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Tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet’s big band headlined Saturday’s “Jazz for Rights and Humanity” at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, a fund-raiser to support international human rights. Other musicians in the lineup included Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, Randy Weston, Mongo Santamaria, Terrence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Chuck Green and Jimmy Witherspoon and singers Abbey Lincoln, Cissy Houston, Ruth Brown and Jon Hendricks. The network of simultaneous fund-raisers will also include events in Nigeria, the Sudan and Great Britain.

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