jazz – Temple Update

The Rite of Swing Jazz Café

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:46:26 +0000

Swinging drums, rhythmic bass, melodic keyboard, and screaming horns. Those are the sounds of Boyer College’s Rite of Swing Jazz Café. The event has been running for 10 years and was started by Vice Dean David Brown and has been going strong ever since. “Our Dean, Robert Stroker, wanted to have a concert for the community on a regular basis,” Brown says, “So we started this on Thursday…

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The Blockson Collection celebrates jazz musician Robert “Bootsie” Barnes

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 02:05:34 +0000

It has been one month since Juneteeth, a holiday which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, yet the fight against racial injustice continues in the country. Every year, the Blockson Collection uses this holiday as a way to celebrate African-American history and culture. This year’s event, entitled “Emancipation and Jazz” celebrated jazz through the life of Robert “Bootsie”…

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Kimmel Center Jazz Residency

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:33:38 +0000

While most of the city winds down at the end of Jazz Appreciation Month, the Kimmel Center continues its jazz residency program that began in December and concludes later next month. In its 6th year of running, the residency theme this year is “Philly Made” and focuses on cultural ideas of identity and belonging. Each of the three teams of musicians approached by the Kimmel Center composed a…

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Philly Celebrates Jazz

Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:44:14 +0000

Jazz Appreciation Month runs throughout all of April and with it a number of free and ticketed events put on by dozens of organizations around the city. The Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy introduced “Philly Celebrates Jazz” this month with a free neighborhood series that includes jazz performances, exhibits, film screenings, and dance lessons.

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SOUTH Restaurant Gives Jazz Students the Opportunity to Gain Real-World Experience

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:32:28 +0000

Jazz Performance Majors at the Boyer College of Music and Dance are receiving opportunities to expand their musical knowledge of Jazz both inside, and outside of the classroom. SOUTH, a jazz bar and kitchen on Broad and Spring Garden, is one of the many venues that allows any musician, including students, to sit in and play jazz music. “The best part about going to sessions is that there’s…

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Homecoming Festival Tribute to Philadelphia Legend

Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:56:43 +0000

This year’s Homecoming week has been one based in the present, with an MTV show gracing campus as well as a world record being broken, however it is not without its mentions to the past. The Bell Tower Plaza and Buery Beach were ringing with the soulful sounds of old school jazz in celebration of the late famed Philadelphian John Coltrane’s upcoming birthday on Friday. Although he grew up in…

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