Upcoming Events
Happy Anniversary to Banana Puddin' Jazz!!
First Show was April 7, 2003
Support and donate $18 to help keep BPJ going!
Tue, June 22, 2021
7 PM EST
Rome Neal Banana Puddin' Jazz
Presents
"JAZZ: THE ASIAN AMERICAN CONNECTION"
an evening of music dedicated
our Asian Queen, COBI NARITA
A FREE Virtually Live Performance on
Youtube and FB Live
Featuring:
Featuring: Rob Narita, Taeko Fukao, Tommy Morimoto, Nobuyuki Yamasaki , Mamiko Watanabe, Katsumi W. Ferguson, Jin Joo Yoo, Ivy Hsu, Wen Teng Wu, Claire Choi, Mimi and Tomoko Block
The evening will salute Cobi Narita, whose tireless devotion to the Jazz community has spanned more than forty years. Cobi worked as Executive Director of Collective Black Artists and founded the Universal Jazz Coalition to present and provide technical assistance to Jazz artists with members of the Board that included BetTy Carter,Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, Melba Liston, Clark Terry, George Wein, and Abbey Lincoln.
"Absolutely Superb... A must see and should be seen internationally!!!" - Jean Parnell, WHCR 90.3 FM
"Great... Ishmael throwing truth with piercing daggers"
- Ron Scott, Amsterdam News E
" Loved the play reading...so funny... enjoyed every minute of it. The cast is remarkable. Bravo!" - Mary T. Brown
"I really enjoyed watching Ishmael's latest play on Saturday night. Another tour de force to be sure! I liked how it mixed the essayistic with the dramatic -- the campy B-movie melodrama with anti-racist art history." - Lonely Christopher
"I just watched it on YouTube and it is great...I learned a lot about Basquiat.... a scathing critique of the racist "art" and entertainment world that exploits the art and the artists.... The music is superb.I love how this piece is so much about Ishmael Reed, as poet, writer, scholar, musician, playwright, thinker, historian, everything.
It is funny....And it is very moving.... directing was wonderful.It's exciting to just imagine what this will be like in production. I hope we can all travel by then so that we can all go see it in a theater".-
Yuri Kageyama, journalist, filmmaker
Ishmael Reed's "THE SLAVE WHO LOVED CAVIAR" directed by Rome Neal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgiFuEUhzy0&ab_channel=NuyoricanPoetsCafe
Thank You for a Marvtastic Evening!
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Rome Neal w/ Patience Higgins and the Sugar Hill Quartet
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News
Banana Puddin' Jazz on TV
Tune in every Sunday @ 7:30 PM , and Monday at 4;30 AM(EDT) to Rome Neal's Banana Pudding Jazz TV show on Brooklyn Public Network and catch up with some of the magical nights that were filmed live at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe..... Delightful nights of Jazz on world wide web by just clicking below and stroll down a bit:
https://www.bricartsmedia.org/brooklyn-free-speech-channel-3..... Also: Watch exclusively in Brooklyn: Optimum 67 | Spectrum 1995 | RCN 82
Watch all throughout NYC: Verizon FiOS 42
Tue, June 22, 2021,
7 PM EST
Rome Neal Banana Puddin' Jazz
"JAZZ: THE ASIAN AMERICAN CONNECTION"
an evening of music dedicated
our Asian Queen, COBI NARITA
Featuring:
Featuring:Rob Narita, Taeko Fukao, Tommy Morimoto, Nobuyuki Yamasaki , Mamiko Watanabe, Katsumi W. Ferguson, Jin Joo Yoo,
Ivy Hsu, Wen Teng Wu, Claire Choi,
Mimi and Tomoko Block
Gratis on YouTube and FaceBook Live, however, your financial support will help to keep this program ALIVE and LIVE!
venmo: rome-neal-2 or
PayPal: romekyn@earthlink.net
The tenth in a new series of Rome Neal's Banana Puddin' Jazz events! STREAMED LIVE!
YOUTUBE & FB "FREE"
SPONSORS:
Jazz Foundation Of America, John D. Smith, Ron Cephas Jones, Black Repertory's Birel Vaughn Theater (Berkeley),
Barbara Flowers, Sheryl Renee Productions, Chris Bryan, Laurence Holder, Guy Davis, Keith Johnston, George Turner, Russell G. Jones, Lisa Martin, Barbara's Flowers
Black Theatre Project (Documentary)
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