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Piano. Years active. 1990–2021. Labels. What's New, Jan Matthies. Website. ayakoshirasaki.com. Ayako Shirasaki (白崎 彩子, Shirasaki Ayako, 16 September 1969 – 29 November 2021) was a Japanese-American jazz pianist, composer and teacher living in Brooklyn, New York.
Long before Brooklyn had established itself as a renaissance city, it had gone through several phases of evolution. Originally inhabited by the Lenape Indians, colonization by Europeans in the 1600s led to a 200-year run as prime farmland. Queens and Brooklyn (Kings County) became the top two counties in market garden production in the U.S.
Founded in 1969 in Brooklyn, New York City by a group including students from the African American Student Association (ASA) and Jitu Weusi (Les Campbell), The East was a community education and arts organization based on principles of self-determination, nation building, and Black consciousness. [1][2] It served as a branch of Amiri Baraka ...
Betty Smith's 1943 book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and the 1945 film based on it, are among the best-known early works about life in Brooklyn. The tree in the title is the Tree of Heaven. There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.
A Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame member is a jazz musician who has made a significant contribution to the art form called jazz; used his artistry for social causes. The artist was born, a long-time resident, and has a musical connection to Kings County in New York State. Members of the Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame include: Lena Horne, Max Roach ...
July 26, 2024 at 9:57 AM. In their maiden New York appearance in seven years, French electronica duo Justice dazzled last night (July 25) at the first of two sold-out shows at new venue Brooklyn ...
May 2, 2006. The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City. It hosts progressive and avant-garde performances, with theater, dance, music, opera, film programming across multiple nearby venues. BAM was chartered in 1859, presented its first show in 1861, and began operations in its present location in ...
The New York City Jazz Record. The New York City Jazz Record is a monthly New York City based publication that includes features, reviews and concert announcements regarding jazz music. It is available in print form (black and white hardcopy) as well as online at www.nycjazzrecord.com (in full color). It was launched in May 2002 by co-founders ...