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DownBeat’s 73rd Annual Critics Poll: One for the Record Books
You see before you what we believe is the largest and most comprehensive Critics Poll in the history of jazz. DownBeat…
Vocalist/instrumentalist Meshell Ndegeocello has been added to the list of performers for the Lance Carter Memorial Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA), which will take place at New York’s Knitting Factory on May 31.
Cassandra Wilson is also scheduled to perform at the benefit, all proceeds of which will go to the JFA’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund, which has served more than 3,000 musician emergency cases since Hurricane Katrina.
The evening is organized as a benefit in memory of the late drummer Carter, a longtime player in the downtown New York avant music scene, career musician and client of the Jazz Foundation. Carter died last November of the rare bone marrow disease amyloidosis. He was 51.
Tickets for the benefit are $25.
For more information or to buy tickets, visit: www.knittingfactory.com; www.jazzfoundation.org
James Brandon Lewis earned honors for Artist of the Year and Tenor Saxophonist of the Year. Three of his recordings placed in the Albums of the Year category.
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