Drop me off in Brooklyn to see Billy Banks @ the CBJC Gala
Billy Bang plays an instrument more closely identified with a concert hall than a Jazz club, but there is no mistaking his primary source of inspiration - JAZZ. A free Jazz that was prevalent in the lofts of downtown Manhattan where the Avant-garde music of the day was housed. Billy Bang was an integral part of that loft scene.

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Drop me off in Brooklyn for the music of the spirit
This year marks the first organized effort to further identify the genre of Jazz as a Music of the Spirit. praxis paper outlining this position and written by trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah with poet Louis Reyes Rivera offers as a basic tenet that Jazz: The Music of the Spirit is "...an art form that defies time, genre and culture, even while it is, in fact, identifiably of a specific time frame (20-21st Century), genre (Jazz), and culture (African American).”

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