The New School Bachelor's Program alumni and renowned Caribbean cultural historian Herbie Miller, who is also the director/curator designate of Jamaica's National Music Museum curated a once-in-a-lifetime evening celebrating the interconnection between Jamaican and American jazz culture, "In Search of Lost Riddim: Jamaican Jazz Fusion," on Thursday, February 26.

Several generations of internationally renowned Jamaican musicians come together for this landmark event that celebrates the many influences of world music on jazz. The spectacular evening featured guitarist Ernest Ranglin, acclaimed for helping to give birth to ska and for his magnificent ability to blend jazz and reggae. Joining Ranglin are Douglas Ewart, the multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, whose superb playing weaves together jazz with contemporary classical music and Caribbean folkloric music; saxophonist Cedric "Im" Brooks, whose artful jazz combines such musical forms as calypso, funk, rhumba, junkunoo, ska, and disco; and trumpeter Cecil "Sonny" Bradshaw, a former president of the Jamaican Federation of Musicians and a pioneer in popularizing ska and other Jamaican indigenous music. The evening also featured Orville Hammond (piano), Wayne Batchelor (string bass), Desmond Jones (drums), and Larry McDonald (conga).

The event was presented through the Columbia / Harlem Jazz Project, Harlem Stage's Harlem Stride series, and the Harlem Stage Partners Program and took place at Harlem Stage at Aaron Davis Hall, W. 135th St and Convent Ave.