Healdsburg Jazz Festival: Babatunde Lea and Friends at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Healdsburg Center for the Arts

Get your tickets now and join us for the 15th Anniversary of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, May 31 – June 9. Click Ticket Price (above) to order or to learn more about this specific event.

Click Healdsburg Jazz Festival (above) to see a complete listing of events including a two day all-star Tribute to Charlie Haden including the Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla Bley, Quartet West with Ravi Coltrane plus Bill Frisell, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lee Konitz, Geri Allen, Chris Potter. Other concerts include an exclusive engagement of the Charles Lloyd–Jason Moran duo, Sweet Honey in the Rock®, The Fred Hersch Trio, plus groups led by Azar Lawrence, Marcus Shelby, Will Bernard, Sylvia Cuenca and John Heard."...

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Get your tickets now and join us for the 15th Anniversary of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, May 31 – June 9. Click Ticket Price (above) to order or to learn more about this specific event.

Click Healdsburg Jazz Festival (above) to see a complete listing of events including a two day all-star Tribute to Charlie Haden including the Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla Bley, Quartet West with Ravi Coltrane plus Bill Frisell, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lee Konitz, Geri Allen, Chris Potter. Other concerts include an exclusive engagement of the Charles Lloyd–Jason Moran duo, Sweet Honey in the Rock®, The Fred Hersch Trio, plus groups led by Azar Lawrence, Marcus Shelby, Will Bernard, Sylvia Cuenca and John Heard."

Babatunde Lea and Friends return to Healdsburg for Operation Jazz Band for the children, and for two evening sets (7:30 PM and approximately 9:00 PM) at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza St. Healdsburg, CA 95448

We’ve been fortunate the last two years to have Babatunde play at the HCA after his week with Operation Jazz Band with some fabulous, energetic concerts, so you don’t want to miss this year’s! The percussionist is a charismatic performer who has played with a host of jazz luminaries, from Pharaoh Sanders to Joe Henderson and many more.

Bababtude has assembled a power-packed group with saxophonist Howard Wiley, Geechi Taylor on trumpet, trombonist Danny Armstrong, and rounding out the rhythm section is Frank Martin on keyboards and Jeff Chambers on bass.

Wine and desserts will be available for purchase before the performance and during the break.

This is the first in the 2013 concert series “Jazz in the Gallery” co-sponsored by Healdsburg Center for the Arts to support and benefit the Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The next concert scheduled in this series is scheduled is a solo concert with Oliver Lake on June 29. The Healdsburg Center for the Arts is located half block east of the HealdsburgPlaza. It is an artist collective that offers exhibits and classes on the arts for members and the public.

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