FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Harrison Ridley Jr. Presents: 

Philadelphia, PA. - Harrison Ridley Jr. is one Philadelphia's preeminent Jazz and African-American History historians, who used his records not only for personal enjoyment, but also as research tools in his history courses at Temple University and on the air. He has a Sunday night program on Temple U's WRTI (90.1FM), The Historical Approach to the Positive Music, which is celebrating it's 27 red year. Harrison is currently two-thirds of the way finished with a book on the massive history of Jazz in Philadelphia, and he is also working on an Ellington book.

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Lecture - Workshop using tapes of recorded music. The speaker is historian, Musicologist, Collector and instructor of African - American studies at Temple University.

Harrison Ridley, Jr. of  WRTI-FM 90.1, Temple University

Historical approach to the positive music

YES IN DEE DY

At Borders On The Avenue Of The Arts

1 South Broad Street, Phila

215-568-7400

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 * 7:00pm to 9:30pm

Free and open to everyone