NYC Winter Jazzfest has announced the lineup and schedule of events for the festival that his held at venues throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn during January 10-18, 2024. Now in its 20th year, the festival features the always popular marathon at eight venues per night – Friday, January 12 in Manhattan and Saturday, January 13 in Brooklyn. In addition, there are special concerts on January 10 and 11 and January 14 through 18 at venues such as Nublu, Dizzy’s, National Sawdust, Brooklyn Steel, Roulette and others.
Shabaka, the saxophonist formerly known as Shabaka Hutchings, is the festival’s artist-in-residence and will make six appearances throughout the week with esperanza spalding, Jason Moran, Saul Williams, Joe Lovano, Miguel Atwood Ferguson and others. Among the special themed concerts are “Take Two: A Listening Experience with Tyshawn Sorey,” “Melanie Charles/Endea Owens/ Performing the Music of Sarah Vaughan,” “An Impulse! Records Showcase,” “My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra’s Poetry,” “Philadelphia’s Ars Nova Workshop Showcase,” “Marc Ribot’s 70th Birthday,” and many more. Jazz at Lincoln Center will honor Winter Jazzfest during the Jazz Congress conference on January 11, with a conversation with Shabaka and Nduduzo Makhathini, a reception and a performance by Shabaka and Joe Lovano at Dizzy’s.
See a complete schedule below.
“We began in 2005 at the Knitting Factory on Leonard St., with the mission of highlighting music that deserved wider attention while the APAP conference was in town, and to a large degree that mission remains,” said festival founder and producer Brice Rosenbloom, in a press release received at WBGO. “But over the years that mission grew, to focus on artists with meaningful messages, in the desire to serve as a beacon for racial and gender justice, action on climate change, migration, mass incarceration and other pressing issues that affect so many of us.”
Schedule of events:
JANUARY 10:
“TAKE TWO” — A Listening Experience with TYSHAWN SOREY:
Hear Max Roach’s full 1968 Atlantic album Members, Don’t Git Weary,
Plus live reinterpretation by Tyshawn Sorey feat. Adam O’Farrill, Mark Shim, Sullivan Fortner, Matt Brewer
JANUARY 11:
Conversation: “Universality of Jazz” with Shabaka Hutchings, Nduduzo Makhathini Reception: Jazz at Lincoln Center Honors Winter Jazzfest
Shabaka Hutchings/Joe Lovano Duo at Dizzy’s Club
Gilles Peterson late-night DJ set at Nublu
JANUARY 12 - Manhattan Marathon Highlights:
- The Jazz Passengers Remember Curtis Fowlkes
- Shabaka & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson String Quartet
- Next Jazz Legacy Ensemble performs to open the night at City Winery
- Philadelphia-based Ars Nova Workshop showcase at Nublu
- Marc Ribot’s 70th Birthday with James Brandon Lewis, Mary Halvorson & More
- Joshua Abrams and Tisziji Muñoz Curate “The Harvest Time Project”
Full January 12 Manhattan Marathon Schedule here
JANUARY 13 - Brooklyn Marathon Highlights
- Shabaka with Jason Moran, Saul Williams, Carlos Niño, Austin Williamson
- A sunset performance with Laraaji
- Candid Records Presents Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science, Morgan Guerin, Zacchae’us Paul & Milena Casado at Baby’s All Right
- Joshua Abrams and Tisziji Muñoz Curate “The Harvest Time Project”
Full January 13 Brooklyn Marathon Schedule here
JANUARY 14:
A Night at the East
featuring Gary Bartz, Billy Hart, Shabaka, Moor Mother, Nicole Mitchell, Charlie Burnham, Julius Rodriguez, Luke Stewart, Elucid, Kweku Sumbry
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Melanie Charles/Endea Owens/Savannah Harris
Performing the Music of Sarah Vaughan
(Crown Hill Theatre)
JANUARY 15:
Impulse! Records Showcase - Shabaka with esperanza spalding, Brandee Younger, Charles Overton
- Irreversible Entanglements
- Brandee Younger Trio performing music of Alice Coltrane
- The Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis
JANUARY 16:
· Hess Is More’s Apollonian Blackout (National Sawdust)
My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra’s Poetry,
Hosted by Mahogany L. Browne & Jive Poetic, Featuring Carl Hancock Rux,
Moor Mother and Abiodun Oyewole (Nublu)
JANUARY 17:
- Celebrating Ryuichi Sakomoto featuring DJ Spooky, Yuka Honda & More (Roulette)
- Hess Is More’s Apollonian Blackout (National Sawdust)
JANUARY 18:
MONONEON & FRIENDS: Knower, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Hannibal Buress,
Tivon Pennicott, David Fiuczynski (Brooklyn Steel)
JAZZ TALKS AFTERNOON SERIES
JANUARY 11: Universality of Jazz at Jazz Congress
JANUARY 14: Land of the Blacks pre-show discussion
