Lawrence Tye - The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

The Jazzmen looks mainly at these three maestros’ lives off the bandstand, and how they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights revolution.  It also explores the Black-Jewish alliance of old- one where each of these African American bandleaders had a Jewish manager and bandmates- and how that might offer a model for today. 

Larry Tye will be interviewed by pianist/vocalist/composer, Gary Negbaur, who will dazzle the audience with jazz, blues, and American roots music, combining innovative arrangements of standards with soulful originals.  He has grooved at the Superdome and at the French Quarter Fest in New Orleans, knocked them out at Birdland in NYC, and raised the roof at South by Southwest in Austin.  Gary tours as both a soloist and with the Gary Negbaur Group.   

Sponsored by: Fox Rothschild, LLP