Striking Up the Band to Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month

Angela Dickey talks about her love of jazz to a full crowd at the Sax 'N Art Jazz Club

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and to commemorate this great American musical style, the Consulate General and the Association of Overseas Vietnamese Students partnered up to present an Afternoon Jazz Chat by Deputy Principle Officer Angela Dickey. On the afternoon of April 25, about fifty members of the association (composed of former and future study abroad participants) joined Consulate contacts and members of the general public at the Sax ‘N Art Jazz Club to hear Dickey talk about and play some of her favorite jazz tunes. After the discussion about the history and impact of jazz, Sax ‘N Art owner and world famous saxophonist Tran Manh Tuan took to the stage to offer a live interpretation of jazz classics. The event closed out with a true example of jazz’s cross-cultural nature when the US-trained Tuan played an original composition based on the music of Vietnam’s ethnic minorities.