ABIODUN OYEWOLE, a founding member of The Last Poets, is the editor of Black Lives Have Always Mattered (2017), author of the Beauty of Being (2018) and the poetry collection, Branches of the Tree Of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 (2014), and is the co-author of On A Mission: Selected Poems And A History Of The Last Poets (1996). He received his BS in biology and BA in communications at Shaw University, an MA in education at Columbia University, and is a Columbia Charles H. Revson Fellow (1989). Well known for his extremely influential work with The Last Poets, this special concert centers on his long relationship with jazz, featuring Sam Barrios on keys, Eric Lemons on bass, and the Last Poets’ percussionist extraordinaire, Baba Don Babatunde.
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Presented in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America, supported in part by an award from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
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