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Author Event - The Jazzmen, with Larry Tye

When: February 5, 2025 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Miami Beach JCC
4221 Pinetree Dr.
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Organizer: Daniel Reed
Contact: Danny Reed at [email protected]
Cost: Free
Summary: Join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM for a conversation with Larry Tyre author of The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Arm¬strong and Count Basie Transformed America and a performance by Young Musicians Unite Jazz Ensemble.
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2025-02-05 19:30:00 2025-02-05 21:00:00 America/New_York Author Event - The Jazzmen, with Larry Tye Join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM for a conversation with Larry Tyre author of The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Arm¬strong and Count Basie Transformed America and a performance by Young Musicians Unite Jazz Ensemble. (http://jewishmiami.org/events/_the_jazzmen) Miami Beach JCC Daniel Reed [email protected]

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Join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM at the Miami Beach JCC for an enjoyable conversation with Larry Tyre author of The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America as well as a special performance by Young Musicians Unite Jazz Ensemble.
Zach Larmer, COO of Young Musicians Unite and a three time Grammy Award winning jazz musician will be in conversation with Larry Tyre.

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.
Larry Tye is a former reporter at The Boston Globe, off now writing books and running a Boston-based fellowship program for health journalists. The Jazzmen is his ninth book, with others including Home Lands, the upbeat tale of a thriving Jewish diaspora; Super¬man, the biography of America’s longest-lasting (Jewish) hero; and Bob¬by Kennedy, which looks at RFK’s transformation from Joe McCarthy’s protege to a liberal icon.
Young Musicians Unite, to empower youth, provides turnkey music education solutions for Title 1 schools across Miami-Dade County. YMU equips schools with trained instructors, lesson plans, instruments and all the necessary resources for vibrant music classes

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4221 Pinetree Dr.

Miami Beach, FL 33140

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