Linking Lost Jazz Shrines Panel Discussion

Jazz is the first indigenous American style to affect music in the rest of the world.
The cultural production of Jazz has always been influenced by space and Brooklyn has been one of those influencers.
In 2008, Jazz’s Brooklyn roots were well documented by the Weeksville Heritage Center through Oral history interviews of Randy Weston, Reggie Workman, and Sam Pinn. They spoke of the institutions like the Blue Coronet, Kingston’s Lounge, and the still-standing Sistahs place.
Revealing the degrees of separations between Jazz artists Central Brooklyn’s Jazz history is Alive and Well in the Lost Jazz Shrines of Brooklyn oral history collection.

In 2019, through a Collections as Data Mellon Grant the Semantic Lab at Pratt and the Weeksville Heritage Center have been collaborating to reveal the connections between the spaces and personal relationships that further connect the relationship and places to the legacy of Jazz.
Please join this conversation Cristina Patteuli, Zakiya Collier and Sarah Ann Adams, in conversation with Artistic Director of the DC Jazz Festival Willard Jenkins, Jazz Historian and educator Basir Mchawi as they discuss jazz history and the work of making connections with the larger jazz community to the jazz figures and locations of Central Brooklyn.
Apologies that some of the video was lost due to unforeseen circumstances

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