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Join Us On The Inaugural Bandwagon Excursions Philly Jazz JAWNt For Larry McKenna & The Barry Harris Quartet on November 12

Source: All About Jazz
October 31, 2017
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Larry McKenna

saxophone, tenor
1937 - 2023

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Barry Harris

piano
1929 - 2021

" data-original-title="" title="">Barry Harris Quartet at the Shea Center for the Performing Arts at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ on Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 4 pm

Bus leaves 1575 The Fairway, Jenkintown, PA (in front of Whole foods Market) at 12:45 pm on Sunday, November 12
Bus arrives back in Jenkintown around 8pm
Price: $75 per person (Price includes ticket to show, bus ride, boxed supper & special gift)
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WHAT'S A PHILLY JAZZ JAWNt?

Philly Jazz JAWNt = Transportation + Refreshments + Live music on the bus + Meeting new friends + Special gifts + Great Jazz!

Space is limited and will sell out��get your tickets as soon as possible!

Looking forward to seeing you on the BANDWAGON!

About Barry Harris & Larry McKenna:

87-year-old Barry Harris is truly one of the living legends of the jazz piano��and a great teacher of the bebop language. Dr. Harris is an exponent of the classic jazz style that was developed by

Charlie Parker

saxophone, alto
1920 - 1955

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Dizzy Gillespie

trumpet
1917 - 1993

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Thelonious Monk

piano
1917 - 1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Thelonious Monk, and other greats. His 40 plus years of excellence in the field of music will be on full display at the Shea Center.

One of the world��s finest jazz saxophone players, Larry McKenna (80) is known for his gorgeous, velvety tenor saxophone sound, the unparalleled beauty of his balladry, and his fluid, bebop-inspired improvisations. His national reputation as both a masterful jazz improviser in the be-bop and modern jazz styles of the 1950s and 1960s and an influential jazz educator is firmly established after five decades in his profession. Larry��s status as a jazz great has also been affirmed by his myriad fans and the jazz stars with whom he has played and recorded including