Before today's concert, two sessions will be held at 1 p.m. and 1 40 p.m. when children may try out instruments from the orchestra with help from professionals.
In 1979, while shooting scenes for the film Rock'n'Roll High School, the Ramones - ignoring the director's orders - played a concert-length session for fans who had paid to be extras.
Intended as a collaborative effort transcending national borders, it will involve a series of concerts, recording session, and workshops across Europe.
Aside from Ellington, the musicians who came for three days of concerts, jam sessions, and workshops included Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Mary Lou Williams, and Willie (the Lion) Smith.
Consider seeing Off the Beaten Track, an acclaimed film following a year in the lives of Buraka Som Sistema, depicting their backstage life, flights, concerts, studio sessions and travel.
The festival features both jazz and blues musical performances as well as jazz educational clinics taught by professional musicians appearing in the festival and post-concert jam sessions at local venues which bring headliners and local artists together.
AS Mo Menzel sees it, those who attend the monthly concert and jam session at her violin shop here can be divided into two groups: pickers and grinners.
There was a lot of remembering like this going on Monday night as the school, now the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts on Amsterdam Avenue at 65th Street, brought together 37 celebrated jazz alumni and friends for a reunion/benefit concert and jam session to honor Mr. DiCioccio, who went on to lead the jazz program at the school for the next two decades.
Possibly there's a concert or recording session by a musician passing through town (Hwin has co-hosted Twin Shadow and Grimes at the Sub), or maybe the residents will drop their big projection screen and run NED Night (an evening of TED-ish colloquy).
