Jazz Legacy Project

The Jazz Legacy Project returns to Greensboro for its third season. CONTRIBUTED

Jazz Legacy Project returns for third season

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

Festival Hall in Greensboro will open the third season of its Jazz Legacy Series on Feb. 8, with its presentation of The Jazz Legacy Project: Dave Brubeck, Time Out.

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Jazz Legacy: Thelonious Monk

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

The final performance for 2023 from The Jazz Legacy Project at Festival Hall in Greensboro, featured the life, times, and music of jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who was born in 1917 at Rocky Mount, N.C. With an improvisational style, Monk made many contributions to the standard jazz...

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Jazz Legacy Project to feature music of Mercer

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Thursday, July 20, 2023

Festival Hall, Greensboro’s premier arts venue and cultural center, presents next month, the third of four shows in its 2023 Jazz Legacy Project series: Johnny Mercer, From Savannah to Hollywood.

Nick Rosen on the piano and Kevin Smith on bass hit the right notes.

The music, life and times of Art Blakey

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

As part of its Jazz Legacy Project, Greensboro’s Festival Hall presented The Music of Art Blakey last Thursday night before an appreciative, sold-out audience.

The Jazz Legacy Project takes to the stage on May 11 at Festival Hall in Greensboro. CONTRIBUTED

Jazz Legacy Project to feature Art Blakey at Festival Hall

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Festival Hall in Greensboro presents the second show of the 2023 Jazz Series, The Jazz Legacy Project at 7:30 p.m. May 11, featuring Art Blakey, Father of Modern Jazz. Tickets go on sale on March 20, at festivalhallga.com. A happy accident left Blakey and Horace Silver alone in a recording studio.

The Jazz Legacy Project: Billy Strayhorn, Take the A Train, caps o_ a three-part jazz series at Festival Hall this year. LEIGH LOFGREN/Contributed

Jazz Legacy Project: Billy Strayhorn coming to Festival Hall

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Festival Hall, Greensboro’s premier arts venue and cultural center, will present its final show of the 2022 Jazz Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, with The Jazz Legacy Project: Billy Strayhorn, Take the A Train.

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