Join us at the ERJCC Book & Arts Festival from November 3-16, 2024!

This event is sponsored in part by the Congregation Brith Shalom Men's Club.

The ERJCC is pleased and honored to welcome everyone to the 52nd Annual Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival. From start to finish, the 2024 lineup is a celebration of the Jewish experience and our collective and positive impact on our world. The Festival is one of the city’s leading cultural and literary events, attracting a large and varied audience of all ages and is recognized as one of the largest Jewish Book & Arts Festivals in the nation!

THIS EVENT:
CLOSING NIGHT
Larry Tye
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
Saturday, November 16 | 7:30 PM 
Kaplan Theatre
In conversation with Vincent Gardner
Tickets: Member $16 | Public $21
Premium Ticket with Book: $46
TICKETS

This sweeping portrait from New York Times bestselling author Larry Tye delves into the fascinating lives of three jazz legends—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie.

Born within a few years of one another, these musical geniuses overcame horrific discrimination with the sole mission of introducing Americans to transformational music that still endures today.

Based on more than 250 interviews, this extensively researched and critically acclaimed book brings alive the history of Black America in the early-to-mid 1900s and explores the Black-Jewish alliance of the time.  

Patron Sponsors:
Vicky and Michael Richker

Community Partners: CBS Women Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism, Houston Jewish Community Foundation.