A.B. Spellman & Paquito D’Rivera:
Meet The Artist

Continuing a New Mexico Jazz Festival tradition, A.B. Spellman, the highly respected, retired National Endowment for the Arts Deputy Chairman (for whom, in 2005, the NEA named one of its prestigious Jazz Masters awards the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy), jazz historian (Four Lives in the Bebop Business and Art Tatum: A Critical Biography) and poet (The Beautiful Days and just recently, Things I Must Have Known published by Coffee House Press), meets with NEA Jazz Master Paquito D’Rivera for an informal but engaging and informative on-stage interview and Q&A.

FREE

Monday, July 28, 2pm at the Lensic: A.B. Spellman reads rom his recent book of poetry, Things I Must Have Known.

FREE