MUSIC

Jason Moran: James Reese Europe and the Harlem Hellfighters: From the Dancehall to the Battlefield

SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2024
9:00 PM

Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$64-$84
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Jason Moran explores the music and legacy of James Reese Europe, who not only could be argued to have invented Big Band Jazz, but could also be argued, while on combat duty with the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I, to have started the French jazz mania — all before jazz was even formulated as a kind of music.

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