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Garden State Jazz Greats Series
June 16 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
Join us each month as jazz scholar Ben Young highlights and explores the majesty, style, and genius of New Jersey’s jazz greats. Ben will discuss each of these home state heroes’ lives and contributions, providing a musical and historical context. Along with a plentiful helping of their music, it will help illustrate what made each of their unique and singular artistic visions have such an impact.
June’s featured artist will be tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley. Mobley, raised in Elizabeth, was an early purveyor of the Hard-Bop scene playing with such greats as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, and Max Roach. Described as the “middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone”, Mobley’s luscious tone, prodigious compositional talents, and graceful improvisational skills made him a strong Jazz force in the late 50’s and early 60’s.
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