Archives for 2017

Fri., Dec. 22nd: Community Appreciation for the Barrons!

Friday, December 22, 2023, 7 pm (doors open 6:30 pm), Prince Joshusa Avitto Center, 876 Schenck Ave. (bet. Stanley & Wortman), Brooklyn, NY • get directions. Our Community Thanks Inez & Charles for Dedicating Themselves to Leading, Building, and Protecting Our Community. A Free Community Invitation Music * Speakers * Food Community Organizations Get 8.5″ […]

Organ Monk Trio featuring Greg Lewis in Tribute to Thelonious Monk

Sat., December 23, 2023, $30 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7:30 pm, Show: 8 pm. Doors Open: 9 pm, Show: 9:30 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 29th year with the […]

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with the Craig Harris Band!

New Year’s Eve Jazz Party, Sun., December 31, 2023, 10:30 pm Showtime, $75. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 29th year with the music of Resistance, Resilience, and Resurgence. Sistas’ Place is […]

Aaron Bazzell Quartet

Sat., January 6, 2024, $30 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7:30 pm, Show: 8 pm. Doors Open: 9 pm, Show: 9:30 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 29th year with the […]

Winard Harper Sextet in Tribute to Max Roach’s 100th Centennial

Sat., January 13, 2024, $30 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7:30 pm, Show: 8 pm. Doors Open: 9 pm, Show: 9:30 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 29th year with the […]

THE PASSING OF CDE. VIOLA PLUMMER

THE PASSING OF CDE. VIOLA PLUMMER, CHAIRPERSON OF THE DECEMBER 12TH MOVEMENT… This evening it is with a heavy heart that we announce the Black Liberation Movement’s loss of one of its most resolute and determined leaders, Cde. Viola Plummer, Chairperson of the December 12th Movement. Funeral arrangements are to be announced in the next […]

December 12th Movement Matriarch Viola Plummer Makes Her Transition

January 15, 2024, By Nayaba Arinde, Editor-at-Large, Gratefully reprinted from Our Time Press (original). A snowstorm swept through New York City on Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 15th, 2024, as news broke of the passing of the Movement Matriarch Viola Plummer, 86, co-founder of the Bed Stuy, Brooklyn-based civil rights organization The December […]

Reggie Woods Quintet (cancelled)

Sat., January 27, 2018, Two sets 9 & 10:30 pm, $20 with advance reservation – call (718) 398-1766; $25 at door. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, at the corner of Jefferson Avenue, where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, continues its 22nd season with the music of Resistance, Resilience, […]

René McLean: Celebrating Hugh Masekela & Willie Kgositsile

Eddie Allen Group

Sat., January 20, 2018, Two sets 9 & 10:30 pm, $20 with advance reservation – call (718) 398-1766; $25 at door. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, at the corner of Jefferson Avenue, where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, continues its 22nd season with the music of Resistance, Resilience, […]