Thursday,
November 21st, 7:00PM,
Arturo O’Farrill – Against Elitism: The Functional Value of Jazz and Art
at the
National Jazz Museum in Harlem, 58 West 129th Street, just east of Lenox. azz and Afro-Latin music deserve their hard-earned places among this country’s great art forms. Yet all music and art holds special power and promise to bind communities, support spiritual uplift and advance social and political aims. Elitism of any form can dilute these functions. As composer, pianist and bandleader, and through his Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Arturo O’Farrill has long sought to, as he says, “build a pueblo” around culture. Along with special guests including tap dancer Ayodele Casel, O’Farrill will perform music that reflects these ideas.
More details and online tickets at the NJMH site:
LINK
HarlemBespoke.com 2019
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