RUTH BROWN
CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE
MONDAY, JANUARY 22nd
Abyssinian Baptist Church
132 Odell Clark Place at 138th and Adam Clayton Blvd.
Time: 6:00, doors open at 5:30
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Memorial for Manuel Sanchez ‘Manny’ Duran
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
7:00 to 9:00pm
Saint Peter’s Church
54th Street at Lexington Avenue
New York City
Some of the musicians who will be playing:
Ray Vega, Claudio Roditi, Joe Magnarelli,
Lew Tabackin, Adela Dalto, Miles Dalto.
Joe Giglio, Dmitri Kolysnik, Renaud Penant,
Rudy Lawless, Peter Brainin, Victor Rendon, Alex Hernandez, Noah Bless and many others...
Background Information
Born the same day as Miles Davis; May 26, 1926
Nearly five decades after setting New York's Latin scene ablaze with his dynamic trumpet playing, Manny Duran continues to perform with Afro Bop, a Latin jazz septet that he formed in the late 1990s. Although not as active as in the past, the group continues to reflect the trumpet, tenor sax, conga, piano and bass tradition of Latin jazz.
Duran's playing was essential to the development of Latin jazz in the 1950s and '60s. He recorded with jazz instrumentalists, including Dizzy Gillespie and Kai Winding, and worked with such Latin artists as Ray Barretto and Mario Bauza & His Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. He spent a decade with Cuban-born vocalist/maracas player Machito's band.
Born, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, of Mexican heritage, Duran has been drawn to music from earliest memory. A street singer as a child, he received his first trumpet, at the age of ten, as a gift from his mother. Moving to New York in 1956 to pursue a career in music, Duran knew what he faced from the beginning. On his first day in the Big Apple, his horn and clothes were stolen.
Although he briefly worked with jazz pianist Al Haig, Duran had to seek other ways to supplement his income as a musician. A job as a waiter at jazz club, Café Bohemia, became an outlet for his talent as a musician. The first week that he worked at the club, he was invited to sit in with Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis. .
Seeking work as a musician, Duran spent hours at the local musician's union hall, hoping that someone would be in need of a trumpet player. When Puerto Rico-born Noro Morales hired him to play with his band in 1957, his career as a Latin musician had begun. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide
Elevation Service for Alice Coltrane (Turiyasangitananda)
Saturday, January 27th, 2007 at 1pm (Pacific Time Zone)
Location: Sai Anantam Ashram Center
Address: 3528 North Triunfo Canyon Rd.,
Agoura, California 91301
By phone contact: 818-865-0409
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In lieu of flowers, please donate to the following charities:
John Coltrane Foundation (under Scholarship, please click on Donation)
Musicares Foundation
156 W. 56th St., 1701
New York, NY 10019
Habitat for Humanity
Yogaville Ashram