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  • Get your tickets now for an exclusive appearance by Seven String Jazz Guitarist, Educator, and Social Media Personality, Ron Jackson.

    This event takes place on 5TH Aug, Marcus Garvey Park ,New york,NY.

    Ron will bring BIG CITY JAZZ and jazz education to your town!

    This event will include an educational piece on the history of the Seven String Guitar. Ron will perform jazz standards and original songs, some bebop, and soul. And a special treat will be the jazz reimaginings of (yacht) rock, R&B, and pop songs all from his critically acclaimed new release, "Standards And My Songs".


    TICKETS AND INFO
    Ron Jackson: https://ronjacksonmusic.com/shows

    Sneak peek of the first single for the album, "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)": https://youtu.be/sVZQJAXcsVQ

  • Jazz Habitat presents:

    VEER Quartet
    and
    Juanma Trujillo Trio
    at
    El Barrio’s Artspace PS109
    215 East 99th St, NYC

    Thursday Aug 4 at 7 pm

    outdoor concert in the courtyard
    indoors in case of rain

    admission: $20 for one, $30 for two

    VEER QUARTET (7 pm set)
    Sarah Bernstein, violin/compositions
    Sana Nagano, violin
    Leonor Falcon, viola
    Nick Jozwiak, cello

    JUANMA TRUJILLO TRIO (8 pm set)
    Juanma Trujillo, guitar
    Walter Stinson, bass
    Matt Honor, drums

    Event link:
    facebook.com/events/345146067832805
  • It’s Summer, that special time when New York City opens its vast array of parks and outdoor spaces to the sound of music. Jazzmobile returns with its 58th annual Summerfest series, which takes over a myriad of stages throughout the city’s five boroughs with a dancing and diverse assemblage of nearly 30 jazz stars and emerging talents from July 6 to August 31. The much-anticipated return of Jazzmobile presents audiences with another year of Free top-notch musical performances that parallel New York City’s dynamic diversity – from straight-ahead, Latin, post-bop, blues, swing and beyond. To see the full schedule, please visit www.jazzmobile.com.
  • For more information, please visit - https://www.soapboxgallery.org/events/an-intimate-evening-with-houston-person-presented-by-lafayette-harris
  • For more information, please visit - https://www.soapboxgallery.org/events/stevemillhousetrio
  • It’s Summer, that special time when New York City opens its vast array of parks and outdoor spaces to the sound of music. Jazzmobile returns with its 58th annual Summerfest series, which takes over a myriad of stages throughout the city’s five boroughs with a dancing and diverse assemblage of nearly 30 jazz stars and emerging talents from July 6 to August 31. The much-anticipated return of Jazzmobile presents audiences with another year of Free top-notch musical performances that parallel New York City’s dynamic diversity – from straight-ahead, Latin, post-bop, blues, swing and beyond. To see the full schedule, please visit www.jazzmobile.com.
  • It’s Summer, that special time when New York City opens its vast array of parks and outdoor spaces to the sound of music. Jazzmobile returns with its 58th annual Summerfest series, which takes over a myriad of stages throughout the city’s five boroughs with a dancing and diverse assemblage of nearly 30 jazz stars and emerging talents from July 6 to August 31. The much-anticipated return of Jazzmobile presents audiences with another year of Free top-notch musical performances that parallel New York City’s dynamic diversity – from straight-ahead, Latin, post-bop, blues, swing and beyond. To see the full schedule, please visit www.jazzmobile.com.
  • This electric musical lays bare the rich legacy of an American icon whose work spans different genres, from jazz to gospel to blues to Broadway to rock and roll. It features such definitive classics as I Loves You Porgy, Young, Gifted and Black, and My Baby Just Cares for Me. Heart-melting and hopeful, Simone’s spellbinding story comes to life through four actresses in this theatrical journey. Simply Simone is performed in two acts with one 15-minute intermission. The total run time is approximately two hours and 10 minutes.

    Performers: K. Desiree, Joy Brown, Kia Stewart, Rhyan McNeil
    Associate Director: Kim Awon
    Movement Director: Nikia Neal

    This program is organized by NMOA Visiting Curator of Performing Arts, Daryl Stewart, a Newark-based theatre artist.
  • Patience Higgins and the Sugar Hill Quartet have kept Harlem swinging for more than twenty years.

    Come hear the band play live in our Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden. “If you like your jazz up tempo and overflowing with vitality, look no farther.”—Jazz Times magazine.

    A Night of Jazz and Soul is organized by Sheila Anderson, WBGO host and jazz event curator.

    NMOA Summer Series is a partnership between The Newark Museum of Art & New Jersey Symphony. Learn more.
  • Latin GRAMMY winner Emilio Teubal brings his vibrant jazz ensemble to our stage as we conclude Hispanic/LatinX Heritage Month. A prolific pianist, composer and arranger, Teubal regularly performs in the top jazz clubs around the country.
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