Join us to celebrate the birthday of late jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, with the Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Latin Experience directed by John Lee. The concert promises to be a rousing tribute to one of jazz’s great ambassadors: trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and bebop king.
This season’s Jazz at One, Long Walk to Freedom, is inspired by Nelson Mandela and the 30th anniversary of South African democracy. Presented in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS.
Falling 50 days after Easter, Pentecost is known as the birthday of the Christian church–the fulfillment of Jesus’s promise to send the Holy Spirit to his followers as their helper and guide.
Hear a personal invitation from the Rev. Phillip A. Jackson, Trinity’s Rector, and Summerlee Staten, executive director of Faith Formation and Education, to walk with Trinity Church through Holy Week.
“Renewal is constantly part of who we are,” said composer Jessica Meyer, one of the artists behind the transformative “Renewal” concert series launched last year by Trinity’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY. “Because if we are not slowly growing, we are slowly dying.”