Jazzmobile Summerfest Continues This Friday
by Stephi Wild
- Aug 13, 2024
In celebration of Max Roach 100, the legendary late jazz drummer, composer, bandleader, activist, will be honored with a performance by M’BOOM + HORNS, in Marcus Garvey Park on August 16, starting at 7:00 pm.
John Coltrane Jazz Festival Rescheduled For This Week
by Stephi Wild
- Oct 3, 2023
The Second Annual FREE John Coltrane Jazz Festival | Miles Ahead, originally set for Coltrane’s birthday on September 23 but was postponed due to inclement weather, will take place on Friday, October 6, 5:00 pm. Learn more about the festival and find out how to attend here!
Harlem Set To Celebrate The Second Annual Free John Coltrane Jazz Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Sep 20, 2023
Get ready to celebrate jazz legend John Coltrane at the second annual Free John Coltrane Jazz Festival in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park. Enjoy live performances by talented musicians, including Reggie Workman, Najee, and Norman Connors. Join the festivities on September 23 at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater.
Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra to Play Dizzy's Club in May
by Blair Ingenthron
- Apr 30, 2023
Teeming with spontaneity, this four-night event celebrates two master figures who transformed American music, legendary artists Tito Puente and Tito Rodríguez, spotlighting the impact of Puerto Rican influence and providing a sonic portal between past and present.
Flushing Town Hall Celebrates Black Icons and Innovators With Black History Trilogy
by Stephi Wild
- Feb 2, 2023
This February, Flushing Town Hall celebrates Black History Month (or African American History Month, as it's also known) with the return of its Black History Trilogy, a three-part series featuring outstanding performers paying tribute to influential African American musicians, dancers, and entertainers.
Inaugural John Coltrane Jazz Festival Comes To Harlem This Weekend
by Stephi Wild
- Sep 22, 2022
On Saturday, September 24, 2022, 1:00pm – 7:00 pm at Marcus Garvey Park | Richard Rodgers Amphitheatre, in Harlem, iconic saxophone players Bill Saxton, Alvin Flythe, Todd Herbert, Sweet Lee Odom, Patience Higgins, TK Blue and John S. Mannan join three rhythm sections to play the music of John Coltrane from the Miles Davis/Monk Era thru the Impulse Record years of Trane's performances.
Photos: First Look at Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100 Tour
by Marissa Tomeo
- May 7, 2022
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: “El Nuevo Tango” is set for MAY 14th at NYU Skirball. TICKETS can be purchased HERE. The show is a genre-redefining, multidisciplinary, infused with jazz, rock, modern dance, and visual art - a tango performance for the new century.
Leonardo Suarez Paz Brings Multi-Disciplinary Show to NYU Skirball
by Marissa Tomeo
- Apr 16, 2022
Following a sold-out performance at the famed “Ballena Azul,” CCK in Buenos Aires, the multifaceted “virtuoso extraordinaire,” (Wynton Marsalis), Leonardo Suarez Paz, brings his genre-redefining, multidisciplinary performance to NYU Skirball, sharing his unique vision of the genre across a century of immigrant struggles and triumphs. Leonardo honors his mentor, Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine born and New York raised composer by recreating Nuevo Tango as an evolving, daring, artistically complex, and emotionally moving art form.
92Y to Present Darius de Haas in YOU SEND ME: THE SONGS AND SOUL OF SAM COOKE
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Mar 29, 2022
Lyrics and Lyricists™ 50th anniversary season will continue with You Send Me: The Song and Soul of Sam Cook on April 23, 24 and 25. Darius de Haas delves into the world of Sam Cooke – his gospel roots and triumphant 1964 engagement at the Copacabana; his classics of romance, and work as a trailblazing entrepreneur and civil rights activist.
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