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Techung is a Tibetan singer/songwriter living in the USA. He is best known for his skilled and moving performances of traditional Tibetan music, dance, and opera. Techung’s career, along with his ongoing projects demonstrates his commitment to Tibetan music and culture. This is the result of his classical training and also of his experience as a child growing up as a Tibetan exile in India in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a musician in the traditional Tibetan folk and classical style, but he also transcends this description, as the foregoing story and his discography and collaborations with musicians from other musical traditions and heritages aptly show. He understands music as a living art and tradition. This upcoming tour is the final outcome of the project where Techung and his ensemble of Tibetan traditional artists will perform for the first time in the US, a concert based on a repertoire of Nangma and Toeshey music.

We are very excited to welcome the incredible Steve Coleman to the Atlantic BKLN stage for TWO nights!

The influence of M-Base founder, composer, and alto saxophonist Steve Coleman cannot be overstated. His technical and compositional virtuosity engages with musical traditions and styles from around the world to expand possibilities for spontaneous composition. Whether performing solo or with Steve Coleman and Five Elements, he delivers performances of original works with rigorous focus and relies on execution and imagination in improvised pieces. His original works weave disciplined rhythmic structures, refined tonal progressions, and overlapping and mixed meters into emotionally expressive, fluid inquiries and statements.

Singer-songwriter Jason Bembry’s brand of piano/jazz pop is filled with profound feelings of deep introspection — encompassing the entire spectrum from the good to the bad, and to everything in between. As a solo artist, his sound ranges from stripped-back piano ballads to full-blown orchestrations. As a classically trained pianist and having studied music theory and composition extensively, he makes a conscious effort to include his classical, jazz, and new age roots into every song he writes.

Marc Ribot’s four months with jazz organ legend Brother Jack MacDuff were his first ever with an internationally touring artist. Fellow Jazz-Bin, Greg Lewis, is not only one of the greatest virtuosos of the Hammond b3 organ alive, but perhaps the only one willing and able to haul a real Hammond b3 and Leslie speaker cabinet to live gigs in NYC!

New album release show for French-Algerian songwriter, singer, pianist, and ukulele player, Ourida at The Atlantic BKLN!

7pm Open Healing: Albert Ayler | Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet / Pheeroan akLaff – drums

7:20pm Film: Butterfly Silver by Robert Fenz excerpt (4 minutes)

7:30pm RedKoral Quartet, String Quartet No. 10: Angela Davis into the Morning Sunlight | Shalini Vijayan – violin / Mona Tian – violin / Andrew McIntosh – viola / Ashley Walters – cello

8pm Wadada Leo Smith’s Purple Kikuyu and RedKoral Quartet, “Flight 93 in Pennsylvania’s Sky: No Greater Love – A Remembrance of Their Beauty & Courage” | Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet / Pheeroan akLaff – drums /Erika Dohi – piano / Sylvie Courvoisier – piano / Shalini Vijayan – violin / Mona Tian – violin / Andrew McIntosh – viola / Ashley Walters – cello

8:30pm Wadada Leo Smith’s Purple Kikuyu: New York City's Central Park in August | Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet / Pheeroan akLaff – drums / Erika Dohi – piano / Sylvie Courvoisier – piano

9pm Thulani Davis with Wadada Leo Smith & RedKoral Quartet - Recitation and Music: Billie Holiday, Dark Lady of the Sonnet | Thulani Davis - poet / Shalini Vijayan – violin / Mona Tian – violin / Andrew McIntosh – viola / Ashley Walters – cello

9:30pm Film: Trumpet and Camera by Robert Fenz excerpt (10 minutes)

10pm Prayer | Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet / Pheeroan akLaff – drums

The AAPI Jazz Fest celebrates the pan-Asian jazz community and its ongoing, vital presence in the music world. We seek to honor the past, present, and future, highlighting the depth and breadth of the varied Asian American artists and communities that are committed to expressing themselves through this unique art form and its derivations.

The inaugural 2022 AAPI Jazz Festival is the first of its kind on the East Coast and a timely celebration that will coincide with AAPI Heritage Month each May. This FREE indoor festival will feature a unique intersection of distinctive, multigenerational AAPI artists of varying jazz styles. Livestream option available! Please visit www.yardbirdent.com/aapi-jazz-fest for more info.

Festival Lineup:
- Helen Sung
- Ron Jackson
- Lisa Liu
- Kevin Sun
- Victor Lin
- AAPI Jazz Collective
- Austin Zhang
- Tyler Kaneshiro
- Birsa Chatterjee
- Ace Williams

Festival Extensions Include:
- Main Event Stage (Great Hall)
- Second Performance Stage (Clement's Place)
- Panel discussions throughout the day highlighting important AAPI issues and topics
- Networking opportunities for young professionals

Covid Policy:
- Either proof of vaccine or a negative PCR test (within 72 hours) are required to enter the building

Parking:
- Register your vehicle for AAPI Jazz Fest to park at Deck 3 180 Washington St. Newark, NJ and Lot 506 entered on Essex Street Newark, NJ. If you have any problems registering, please send an email to dotshelp.rutgers.edu

ALL ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER THEIR VEHICLE BEFORE PARKING:

https://rudots.nupark.com/v2/portal/eventregister/d4a8b345-9252-4270-8f2a-4faea86929c0#/events/registration/

Please RSVP if you're interested in attending!

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- Website: https://www.yardbirdent.com/aapi-jazz-fest
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AAPIJazzFest
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aapijazzfest/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/aapijazzfest
- Hashtags: #AAPIJazzFest #AAPIJF

Sponsors:
- IW Group Inc.
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem
- Keyed Up
- Jazz Generation

Quartet+ is made possible with support from The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and with the support of the Jazz Coalition Commission Fund. Helen Sung Group is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

Latin Grammy nominated artist Sonia De Los Santos brings a joyful sound to children of all ages with the music of Latin America. Sharing songs of hope and community in English and Spanish, Sonia's music uplifts. Celebrate the end of a challenging school year together with a family concert.

Sonia De Los Santos was born with a smile on her face (that's what her mom says) in Monterrey, Mexico, and in 2007 started touring the world and performing with Grammy Award winning group Dan Zanes And Friends. In 2015 she released her first solo family music album titled Mi Viaje: De Nuevo León to the New York Island (Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award Winner) a collection of songs that reflect her experiences growing up in Mexico, moving to another country, learning about other cultures, and in the process, feeling closer to her own heritage.

6:30pm Jason Kao Hwang Myths of Origin for 30 Strings

7:30pm Knife & Rose | Patricia Nicholson – text, movement / Ellen Christi – voice / Jean Carla Rodea – voice / Francisco Mela – drums, voice

8:30pm Watershed | Steve Swell – trombone, comp. / Karen Borca- bassoon / Rob Brown – sax / Melanie Dyer – viola / Bob Stewart - tuba / TA Thompson – drums / guest, Dave Burrell – piano

9:30pm Monique Ngozi Nri - poetry / Ahmed Abdullah - trumpet

10:30pm Natural Information Society | Joshua Abrams – bass, gimbre / Lisa Alvarado – harmonium/ Jason Stein – bass clarinet / Mikel Patrick Avery – drums / Special guests: William Parker – bass, gimbre / Hamid Drake - drums

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About The Vision Festival

Founded in 1996, the Vision Festival is New York City's longest continuously running jazz festival. Now in its 26th year, this festival of music, dance, poetry, and visual art is heralded as “one of New York’s most essential art events” (New York Times). Performances feature legendary and emerging stars representing the free jazz, experimental, and avant-garde communities and include Lifetime Achievement honorees like Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille, Dave Burrell, Peter Brötzmann, and Milford Graves. This year, we honor Wadada Leo Smith and Oliver Lake.

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In commemoration of Juneteenth, Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner and Hadestown star André De Shields performs an excerpt from his self-crafted solo work “Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.” The one-man show explores the life and achievements of the great emancipator Frederick Douglass.

“Though Douglass began his life as a slave, through heroic effort, he became one of America’s most important and historically influential icons,” said De Shields. “Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” tells a story about brutality and deliverance that is implausible yet historically accurate. De Shields portrays the Great Black Emancipator with a performance that is as filled with hope and achievement as it is darkness and anger.