If you’re in Brooklyn, come join us for an exciting night of music!!! 💃🏻
📍 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
📅 TOMORROW, FRIDAY JULY 24 at Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park
🎶 Doors: 6PM, Music starts at 7PM - FREE EVENT!!!
https://t.co/7Jh505yNJo
Hope to see you there! 😊
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Remembering my nervousness, I expected Cecil to hang up on me. But In fact, he was quite intrigued that a 13 year fan would call him up. He was sweet, friendly and encouraging, I know I practiced a bit extra after that call back in 1964.
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None of the musicians I looked up were listed, save for, Cecil Taylor. There he was in the phone book. When I saw the address listed as 344 E 4th st, I knew I had the right number. So, I actually called him after several days of being too nervous to do so...
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By the time I was 13, I knew music had won the competition it had been getting from baseball as to the direction I was going in. One day that year, I decided to look up some of my favorite musicians up in the phone book. Yes, back then, there were phone books...
1/2 The time I saw Rahsaan Roland Kirk play at the old Jazz Workshop in Boston. The band was playing a tune and Rahsaan was leading the audience clapping on two and four. He hears one guy toward the back clapping on one and three. With three horns around his neck and his stick...