Saturday, August 22, 2015

The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival is tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park

The city's annual salute to the legendary saxophonist is this weekend… with the show coming to Tompkins Square Park tomorrow (that would be Sunday).

Here's the lineup: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Joe Lovano (pictured), Myra Melford and Michael Mwenso.

Head to the Jazz Festival website for info on all the artists.

The free show is from 3-7 p.m.
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4 comments:

  1. DrBOPAugust 22, 2015 at 11:29 AM

    If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats

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    Enjoy!

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  2. JoeAugust 22, 2015 at 12:54 PM

    Now I know what I'm doing on Sunday. Thanks for sharing!

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  3. AnonymousAugust 22, 2015 at 3:24 PM

    Gonna chill some wine for this great event

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  4. AnonymousAugust 23, 2015 at 8:56 PM

    Hope y'all went, because if ya didn't, ya missed seein' Esperanza Spaulding playing with Joe Lovano!

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