Yusef Lateef - Live at Whole Foods (NYC)

How strange is the music business getting? Now Whole Foods is hosting musical events?Anyway, thanks to our friend Andy Schwartz, check this out:

This weekend, as part of something called the "Gibson/Baldwin Jazz Festival" (as in Gibson Guitars and Baldwin Pianos), multi-instrumental jazz great Yusef Lateef will appear at the Whole Foods store on East Houston Street @ Bowery.

Beginning at 2:00pm, Dr. Lateef will be signing copies of his new book, The Gentle Giant: The Autobiography of Yusef Lateef. At 3:00pm, trumpeter Ted Curson and the Spirit of Life Ensemble will perform with Yusef as their special guest.

The Gibson/Baldwin Jazz Festival is free and open to the public.

On Oct. 9, 2007, Yusef Lateef celebrated his 87th birthday. See:
http://www.yuseflateef.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Lateef

Whole Foods:
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/calendars/HOU.html
(scroll down to 11/3-4 and click on "More Info")

1 comment:

Em said...

"Whole Foods store on East Houston Street @ Bowery"

There's a Whole Foods in East Houston now? No wonder they turned CB's into a Starbucks!!!