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Queens and the jazz tradition that comes The major transit hub is a junction for from this community,” Roberson said, not18 buses, two subway lines, the AirTrain to ing that the per formers were chosen JFK Airport and all but one of the Long through a serious vetting process. Last week’s band, Prest 4 Time, is an Island Rail Road’s branches — the latter of which may see more than 200,000 pas- R&B group with jazz influences that has played at the Jamaica sengers pass through Farmers Market and in a single day. will w be at the Queens The Port Authority, Night Market for its which maintains the final Saturday of the f station, played a cru2015 season on Hal2 cial role in coordinatWhen: Thursdays, 5 p.m.- 7 p.m. loween. They’re one l ing the weekly shows. thru mid-May 2016 of the 20 bands After a pilot program already booked for a last autumn of eight Where: 93-40 Sutphin Blvd.; the sea son, which t shows ended, passenJamaica AirTrain Atrium, runs through midr ger s b ega n to a sk Concourse Level May, with just a few M when the music Website: abetterjamaica.org openings remaining. o would return, and it S o f a r, ha lf t he became clear that the acts are from Jamaia shows had to go on. For Jerome Roberson, operations super- ca or the larger Southeastern Queens visor at JFK, chairperson at the Sutphin area. Bringing together culture and his Boulevard BID and a Cambria Heights resi- communit y is of great impor tance to dent who “grew up listening to Thelonious Mays. A Better Jamaica runs 10 initiatives Monk and Wynton Marsalis,” the program throughout the year, including film festivals, holiday music and a reading tutor holds personal significance. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to highlight program that connects senior citizens and
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Prest 4 Time band members Glenn Gibson, left, on guitar, Sandy Anderson, on bass, lead vocalist Vicky Love and Ismail Ibrahim, on drums, perform at the Sutphin Boulevard AirTrain station in Jamaica last Saturday. Not pictured is keyboardist Fred Simmons. All PHOTOS BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN sing too. On the cover: another view of the show. first-graders. All ser ve to improve and enrich Jamaica residents’ lives. For the great ambition of his nonprofit, Mays claimed he “just fell into” this position at the fulcrum of artistic enrichment and social outreach.
“I remember in the summer of ’06, I went to watch ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in Forest Park with my nephews, and it was just such a beautiful evening — and I thought, ‘Why should I have to leave my community to do something like this?’” Mays said. Q
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