Turns Out 50 Years Is Not Enough for ‘Highlights in Jazz’ 

The man who launched New York’s longest-running jazz concert series, Jack Kleinsinger, is ‘having too much fun’ to stop now.

Jim Eigo
At the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Jack Kleinsinger points toward Sheila Jordan, guitarist Roni Ben-Hur, and bassist Harvie S. Jim Eigo

Because I’ve been attending New York State’s “Highlights in Jazz” concerts only since 1980, I was a relative newbie on Thursday night at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Some of the regulars there even had been present at the first concert, in 1973.

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