Thursday, June 4 @ 2:00 pm
58 W 129th Street, New York, NY 10027
Greg Bufford is a versatile drummer, music director, educator, composer and producer. After studying composition and orchestral percussion at Berklee College of Music, and jazz performance and history at Rutgers University, he went on to perform internationally with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Madonna/Sandra Bernhard Duet, Randy Weston, Freda Payne, Dakota Staton, Leslie Uggams, Sonny Stitt, Little Jimmy Scott, Sun Ra, Amiri Baraka, Donald O’Connor, Carol Lawrence, Claudio Roditi, Joshua Jacobson, Steve Nelson, Johnny Coles, Len Boogsie Sharpe, Della Reese, Melba Moore, Dionne Warwick, Lonnie Smith, Barney Kessel, Vaughan Mason and Crew, Frank Owens, Nat Adderley Jr., Freddie Cole and Leon Thomas.
He has worked on productions of Ain’t Misbehavin’, Eubie, All That Jazz, and Stormy Weather; written for film and television including Sesame Street, the Bernie Mack Show and South Central; and appeared on and co-wrote the often-sampled roller-disco classic “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll.” He continues to give workshops, lectures, and private lessons, having founded the Bufford School of Music. This concert includes a special tribute to Nat King Cole.
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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