Jazz Education Hall of Fame.

1998 - Inducted into the International Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame, NYC Convention.




1997 - Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's "Living Legacy Jazz Award", Kennedy Center, Washington DC.

Leader, Bassist and Artistic Director - the JAZZ LEGACY ENSEMBLE® , 1985 to the Present.

1982 - CoFounder & Partner - Jazz Cultural Theatre, NYC, w/Barry Harris, Jim Harrison, Frank Fuentes.

1977 - While performing in Lesotho, Southern Africa - Given the Sesotho name, Tsepo , which means Hope, Trust.



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JAZZ ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: Grambling College; Southern University; University of Utah; Drake University; Creighton University; Colorado College; Penn State University; Bowdoin College; Alcorn State; Bennington College; College of the Virgin Islands; University of Natal-Durban (under the auspices of the United States Information Service); Madame Walker Theatre Center, Indianapolis, IN - 7/1/2002 to 9/30/2002; Northern Illinois University; University of Maryland Eastern Shore; University of the Virgin Islands; Schomburg Center/New York Public Library - 1993 to the present.






INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS, NIGHTCLUBS, RADIO, TELEVISION, RECORDINGS: with Pepper Adams; Toshiko Akiyoshi; Mousey Alexander Trio; Ernestine Anderson; "Killer" Ray Appleton; Harold Ashby; Dave Bailey; Chet Baker Quartet; Dave Baker Big Band and small groups; Bill Barron; Kenny Barron; Benny Barth; Gary Bartz; Edgar Bateman; Alvin Batiste; Marcus Belgrave; Louis Bellson; George Benson; Walter Benton; Leonard Bernstein; Eddie Bert; Gene Bertoncini; Skeeter Best; Walter Bishop Jr.; Art Blakey; Carla Bley; Ruby Braff; Buster Brown; Hallie "The Comet" Bryant; Darius Brubeck; Kenny Burrell; Jaki Byard; Charlie Byrd; Donald Byrd; George Cables; Jay Cameron; Conte Candoli Quartet (w/Slide Hampton, Benny Barth); Harry Carney; Joe Carroll; Benny Carter; Betty Carter; Nell Carter; Joe Chambers; Dennis Charles; Doc Cheatham; Ray Chew/Alicia Keys; Don Cherry; Jimmy Cobb; Al Cobine; Jimmy Coe; Al Cohn; Cozy Cole; Cy Coleman; George Coleman; Ornette Coleman; Junior Cook; Keith Copeland; Chick Corea; Hank Crawford; Harold Cumberbatch; Andrew Cyrille; Albert Dailey; "Dameronia" -- Leader-Philly Joe Jones, after Joe's death, drummer Kenny Washington played a few gigs with us, Walter Davis Jr., Johnny Coles, later Virgil Jones, Cecil Payne, Frank Wess, Charles Davis, later Clifford Jordan, Britt Woodman, later Benny Powell, Don Sickler- trumpet and Dameron music transcriber along with John Oddo; Charles Davis; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis; Walter Davis Jr.; Vic Dickenson; Roger Dickerson; Phyllis Diller; Sam Dockery; Eric Dolphy; Bobby Donaldson; Lou Donaldson; Dorothy Donegan; Kenny Dorham; Hobart Dotson; Kenny Drew; Ted Dunbar; Frankie Dunlop; Harry "Sweets" Edison; Duke Ellington & his Orchestra; Mercer Ellington; Herb Ellis; Booker Ervin; Tal Farlow; Art Farmer/Jim Hall Quartet,with Walter Perkins; Tommy Flanagan; Frank Foster; Panama Francis; Bud Freeman; Don Friedman; Curtis Fuller; Red Garland; Errol Garner; Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell; Stan Getz; "Giants of Jazz"--Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Curtis Fuller, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey & LR; Dizzy Gillespie; John Gilmore; Spaulding Givens; Benny Golson; Paul Gonsalves; "Babs" Gonzalez; Benny Goodman; Dexter Gordon; Lulu Gotsana; Stephane Grappelli; Benny Green (trombonist); Bunky Green; Chuck Green; Everett Greene; Freddie Green; Grant Green; Urbie Green; Charles "Majeed" Greenlee; Tiny Grimes; Sol Gubin; Bobby Hackett Quintet; Al Haig; Jim Hall; Chico Hamilton; Jimmy Hamilton; Lionel Hampton; Slide Hampton Octet and small groups; Herbie Hancock; Roland Hanna; Barry Harris; Lanny Hartley; Coleman Hawkins; Louis Hayes; Roy Haynes Quartet; Albert "Tootie" Heath; Jimmy Heath; Joe Henderson; Al Hibbler; John Hicks; Billy Higgins; Andrew Hill; Lonnie Hillyer; Milt Hinton; Johnny Hodges; Uncle Ben Holiman; Elmo Hope; Lex Humphries; Roger Humphries; Joe Hunt; Earmon Hubbard Jr.; Freddie Hubbard; Bobby Hutcherson; Milt Jackson; Oliver Jackson; Billy James; Clifford Jarvis; "Jazz Legacy Ensemble", Leader; Paul Jeffries; Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson; Gus Johnson; Sonny Johnson; Elvin Jones; Hank Jones; Papa Jo Jones; Philly Joe Jones; Thad Jones; Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra; Virgil Jones; Clifford Jordan; Duke Jordan; Connie Kay; Wynton Kelly; Barney Kessel; Joe Kennedy, Jr.; Alan Kiger; Willis Kirk; Lee Konitz; Gene Krupa; Steve Kuhn; Don Lamond; Cliff Lehman; Mel Lewis; John Lewis; Abby Lincoln; Booker Little; Mundell Lowe; Harold Mabern; Shelly Manne; Albert Mangelsdorf; Lawrence Marable; Charlie Mariano; Hugh Masekela; Johnny Mathis; Stu Martin; Ronnie Mathews; Lenny McBrowne; Larry McClellan; Brownie McGee; Howard McGhee; Dave McKenna; Jackie McLean; Marian McPartland; Charles McPherson; Carmen McRae; Mabel Mercer; Don Michaels; Walt Miller; Harold Minerve; Charles Mingus; Al Minns/Leon James; Blue Mitchell; Hank Mobley; Grachan Moncur III; Thelonious Monk Quartet; James Moody; Danny Moore; Buddy Montgomery; Monk Montgomery; Wes Montgomery; Lee Morgan; Benny Morton; J.C. Moses; Ray Nance; Phineas Newborn; David "Fathead" Newman; Joe Newman; Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars; Herbie Nichols; "Big Nick" Nicholas; Red Norvo; Jimmy Nottingham; Anita O'Day; Jimmy Owens; Buddy Parker; Leo Parker; Paul Parker; Donald Patterson; Cecil Payne; Freda Payne; Walter Perkins; Coleridge Taylor Perkinson; Charli Persip; Oscar Peterson Trio; Flip Phillips; Sonny Phillips; John Pierce; Bucky Pizzarelli; Al Plank; "The Platters"; Paul Plummer; Bernard "Pretty" Purdie; Sonny Redd (nee Sylvester Kyner); Melvin Rhyne; Dannie Richmond; Ben Riley; Max Roach; Timmie Rogers; Sonny Rollins; Bobby Rosengarden; Charlie Rouse; Ernie Royal; "Rutgers/Livingston Jazz Professors"- Larry Ridley(Leader), Ted Dunbar, Kenny Barron, Frank Foster, Freddie Waits; Davey Schildkraut; Hazel Scott; Tony Scott; Don Shirley Trio; Woody Shaw; Wayne Shorter; Horace Silver Quintet (w/Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Roger Humphries, later Tyrone Washington); Zoot Sims; Pete (La Roca) Sims; Hal "Cornbread" Singer; Jimmy Smith; Willie "The Lion" Smith; Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra; Jimmy Spaulding; Marvin Stamm; Slam Stewart; Sonny Stitt; Clarence (Scobey) Strohman; Frank Strozier; John Stubblefield; Sun Ra Arkestra; Ralph Sutton; Lew Tabackin; Buddy Tate; Grady Tate; Arthur Taylor Jr.; Billy Taylor Trio, Les Taylor Jr., Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, Clark Terry, Sonny Terry; Ed Thigpen; Bobby Thomas; Willie Thomas; Charles Toliver; Ross Tompkins; Tommy Turrentine; McCoy Tyner; Jerry Tyree; Earl VanRiper; Joe Venuti; Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson; Freddie Waits; Earl "Fox" Walker; Cedar Walton; James "Jabbo" Ware; Dinah Washington; Chuck Wayne; George Wein; Frank Wess; Randy Weston; Josh White; Joe Wilder; Cootie Williams; Earl Williams; Joe Williams; Richard Williams; Tony Williams; Larry Willis; Gerald Wilson; Phil Woods; Jimmy Wormworth; Richard Wyands; Cecil Young; David Young; Snooky Young; "Young Giants of Jazz" (Joe Henderson, Jimmy Owens, Gary Burton, Cedar Walton, Roy Haynes, & LR); Trummy Young; Kiane Zawadi; Attila Zoller; etc.

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Larry Ridley & The Jazz Legacy Ensemble (TM) features George V Johnson Jr "My Little Suede Shoes" original lyrics to Charlie Parker's classic solo. Performed @ Up Over Jazz Cafe w/Virgil Jones, trumpet, Richard Wyans, piano, Jed Levy, tenor sax, Jimmy Wormworth, drums, Larry Ridley, bass, George V Johnson Jr, voice.





Happy Birthday Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Leader, Humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Born on January 15, 1929.

Martin Luther King Junior was born on January 15, 1929. No one knew the he would later in his life become one of the most well know African Americans in our country. Read More..

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Jimmy Heath and Joseph McLaren, foreword by Bill Cosby, introduction by Wynton Marsalis

"I have long admired Jimmy's passion heard so clearly in his music; he is a soulful musician and a consummate educator. In these pages he gives a new voice to his love of life and music. He once told Dr. Camille Cosby that ‘our history is a mystery,’ so here he pulls back the veil and sets forth a wonderful collection of reminiscences culled from a long life of accumulated wisdom."
—Nancy Wilson, song stylist

Composer of more than 100 jazz pieces, three-time Grammy nominee, and performer on more than 125 albums, saxophonist Jimmy Heath has earned a place of honor in the history of jazz. Over his long career, Heath knew many jazz giants, such as Charlie Parker, and played with other innovators, including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and especially Dizzy Gillespie. Along the way, Heath won both their respect and their friendship.

In this extraordinary autobiography, the legendary Heath creates a “dialogue” with musicians and family members. As in jazz, where improvisation by one performer prompts another to riff on the same theme, I Walked with Giants juxtaposes Heath’s account of his life and career with recollections from jazz giants about life on the road and making music on the world’s stages. His memories of playing with his equally legendary brothers, Percy and Albert (aka “Tootie”), dovetail with their recollections.

Heath reminisces about a South Philadelphia home filled with music and a close-knit family that hosted musicians performing in the city’s then thriving jazz scene. Milt Jackson recalls, “I went to their house for dinner. . . . Jimmy’s father put Charlie Parker records on and told everybody that we had to be quiet till dinner because he had Bird on. . . . When I [went] to Philly, I’d always go to their house.”

Today Heath performs, composes, and works as a music educator and arranger. By turns funny, poignant, and extremely candid, Heath’s story captures the rhythms of a life in jazz.

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TO ALL MUSICIANS,

FRIDAY 15TH WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS, JAZZ NIGHT IN SW HAS DEVELOPED A JAZZ SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY AND A MUSICIAN FRIENDLY PLACE FOR STRAIGHT-AHEAD JAZZ. ON FRIDAY, WE WILL BE CELEBRATING OUR 11TH YEAR. WHAT A GREAT TRIBUTE IT WOULD BE IF YOU COULD SUPPORT THIS ACTIVITY BY COMING OUT AND HELPING US TO CELEBRATE.WE HAVE A CORE GROUP BUT WHAT A BLESSING IT WOULD BE TO GET YOUR SUPPORT IN SOME WAY.

Jazz Night in Southwest has grown continually since its inception over 10 years ago and has presented wonderful performances every Friday without exception for all these years. It happens because of the support and participation of so many wonderful people. It is a true blessing! The gifts of our D.C. musicians and the appreciation of those of us gathered renews our sense of love, joy and unity. Please share this wonderful experience of community and welcome those you care about.

Much love,

Dick Smith, Jazz Program Director
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JAZZ NIGHT in Southwest @Westminster Church
400 I Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024 ~ 202.484.7700
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Jazz Night happens because of the generous support of many individuals and these organizations. We appreciate your support!

Generous support comes from the D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jazz Night is a project of Southwest Renaissance Development Corporations. For a full schedule, Directions and and information on the free ShuttleBug from Waterfront Metro information please click here

Music Director Vince Evans is a native Washingtonian, now living in nearby Maryland. An outstanding pianist, Vince has performed in Japan, France, England, Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Zaire, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. He speaks French and little Spanish, Wolof, Swahili, Zulu, Arabic, German, Japanese, and Italian. Vince leads choir practice each Sunday at 9 AM, then plays the piano and organ during the worship service. Vince teaches piano and voice, and performs regularly at several local venues, frequently in other major US cities. Vince has his own website. Click here...

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JUNETEENTH JAZZ PRESENTERS (NAJJP)

"June is Black Music Month!"
CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH JAZZ
"Preserving Our African American Jazz Legacy!"

WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH JAZZ & ARTS FESTIVAL
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Hosted by: National Juneteenth Observance Foundation
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HONORING WASHINGTON, DC JAZZ LEGEND

DUKE ELLINGTON
Historic jazz orchesetra composer, leader & pianist
Born in Washington, DC

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Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., Artistic Director
Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Program (MJHP)
662-247-1471 or 662-247-3364

(Belzoni, Mississippi) - As the National Juneteenth Jazz Artist, minister, physician and jazz musician, Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., performs across the country promoting "June Is Black Music Month!" - CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH JAZZ - Preserving Our African American Jazz Legacy!" Founder of the National Association of Juneteenth Jazz Presenters (NAJJP), Myers is the leader of the "Modern Juneteenth Movement" in America and the National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign. The NAJJP is the sponsor of several Juneteenth Jazz Legacy Concerts and African American Art Exhibits during Black Music Month, including the historic African-American jazz legacy cities of Kansas City, MO and Omaha, NB.


"RON MYERS PROMOTES JUNETEENTH JAZZ DURING BLACK MUSIC MONTH"

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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Westminster Presbyterian Church
400 I Street, S.W. Washington, DC
202-484-7700

Art Exhibit Opens at 1:00pm
Reception at 6:00pm
Concert Begins at 7:00pm

Free Admission! No Cover Charge! DONATIONS APPRECIATED!
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