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Harlem Week is here! - Hear Maestro Ray Chew & Miss Alyson Williams "Summer Nights In Harlem"
Harlem Week is here! August 6th - 15th... Please join me at Grants Tomb from 12 Noon...7 PM. G. Keith Alexander and Debi Jackson will be hosting....Maestro Ray Chew will be performing with his band and Miss Alyson Williams will be in the show performing "Summer Nights In Harlem" by Maurice Lynch it is The Official Theme Song for Harlem Week 2021.
Can't wait bring your lawn chairs and get ready. Right in front of The Riverside Church. Gospel, Jazz, R&B and Soul will fill the air.
100 Nights of Summer" is going strong and "The Summer Nights Tour" with Alyson Williams. A special shout to WBLS and the Harlem Chamber of Commerce for their support of “Summer Nights in Harlem" which brings a new jazz standard for love and romance which features Harlem’s First Lady of Jazz Alyson Williams is available on all music platforms:
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
Harlem Week Dates August 6th - 15th. There are events all of over Harlem.
https://www.harlemweek.com/
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Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tonight-josephine/1122370887?i=1122371081
http://mauricelynchmusic.com/tonightjosephine-patcleveland/
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Maurice Lynch
Producer
Harlem Connection Radio Show- Will be featuring "Summer Nights In Harlem" to Celebrate Harlem Week
Monica " MamaSoul" Williamson will be featuring "Summer Nights In Harlem" written by Maurice Lynch and sang by Harlem First Lady of Jazz Ms. Alyson Williams. This week on The Harlem Connection the show will be all this Harlem Week.... All Harlem is a buzz " Summer Nights In Harlem" has been chosen as the 46th Official Theme Song for " Harlem Week 2021".
I would like to thank all Maurice Lynch Music Fans!!! for calling giving us so much LOVE.
Make sure you tune in Friday August 6, 2021 from 10pm - Midnight for the show
THE HARLEM CONNECTION
WBAI-99.5 FM
Fridays 10 PM - Midnight
Hosted by: DJ Black Icon 1, MamaSoul, and The L.A.W.
The Harlem Connection is a weekly radio show where a trio of music lovers joins forces with the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce to provide you the artists and the sounds that helped establish Harlem as a cultural Mecca.
The Harlem Connection features an eclectic array of artists from different areas and eras that are connected via Harlem, U.S.A.
We also give info on what’s happening Uptown and interview creators, newsmakers, entrepreneurs, and other all-around cool folks.
https://wbai.org/listen-live/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theharlemconnection/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HarlemConnectFM
Alyson Williams will be performing with The Christian McBride Situation
New Englander's all roads lead to NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND this weekend for the NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL!!!!!!! ...... This is going to be a weekend to remember......I love Newport and cant wait for the festival.
Alyson Williams will be performing with The Christian McBride Situation. 100 Nights of Summer is all over New England this month and I am so grateful for " Summer Nights In Harlem's" success this summer.
“Summer Nights in Harlem" brings a new jazz standard for love and romance. featuring Harlem’s First Lady of Jazz Alyson Williams is available on all music platforms:
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
The this some tickets are still available but the main stages are SOLD OUT
See you there...............
Ms. Alyson Williams at The 19th Annual St. Albans Jazz/R&B Festival 50th Anniversary
Meet me at the 19th Annual St. Albans Jazz/R&B Festival, Celebrating Black Spectrum Theatre's 50th Anniversary Sat, July 17, 2021 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM. to support Harlem's Legendary Vocalist Alyson Williams will be performing my song “Summer Nights in Harlem" and bringing some of the best Jazz and R&B music of the evening
Hop on the" Summer Nights Tour" Alyson is celebrating her New Release “Summer Nights in Harlem" Harlem’s First Lady of Jazz brings a new jazz standard for love and romance...
Enjoy her New Release “Summer Nights in Harlem" available on all media platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
See you there............... Maurice Lynch
Maurice Lynch Music Celebrates: Ms. Alyson Williams " Summer Nights Tour 2021"
Everyone at Maurice Lynch Muisc is having a incredible SUMMER Radio, Shows, and Interviews here are some of the venues you can come out and see Ms Alyson Williams.... And we are also in the studio working on more music... Keeping the magic in the air.
Get Ready for the " Summer Nights Tour" ..Coming to a city near you... Harlem's Legendary Vocalist will will be performing and bring a some of the best Jazz and R&B music this Summer......
Enjoy her New Release “Summer Nights in Harlem" Harlem’s First Lady of Jazz brings a new jazz standard for love and romance.
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
Get your tickets now.............
Maurice Lynch
Producer
Maurice Lynch Music Presents: 100 Nights of Summer with Alyson Williams & "Summer Nights In Harlem"
These past months of coming out of this Covid Pandemic it has really been super busy at Maurice Lynch Music. Special thanks to everyone working with Alyson Williams and myself on her summer campaign. We are gearing up for a busy summer full of festivals and shows.
Enjoy 100 Nights of Summer 2021. Over 100 Jazz Stations will celebrate. Legendary Harlem Vocalist Alyson Williams New Release “Summer Nights in Harlem"
Harlem’s First Lady of Jazz brings a new jazz standard for romance and love.
Check your favorite station and on air talent for show times.
Kim Scott Block Party Radio Show - Saturday 7-9pm
Allen Kepler Top 20 Countdown - Saturday 9-11pm
Mark Stanley Sound Traxx - Saturday 12-2am
Dave Koz Radio Show - Sunday 9am
Bob Baldwin Urban Jazz Lounge - Sunday 11am
Allen Kepler Smooth Jazz Classics - Sunday 1pm
Al Taylor The Groove Show - Sunday 7pm
Will Downing Wind Down Show - Sunday 8pm
Ken Spider Webb Jazz From The City - Sunday 9pm
G. Keith Alexander Harlem America - Friday 10-1pm
Doc Hardy - " Jazz on Ice- Saturday 12pm WKBS Radio 12pm
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
Sponsors - Air Spectrum for Web Net Radio, I Heart Radio, SiriusXM, Maurice Lynch Music and other streaming and media platforms
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Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tonight-josephine/1122370887?i=1122371081
http://mauricelynchmusic.com/tonightjosephine-patcleveland/
#SummerNightsInHarlem
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Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month and International Jazz Day April 30th With Maurice Lynch Music
April is Jazz Appreciation Month: Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with Maurice Lynch Music. I am so grateful that we are finally getting this Pandemic behind us and everyone has gotten their vaccine. The city that I love so much New York City is finally opening back up. Music Venues, Studios, Theaters, Restaurants and Stores. I Love New York now more than ever! It feels so good to be back in the studio working overtime on music projects.
Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) was created in 2001 by Dr. John Edward Hasse, curator at The Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. It’s a time when organizations, musicians, educators, and fans can focus on celebrating our favorite music: This month is our chance to herald and celebrate the extraordinary heritage and history of jazz music and honor some of the most influential jazz musicians, past and present. Jazz music is among America's greatest cultural achievements and exports to the world community. It gives powerful voice to the American experience. Born of a multi-hued society, Jazz unites people across the divides of race, region and national boundaries. It has always made powerful statements about freedom, creativity and American identity. And now, Jazz finally has its own month, each and every year!
Tune in to Maurice Lynch Music and hear some great music from our artist: Alyson Williams, Pat Cleveland, Dawn Tallman and Maurice Lynch & The Harlem Musical Revue. Available on all platforms.
Maurice Lynch
Producer
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Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tonight-josephine/1122370887?i=1122371081
http://mauricelynchmusic.com/tonightjosephine-patcleveland/
Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
#SummerNightsInHarlem
#TheRomanceOfYou
#AlysonWilliamsMusic
#TonightJosephine
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Maurice Lynch Music: Hear Studio 54 Legend Ms. Pat Cleveland Streaming on SiriusXM Studio 54 Radio
Please tune into SiriusXM’s Studio 54 Radio and hear music from Studio 54 Legend Ms. Pat Cleveland by Maurice Lynch Music. Streaming daily on SiriusXM’s Studio 54 Radio Studio 54: Night Magic goes behind the velvet rope and traces the radiant history, social politics, and trailblazing aesthetics of the most iconic nightclub of all time. Behind the velvet rope, partygoers of all backgrounds and lifestyles came together for nights of music and dance, socializing, and vivid spectacle.
Thanks All,
Maurice Lynch
Producer
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Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tonight-josephine/1122370887?i=1122371081
http://mauricelynchmusic.com/tonightjosephine-patcleveland/
Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
#SummerNightsInHarlem
#TheRomanceOfYou
#AlysonWilliamsMusic
#TonightJosephine
#PatCleveland
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Maurice Lynch Music: Salutes Pat Cleveland-Relive The Night Magic of Studio 54 @The Brooklyn Museum
Getting into Studio 54 was never easy. Now Covid-19’s assumed the role of bouncer and delayed the opening of the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s exhibition is now re-opened about the famous club. Pat Cleveland is prominently displayed on the Exhibition Poster and Larger than life outside of the Museum which is truly overwhelming. If you are in the New York Tri-State Area please see this exhibit…..Maurice Lynch
Studio 54: Night Magic goes behind the velvet rope and traces the radiant history, social politics, and trailblazing aesthetics of the most iconic nightclub of all time. Behind the velvet rope, partygoers of all backgrounds and lifestyles came together for nights of music and dance, socializing, and vivid spectacle.
Following the Vietnam War, and amid the nationwide Civil Rights Movement and fights for LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, people sought social and creative transformation as well as a sense of joyous celebration. In a nearly bankrupted New York City, low rents attracted a diversity of artists, fashion designers, writers, and musicians from across the country, catalyzing the invention of new art forms, including musical genres such as punk, hip-hop, and especially disco. In a rare societal shift, people from different sexual, sociopolitical, and financial strata intermingled in after-hours nightclubs. No place exemplified this more than Studio 54.
Organized chronologically, Studio 54: Night Magic showcases photography, fashion, drawing, and film, as well as never-before-exhibited costume illustrations, set proposals, and designs that illustrate the club’s innovative development and creation, while documentation of extravagant parties trace its thirty-three month rise and fall. The exhibition continues through the years after the nightclub’s closure, exhibiting the ongoing influence of Studio 54 aesthetics.
Studio 54: Night Magic is curated and designed by Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture, Brooklyn Museum.
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/touring/studio_54?gclid=CjwKCAiAp4KCBhB6EiwAxRxbpEE9xR54Xxrg8CwcF2YRkE7tyJKa805QuS-o3bVpe5vVEiskflzFexoCU9cQAvD_BwE
https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2017/12/04/pat-cleveland/
https://trifargo.com/2020/02/15/relive-the-night-magic-of-studio-54/
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Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tonight-josephine/1122370887?i=1122371081
http://mauricelynchmusic.com/tonightjosephine-patcleveland/
Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
#SummerNightsInHarlem
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Oscar Contender ‘The Times Of Bill Cunningham’ Reveals Beloved Fashion Journalist
Oscar Contender ‘The Times Of Bill Cunningham’ Reveals Beloved Fashion Journalist Who “Documented Everything”
By Matthew Carey
February 4, 2021
Bill Cunningham, the renowned chronicler of fashion, once wrote of himself, “I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women…That’s all there is to it.”
That fascination abided over a long lifetime as he roamed the streets of New York on bicycle, stopping to snap candid photos of the city’s most fashionably dressed. At night he kept at it, capturing the fashion choices of New York’s elite at glittering events. His astonishing career comes into focus in the Oscar-contending documentary The Times of Bill Cunningham, directed by Mark Bozek.
“He documented everything,” Bozek tells Deadline. “He never left his place without a camera since 1966, when he covered Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball at The Plaza.”
Cunningham was deeply self-effacing. Despite himself, he became a kind of New York institution, most notably through his work for the New York Times, where he was employed from 1978 until his death in 2016. He published mosaics of snapshots in his weekly columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours,” required reading for fashion insiders and anyone interested in the cultural life of the city.
Curiously, “he didn’t think of himself as a photographer,” Bozek states. Rather, he considered himself a fashion historian—and the director says in that respect Cunningham was without peer.
“He was a savant. There’s nobody that has come close to his fashion historical knowledge. Not dead, not alive, nobody that I’ve come across,” Bozek say. “His knowledge is what I think people respected about him so much.”
The documentary traces Cunningham’s route through New York, beginning as a fresh-faced 19-year-old from Boston. After working in advertising at Bonwit Teller, he began making hats for socialites and movie stars, including Marilyn Monroe and Ginger Rogers. Later he joined Chez Ninon, an exclusive boutique that catered to grande dames and monied belles like Jacqueline Bouvier, the future first lady.
“The circles that he lived in and played in were some of the most influential people not just in fashion but in society, in the history of New York,” Bozek notes. “The Rockefellers and the Astors, certainly the Kennedys and people like that.”
His real calling would be in journalism, though he considered what he did “fluff” to squeeze in between newspaper ads. Over time, he amassed a mountain of material.
“His archive will easily become the most valuable in the history of New York City,” Bozek declares. “The letters that he saved…just incredible things. When you get inside there you see the history of this city, and in many cases Paris as well, through his lens…and Studio 54 and Diana Vreeland and the ’60s and the craziness of New York City in the ’70s when it was really in bad shape. And it’s just so much there.”
The Times of Bill Cunningham is built around a single interview Bozek did with the fashion journalist back in 1994. Bozek had long pursued him for a profile while working for Fox television news stations, but the publicity-averse Cunningham had always declined. Then one day at QVC, where Bozek had gone to work, he received a call from Cunningham.
“He said, ‘Hey, young fella, I have to accept this award of this CFDA organization, I don’t even want to. I’m not a photographer. It makes me so mad but the New York Times really wants me to do it,’” Bozek recalls. “‘Would you mind coming to my studio and interviewing me for 10 minutes?’”
The chat was supposed to be a brief one for a video piece for the Council of Fashion Designers of America tribute. It ended up going on for four hours.
“At some point, I realized to just shut up and let him talk because he clearly wanted to talk,” Bozek remembers. “Every now and then I’d throw out a word and he would go off.”
The conversation revealed a central paradox about Cunningham. Though his work was devoted to examining fashion, he cared little about what he himself wore. He told Bozek he got most of his wardrobe from thrift shops or from friends who gave him clothes of dead relatives.
“I know I should care more how I look,” he told Bozek apologetically, “but it’s more important I go out and get the right picture. That’s the main thing.”
Cunningham’s modest lifestyle extended to his apartment, a warren at Carnegie Hall that looked more like a storage facility.
“He lived in a humble room the size of a closet with no kitchen, no bathroom,” Bozek points out. “He shared a bathroom with everyone on the 12th floor at Carnegie Hall studios for 45 years, not just for a couple of months. He just lived this incredibly humble life.”
Cunningham’s endearing personality shines through in the interview. He seemed to struggle with intimacy, yet a big heart beat under those second-hand shirts. During the conversation, he broke down several times.
“When he talks about being shy and then he just starts weeping hysterically, that flipped me out,” Bozek admits. “I’m thinking to myself, ‘I got one of the most respected, nicest people on the planet, in this fashion and society world, and he’s crying.’”
After 1994 Bozek packed away the interview tapes and there they sat until 2016. In the interim he had risen to lead the Home Shopping Network, but he had never forgotten his long-ago encounter with Cunningham.
“The day he died, I went in my basement and I retrieved the interview I had done with him 23 years prior,” he remembers. “I played it for a bunch of his friends, ruthlessly protective friends…And they were weeping by the end because many of them had never even heard Bill talk that much, even to them, because he was just a very private guy…They encouraged me to make the film, in a big way.”
The documentary was released last winter, just before Covid-19 shut down theatrical distribution.
“It came out in New York and Chicago and LA and it did really well and I was really proud of that,” Bozek tells Deadline. “And then it was going to open in 70 or 60 theaters on Friday, March the 13th. And that was the week that was, and so it didn’t.”
The film is currently available on iTunes and Amazon and soon will begin streaming exclusively on Live Rocket, a company Bozek owns. He’d like to see Bill Cunningham’s story become a fictional film, and he’s got just the actor in mind for it.
“Hopefully Ed Norton will read the story and will play him in the scripted feature,” he notes. “He’s just wiry like Bill was. He’s always been at the top of the list.”
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https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-times-of-bill-cunningham-director-mark-bozek-greenwich-entertainment-documentary-interview-news-1234687800/?fbclid=IwAR0GDS5csATC3ebgYlBqh12P7A69P91QUSMI5jc7JPthe3_3yefBXvOTKx0
Maurice Lynch
Producer
Please visit me on Instagram @mauricelynchmusic.ny
For News and Updates.... http://mauricelynchmusic.com/News.php
Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tonight-josephine/1122370887?i=1122371081
http://mauricelynchmusic.com/tonightjosephine-patcleveland/
#SummerNightsInHarlem
#TheRomanceOfYou
#AlysonWilliamsMusic
#TonightJosephine
#PatCleveland
#MauriceLynchMusic
#MauriceLynchHarlemJazz
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