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For Immediate release: August 8, 2006
HARLEM IN THE HIMALAYAS
The Rubin Museum of Art continues hot jazz for a cool climate with Jazz Museum in Harlem
New York, NY—The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in Chelsea and the Jazz Museum in Harlem will continue their successful concert series through to the end of the year, with a series of twelve Friday-night all-acoustic jazz combo concerts starting September 8.
The unamplified jazz combo concerts are held Friday nights at 7 p.m. and are part of RMA’s new K2 Lounge in which a bar, DJ, contemporary artist tours and six floors of Himalayan art are all part of the experience. Happy Hour is offered from 6-7 p.m. in the K2 Lounge. Movies from the Icarus Syndrome series follow the concerts at 9:30 p.m. and are free with a $7 bar minimum.
The jazz concerts are devised by Executive Director of the Jazz Museum in Harlem, Loren Schoenberg together with Director of Programming at RMA Tim McHenry and present a range of jazz interpreters – Wycliffe Gordon, Anat Cohen, Marcus Strickland and Uri Caine.
Each week the artists play a new work inspired by RMA’s current exhibition “Take to the Sky: Flying Mystics in Himalayan Art”.
Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street (corner of 7th Ave.) http://www.rmanyc.org
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day of the performance, and include admission to the Museum’s galleries. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 212.620.5000 ext. 344.
The Jazz Museum is four years into its community and educational programs, and is in the process of acquiring a permanent home in Harlem. Their very successful HARLEM SPEAKS series is held bi-weekly in their Harlem offices. www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org
RMA opened in 2004 as the premier museum of Himalayan art in the west. The Museum engages visitors through exhibitions, education and programming that invite a broad range of cultural and historical exploration. Its programs are particularly active – there were over 100 programs and tours in the month of June 2006 alone – and its music concerts have featured Patti Smith, Rosanne Cash, Debbie Harry, Dar Williams, Richie Havens and Laurie Anderson.
On view at any one time are numerous exhibitions – large and small (with themes such as the demonic divine, female Buddhas) – that draw from the Museum’s permanent collection. RMA also serves as a venue for traveling exhibitions, bringing to New York audiences such critically acclaimed exhibitions as Tibet: Treasures From the Roof of the World; Eternal Presence: Handprints and Footprints in Buddhist Art and the upcoming I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion.
Please visit www.rmanyc.org www.rmanyc.org for further details.
Event Dates
Friday, September 8
7 p.m
Ted Nash
saxophone, with band
Friday, September 15
7 p.m
Ken Peplowski
Clarinet, with band
Friday, October 6
7 p.m
Wycliffe Gordon: Intolerance
The renowned trombonist and ensemble perform a new accompaniment to D.W. Griffith’ monumental silent epic about man’s inhumanity to man throughout the ages. Special price: $30
Friday, October 20
7 p.m
Anat Cohen
saxophone, with band
Friday, October 27
7 p.m
Danny Mixon
piano, with band
Friday, November 3
7 p.m
Marcus Strickland
saxophone, with band
Friday, November 10
7 p.m
Russell Gunn
trumpet, with band
Friday, November 17
7 p.m
Christian McBride
bass, with band
Friday, December 1
7 p.m
Russell Malone
electric guitar, with acoustic band
Friday, December 8
7 p.m
Lewis Nash
drums with Ensemble
Friday, December 15
7 p.m
Laszlo Gardony Trio
Friday, December 22
7 p.m
Uri Caine – solo piano
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day of the performance, (except October 6) and include admission to the Museum’s galleries.
Box Office: 212.620.5000 ext. 344
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York NY 10011
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