Meet The Artist: A.B. Spellman & Toshiko Akiyoshi

The Lensic Performing Arts Center • Santa Fe

Continuing a New Mexico Jazz Festival tradition since its inception in 2006, 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 Things I Must Have Known), sits with NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi for an informal, highly engaging and informative on-stage interview and Q&A.

Free