Lost Jazz Shrines: Celebrating Boomers / Remembering Cedar Walton Featuring the Helen Sung Quartet

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
199 Chambers St New York, NY 10007
Sat, Feb 18, 2023 08:30 PM

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Boomers was a jazz club in Greenwich Village, New York City, during the 1970s. The club was a venue for bebop musicians, and artists Barry Harris and Kenny Barron played there. At the club, Cedar Walton recorded the albums, A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2  Cedar Anthony Walton was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band before establishing a long career as a bandleader and composer. Our Musical Director is the award-winning pianist-composer Helen Sung. Pianist/composer Helen Sung is a graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance and won the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition.