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BEST OF THE BEST: JAZZ FROM DETROITJazz Documentary Film
Summer Solstice Jazz Festival Fundraiser
Friday, October 3
Doors at 6:00pm, Film starts at 6:30.
Hannah Community Center Theater
819 Abbot Road, East Lansing
Tickets: $25, $10 for students.
Available in advance at:
https://square.link/u/UgqBKDUP
More details about the film at:
https://www.jazzfromdetroitfilm.com/
Q & A with Mark Stryker, the documentary's writer and co-producer (as well as the author of the book Jazz from Detroit that inspired the film), following the film screening.
The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit Documentary Film is a landmark double portrait of Detroit’s extraordinary jazz legacy and the dynamic city that produced it. The film chronicles the defining influence of Detroit’s innovative musicians on jazz history, while also tracing the dramatic rise and fall of the city as an industrial power, the struggles and triumphs of its creative and resilient African American community, and the profound tradition of mentorship that has nurtured Detroit jazz since the 1950s. It makes the case that you can’t tell the history of jazz without telling the history of jazz from Detroit.
The NYC Jazz Record reviewed the film recently. See that review at:
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, MI 48823-3102, United States
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