Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band at Dizzy’s Club in New York - with special guest Nasheet Waits

Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band at Dizzy’s Club in New York, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director. Two sets: 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Celebrating Max Roach and championing equality and social justice through music. Featuring two movements of Roach’s avant-garde jazz album and vocal-instrumental suite “We Insist!” (subtitled “Freedom Now”) on themes related to the Civil Rights Movement. With special guest Nasheet Waits, drums – son of drummer Freddie Waits and original member of Max Roach’s M’Boom percussion ensemble founded in 1970.