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Posted on 12/25/2025 3:46:44 AM PST by DFG
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center, a holiday tradition dating back more than 20 years, has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility.
As of last Friday, the building’s facade reads The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. According to the White House, the president’s handpicked board approved the decision, which scholars have said violates the law. Trump had been suggesting for months he was open to changing the center’s name.
“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday. Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player who has toured with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Ray Brown, has been presiding over holiday “Jazz Jams” at the Kennedy Center since 2006, succeeding bassist William “Keter” Betts.
The Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to email seeking comment. The center’s website lists the show as canceled.
President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Congress passed a law the following year naming the center as a living memorial to him. Kennedy niece Kerry Kennedy has vowed to remove Trump’s name from the building once he leaves office and former House historian Ray Smock is among those who say any changes would have to be approved by Congress.
The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person’s name on the building’s exterior.
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Petty, spiteful and mean. Pretty much sums up the modern left-wing ideology.
Jazz sucks anyway
Mean untrustworthy parasitic thief.
“Jazz sucks anyway”
THANK YOU! If music had Tourette Syndrome it would be jazz.
Pouty tantrum
“which OUR HANDPICKED scholars have said violates the law”
Fixed it.
Jazz does not suck. Perhaps you never heard any really good jazz. Ask today’s greatest rock guitarists who was a major influence and most will say Django Reinhart. Many other examples of jazz influence on rock. Ever hear and jazz rock fusion?
Get Kid Rockwill to do it
The Grinch who stole the jazz concert. Very sad.
Scholars? I don’t think that word means what you think it does.
If he thinks he’s standing up for his “values”, I’d like him to name one he possesses.
Screw them.
I don’t like President Trumps name next to Kennedy.
Hope it is placed above it.
Sad all around. Tacky move by Trump and petty response.
I don’t know who this is. So I tried AI image recognition at
https://imageidentifier.ai/results/picture-identifier
Great success:
Activity
— Playing percussion instrument
Clothing
— Gray suit
Expression
— Focused/concentrated
Then I tried Grok:
This image depicts Gary Burton, a renowned American jazz vibraphonist known for pioneering the four-mallet technique (often called the “Burton grip”) that revolutionized vibraphone playing in jazz and beyond.
He has won multiple Grammy Awards, collaborated with artists like Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, and Stan Getz, and had a long career as both a performer and educator (including at Berklee College of Music).
The intense expression, formal suit, blue-wrapped mallets, and orchestral setting (with visible brass instruments like French horns in the background) are characteristic of his performances.
As jazz evolved into the post-WWII years, it became a race to see who could pack the greatest number of unrelated notes in the shortest period of time.
If it ain’t Country, it ain’t music....
I would prefer not to have my name on a Memorial until I died.
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