Kupferberg Center For the Arts’ Queens Jazz Trail Concert Series: Wycliffe Gordon at Beach 94th Street Bandshell at Rockaway Beach Park, Rockaway Beach, Queens, NYC 8/6/26: Kupferberg Center at Queens College presents a concert series celebrating my home borough’s rich jazz heritage, honoring the neighborhoods where Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and many more once lived and performed.
Inspired by the Queens Jazz Trail Map, the series brings musical history to live through free concerned in parks across the borough.
The concert series brings this musical history through free concerts in parks across the borough, featuring some of the best contemporary artists from NYC and elsewhere.
Last Thursday, Wycliffe Gordon backed by an impressive batch of musicians played a set featuring some lovely renditions of standards at the Beach 94th Street Bandshell.
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