MISS KITTY DANIELS & MAJID SHABAZZ HCC/Ybor City Concert Presented by Tampa Jazz Club & Suncoast Jazz Festival

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photo by Jim Webb/The Webb Works 85 CANDLES: CELEBRATING MISS KITTY DANIELS & MAJID SHABAZZ HCC/Ybor City Concert Presented by Tampa Jazz Club & Suncoast Jazz Festival   The Bay Area jazz community and special guest artists, including bassist John Lamb, will get together for a birthday celebration honoring Kitty Daniels and Majid Shabazz, presented by the Tampa Jazz Club and the Suncoast Jazz Festival, in the Mainstage Theatre at HCC/Ybor City, on Sunday, October 27 at 3:00. Kitty & Majid, who have performed together for four decades and inspired many musicians along the way, both turn 85 this month. The Sunday afternoon concert, part of the HCC Visual & Performing Arts Series, will also include the premiere of “Kitty Daniels with Majid Shabazz: Living Jazz Legends,” a short documentary by filmmaker Louise Krikorian. Ybor City-born Kitty Daniels (‘Miss Kitty’ to her fans) has played piano since she could reach the keyboard. She became known at an early age, featured with legendary Tampa bandleader Charlie Brantley, and the popular Skyliners. In the Jim Crow era, Kitty’s efforts led to the integration of the Tampa musicians’ union. She has continued to sing and play jazz and standards for her fans through the years – “songs that mean something,” Kitty says, “that tell a story.” Majid Shabazz is a native of Florida’s panhandle who began playing drums after military service, while in New York with some of the leading musicians of the ‘50s. He toured with saxophonist Sil Austin in Japan, and with Pharoah Sanders in Europe, before returning to Florida, where he founded the Open Letter Culture Center. A portion of this concert will feature a reunion of his ‘Young Professors,’ from the 1970’s: pianist Michael Royal, saxophonist David Pate, and bassist Bill Swartbaugh. John Lamb, the former Duke Ellington bassist whose 85th birthday concert was one of the musical highlights of the past year, will be a special guest at this concert, which is presented jointly by the Tampa Jazz Club and the Suncoast Jazz Festival (Nov. 22-24, at the Sand Key Sheraton & Marriott Suites). The word is just out that Kitty and Majid will be recipients of the inaugural Palladium Jazz Awards in a January concert in St. Petersburg. Please join their celebration on October 27, in the beautiful Mainstage Theatre in Ybor City! Kitty Daniels and Majid Shabazz with special guests Sunday, October 27, 3:00 p.m. Mainstage Theatre, HCC/Ybor City 1411 E. 11th Avenue, Tampa, FL 33605 Tickets: $20 Adults/$15 Tampa Jazz Club Members, $10 Students with ID; Free for HCC Students with ID Tickets also available at the door or online at: tampajazzclub.com  Contact information: tampajazzclub.com  or call 727-772-7415 Tampa Jazz Club Inc. is a not-for profit 501 (c) (3) All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

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