TUNING INTO TREME and More Set for The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Nov 2013

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem has announced its November 2013 schedule. Details below!

Jazz For Curious Listeners Special Series

Tuning into Tremé with Larry Blumenfeld

The HBO fiction and the New Orleans Reality

In Sidney Bechet's memoir, "Treat It Gentle," the late, great clarinetist's real grandfather is supplanted by Omar, a fictional figure based on a folk tale, all the better to convey stirring truths about the true origins of New Orleans jazz. Real and imagined intermingLe Pointedly in New Orleans, in all walks of life. Set in New Orleans, David Simon's fictional HBO series "Treme" picked up three months after the floods that resulted from the levee failures after Hurricane Katrina. Culture, which in New Orleans means a tight braid of music, cuisine, dance, visual art, and street life, is the primary focus of the series, as indeed it was and is the defining element of the city's recovery and renewed identity.

These 90-minute conversations are led by writer Larry Blumenfeld, who covers jazz regularly for The Wall Street Journal, writes the "Blu Notes" blog, and who has written extensively about New Orleans since the flood. He'll use the fourth and final season of the HBO series to frame a wide-ranging consideration of jazz culture in New Orleans and its role in continued recovery. Excerpts from the show will be screened and special guests-musicians, participants in the series, and scholars-will join in the discussion.

Tuesday, November 5: Glorious Noises and Noise Ordinances

Tuesday, November 12:What is New Orleans Tradition? With special guest, pianist Courtney Bryan @ Maysles Cinema (343 Lenox Avenue)

Tuesday, November 19: It Happens in the Street

Tuesday, November 26: The "New" New Orleans with special guest, Tremé producer Eric Overmyer

Larry Blumenfeld writes about music and culture for The Wall Street Journal, Village Voice and many other publications, is editor-at-large of Jazziz magazine, and maintains the blog Blu Notes.He is a former Katrina Media Fellow with the Open Society Institute, researching cultural recovery in New Orleans, and the winner of the 2012 Jazz Journalists Association Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Writing.

7:00 - 8:30pm

Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

$10 Suggested Donation

Thursday, November 7

Parallax Conversation Series

Sunny Jain, Red Baraat & Matt Moran, Slavic Soul Party!

7:00 - 8:30pm

Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

Parallax: noun- The effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions.

To take a new look at the New Orleans second-line tradition and its NYC incarnations, this Parallax Conversation features Sunny Jain and Matt Moran, leaders of New York City's brass band heavy hitters Red Baraat, an eight-piece bhangra, funk, jazz, go-go, hip-hop riot, and Slavic Soul Party!, a fiery Balkan brass, jazz and Gypsy mash-up, respectively. These two groups represent the breed of second-lines that could only have been born in the global hub that is NYC. We invite you to join us for what' bound to be a lively evening as we discuss what exactly is in the air and soil here that nurtures some of the world's most delicious brass music.

Wednesday, November 20

The Savory Concerts

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and Stanford Live Present:

Echoes of Harlem

7:00 - 8:00pm

Location: Community School of Music and Arts- Finn Center

230 San Antonio Circle

Mountain View, CA 94040

For more information: 212-348-8300

Jazz saxophonist and educator Loren Schoenberg, Artistic Director of the National JazzMuseum in Harlem, brings the rare, recently-discovered Savory Collection jazz recordings to life. Schoenberg, with an all-star Bay Area jazzband, riffs along with, the classic jazz treasures.

Thursday, November 14

Parallax Conversation Series

Larry Blumenfeld, Wall Street Journal and Ben Jaffe, Preservation Hall Jazz Band

7:00 - 8:30pm

Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

Parallax: noun- The effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions.

With NOLA's very own Preservation Hall JazzBand (PHJB) in town this week and our month-long Treme series, we are thrilled to host PHJB Creative Director and tuba player, Ben Jaffe and journalist and Katrina Media Fellow, Larry Blumenfeld for a New Orleans Parallax Conversation super session!

Enter your name here for a chance to win two tickets to the Preservation Hall Jazz Band show at the Apollo Theater on Saturday, November 16th!

Thursday, November 21

Harlem Speaks

Dayna Stephens, saxophonist/composer/educator

6:30-8:30

Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

We are so thrilled to have internationally renowned saxophonist/ composer/educator Dayna Stephens for our Harlem Speaks interview series this month. A fluid, vigorous soloist with a warm, soulful sound, Dayna has also proven himself a master of composition and arrangement, a highly acclaimed band leader and an in-demand side man for contemporary jazz masters such as Kenny Barron, Al Foster, Idris Mohammed, Taylor Eigsti and Roy Hargrove.

These programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State. The Savory Concerts are supported in part by a grant from the NationalEndowment for the Arts. Art Works.

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Visitors Center is open to the public and features our extensive library of all sorts of media, plus brand new collections of photographs, and exhibits. Please come by and see us from Monday to Friday from 10AM to 4PM. We look forward to seeing you!

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is located at 104 East 126th Street, New York, NY 10035. Call 212 348-8300 or visit www.jmih.org for more information.