[Dixielandjazz] Don't Miss This if in NYC

[Steve barbone]

Worth a go, if you are there.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

"HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ" PRESENTS Thursday, May 12, 2005 8PM

Keepers of the Flame

Dick Hyman
Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks
Marcus Belgrave Salute To Doc Cheatham
With Randy Sandke, Theodore Cheatham Croker, Chuck Folds and others
Special Guest Peter Cincotti

Jack Kleinsinger's "Highlights in Jazz," New York's longest running jazz
series is pleased to present Keepers of the Flame featuring Dick Hyman,
Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks, Marcus Belgrave Salute To Doc Cheatham
and Special Guest Peter Cincotti.

Dick Hyman (born Mar 8, 1927 in New York, NY) is a versatile virtuoso
pianist. He has investigated ragtime and the earliest periods of jazz and
has researched and recorded the piano music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll
Morton, James P. Johnson, Zez Confrey, Eubie Blake and Fats Waller. In
addition to being an accomplished pianist, organist, arranger, music
director, and composer his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz is featured on
Dick Hyman¹s 100 Years Of Jazz Piano, a CD-ROM based on his frequent
recital-lectures.  For his ³Highlights in Jazz,² appearance Dick will be a
Œkeeper of the flame¹ for the piano music of James P. Johnson (1891 - 1955),
the grand-daddy of stride piano who composed ³Carolina Shout², ³You¹ve Got
To Be Modernistic², ³Caprice Rag²,  ³Eccentricity², ³Old Fashioned Love² and
³Charleston². 

Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks band are renowned on the New York scene
for their commitment to preserving and authentically presenting 1920s and
1930s jazz. Each piece they perform is inspired by, and arranged from,
original recordings from greats of the era. The 11-piece group has been
featured on movie soundtracks including Ghost World, Cotton Club, Finding
Forrester, Bloodhounds on Broadway, and most recently Martin Scorsese¹•s
Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator.

This concert will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough
of Manhattan Community College),  199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and
West Street). The tickets are $27.50, $25.00 for students.  They can be
purchased at the theater box office or by calling  (212) 220-1460.Mail Order
to Highlights In Jazz 7 Peter Cooper Rd.. NY, NY 10010 enclose
self-addressed envelope.