Hi there, Matt Silver of KSDS coming to you from our innovation labs here on the campus of San Diego City College with good news and bad. Here’s the bad: despite our best efforts, time travel remains only theoretically possible at this time. Decreased government funding of public media has all but guaranteed that our time machine development project won’t be ready for the next pledge drive.
The good news is that here at KSDS, we’re mighty resourceful.
The recently underway new semester of Jazz University has done a marvelous job transporting students, through illuminating lectures animated by rare archival audio and film, into the heart of the intellectual and artistic belle epoque that was the Harlem Renaissance. From the brownstones and the ballrooms to the Cotton Club’s bandleaders and dance brigades, we’ve managed to get all the way uptown, north of 110th Street. No flux capacitor. No plutonium. Not even a Metrocard! No problem.
And the best is yet to come, especially if you’re the type who’d prefer to skip school and proceed directly to the graduation party. So join us, on Thursday evening, July 31st, as we conclude another enlightening semester of Jazz University with a celebration of the musical and culinary legacy of the Harlem Renaissance. Enjoy a catered dinner faithful to the soul food-revival staples of the Harlem Renaissance, then let your ears feast on the The Music of Duke Ellington’s Harlem, presented by a 16-piece band co-led by saxophonist Doug Webb and trombonist Matt Hall.
Come for dinner AND the show or just the concert itself…the choice is yours! Tickets for either option available at jazz88.org/tickets or by calling 619-388-3000.
Josephine Baker performed at the Cotton Club in 1926 as part of the "Chocolate Dandies" troupe. Photo by Stanislaus Julian Walery.
That’s The Music of Duke Ellington’s Harlem: Nights at the Cotton Club…KSDS’s live concert celebration of The Harlem Renaissance. Thursday, July 31st at 7 p.m. at the Saville Theatre on the campus of San Diego City College.
