There are a few more hot flings left as New York City immerses itself in absorbing rhythms from three separate all-day jazz festivals.
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Sugar Hill will round out with an all-star lineup featuring the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra, performing Afro-Cuban, salsa, and mambo classics; pianist and composer Marcus Persiani and the Uptown Hi-Tones; and vocalist Jennifer Jade Ledesna, whose vocal stylings have been accompanied by such musicians as Elew, Roy Hargrove, Joatan Nascimento, James Carter, and Janis Siegel.doesn’t present the typical European classical music string configurations.
According to Iymaani Abdul-Hamid, founder and executive producer of the festival, “This will be our eighth year presenting innovative performances by professional string musicians of color for audiences from across the tri-state. Our string musicians have performed under the OBF brand at various venues in Harlem, Brooklyn, and lower Manhattan.” This will be the festival’s finale to a three-year venue residency at the Bronx Brewery.
Abdul-Hamid founded the festival eight years ago on Juneteenth, saying, “We sought to teach our young students at the IAH Studio about the significance of this day. In doing so, we uncovered the rich legacy of Black violinists during U.S. slavery. Out of a group of 300 runaway slaves, 17 — more than 5% — were described as playing the fiddle, violin, or fife ‘tolerably well’ .
Donations are welcome for the ongoing education of young students of color in the world of classical music.Adderley is a keyboardist, songwriter/composer, and longtime music director and co-writer for Luther Vandross.
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