Juniors in American Literature class traveled to Harlem for a private blues concert with Bill Saxton at Bill's Place, located at 148 West 133rd Street between Lenox and 7th Avenue.
Eleventh graders in front of Bill's Place.
The blues bar is the only original speakeasy left from Prohibition on Swing Street.
Bill Saxton, a native New Yorker, international world class hard bop tenor saxophonist, performs live for our students.
We had a great time listening to blues, and hearing about the history of the neighborhood. We made connections between the music and neighborhood to our reading of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance.