5/8: Dances of Vice - Mood Indigo: Harlem Jazz Retrospective

Dances of Vice invites you to the hottest strut of the town, featuring Harlem native Dandy Wellington and His Band, DJ Odysseus Bailer and The Sounds of Harlem (The Harlem Swing Dance Society) with VooDoo Onyx and DeWitt Fleming Jr. in a musical retrospective that pays tribute to such Jazz Age Harlem musicians as Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Jelly Roll Morton and other jazz greats that laid the foundation for future musicians of their genre and gave rise to New York as the jazz capital of the world. Intro dance lesson 9-9:30pm. Tickets: $25 Adv / $30 Doors www.dancesofvice.com Location: Down Town Association (60 Pine Street) Dress Code: Evening/Cocktail attire; inspiration - 1930s Cotton Club. "Jazz is a good barometer of freedom...the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country." - Duke Ellington