The 14th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival | March 29th – April 30th, 2013

14th
Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival-‘Jazz Healing Force of The
Universe’, March 29 thru April 30, 2013, presented by the Central
Brooklyn Jazz Consortium. This music series is New York City’s longest
continuously running grassroots festival dedicated to jazz. More than
500 artists performing in 45 events at venues throughout Brooklyn. This
celebration is financially accessible and open to all. For information
contact CBJC at 718.773.2252 or [email protected].

International and regionally recognized artists performing at
entertainment venues, cultural, educational and faith based institutions
during Jazz Appreciation Month. Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival has
grown from a nine day neighborhood event to a highly anticipated month
long borough-wide music series. The backbone of this community based
jazz festival are the musicians and venues that keep Brooklyn’s jazz
scene vibrate and fuel its nightlife economy.

Papo Vazquez,
Sonny Fortune, Ahnee Sharon Freeman, Gerry Eastman, Lil Phillips, Eric
Lemon, Marion Cowings, Greg Bandy, Marvin Horne, Stanley Banks, The New
Cookers (Kenyatta Beasley, Keith Loftis, Anthony Wonsey, Dezron
Douglas), Jeff King, Lezlie Harrison, Hamiet Buiett, T.C. III, Solomon
Hicks, Kathy Farmer, Beareather Reddy, Ray Abrams Big Band, Arturo
O’Farrill, Maurice Brown, Dwight ‘Dr. Mambo’ Brewster, Bertha Hope,
Phillip Harper, Ted Daniel and IBMC, Napoleon Revels-Bey, Denroy Morgan,
Bob Cunningham, Cynthia Holiday, Greg Lewis, and Wycliffe Gordon are
just some of the performers the jazz community will enjoy during the
Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival.

“Central Brooklyn Jazz
Consortium mantra for festival 2013, ‘Jazz Healing Force of The
Universe’.” states Chairman Clarence Mosley, Jr., “Is an appropriate
phrase for this spring celebration as Brooklynites rejuvenate their
spirits from a harsh winter season with its natural disaster.”

The membership of Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium will sponsor a kick
off for jazz month on the steps of New York City Hall as part of Jazz
Day in NYC on April 2; recognize women in this art form during Jazz! The
Women’s ViewPoint on April 20; host a gala celebration on 4/24; give
the stage to the future of jazz on April 27 at a Youth Jamboree
afternoon concert. Other programs are scheduled for Sugarhill Supper
Club, New York City Housing-Farragut Development, Brooklyn Borough Hall,
JAZZ966, Williamsburg Music Center, Janes United Methodist Church,
BrownstoneJAZZ, The Heights Bar & Lounge, Sistas’ Place, Big Eyed
Blues Parlor, and Emmanuel Baptist Church. Special thanks to CBJC’s
festival partners for also hosting community accessible programs:
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Tourism and Visitors Center, H. Wiley
Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, and Museum of
Contemporary African Diasporan Arts/MoCADA.

CBJC
activities are made possible by the following sponsors: NYS Assembly
Members Annette Robinson and Karim Camara; NYS Senators Velmanette
Montgomery and Eric Adams; NYC Council Members Albert Vann and Leticia
James; CBJC member organizations. CBJC programs are supported, in part,
by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
City Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Arts Council and its JP
Morgan Chase Regrant Program, New York City Department For The Aging,
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn Tourism and
Visitors Center an initiative of Borough President Marty Markowitz, and
Long Life Information & Referral Network. Media sponsor Jazz Promo
Services.

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC founded in
1999, is an amalgam of patrons, entertainment venues, faith based
institutions, community organizations and musicians. Over the past
thirteen (13) years CBJC has presented an annual spring festival,
established a Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame & Museum ™ and produced
yearly programs that feature local jazz talent. CBJC is a nonprofit
corporation committed to preserving, promoting and supporting live music
within the underserved communities of Brooklyn.