Jul 9, 2024 11:35 AM
Trumpeter, Educator Jim Rotondi Dies at 61
Jim Rotondi, a renowned hard-bop trumpeter, composer and educator, died suddenly on July 7 at a hospital in France. He…
Straightahead jazz returns to the Caribbean for the fourth annual Anguilla Tranquility Jazz Festival. The event runs from Nov. 9–12.
Performers include Nnenna Freelon, Eddie Palmieri, Pharaoh Sanders, Robert Glasper, McCoy Tyner and Javon Jackson.
“Jazz is by its very definition a celebration,” said Anguilla’s direrctor of tourism, Amelia Vanterpool-Kubisch. “There are few better places in the world to experience this freedom than her on our island.”
For more information go to: anguillajazz.org
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