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JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE SERIES (J4YP)For those seeking a swingin’ good time for the whole family.3 concerts Saturdays 1pm 11/7, 4/10, 6/5 Subscriptions are no longer available Who is Mary Lou Williams? Mary Lou Williams was the leading lady of jazz, a skilled pianist and a masterful composer who influenced generations of musicians to take up musical instruments and pick up the pen. Host Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will demonstrate for parents and children alike how this exceptional artist created a sum of musical moods that fully reflected the spectrum of jazz. Is your child or music student the next Mary Lou Williams? Click here to learn more! Who is Tito Puente? More than just a great bandleader and a master percussionist, for over four decades Tito Puente was the Latin jazz bandleader, freely mixing jazz and Cuban music into a strong, spicy concoction. Popular host Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra bassist Carlos Henriquez and friends will demonstrate why Mr. Puente was called ‘El Rey de Salsa’ and the ‘King of the Mambo.’ What is Free Jazz? Join bandleader, composer and drummer extraordinaire Matt Wilson as he shows youngsters and oldsters alike that free jazz is the fun and playful side of the music, the kind where you get to make up your own rules as you go along. Matt and his quartet demonstrate how, in the free form jazz pioneered by Ornette Coleman and others in the ‘60s, you get to play with things like rhythm and melody, pitch and volume, and the other basic elements of music. Chances are that your kid is already a free jazz musician and you don’t even know it. Subscriptions are no longer available Included with your Jazz for Young People concert ticket/subscription purchase is a one-year subscription to Time Out New York Kids. Time Out New York Kids is the official media partner of the Jazz for Young PeopleŽ Concert series.
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