[Dixielandjazz] A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM - Benefit's New Orleans Musicians

[Gary Kiser]

I see the name Harold Mabern in the lineup.  He was over here a couple 
of years back for our Jazz en Tête festival.  What a piano player and 
what a FUN guy!!!  Have any of you worked with him??  I hung out with 
him for four days and we never stopped laughing.

He, like me, is a Harold Arlen fan and he knows 'em all.  I don't know 
why he has never recorded a 'Harold plays Harold' album.

I doubt he'd remember me but if anyone is to see him, please give him a 
big howdydoo from the tuba yank in Clermont-Ferrand.

All the best, Gary


Steve barbone wrote:

>April 27, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features
>
>"A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM" at the Apollo Theater next Thursday May 4th 2006
>To benefit the Jazz Foundation of America
>
>Saving America's elderly jazz and blues musicians for the past 17 years, and
>now, the musicians of New Orleans as well.
>
>PLEASE JOIN: Bill Cosby, Danny Glover, Dr Billy Taylor,  Odetta, James Blood
>Ulmer, Abbey Lincoln, over 30 musicians from New Orleans, Dr. Michael White,
>Davell Crawfod, Henry Butler, Ron Carter, Harold Mabern, Ben Riley, Gary
>Bartz, Johnnie Mae Dunson (85 yrs old wrote tunes for Muddy Waters and
>Elvis- she's amazing!) and many more major surpirses.
>
>Tickets through Apollo box office for $35 tickets... 212-531-5305
>
>Orchestra is sold out, but First Mezzanine tickets available thru the Jazz
>Foundation from $50, $100, and $250...call us at  212-245-3999 Ext. 29
>
>We need everyone for this one. It's not getting much better for the New
>Orleans musicians and this year, we need you now more then ever.
>
>WHAT WE CANNOT DO ALONE, WE CAN DO TOGETHER.
>The Jazz Foundation of America has:
>
>Assisted over 1000 emergency New Orleans cases since the hurricane, replaced
>over $250,000 of FREE new instruments donated by manufacturers, they even
>got Fats Domino a piano, along with horns, drums and guitars to some of New
>Orleans most beloved senior and junior musicians.
>
>Established the first housing Fund to put New Orleans musicians into new
>homes and keep the old ones from foreclosures, and the Jazz Foundation was
>the very first to put New Orleans musicians back to work in schools and
>shelters, and has been employing 200 displaced musicians in 8 states where
>they have been forced to settle.
>
>WE NEED YOU. . . To donate visit: http://www.jazzfoundation.org
>