Greetings Folks,

We invite you all who love Miguel Algarin to come the Nuyorican on this special night (THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH AT 9:30PM) and celebrate the birthday of the founder of the world famous Nuyorican Poets Cafe. the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. I personally would like to invite you to come to the Nuyo earlier that evening (7:00pm) for the Final preview/ Fundraiser for the much talked about play, The Domestic Crusaders. You get to see the play and also celebrate with the cast the day before this landmark play officially opens on September 11th (sold out), dine, dance and party to the live Latin Jazz sounds of the Curtis Brothers. So come on out on this special evening and celebrate with us at the Nuyorican, In order to get as many of you in the house as possible the $50 fundraiser admission for the entire evening has been reduced to only $25. So call (212) 780-9386 NOW!!! Purchase your tickets for this special evening by using the code: Miguel's Birthday.

Peace & Blessings,

Rome Neal




Founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Miguel Algarin is the "poet laureate" of Loisaida - also known as the Lower East Side - and founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, where he has nurtured the spoken and written word for nearly three decades. Through the Cafe Algarin helped cultivate the popular "slam" poetry movement. Colliding the gritty topics of urbanity with the art of literature, Algarin's Cafe as provided a venue for words to jump from the page to the stage.

Since 1974, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe as captured the flavor of the streets serving as a haven for poets, writers, thespians, performance artists, musicians, visual artists and hip-hop renegades, running the cultural gamut from acclaimed theater productions to hip-hop open mikes to celebrations of salsa and merengue music. The Cafe's living room hosts the freshest art to immigrate to New York City, from not only the Caribbean and the Americas, but from all over the world.

The Nuyorican Poets Cafes a stage of words made visible. Situated in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Loisaida, the community, is a mixture of various ethnic backgrounds: Puerto Rican, Dominican, African-American, Ukrainian, Polish and Irish, to name a few. The community also hosts a great number of artists. This diverse energy is reflected in the performances of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Algarin, along with the emerging artists of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe bring their talents to the forefront, dazzling audiences with their vibrant presentations. Mixing the traditional arts of oral story telling and classical poetry with the edgy raw rhythm of the hip-hop influenced streets creates the soulful heartbeat which is the Cafe.

Recognized as a long-term cultural worker of the Lower East Side, Miguel Algarin's Nuyorican Poets Cafe has become a Loisaida institution. The Cafe and its milieu have provided a blueprint for the development of the international slam poetry movement that first surfaced in Chicago.

Algarin holds a Professor Emeritus for more than 30 years of service to Rutgers University where he taught Shakespeare, Creative Writing, and United States Ethnic Literature.

Algarin is the author of more than ten published books of poetry, the editor of several anthologies, and an accomplished writer for television and theater. He received six American Book Awards and was presented with the Larry Leon Hamlin Producer's Award at the 2001 National Black Theater Festival. He is the sole translator of Pablo Neruda's Songs of Protest.

Algarin continues to work and reside in Loisaida. He is currently developing a massive piece of literature entitled Dirty Beauty, which represents the culmination of more than three years work. The book deals with religious, political, erotic and psychological themes.

JACK KLEINSINGER
Presents
Highlights In JAZZ
New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series

37th Season
The Final Season!

Fall 2009 Line Up

Four Great Jazz Concerts

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 8 pm

Cabaret Jazz Featuring Barbara Carroll & Paula West



Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 8 pm
Hot Jazz From New Orleans To Israel
Featuring
Evan Christopher
Duke Heitger
Anat Cohen
Ehud Asherie
with
George Masso
Jackie Williams
Johnny Varro
Joe Ascione

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 8 pm
Living Jazz Legends
Featuring
Buddy DeFranco
with
Jay Leonhart
Joe Cohn
Ron Odrich
Ed Metz, Jr.
+
Bucky Pizzarelli
with
John Pizzarelli
Martin Pizzarelli
Mickey Roker

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 8 pm
Celebrating the Swing Masters
Ken Peplowski Recalls Benny Goodman
Terry Gibbs Recalls Lionel Hampton
Freddie Bryant Recalls Charlie Christian


All Shows at:
TRIBECA Performing Arts Center
Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street
TRIBECA Box Office at (212) 220-1460
http://www.tribecapac.org/music.htm

4 Super Concerts
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( a $10 savings! )

Tickets for individual concerts may be
ordered for $35.00, students $32.50

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Concerts produced in association with:
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Death of Max Roach and other Information.....

The JAZZ WORLD has lost another giant. It has come to our attention that the great Jazz Drummer, Max Roach, (Seen in the photo on the left,) has died. The announcement came overnight. He had died in a Manhattan hospital after a long illness. He was 83. From Duke Ellington to Miles Davis, Roach made a deep impression on the Jazz scene. Details below of funeral arraignments and public ways to pay your respects. Max will be missed...

Services for Max Roach will be held on Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 11:00 am at Riverside Church, NYC.

Viewing will begin at 9am at Riverside Church.

The internment will be private.

The Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive
New York, New York 10027
212-870-6700
http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/

The Riverside Church is located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side near Columbia University. The church covers a two-block area extending from Riverside Drive to Claremont Avenue and between 120th Street and 122nd Street. (120th Street is also named Reinhold Niebuhr Place.) The Claremont Avenue entrance (91 Claremont Avenue) is open daily from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Directions by Subway

Take the #1 IRT Broadway Local to 116th Street. Walk north along Broadway (passing Barnard College on the left) to 120th Street (Reinhold Niebuhr Place). Turn left and walk one block to (Claremont Avenue). 91 Claremont is one half block north of 120th Street on the left hand side of the street. If the IRT Broadway Express (#2 or #3 IRT) is taken uptown from midtown Manhattan, be sure to change at 96th street for the local train.

Directions by Bus

Take the M-104, M-4 or M-5 to 120th or 122nd Street.
For further information about bus and subway routes, click here for more information <http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/bus/> or call 718.330.1234.

Elin Sings this Week!!!!

Eric Frazier Live in July

He continues to jam, jam, jam! Eric Frazier LIVE in July. Catch in and around town this month!

Coming soon and NOT to be missed!

Smitty's Jazz Festival at the Quarry in Upstate New York. Early August!!!!