National Jazz Museum in Harlem Events January 17-23

National Jazz Museum in Harlem Events January 17 - 23, 2010

JAZZ FOR CURIOUS LISTENERS (CHANGE): Jazz and the World of Lar Lubovitch - A Discussion with Lar, Dr. Billy Taylor, and Others

HARLEM IN THE HIMALAYAS:
Bobby Sanabria & Quarteto Ache'

Two legends are the focus of this week's programming as we welcome choreographer Lar Lubovitch and bandleader/percussionist Bobby Sanabria.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Jazz For Curious Listeners
A Discussion With Lar Lubovitch, Dr. Billy Taylor, and Others
7:00 - 8:30pm
Location: National Jazz Museum In Harlem Visitors Center

104 E. 126th Street, Harlem, NY

FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300 or register online

Witness a discussion with Lar Lubovitch, Dr. Billy Taylor, and other guests as they pursue jazz culture and history as it intersects with choreography across jazz and ballet dance communities. Mr. Lubovitch will present excerpts of his work on film. One of America's most versatile, popular and highly acclaimed choreographers, Lar Lubovitch founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company over 40 years ago. In the years since, he has choreographed more than 100 dances for his New York-based company, which has performed in nearly all 50 American states as well as in more than 30 foreign countries. Lar's dances are renowned for their musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures. His radiant, highly technical choreography and deeply humanistic voice have been acclaimed throughout the world. Lar Lubovitch has been hailed by The New York Times as "one of the ten best choreographers in the world," and the company has been called a "national treasure" by Variety.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Harlem In The Himalayas
Bobby Sanabria & Quarteto Ache'
7:00pm
Location: Rubin Museum of Art
(150 West 17th Street)
$18 in advance | $20 at door |
Box Office: 212-620-5000 ext. 344

Peter Brainin - tenor, soprano sax, flute, percussion, vocals
Alex Hernandez - acoustic bass, percussion, vocals
Enrique Haneine - piano, percussion, vocals
Bobby Sanabria - musical director

Grammy-nominated on multiple occasions as a leader as well as on other projects as a sideman, Bobby Sanabria (drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, educator, film-maker, bandleader, and multi-cultural warrior) has performed and recorded with such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaría, Paquito D'Rivera, Ray Barretto, Candido, Henry Threadgill, Larry Harlow, and Afro-Cuban jazz Godfather, Mario Bauzá. His first big band recording, Live & in Clave!!! was nominated for a mainstream Grammy in 2001. In 2003 he was nominated for a Latin Grammy for "50 Years of Mambo," A Tribute to Damaso Perez Prado. DRUM! Magazine named him Percussionist of the Year in 2005. His latest recording is the 2008 Grammy nominated Big Band Urban Folktales, with his 19 piece big band, on the Jazzheads label. This South Bronx native of Puerto Rican parentage is a 2006 inductee into the Bronx Walk of Fame, and has a street named after him in his borough of birth. He holds a BM from the Berklee College of Music, and is on the faculty of the New School and the Manhattan School of Music, where he conducts Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Bands. He is associate producer of "The Palladium: Where Mambo Was King," a documentary shown on BRAVO, and winner of the IMAGINE award for best TV documentary of 2003. He served in the same capacity for "From Mambo to Hip Hop," winner of the ALMA award for best documentary for TV shown on PBS in 2007. He is the author of the acclaimed video series, Getting Started on Congas and he is a featured performer on the DVD, Modern Drummer Festival 2006, from Hudson Music. Mr. Sanabria was featured in the documentary, LATIN MUSIC USA, which aired on PBS in October 2009.