February Meeting

Come learn about the new Jackson Street Jazz Trail.

Join Paul de Barros, nationally renowned jazz critic, book author, and a living archive of local jazz lore as he presents a journey through the music scene that established Jackson Street as one of the nation’s leading jazz hubs from the 1930s to 1950s.

Paul will tell stories about local clubs where the likes of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and Billie Holiday played and sang. And he will introduce the new app that allows you to map where those places were located and to see how the landscape has changed.

Copies of Shall We Play That One Together, Paul’s biography of the great jazz pianist and radio host Marian MacPartland, will be available for purchase.

~Anne Depue