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Copa Artist Hour: Jimmy Owens & Michael Howell at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music

Courtesy of Iris Maenza | Posted on August 14, 2020

Where

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
55 West 13th Street
New York, NY
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Copa Artist Hour: Jimmy Owens & Michael Howell at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music

When

Thu, August 20, 2020
5:00 pm

Musicians

About

Join us for our CoPA Artist Happy Hour featuring members of the College of Performing Arts Music community.

Legendary Jazz artist JIMMY OWENS (trumpet, flugelhorn) has over forty-five years of experience as a Jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and music education consultant. His experience covers a wide range of international musical achievements, which includes extensive work as a studio musician, soloist, bandleader, and composer of orchestral compositions, movie scores, and ballets.

Jimmy is one of the few trumpeters of his generation who played as a sideman with such extraordinary Jazz leaders as Lionel Hampton, Hank Crawford, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, Billy Taylor, and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band, among others. As a result, his musical and personal recollections are unique. He can share personal recollections of being a sideman in some of the most exciting bands in the history of Jazz music. His anecdotes are priceless: playing with Cootie Williams, Sweets Edison, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie in a historic concert at Yale where Eubie Blake and Paul Robeson were in the audience; sitting in with Miles Davis at the age of fifteen, and many others....

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