JAD Videos

Jazz Ain’t Dead® Videos

Concert footage, music videos, promotional videos, and behind the scene footage of the
dancers and musicians of Jazz Ain’t Dead®.

Highlights from New York Joyce SoHo Spring 2011 Season

Summertime House from Jazz Ain’t Dead Celebrates the Legacy of George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

My Funny Valentine Music Arrangement by Chris Rob for Jazz Ain’t Dead®

Portuguese Love Tribute to Teena Marie Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

I Know You Know by Esperanza Spalding Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

Highlights from Jazz Ain’t Dead Celebrates the Legacy of George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess Choreography by Candice Midhelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

It Ain’t Necessarily So Music Arrangement by Chris Rob, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

I Got Plenty of Nuttin’ Featuring Maurice Chestnut Improvised Jam with the cats of Jazz Ain’t Dead®

My Man’s Gone Now Music Arrangement by Chris Rob, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

Red-Headed Woman Original Composition by George Gershwin, Music Arrangement by Donald Hayes for Jazz Ain’t Dead, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr., Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Vocal Performance by Billy Davis

Bess, You is My Woman Now Music Direction and Arrangement by Lafayette Harris, Jr., Vocal Performance by Billy Davis & Daphne Shawn

Whatever Lola Wants JAD Style Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr., Music Arrangement by Marcus Bell/Bellringer Production/ Global Soul Productions

Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean -JAD Style Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr. Performed by Chelsea Arce & Jerome Melsaun Warren, Vocals by Billy Davis

Fall In, Music by Esperanza Spalding Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

Summertime Interlude Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr. Performed by Chelsea Arce & Jerome Melsaun Warren, Trumpet by Travis Antoine

Summertime House JAD Style Joyce SoHo, March 27, 2011 Music jam led by Axel Tosca and the Jazz Ain’t Dead Band, Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

Summertime House JAD Style at DNA, New York City APAP Here is raw footage of Jazz Ain’t Dead "caught on tape" at Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) by our wardrobe mistress, Ms. Cynthia Bowen, performing the final number of our music set, "Jazz Ain’t Dead- Celebrating the Legacy of Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess."

All musical arrangements are by Jazz Ain’t Dead, choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin.

 

 

 

 

Afro Blue at Harlem Arts Festival

I love this piece!!!
I love my Joffrey Ballet School Students!!!
I love Rajdulari Barnes!!!!
I love Jazz Ain’t Dead®!!!!

Enjoy…

Overjoyed with Maria and Gierre at the Harlem Arts Festival Summer 2016

Proud Mama moment…. 

OVERJOYED

My piece I’ve performed many a time over the past few years, and now performing this past summer at the Harlem Arts Festival is my GORGEOUS former student from the Joffrey Ballet School Jazz and Contemporary, Maria Rodriguez, who is now Killing IT with one of my favorite partners and veteran dancer’s of all time of Jazz Ain’t Dead, Gierre Godley.

I love you guys so much.   And, I’m going to miss Rajdulari Barnes singing for me as she goes on to her new adventure in Denver, Colorado.

Samba version of Stevie Wonder’s Overjoyed performed by Jazz Ain’t Dead featuring Maria Rodriguez and Gierre Godley and vocals by Rajdulari Barnes and Billy Davis, Jr.

Enjoy!

Harlem Arts Festival Recap Video

 

Yay!!!!  We made it into the Harlem Arts Festival Recap Video!

JAZZ AIN’T DEAD

Enjoy!

Pro Arte Summer Dance Commission 2016

 

Love my Pro Arte Dance Company Students!

Here’s a little Charles Mingus.  Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Enjoy!

Jazz Ain't Dead at Harlem Arts Festival

Hey Everybody,

If you missed it, here's the show we did at Harlem Arts Festival, Saturday, June 25 for Jazz Ain't Dead!  Special thanks to the students of Joffrey Ballet School and all my special guest dancers and musicians.

Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bucket Dance Saturday Night 7pm Performance

Bucket Dance @Union Square
Joffrey Ballet School End of Year Recital 2016
Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Courtesy of Jazz Ain't Dead(R)

Music by Candice Michelle Franklin & Chris Rob
Lyrics by Candice Michelle Franklin
Bucket Drums by Osiris

Kenyetta Coffee, Vocals
Rogerst Charles, Sax

Pro Arte Performs New Work by Candice Michelle Franklin

Teen dance company from Pro Arte Dance Center in Vancouver, Canada performs beautifully a new work by Candice Michelle Franklin.  Director is Astrid Sherman.  Check it out!

Nature Boy

Music by Kurt Elling

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Courtesy of Jazz Ain't Dead

Behind the Scenes Dressing Room Photo on set of Music Video with Violette

On set of a music video with French pop singer, Violette… Jerome and Candice partnering again….
Jazz Ain’t Dead!

New Photos from Legendary Pianist, Onaje Allan Gumbs’ New Vintage Show at BAM Cafe

Onaje Allan Gumbs
Presents
New Vintage

Featuring Jazz Ain’t Dead® Dance Artists
Jerome Melsaun Warren & Candice Michelle Franklin
performing “Overjoyed.”

Photography by Keith Rogers

JAD Band Guests at New York Jazz Choreography Project

Jazz Ain’t Dead® principal dance artists Jerome Melaun Warren and Candice Michelle Franklin perform together again as guests for the New York Jazz Choreography Project which runs April 27 – 28 at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center in midtown. 

For the first night, dance artists Jerome Melsaun Warren and the young and beautiful, Maria Rodriguez (plucked from Miss Franklin’s advanced trainee Jazz dance classes at the renowned Joffrey Ballet School) will be performing a duet accompanied by Jazz Ain’t Dead vocalist, Rajdulari Barnes.  On the second day of the show run, Jazz Ain’t Dead® choreographer, Candice Michelle Franklin, will join Warren, her long standing partner (about ten years we think if you don’t count when Franklin was Warren’s teacher), in performing the same duet with Jazz Ain’t Dead’s live band.  Principal music arranger for Jazz Ain’t Dead®, Chris Rob, will be accompanying the dancing pair with his new samba arrangement of Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed” both singing and playing the piano in a vocal duet of the famous song with JAD’s Rajdulari Barnes.  Also sitting in is Wallace Roney’s fabulous bass player, Rashaan Carter, and the great salsero, Geraldo Flores.  We welcome these great musicians to the Jazz Ain’t Dead family!

Tickets:
Available at the MMAC box office or purchase online.
$21 ($18 children 12 and under)

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Jazz Choreography Enterprises presents The New York Jazz Choreography Project

The New York Jazz Choreography Project is a celebration of jazz dance featuring originals works by emerging and established choreographers. Audiences of all ages will be treated to dances in a variety of jazz styles—from swing to contemporary—and the chance to see jazz dance as the rich art form it is, with its glorious variety of styles and cultural influences. Following the performance on Sunday, April 28th, the audience is invited to stay for a talk back with the choreographers.

Dates:
Saturday, April 27th, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 28th, at 3 p.m. – A talk back with the choreographers follows this performance.

Place:

manhattan movement & arts center
248 W. 60th Street
New York, New York 10023
212-787-1178
www.manhattanmovement.com

Tickets:
Available at the MMAC box office or purchase online.
$21 ($18 children 12 and under)

The performances will be approximately 70 minutes long with no intermission. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of management. The box office will close 30 minutes after the performance starts. No refunds or exchanges.

Jazz Ain’t Dead Photo of the Day

Jazz Ain’t Dead dancers Jerome Melsaun Warren and Candice Michelle Franklin guests at Onaje Allan Gumbs II New Vintage performance at BAM, April 6, 2013.  Enjoy!

A Great Night at BAM Café with Onaje Allan Gumbs

Jazz Ain’t Dead principle dancers, Candice Michelle Franklin and Jerome Melsaun Warren, performed a fantastic duet at BAM Café last Saturday night, April 6 for Onaje Allan Gumbs Presents New Vintage.  It was a star-studded evening filled with fabulous musicians well-heeled in the Jazz scene as well as a wonderful array of singers and poets featured on the program.  The venue was crazy packed, over capacity.  People could not get in unless someone left; it was just that crowded.

Accompanying Candice and Jerome was the talented vocal artist Angela Johnson singing lead vocals and Gregoire Maret on harmonica as well as Gary Fritz on congas, Enoch Jamal Strickland on drums, Roger Byam on sax, and Gregory M. Jones on bass.  Other talented artists performing throughout the evening included Jean Caze, Mem Nahadr (Vocalist and Friend of JAD), Abiodun Oyewole, Toni Blackman, Alano, LuQuan Graham, Darien Dean, Jordan Young, Autumn Ashante, and Tai Allen.

Nature Boy Rehearsals

Nature Boy Male Solo Day 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LSIZdyrYe0

Nature Boy Male Solo Day 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFugwxVGVT8

Nature Boy First Partnering section
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxeUisnDvG4

Highlights from June 28 Jazzmobile Concert

Jazz Ain't Dead® Performs a Free Concert
for the Community!

Presented by Jazzmobile

Vandyke CC Senior Dessert Luncheon Sponsored by Council Member Darlene Mealy
Jazz Ain't Dead®
Choreography and Direction by Candice Michelle Franklin
Musical Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

Highlights from the show...
Oye Como Va, Fever, Zombie Blues (original composition by Lafayette Harris, Jr.,
JAD Music Director), Overjoyed, Footprints, Copper Colored Gal, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby, Summertime, Calvin Booker's Tap Jam, My Funny Valentine, Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries,
Words from Council Member Mealy, Goodbye, Someone Else is Steppin In

Featuring:
Rajdulari Barnes (Lead Vocalist)
Rick Delancy (Song & Dance Vocalist)
Calvin Booker (Tap Dance Artist)

JAD Band:
Axel Tosca (Keys), Kenneth Salters (Drums), Paul Beaudry (Bass), Rogerst Charles (Alto Sax)

JAD Jazz Dance Artists:
Samantha Berger, Calvin Cooper, Victor Reddick, Ashley Chavonne McGill,
Shakirah Stewart, & Candice M. Franklin

Venue:  Vandyke CC Gymnasium, Brooklyn, NY
June 28, 2012

Thank you Council Member Mealy and Sabrina Eady and Linda Walton from
Jazzmobile for having us!  We had a blast.........

Photos from Mo Beasley's UrbanErotika at Kumble

 

Mo Beasley's Urban Erotika 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Kumble Theater

March 10, 2012
Photography by Julie Atwell

 

 

 

 

Jazz Ain’t Dead Rehearsal Video Footage

 

Jazz Ain't Dead® in Rehearsal Video Footage of Jazz Ain't Dead® in Rehearsal All Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

Fever Music Recording by Michael Bublé Dancers: Gabriel Malo, Samantha Berger, Tony Wright

Overjoyed Music by Stevie Wonder/Recorded by Esperanza Spalding Dancers: Victor Reddick & Shakirah Stewart

Black Panties Text/Vocals: Mo Beasley Dancers: April Holloway, Natonia Monet-Harrison, Joi Lynn, Angel Chin, Ashley Chavonne McGill, Leah Tubbs

Summertime House Music Re-mixed and arranged by Chris Rob for Jazz Ain't Dead® Dancers: Careitha Davis, Shekitra Starke, Demar Braxton, Jerome Melsaun Warren, Gierre Godley, Candice Michelle Franklin, Joi Lynn, Anthony DiCarlas, Samantha Berger

My Funny Valentine Recording Session Freestyle with Chris Rob Chris Rob, Music Arranger for Jazz Ain't Dead®

My Life Music Recording by Mary J. Blige Dancer: Leah Tubbs

Like I'll Never See You Again Music by Alicia Keys Dancers: Jerome Melsaun Warren & Candice Michelle Franklin

Sometime Thang Original Music Composed by George Gershwin Vocals and New Arrangement by Chris Rob for Jazz Ain't Dead® Dancers: April Holloway, Adisa Gooding-Henry, Joi Lynn, Candice Franklin, Leah Tubbs, Shelley McLaughlin, Ashley Adamek, Carmen Carriker, Shawn Cruz

My Funny Valentine Vocal Rehearsal Piano: Lafayette Harris, Jr., Vocals: Daphne Shawn

Souls of Nola Music Recording: Dizzy Gillespie's Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac Dancers: Kristin Yancey, Ashley Chavonne McGill, Shelley McLaughlin, Angel Chin

Bye Bye Black Bird Music Recording by Rachelle Ferrell Dancers: Angel Chin, Gabriel Malo, Samantha Berger, Tony Wright

Say Yes Music Recording: Floetry Dancer: Angel Chin

Zombie Blues Composed by Lafayette Harris, Jr., Musical Director for Jazz Ain't Dead® Dancers: Samantha Berger, Angel Chin, Tony Wright, Gabriel Malo, Anthony DiCarlas, Ashley Chavonne McGill

 

 

Black Love–Special Performance at John Jay College

 

Black Love

Black History Month Special with Lead Jazz Ain’t Dead Artists’ 
Mo Beasley, Maritri Garrett, & Candice Michelle Franklin

Jazz Ain't Dead Fam members Mo Beasley, Candice Franklin, and Maritri Garrett kicked off the first day of Black History Month with a beautiful low-key concert of dance, music and spoken word about "Black Love."  This special engagement was performed and hosted at John Jay College, February 1, 2012.  The pictures came out intimately beautiful. We certainly thank John Jay for having us.  We genuinely enjoyed our time and interacting with the John Jay students! Now enjoy these lovely photos....