Every year, the All Night Soul jazz festival at St. Peter’s Church in New York City honors different jazz legends. This year the concert, to be held Sunday, October 12, pays tribute to Benny Powell and Jane Jarvis, the former organist for the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
Jarvis, a renowned jazz pianist and composer of more than 300 compositions, has recorded 15 albums and has provided arrangements for numerous other jazz greats. Since 1978 she has concentrated on performing at jazz clubs in New York. In her early career she performed on radio and television. Prior to her work with the Mets, she was the organist at the Milwaukee Braves’ County Stadium. During the ’60s, she was employed at Muzak Corporation as staff composer and arranger, and eventually became corporate vice-president and director of recording and programming there.
Scheduled to perform — in addition to Jarvis and Powell — are Dr. Billy Taylor, Randy Weston, Frank Wess, Dick Katz, Carline Ray, Jared Schonig, Catherine Russell, Dave Stryker, Steve Slagle, Darcy James Argue and the Secret Society Big Band, Jimmy Owens, Reggie Workman, Billy Hart, Steve Turre, Sarah McLawler, Rolando Briceno, Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, Sam Newsome, Helen Sung, Bernice Brooks, Bertha Hope, Chip Jackson, Francina Connors, Aaron Diehl, Gene Bertoncini, Sara Caswell, Jon Cowherd, T.K. Blue, Paul Knopf, Omer Klein, Ziv Ravitz, John Ellis, Billy Harper, Andrew Cyrille, Charles Tolliver, Chandra Rule, Ted Poor, Sayuri Goto, Essiet Essiet, Rhythmic Prophecies, Melissa Stylianou, Jamie Reynolds, Francesca Tanksley, Barry Harris, Keisha St. Joan, Brian Lynch, Joe Wilder, Dotti Anita Taylor and many others.
For more information, visit www.saintpeters.org/jazz.
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