Mixing Big Band Jazz With James Brown Soul, No One Plays It Like Christian McBride
As a virtuoso soloist, bandleader, and a powerful advocate for jazz, bassist Christian McBride is big band jazz royalty.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Former Governor Kean, feted at 80th birthday party, on N.J. politics: “We’ve got to clean up our act”
NEWARK - In the midst of his 80th birthday soiree at the downtown Newark arts center he was instrumental in building, former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean, noted for his public service, served notice to the state's troubled political world.
Baraka on lack of indictment in Staten Island chokehold death: “At least give us the decency to have a trial”
NEWARK - Newark Mayor Ras Baraka publicly responded on the day when a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict a white New York City police officer in the death of Eric Garner, an African-American man who died after being placed in a chokehold during a scuffle with police on Staten Island in July.
