The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America
by Larry Tye
**Plus a jazz performance by Ariel Kasler Quartet: Andrew Bishop (Sax), Ariel Kasler (guitar), Jeff Halsey (bass), and Olman Piedra (drums)
Monday, November 4
6 p.m.
Lucille’s Jazz Lounge, 1447 N Summit St., Toledo
Event - $20 per person
Event and book - $45 per person
Event includes author presentation, jazz performance, appetizers, and one drink ticket.
A sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet. The Jazzmen looks mainly at these three maestros’ lives off the bandstand, and how they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights revolution. It also explores the Black-Jewish alliance of old— one where each of these African American bandleaders had a Jewish manager and bandmates —and how that might offer a model for today.
Special performance by The Ariel Kasler Quartet. The Ariel Kasler Quintet performs original jazz compositions and arrangements influenced by Middle Eastern, Jewish, and Israeli music.
RSVP by Wednesday, October 30 to form.jotform.com/jewishtoledo/jfgtprograms or Sherry Majewski at sherry@jewishtoledo.org or 419-724-0351.