Lunchtime Jazz @ Columbus Park ft. Gene Ghee Quartet

Enjoy your lunch outdoors with some of Brooklyn’s most celebrated jazz musicians. Curated by the Jazz Foundation of America, in partnership with the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President. Gene Ghee Quartet The esteemed saxophonist and woodwind multi-instrumentalist Gene Ghee has performed with Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Etta Jones, Anita Baker, Barry Harris, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Bernard Purdie, Arthur Prysock, BT Express, Amiri and Amina Baraka, the Apollo House Band, Benny Powell, Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, Wade Barnes’ Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble, Tulivu Cumberbatch, Ed Stoute, Panama Francis, Odean Pope Saxophone Choir, Sam Rivers, Mercer Ellington, Julius Hemphill Saxophone Ensemble, Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Monguito Santamaria and many others. Also an educator, horn contractor, and copyist, he notably played tenor saxophone on Stevie Wonder’s “Do I Do” recording, in addition to performing in Broadway and off-Broadway shows such as Annie, Ain’t Misbehavin’, A Portrait of Ray Charles, Bubbling Brown Sugar (in Europe), and Little Ham. He has received the New York Daily News Music Teacher Recognition Award from the UFT, and the Brooklyn Jazz Great Award presented by District Attorney Charles Hynes. series dates: September 8: Steve Cromity September 15: Gene Ghee Quartet September 22: Carol Sudhalter Quintet September 29: Pablo Rosario and his Latin Jazz Messengers