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2011 Past Events
Master Class with Jeff "Tain" Watts
Warren Mott H.S.
April 11, 2011 | 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 

Corporate Partner Preview Luncheon

Detroit Athletic Club
April 12, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Jeff "Tain" Watts with WSU Jazz Band
Cliff Bell’s
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 | 7:00 p.m. – 9:00p.m.

Film Documentary "CHOPS" with music by Ricio Fruge
MSU Community Music Center
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
  
25th Anniversary Screening of film "Round Midnight"
with Special Guest Maxine Gordon.
Michigan Theater 
Thursday, June 9, 2011 | 6:45 p.m.

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In honor of Black History Month- Detroit Jazz Festival presented: Freedom 2011, at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American history.
 
Led by 2011 Artist in residence, Jeff "Tain" Watts, with Geri Allen, Bob Hurst, Wess "Warmdaddy" Anderson, Nicholas Payton and ingenue Mavis SWAN Poole. The finale of Lift Every Voice and Sing brought the audience to their feet for a standing ovation.
 
  3rd Annual DJF Cruise Fundraiser
Fiesta Crucero on the Ovation Yacht 
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 | 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
  
"Icons Among Us: Episode 1" (Jazz Documentary film screening)
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History 
GM Theatre
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 | 6:30 p.m.
  
"Rhythm, Roots and Rhyme" Poetry Slam
The Arts League of Michigan at The Virgil H. Carr Center
Saturday, July 9, 2011 | 5:00 p.m.
  
Jazz at the J
Berman Center for the Performing Arts
D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building
Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | 7:30 p.m.
  
JazzWeek@Wayne
On July 20, 2011, Anat Cohen conducted workshops with students.
July 18-22, 2011
  
JazzWeek@Wayne Concert
Campus Martius Park
Friday, July 22, 2011 | 11:30 a.m.

"Rhythm, Roots and Rhyme" Poetry Slam 

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Friday, July 29, 2011 | 7:00 pm

Detroit Jazz Festival Summer Jazz Institute
Pincus Education Center • The Max M. Fisher Music Center (DSO)
August 18 – 26, 2011

The Detroit Jazz Festival and Edsel & Eleanor Ford House
Jazz at Ford House: A Prelude to the Detroit Jazz Festival

The inaugural concert features Johnny Trudell Orchestra
Friday August 26, 2011 | 7:30 pm

Jeff "Tain" Watts with breakdancer, Haleem Rasul
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Friday August 26, 2011 | 2 Shows- 7:00 & 8:30pm

An Evening with Fourplay and Spyro Gyra
Sound Board at MotorCity Casino Hotel (Detroit, MI)
Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011 | 8:00 pm


  
 
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