More musicians drop out of Kennedy Center shows after Trump name change
by Edward Helmore from on (#72FPV)
The Cookers on Monday pulled out of a New Year's Eve jazz gig at the controversially renamed Trump-Kennedy' center
A second jazz band has pulled out of performing at the controversially renamed Trump-Kennedy" center in Washington DC, giving just two days notice before their New Year's Eve gig was set to take place.
The Cookers, described as a Grammy-nominated, all-star septet of legendary post-bop jazz musicians, have not given an explicit reason for their decision but in a statement posted on their website said: Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice."
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