Description
Thursday, February 27 • 7:00 PM • BKCM Concert Hall
Pay-as-you-wish ticketing
From bebop to boom bap, jazz and hip-hop share deep roots in storytelling, improvisation and cultural resistance. Join us for an intergenerational exploration of how jazz’s rich legacy shaped hip-hop’s evolution — blending rhythm, poetry and protest across generations. Celebrate Black History Month with a journey through sound, history and creative expression curated by Brooklyn’s Soul Science Lab and featuring performances by Warren Fields on piano and DJ Scan on turntables and drum machine, and a panel featuring Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival co-founder and Yale School of Management assistant dean of Inclusion and Diversity Ebonie Jackson and BKCM music therapist Dannyele Crawford, MS, LCAT MT-BC.
About Soul Science Lab
Soul Science Lab (SSL) is a music and multimedia duo powered by emcee & songwriter Chen Lo and multi-instrumentalist & composer Asante Amin. The two are storytellers who inspire the future. SSL is dedicated to empowering communities through Hip Hop music, innovative storytelling, and arts education. The duo’s current projects include Soundtrack ’63, Make a Joyful Noize (commissioned by Carnegie Hall), and The Renaissance Mixtape (commissioned by the Apollo Theater). SSL has released three studio albums: Footprints, The Visitor: Alter Destiny, and Plan for Paradise — just call them “Innovative Afro-Futuristic Griots.”
About the Panelists
Ebonie Jackson
Dr. Ebonie Jackson is an executive leader with over two decades of professional experience. Her career has spanned the industries of corporate banking, entrepreneurship & small business ownership, and higher education. After spending almost ten years in corporate banking, she struck out to manage a newly formed small business that birthed the premier homegrown cultural hip-hop event in New York City – The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival. In 2006 she began her career in higher education as an administrator and faculty member teaching student development and business courses.
Within higher education, she specializes in student success, advocacy, gender justice, diversity, equity & inclusion, and enrollment management. She is well-versed in the programmatic use of various diversity & inclusion, student development, and retention theoretical frameworks. She now serves as Assistant Dean for Inclusion and Diversity for the Yale School of Management, focusing on outreach, empowerment, and advocacy. Through her work in the Office of Inclusion and Diversity, she engages and empowers students, faculty, and staff by promoting education and awareness of inclusive practices, cultivating conversations about difference, allyship, and the importance of building community.
Dannyele Crawford, MS, MT-BC, LCAT
Dannyele Crawford is a board certified music therapist at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Being a Brooklyn native, Dannyele holds a passion for serving under-resourced communities within NYC and amplifying the voices of those who need it. She believes that music can be used as a tool to improve overall wellbeing, health, promote diversity/inclusion/community and expressivity across populations. Dannyele’s interests lie in incorporating the use of music technology and overlooked music genres, such as hip-hop, pop, and R&B, in her work to diversify and continue expanding music therapy care. She is passionate about catering to the individual(s) and using the music that they are interested in to cater to their individualized needs and to make their experience of music as enjoyable and beneficial as possible.
Ticketing Information
BKCM is committed to keeping our community events accessible to all, so we use a pay-as-you-wish model for this event. The suggested contribution is $20 per ticket, which will go towards ensuring that BKCM’s musical events remain open to all New Yorkers. Please pay any amount that feels comfortable and within your budget.
