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Join us at Bethany Baptist Church for a screening of this award-winning documentary film about the founding of Newark’s jazz radio station, WBGO. Directed by Chris Daniel, The WBGO Story is an incredible true story of passion and perseverance told by the people who were there at the start more than 40 years ago—including WBGO Founder Bob Ottenhoff and Newark’s First Lady of Jazz Mrs. Dorthaan Kirk. With hard work, faith, determination and talent, WBGO grew from a local labor of love into a worldwide beacon of jazz. A must-see for any music fan.

Facemasks and proof of vaccination are required for entry.

Presented by NJPAC and WBGO

Long-associated with her mentor, Abbey Lincoln, former Jazz Performer of the Year (SF Weekly) and vocalist/songwriter Jenna Mammina has been busy bringing her voice and spirit to audiences alongside guitarist, Rolf Sturm, for close to a decade. These two artists are gifted sonic storytellers, weaving their phrasing as if in conversation, taking familiar songs from across genres and breathing new life into them. Joined by a surprise guest or two, treat yourself to an evening that JazzTimes describes as “...dreamy…wrapped in silk…gently yearning…superbly transfigured.”

Let’s go to the movies! Jazz queens Tierney Sutton and Ann Hampton Callaway join forces for the first time with a tribute to famous film music. Tierney (“a serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level” –NY Times) and Callaway (“one of the best equipped jazz vocalists swinging today” –Chicago Tribune) will perform solos, duets and exciting new arrangements of songs you’re sure to remember from movies both classic and contemporary. * Come Rain or Come Shine * Let’s Face the Music and Dance * Blue Skies * As Time Goes By * Windmills of Your Mind

Sue Maskaleris and Trio do Rio perform original Brazilian jazz. Sue Maskaleris is a pianist and vocalist and is the composer and lyricist for the group, which includes Nelson Riveros (guitar and vocals), Ariel Robles (electric bass), and Samuel Martinelli (drums). Sue's latest CD, "Love Is the Key," ranked #6 on the Latin Jazz charts of the Roots Radio Report for 2021. Nelson Riveros' "The Latin Side of Wes Montgomery" charted #2 on the JazzWeeks chart last year. Puerto Rico's Ariel Robles played on the Grammy-winning Calle 13 and Brazilian educator/producer Samuel Martinelli has recently founded the Brazilian Rhythm Workshop.

Jazz vocals by one New Jersey's gems, Sandy Sasso and her trio in a very cool venue. Home distilled spirits, comfy seating and you can bring in your own snacks, sandwiches and alike.

Carnegie Hall's NYO Jazz Artistic Director Sean Jones talks to WBGO's Doug Doyle about the ensemble's debut performances in South Africa

Images from the 2024 edition of the NYC Winter JazzFest that featured dozens of performances at venues throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Ellington Carthan, piano Eliot Seppa, bass Allen Bernard Branch, drums Just like his namesake, jazz pulses through Ellington Carthan’s veins. This up-and-coming jazz pianist, whose diverse career includes performing, teaching, producing, and composing, holds dual degrees in jazz studies and music technology. Born in California and raised in North Carolina, it’s perhaps Carthan’s bicoastal upbringing that make him such a versatile musician. Like his mentor, celebrated pianist Cyrus Chestnut, Carthan enjoys mixing genres and resists being typecast. Carthan has been honored to perform at prestigious venues such as The Kennedy Center, Strathmore AMP, the Library of Congress, Smithsonian museums, Howard University, and more. Notable Collaborators: Afro Blue, Warren Wolf, Kris Funn, Cyrus Chesnut, Josanne Francis, Sarah Reich, Elijah Jamal Balbed, Michael Bowie, Imani-Grace Cooper, and Rochelle Rice. Eliot Seppa is a bassist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Washington, DC. He began playing the upright bass at nine years old and the electric bass at 14. Eliot graduated from Howard University with his Bachelor’s degree in 2013 and his Master’s degree in 2018, both in Music - Jazz Studies. Eliot is equally comfortable playing bass with an orchestra, jazz quintet, R&B singer, gospel choir, or afrobeat band. His ability and affinity for soaking in the nuances of many different genres has led him to opportunities to perform with many of the top musicians in the DC area and tour internationally with artists such as Raul Midon, Cecily and The Jogo Project. Eliot leads jazz groups ranging in size from a trio to a big band. His music embraces rich harmonies, syncopated rhythms, and organic interplay between the band members. Allen Bernard Branch, a.k.a Aldo B., is a master percussionist, background vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (piano, keyboard, guitar, bass). Born and raised in Baltimore, Aldo attended the Baltimore School for the Arts where he studied percussion with Donna DiStefano and John Locke of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. After attending the Baltimore City Community College, Aldo toured the United States with various bands and throughout Europe with the Original USA Gospel Singers and Band. After three European tours, Aldo moved to New York City and played with multiple bands. Aldo was scouted by a casting agent to appear as Carlton Barrett of The Wailers in the HBO series, Vinyl in 2016. Aldo is a student at The Peabody Institute (anticipated Bachelors of Music, 2021), a musician for The Friendship Baptist Church, a keyboardist for The Living Word Ministries and a bassist and percussionist for the Unified Voices Choir of Johns Hopkins Hospital (UV). With UV, Aldo has accompanied such artists asVicki Winans, Beverly Crawford, Daryl Coley, Stevie Wonder, Lecrecia Campbell, Kathy Taylor, D’Atra Hicks, David and Tamela Mann. Showtime is 7 pm ET/6 pm CT/5 pm MT/4 pm PT/11 pm GMT Streaming cost is $10 Donations are welcomed. The link will be revealed to you 15 minutes before the show and will remain active through May 21

Stewart / fluke-mogul / Williams / St. Louis perform from the Clemente. Suggested minimum donation is $5. Donations go towards Arts for Art's Artists and Friends fundraising campaign. Arts for Art's On_Line Salon series features two live streaming FreeJazz performances on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Luke Stewart - bass gabby fluke-mogul - violin Chris Williams - trumpet Lester St. Louis - cello About the Artists Luke Stewart is a DC/NYC-based musician and organizer of important musical presentations, and has a strong presence in the national and international Improvised Music community. He is noted in Downbeat Magazine in 2020 as one of “25 most influential jazz artists” of his generation. He was profiled in the Washington Post in early 2017 as “holding down the jazz scene,” selected as “Best Musical Omnivore” in the Washington City Paper’s 2017 “Best of DC,” chosen as “Jazz Artist of the Year” for 2017 in the District Now, and in the 2014 People Issue of the Washington City Paper as a “Jazz Revolutionary,” citing his multi-faceted cultural activities throughout DC. gabby fluke-mogul is a New York based violinist, improviser, & composer. fluke-mogul exists within the threads of improvisation, the jazz continuum, noise, & experimental music. Their playing has been described as “embodied, visceral, & virtuosic" & "the most striking sound in improvised music in years..." On fluke-mogul's most recent solo record off Relative Pitch, Foxy Digitalis writes—"threshold is one of the most intense and captivating releases of 2021 so far.” gabby is humbled to have collaborated with Nava Dunkelman, Joanna Mattrey, Fred Frith, Daniel Carter, Ava Mendoza, Lisa Mezzacappa, Wendy Eisenberg, Brandon Lopez, & Pauline Oliveros among many other musicians, poets, dancers, & visual artists. Chris Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based between NYC and LA and most at home collaborating with contemporary improvisers and experimentalists. He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. His work explores the dyad of ancestral trauma and power existing in all Black Americans. Williams has received grants and/or been in residence with BANFF Centre for the Arts, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, CultureHub, Atlantic Center for the Arts, WasteLAnd, and others. Williams has collaborated with creators Eyvind Kang, Joanna Mattrey, Miriam Parker, Patrick Shiroishi, Bennie Maupin, Nicole Mitchell, Fay Victor, Wendy Eisenberg, Luke Stewart, Amanda Beech, Marjani Forte-Saunders, Eric Revis. Lester St. Louis is a composer, cellist, and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. An autodidact, St. Louis did not begin playing the cello until he was 16 years old and quickly learned that he has perfect pitch. Encouraged by his high school orchestra teacher, St. Louis dove into the cello with energy and respect. Upon graduating High School, St. Louis audited classes all over the NYC area, studying not only cello, but theory, musicianship, and composition all without the aid of an institution. St. Louis was a Jerome Fund for New Music awardee in 2018 and was commissioned by the prestigious JACK quartet in 2019. St. Louis manages a venue dedicated to new and experimental music called Spectrum on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.

The Dance Clarinets—an ensemble of a dozen clarinets of all shapes and sizes plus drums, led by J. D. Parran—performs a music from the Ragtime era by the seminal bandleader, union organizer, and advocate of African-American music and culture, James Reese Europe. A set of music with clarinets and a jazz rhythm section follows the large ensemble.

Europe was the musical director for the 369th Infantry Brigade, an all African-American and Puerto Rican military unit that was sent to the front lines in France at the end of World War I and that became the single most decorated unit of the war, that never lost a battle, and that was nicknamed “the Harlem Hellfighters” for their ferocity. They revolutionized music by presenting an African-diasporic revisioning of marching band music that amazed European audiences and that provided a link between marching band music and jazz big band music.