Jazz in Harlem

Join us for some great music and discussion about the figures who defined a new music that took over the world, such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Duke Ellington. Also woven into this musical portrait will be James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes, whose love of the music expanded its impact and context.

This program is intended for adults.

Seating is limited, and registration does not guarantee you a spot. Doors will open to registrants at 11:45 AM, and any remaining seats will be released to other patrons at 11:55 AM. If you register online but arrive after 11:55 AM, your seat is not guaranteed and may be given to someone else. Therefore, please be on time!

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2025/01/25/jazz-harlem

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This workshop will be presented by Loren Schoenberg. Mr. Schoenberg is Senior Scholar of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Mr. Schoenberg is currently on the faculty at the Juilliard School and has lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the White House, the New York Philharmonic, Stanford University, and the Aspen Institute. Mr. Schoenberg has conducted the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) as well as the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the American Jazz Orchestra and the WDR Jazz Orchestra in Koln, Germany.

Mr. Schoenberg, a tenor saxophonist/pianist, has played and recorded with Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, Eddie Durham, Marian McPartland, Clark Terry, John Lewis, Christian McBride, Buck Clayton, and was musical director for Bobby Short from 1997-2005. He also received two Grammy awards, for best album notes in 1994 and 2004. Mr. Schoenberg has been published widely and his book, The NPR Guide to Jazz, was released in 2003. He was hired in 2001 to lead the effort to establish The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and served for over a decade as its Executive Director, creating many of its signal programs, enlisting Christian McBride, Jon Batiste, Ken Burns, and Wynton Marsalis to the museum’s mission. A longtime radio host on WBGO-FM and WKCR-FM with occasional features on NPR, and Swing Channel host on SIRIUS FM, Mr. Schoenberg is currently heard on KSDS-FM, San Diego.

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