Jazz at the Fort Connects Jazz and Hip-Hop in Roxbury's Highland Park

Jazz standards and hip-hop aren't strange bedfellows, and you'll hear why at Jazz at the Fort's "Hip Hop 1942." Berklee College of Music jazz and hip-hop musicians will move you through the decades starting in 1942 when Dizzy Gillespie wrote "A Night in Tunisia."--June Wulff, Globe Staff
(chairs, blankets, picnics encouraged; rain venue is 1234 Columbus Ave.).


This year's edition of the annual free concert explores the jazz roots of hip-hop - epitomized by Dizzy Gillespie's 1942 "A Night in Tunisia"… Show more being employed in 1989 as the major hook for Gang Starr's "Words I Manifest." An octet of jazz musicians and hip-hop artists composed of Berklee students, alumni, and faculty will perform pieces by Gillespie, Lucky Thompson, McCoy Tyner, Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, J Dilla, and more. - Kevin Lowenthal, Globe Correspondent

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