Next month, the Queens Library in Forest Hills, New York will be discussing the history of jazz and the impact the genre had on black migration this February.
As part of the library’s Traveling Shoes series, this event will educate attendees on how certain groups of people ended up in different locations across the United States. This particular show will use jazz as a means of tying together different points in history, following the growth of jazz music and showing how it relates to real-life migratory patterns in the past. The Traveling Shoes program will start at New Orleans and discuss how the genre spread to other cities like Chicago and New York.
The Ken Simon Quartet will be hosting the show and leading the discussion. Ken Simon and his fellow band members Bruce Cox, Greg Maker, and Jeb Patton are all experienced in the jazz industry. Simon has worked and studied with influential members of the community like Joe Allard, Michael Solis, and Eartha Kitt. He has even performed at the Apollo Theater and Carnegie Hall.
The show will be held on February 9 in the afternoon from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm. This event will be open to the public and free to attend. There is no registration required to see the Traveling Shoes program, so all guests are welcome to stop and see it. The intended audience is for adults, though children will be allowed to watch.
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