1970 · New York
by Herbie Hancock Sextet, Betty Carter and Trio, Warren Smith Composers Workshop, Society of Black Composers, The Afro-American Singing Theatre
New York: The Afro-Arts Cultural Center / The Bureau of Continuing Education, 1970. Vintage flyer for the four-day arts festival, held to benefit the Harlem Jazz Music Center, April 23-26, 1970, at the Mary McLeod Bethune School in New York.
The festival opened with a performance by the Society of Black Composers, a group founded in 1968 and whose members included David Baker, Marion Brown, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, and Oliver Nelson, and closed with a screening of a series of jazz films and a performance by The Afro-American Singing Theatre, a collective of singers who performed jazz-opera improvisations.
11 x 8.5 inches. (truncated)
The festival opened with a performance by the Society of Black Composers, a group founded in 1968 and whose members included David Baker, Marion Brown, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, and Oliver Nelson, and closed with a screening of a series of jazz films and a performance by The Afro-American Singing Theatre, a collective of singers who performed jazz-opera improvisations.
11 x 8.5 inches. (truncated)
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