Sunday, Feb. 28 Post-Festival Jazz Jam – 6 p.m. Manhattan Casino 642 22nd St. South, St. Petersburg 2016 Celebrate the conclusion of the 2016 St. Petersburg Jazz Festival at the historic Manhattan Casino with a Post Festival Jazz Jam session. St. Petersburg Hosted by the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association, great area jazz musicians share their music with audiences, in a historic setting. The Manhattan Casino was a showcase for local African American artists as well as a haven for traveling African American entertainers who would stop in St. Petersburg during their tours. Some of American music’s most legendary performers played at the Manhattan including James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, Fats Domino and the Five evenings Ink Spots. There is cash bar, food and dance floor, all in a cabaret of great jazz in Feb. 24 - 28 setting. Admission is $5 at the venue. Jazz Festival St. Petersburg! Venues: The Palladium Side Door 253 Fifth Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Festival Director Dr. David Manson teaches jazz studies, Music Center at St. Petersburg College recording arts and low brass students in the Music and MIRA 6605 Fifth Ave. North, St. Petersburg, FL 33710 (Music Industry/Recording Arts) programs at St. Petersburg
College. He is director of the EMIT series, a nonprofit presenter The Manhattan Casino in its 21th season. EMIT is the co-presenter of the St. Petersburg 642 22nd St. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33712 Jazz Festival and has sponsored more than 350 concerts and workshops of creative music, since inception in 1995.
The 2016 St. Petersburg Jazz Festival is sponsored by:
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