Co Creative Center New Bedford
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JAZZ JAM
WITH EMMANUEL “MANNY” ESCOBAR
May 8, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Z invites musicians and music lovers to grab your instruments for a no-cost jam session led by sax player and music educator Emmanuel “Manny” Escobar!
Shed all your cares, enjoy live music, improv and jam out with us. Musicians, vocalists, visual artists ,and audience welcome. No prior jam experience or tickets necessary.
The free Jazz Jam takes place on select AHA! First Thursday Nights:
November 14 (7-8PM),
February 13 (6-7PM),
March 13 (6-7PM), and
May 8 (6-7PM).
Join us!
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Acushnet Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
EMMANUEL “MANNY” DAVIS-ESCOBAR
Emmanuel “Manny” Escobar is a dynamic musician and educator, with roots firmly planted in Jazz, R&B and Afro-Latin creative traditions. He is a graduate of the Alice S. Pfaelzer Conservatory at Merit School of Music and Berklee College of Music and studied under Jan Berry Baker at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Emmanuel has performed and recorded with; Esperanza Spaulding, Reggie Workman, Loren Allred, Mayra Andrade, Pentatonix, Thaddeus Hogarth, Louis Cato, Roberta Miranda, Jermaine Paul, Cesaria Evora Orchestra, Grace Evora, Mika Mendes, Boy Ge Mendes, Tito Paris, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Emmanuel is an endorsing educator for Cannonball Musical Instruments, Rigotti Reeds and Syos Mouthpieces, a signed performing artist with Nightshift Entertainment – New England, adjunct faculty at Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts, and Music Director at Providence Country Day School.
