Monday, April 7, 2008

Celebrating Django Reinhardt & Charlie Christian

JAZZ GUITAR CELEBRATION OF HALL OF FAMERS DJANGO REINHARDT & CHARLIE CHRISTIAN

Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrates in concert the induction of legends Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian into the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. The concert will feature the music of the two masters performed by guitarists Bobby Broom, Biréli Lagréne, Russell Malone and Frank Vignola with rhythm section powered by drummer/music director Lewis Nash and Frank Wess on flute and tenor saxophone.

**Free pre-concert lecture with Lewis Nash along with other performers and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Manager of Public Programming Ken Druker will discuss the music in the Irene Diamond Education Center at 7 p.m.

May 2-3, 2008, 8 p.m.
Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St., New York, NY

Tickets are $30, $50, $75, $95, $120 and available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th St., by calling CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500

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