#New york city jazz festival plus#
#New york city jazz festival series#

Past Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (CPJF) Recaps.Visit our YouTube to watch on demand highlights from our digital celebration.

#New york city jazz festival plus#

This special program featured a celebration of Charlie Parker’s life and the festival with a visit to Tompkins Square Park a conversation with Charlie Parker Jazz Festival founder Sam Turvey, jazz performers Jason Moran and Jaleel Shaw and many more plus archived Charlie Parker Jazz Festival performances.

#New york city jazz festival series#

To celebrate Charlie Parker’s 100th birthday in 2020, we presented an all-day digital Charlie Parker Jazz Festival as a part of our SummerStage Anywhere digital series during the annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival weekend. Acoustic set with Courtney Wright Trio on August 27.Acoustic set with Courtney Wright Trio on August 26.Jazz In the Garden: Parlor Entertainment featuring Marjorie Eliot and Rudel Drears.Screening: “Buster Williams Bass to Infinity” followed by Q&A with Buster Williams and film director Adam Kahan.Winard Harper & Jeli Posse and Screening: “ Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony”.Running August 26 to August 28, the 30th anniversary will bring together storied, veteran players and the next generation of jazz artists including jazz singer and her big band Jazzmeia and Her Noble Force, Brooklyn-born tap dancer Calvin Booker On Tap & Friends American trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet, NEA Jazz Master bassist Buster Williams featuring his quartet Something More and others and avant-garde jazz legendary saxophonist Archie Shepp with genre-bending pianist Jason Moran, multi-award winning saxophonist Melissa Aldana, world renowned trumpeter Bria Skonberg, and leader in the field and mentor guitarist Pasquale Grasso with his nostalgic sound. Additional jazz events will also be held across the city to celebrate the festival, more details to be announced.

The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, our city’s annual salute to the eponymous late saxophonist, will return in its 30th year for a three-day celebration of live jazz in the neighborhoods near where Parker worked and lived, including Harlem’s historic Marcus Garvey Park and Tompkins Square Park in the East Village.