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CALL - A Special CD Project
Sep 25, 2022
In early 2021, after the flames of the George Floyd murder and protests traveled around the globe, Kim Niemela, executive director of COSACOSA art at large, Inc. reached out to ask if Philadelphia Jazz Project would have an interest in participating in a new recording project. A NEA-funded project focused on the creation and sharing of new Read More....
The Long Walk Home Mixtape
Jun 16, 2020
...they bring the Ibos over in a slave ship & when they get here, they ain't like it & so they all start singing & they march right down in the river to march back to Africa
Floyd White - Federal Writers Project Read More....
Not The Only One - Revisiting Summer 2019
Jun 6, 2020
Last summer, the Philadelphia Jazz Project had the good fortune to work with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries' Kislak Center on the celebration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday. We presented a series of walks, singing walks thru the streets of Philadelphia. Working with the creative team of Toby VEnT Martin, Waverly Alston and James Read More....
More Wonderful Sounds Of The Year
Dec 2, 2019
We ran this piece last year this time and just felt compelled to rewind it and spin it back out to you again. If you haven't checked this out, you owe it to yourself to jump in. While you are at it enjoy some of the 50 plus, FREE mixtapes that we have available for your enjoyment in our archives. Don't think that because it's free, it's subpar. Read More....
Announcing The Walt Whitman Mixtape Series
Nov 12, 2019
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Celebrate Coltrane 2019
Sep 2, 2019
On September 21st, 2019, the Philadelphia Jazz Project and it's partners will present another celebration of one of America's greatest artists and a neighbor to many Philadelphians: John Coltrane.
CELEBRATE COLTRANE 2019!
DATE & TIMES:
September 21st, 2019
12:00 noon to 10:00pm
FREE ADMISSION!!!
LOCATIONS:
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Homer Jackson On New Songs - Open Road
Jul 2, 2019
In celebration of poet Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, artist/curator and director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project, Homer Jackson presents New Songs Of The Open Road: a special project consisting of a series of four “singing” walks which take place in different neighborhoods of Philadelphia. As Whitman was an avid walker/hiker, Read More....
James Solomon On New Songs - Open Road
Jun 14, 2019
In celebration of poet Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, artist/curator and director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project, Homer Jackson presents New Songs Of The Open Road: a special project consisting of a series of four “singing” walks which take place in different neighborhoods of Philadelphia. As Whitman was an avid walker/hiker, Read More....
Waverly Alston On New Songs - Open Road
May 26, 2019
In celebration of poet Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, artist/curator and director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project, Homer Jackson presents New Songs Of The Open Road: a special project consisting of a series of four “singing” walks which take place in different neighborhoods of Philadelphia. As Whitman was an avid walker/hiker, Read More....
Toby Vent Martin On New Songs - Open Road
May 11, 2019
In celebration of poet Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, artist/curator and director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project, Homer Jackson presents New Songs Of The Open Road: a special project consisting of a series of four “singing” walks which take place in different neighborhoods of Philadelphia. As Whitman was an avid walker/hiker, Read More....
New Songs - Open Road
Apr 18, 2019
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof Read More....
The Most Wonderful Sounds Of The Year
Nov 19, 2018
We ran this piece last year this time and just felt compelled to rewind it and spin it back out to you again. If you haven't checked this out, you owe it to yourself to jump in. While you are at it enjoy some of the 50 plus, FREE mixtapes that we have available for your enjoyment in our archives. Don't think that because it's free, it's subpar. Read More....
The Sound Of Progress - Songs For John Henry
Jan 5, 2018
The Sound Of Progress: Songs For John Henry
Sunday, January 14, 2018, 3:00pm
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Phila., PA 19130
The program is FREE with Museum admission.
Pre-order Museum tickets for a discounted rate CLICK HERE.
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Frosty 3! - Cool Holiday Jazz Celebration
Nov 6, 2015
Celebrate the Holidays with the Philadelphia Jazz Project!
FROSTY 3: COOL HOLIDAY JAZZ CELEBRATION
....featuring some of Philadelphia's finest Jazz musicians.
Frosty3! is co-produced and hosted by J. Michael Harrison.
Hear him Fridays at 10:00 p.m. on The Bridge, on 90.1FM WRTI.
SATURDAY | December 12th, 2015 | 3:00 p.m.
IRVINE Read More....
