Jazzmobile – Summerfest 55 – 32nd Precinct National Night Out – “A Special Tribute to Diz”
August 7, 2018 | 7:00pm – 8:30pm
JAMES DELANO ZOLLAR, trumpeter moved to NYC from Kansas City, MO in 1984 and played with the Cecil McBee Quintet for five years, and recorded with Tom Harrell, Weldon Erving, and Sam Rivers. Zollar was featured in Robert Altman’s “Kansas City”, in Madonna’s music video “My Baby’s Got a Secret”, as well as Malcolm Lee’s “The Best Man”. He played on the soundtrack of “The Perez Family” and is included in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford University Press 1999.) He was a featured soloist with Jon Faddis and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra as well as Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He currently plays with The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Count Basie Orchestra, Don Byron’s Bands, and working with Eddie Palmieri. James released “Zollar Systems” in 2010 and “It’s All Good People” in 2013.
Cost: FREE
Dizzy Gillespie Cove
Across from the 32ND Police Precinct/West 135TH St btwn Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, Jr. and Frederick