Happy Birthday Duke -- Concert of Jazz Classics
Woolworth Chapel at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Jerome Avenue Entrance
Saturday, April 26, 2025 2:00 PM
Happy Birthday Duke
Concert of Jazz Classics
Join us for an afternoon of music with Peter Anderson and friends to celebrate Duke Ellington's Birthday.
Peter Anderson is one of the most extraordinary jazz woodwind players today. Born and raised in Washington D.C., Anderson moved to New York City to attend The Juilliard School. He has performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Paquito D’Rivera, Wynton Marsalis, and can be heard on the 2014 Grammy-winning soundtrack of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks. He's has headlined at Carnegie Hall, The Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Feinstein’s 54 Below, Blues Alley, Birdland, and live on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion Radio Program. Peter Andreson has performed in over 40 U.S. states, throughout Brazil, Japan, the U.K., and six times in NYC’s famed Highlights in Jazz series, alongside Lou Donaldson, Jimmy and Tootie Heath, Ken Peplowski, Steve Turre, Warren Vache, Frank Vignola, and Jimmy Cobb.
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