Apr
29
Financier Robert Appel On His Love Of Ellington, Jobim And Dreams For Jazz At Lincoln Center
ByRobert J. Appel, a New York-based financier and philanthropist, is turning his passion for Duke Ellington and Antonio Carlos Jobim into a mission to get people around the world to love jazz, something he believes “a whole generation thinks is the antithesis of good music.”
Appel–chairman of the board of Jazz at Lincoln Center, founded in 1987; donor last year of $20 million to the organization, the largest individual gift in its history; and recipient tonight of JALC’s Ed Bradley Award forLeadership in Jazz—came to his love of jazz as a teenager in Brooklyn…
Financier Robert Appel On His Love Of Ellington, Jobim And Dreams For Jazz At Lincoln Center
