Universal Alley Jazz Jam celebrates 10th year

CHICAGO, IL — UNIVERSAL ALLEY JAZZ JAM will celebrate it’s 10^th year beginning on July 13, from 2:00pm-Dusk in Chicago’s South Side at 1801 east 71^st Street outside on the Plaza behind the Black United Fund Inc.

 

Universal alley Jazz Jam provides a spiritual experience through music, poetry, and dance in efforts of revitalizing the community through the arts and culture weekly for six (6) to eight (8) weeks between July and August.

 

The series begins approximately at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, 2013 and ends at Dusk– and will run every Saturday through August 24, 2013.

 

Come early and stay late for the best Jazz and culture, and bring a lawn chair.

 

The Universal Alley Jazz Jam was reinstituted in 2003 to revitalize the Black community through Arts and Culture and to bring awareness of the various forms of Jazz to maintain and perpetuate positive Black music. It continues a Jazz History/Legacy of the 50th Street Jazz in the Alley jam sessions in Pops Simpson’s garage from ‘back in the 1960s’.

 

If you would like more information about this topic or would like to schedule an interview with Dr. Webber, please call 312-953-1075 or email Dr. Webber @  Csiddha@aol.com