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During special Tap-A-Long performances, host Toes Tiranoff and his repertoire of featured dancers will be your guides through the best ragtime, stride, and jazz the Big Apple has to offer.
Find Tap-A-Long on the Upper Terrace at the base of the William Cullen Bryant Statue behind the New York Public Library. Join us during more Piano in Bryant Park performances and live music at the same location during the week.
Piano in Bryant Park is proud to present a Tap-A-Long in loving memory of Cobi Narita, hosted by Toes Tiranoff with live music by Danny Mixon.
Cobi Narita (1926-2023)
As a renowned advocate for musicians and champion of the New York City jazz scene, Cobi partnered with Bryant Park in 2004 to help book the dedicated and talented roster of pianists – of which 16-originals still perform within the 22-week season.
About pianist Danny Mixon:
Danny Mixon is an internationally acclaimed artist who began his career at 17, playing piano with Sam Brown and Patti LaBelle at Bluebelles in Atlantic City. He has since performed at the White House, the Olympics, Jazz Festival, and Newport Jazz Festival at Sea. He studied and performed as a tap dancer at the Ruth Williams Dance Studio in Harlem, where he was known as "The Show Stopper". He is one of the first musicians to be honored by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem in their "Harlem Speaks" series, and has received several other accolades, including the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation Jazz Appreciation award and the Harlem Unsung Heroes of Afrikan Amerikan Classical Music award. He is currently an instructor and performance artist with the Jazzmobile and the New School's School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. He recently completed his latest CD, The Danny Mixon Trio Live at the Rubin Museum.