THE NEW SCHOOL PRESENTS BRAZILIAN JAZZ
AT DIZZY’S CLUB COCA COLA

April 7, 2008, 7:30 p.m., at Jazz at Lincoln Center

WHAT: The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music presents an evening of Brazilian Jazz at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca- Cola. The New School Brazilian Jazz Ensemble was established in 1995 by renowned Brazilian Jazz musician and New School Jazz faculty member Richard Boukas to showcase this music to a wider New York City audience. Since its start, students have performed over two hundred works representing the finest contemporary Brazilian jazz composers, most notably multi-instrumentalist and composer Hermeto Pascoal. This performance at Dizzy's will feature contemporary music of Pascoal, Jovino Santos Neto, Guinga, Sérgio Santos, Léa Freire, Toninho Ferragutti, Teco Cardoso, Boukas, and legends Johnny Alf and Ary Barroso. Boukas will join the ensemble on select pieces.

WHEN: Monday, April 7, 2008, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, New York

TICKET INFO: Admission: $20; $10 free for students. Valid student ID required. Food & Beverage: $10 minimum, table; $5 minimum, bar.  For phone reservations please call: 212.258.9595. Reservations for Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola can also be made through www.OpenTable.com 

GENERAL INFO: For more information, the public can contact The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music at 212.229.5896 x4591 or [email protected] or visit www.jazz.newschool.edu.

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music is the musical manifestation of The New School. While a major presence during the formation of the jazz movement in New York City in the early twentieth century, The New School was the first university to offer a course in jazz in 1948. Following this was a half-century of dynamic public programming featuring outstanding jazz artists from Art Tatum and Louis Armstrong to Jon Hendricks and Pat Metheny. The School was formally founded in 1986 by David Levy and jazz saxophonist and iconoclast Arnie Lawrence, and remains at the forefront of music education by combining the teaching model of the community-based, mentor-student style of jazz’s early years with the academic rigor and curricular depth of a modern conservatory. In its 20-year history, the program has produced some of the brightest stars in jazz as of late, including Miri Ben-Ari, Peter Bernstein, Walter Blanding Jr., Avishai Cohen, Robert Glasper, Larry Goldings, Roy Hargrove, Susie Ibarra, Ali M. Jackson, Virginia Mayhew, Brad Mehldau, EJ Strickland and more. For more information, visit www.jazz.newschool.edu.

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