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Jazz with Ranny Reeve & Ben Riley: First Friday, Nov. 2 at EEA

John Mitty Thursday, October 11, 2012

(RIVERHEAD, NY, October 11, 2012) –– East End Arts is pleased to announce November’s installment of the First Fridays Arts-in-Community Series to be held on Friday, November 2 from 6 PM to 7 PM at the East End Arts Carriage House, located behind the East End Arts Gallery at 133 East Main Street, Riverhead NY. This month’s free, not-to-miss event will feature local jazz legend Ranny Reeve presenting the history of the blues and jazz, alongside international jazz recording artist Ben Riley (courtesy of the Jazz Foundation of America.) This event will be a combination of performance and presentation. This FREE event is open to the public.

Local jazz legend Ranny Reeve has been a jazz pianist, composer and piano teacher for more than 60 years, throughout Long Island. In 2012, the Kings Park Jazz Festival was renamed the Ranny Reeve Jazz Festival after the beloved, inspirational musician.

International recording artist Ben Riley is an American hard bop drummer who has been playing professionally for over 40 years. Best known for his work with Thelonious Monk, Riley has also worked closely with Alice Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ahmad Jamal, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Barron, and as member of the group Sphere, and during the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet.

East End Arts is very pleased to present this series of Arts-in-Community forums and presentations on the first Friday of the month in Riverhead, and the third Thursday of the month in Greenport, to encourage discussion and engage the local community with the arts. These free events are open to the public. For more information about the First Fridays and Third Thursdays series’, visit http://www.eastendarts.org/events/index.html#FirstFri or call 631-369-2171.

First Fridays and Third Thursdays are made possible, in part, by the Miracle-Gro Fund––a donor-advised fund at the Long Island Community Foundation. For more information, visit www.licf.org.

For more information, contact the East End Arts School at 631-369-2171 or visit www.eastendarts.org.

jmitty@longislandyellowpages.com

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