Jazz for Young People® Jazz at Lincoln Center Quintet Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance

Camille Thurman, saxophone/vocals
Sam Reider, piano
Noah Garabedian, bass
Justin Poindexter, guitar
Evan Hughes, drums

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of flourishing artistic expression and cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in Harlem, New York, the cultural phenomenon saw some of America’s foremost black writers, artists, musicians, and political thinkers emerge at the forefront of American culture. “Harlem, in ourminds,” Duke Ellington remembered, had “the world’s most glamorous atmosphere. We had to go there.” This concert will focus on the innovations and achievements of this era and the importance of Harlem in the development of jazz.