Big Band Coltrane at Historic Mother Bethel AME featuring Josh Lee & The Extended Family with V. Shayne Frederick and

A collaboration between V. Shayne Frederick and Josh Lee and the Extended Family that explores the music of John Coltrane through the lens of the big band. The performance will take place at the historic Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, coinciding with Land Ownership Week during the 232nd Anniversary of the founding of Historic Mother Bethel AME Church.

V. Shayne Frederick is “soulful” [DownBeat] “one to watch, a shining light,” [Philadelphia Inquirer] and “one of the region’s greatest jazz singers,” [Metro Philadelphia] with electrifying performances internationally. He is an educator, a curatorial collaborator for the Semiquincentennial Philly 250, a narrator and vocalist with Ruth Naomi Floyd’s Frederick Douglass Jazz Works, and part of poet laureate superband Yolanda Wisher & the Afroeaters, and a composer. A voting member and former board member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Recording Academy, his albums have streamed worldwide.

Josh Lee and the Extended Family is a Philadelphia based ensemble that authentically celebrates the music and the dance of the swing era. Composed of the brightest young musicians in the city, the Extended Family strives to further the 100 year tradition of big band music while honoring its pioneers—Moten, Basie, Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson to name a few. Josh is a grammy winning saxophonist, composer, and arranger, as well as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra and faculty at Temple and Villanova Universities and a 2025 Downbeat Rising Star on the baritone saxophone.