Concert with Dan Barrett Kicks off Jazz Appreciation Month

March 27, 2012

Consular Officer Rubani Trimiew welcoming Jazz aficionados (Photo: State Department)

The consulate kicked off Jazz Appreciation Month by supporting a jazz concert at the Tower Café at the former U.S. military Maurice Rose Airfield in Frankfurt.  The concert with the Swinging Fundus Jazz Band featured Dan Barrett, lead trombone player of the last Benny Goodman orchestra. An accomplished trombone player, cornetist, and singer he played with many prominent Jazz musicians such as Woody Herman and Butch Miles from the Count Basie Big Band at renowned places such as Carnegie Hall. Dan Barrett is not only featured as a musician in Woody Allen movies, he also composes sound tracks for Allen and performs with Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band.  He received a Grammy nomination and was nominated Trombone Player of the Year 1999 for the Bell Atlantic Jazz Award. The musicians played melodious Jazz  from the 1930s and 40s.  Consular officer Rubani Trimiew welcomed a full house of German and American Jazz aficionados.  He emphasized the important role of jazz as a unique American art form originating in the African-American community and then transcending ethnic, regional, and national borders. He also stressed the degree to which jazz had caught on in Frankfurt and the important role that American public diplomacy has played in helping jazz to flourish in the city.