8th Annual CBJC Jazz festival Now underway

CENTRAL BROOKLYN JAZZ CONSORTIUM announces

8th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival

Thursday, March 8th at 10:00 AM - Brooklyn Borough Hall

Scheduled Speakers - 10:30 AM

Brooklyn Borough President, Honorable Marty Markowitz

Brooklyn Historical Society, President Deborah Schwartz

Father Martin Carter, Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium, Chairman Jitu Weusi

Musical selections by the Bob Cunningham Trio - 10:00 AM

Contact info: Bob Myers, 718.467.1527

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC will hold its 8^th Annual CBJC Jazz Festival from April 4^th to April 29^th 2007. The theme for this year's festival is "Jazz and Rhythm-Voice of the People," which speaks to the tempo of jazz music as it finds its sound in the contemporary voice of the people.

“Jazz musicians have always lived in Brooklyn , composed their music here, and performed for our residents, like ‘ Charlie Parker Place ’ in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which once boasted more than 20 jazz venues,” said Borough President Markowitz. “The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium’s eighth annual jazz festival confirms that Brooklyn will remain a jazz capital in the days ahead — from legends like Randy Weston performing at the Brooklyn Historical Society to a peek at the young lions at the Youth Jamboree, Brooklyn will be boppin’!”

Some of the events for the 8^th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival include

• April 4- CBJC Gala Fundraiser / Sugar Hill Restaurant
• April 5- Jazz Jam Session / Savy's Restaurant
• April 6- Jeff King Band / Solomon's Porch
• April 7- Fine Art of Answered Stewart / Afroart Designs
• April 11- Randy Weston Trio / Brooklyn Historical Society
• April 26- Jazz & The Spoken Word / Brooklyn Borough Hall
• April 27- Houston Person Quartet / Jazz 966
• April 28-Youth Jamboree / Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Center
• April 29- Gala Farewell for Fr. Martin Carter / Our Lady Victory R.C. Church

The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium, born in 1999, is an amalgam of jazz musicians, venue owners, churches, community based organizations, and patrons of the music. Over the past 7 years, they have presented an annual spring festival, established a Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame, and produced yearly programs of events and activities that feature local jazz musical talents.