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Singer Dwight West leads band with Calvin Jones on bass, Ed Grimes on drums and DD Jackson on piano at Sistas' Place, home of Jazz a Music of the Spirit.

Tue, July 20, 2021, 6- 8 PM EST Rome Neal Banana Puddin' Jazz Supported by Jazz Foundation of America Presents "JAZZ Live in the Commodore Barry Park" (Brooklyn) Featuring Chip Crawford (keys), Patience Higgins (sax), Dwayne Cook Broadnax (drums), Lonnie Plaxico (bass) And the Vocals of Patsy Grant, Frank Senior, Steve Cromity More info: www.romeneal.com FREE in the Park and Streamed on YouTube and FaceBook Live, however, your financial support will help to keep this program ALIVE and LIVE! venmo: rome-neal-2 or PayPal: romekyn@earthlink.net Rome Neal's Banana Puddin' Jazz events are STREAMED LIVE! YOUTUBE & FB "FREE" SPONSORS: John D. Smith, Ron Cephas Jones, Lamon Fenner Barbara Flowers, Sheryl Renee Productions, Chris Bryan, Laurence Holder, George Turner, Russell G. Jones, Lisa Martin, Steve Burnett, Black Repertory Group (Berkeley) Black Theatre Project (Documentary)

Jazz in the Valley (JITV) returns Sunday, August 15, 2021, noon to 6:00 pm, with a celebration of Legacy, History and the Future of Jazz.  Presented by TRANSART & Cultural Services, Inc., the day-long festival features its Artistic Director Javon Jackson and his Quartet and celebrates the future of jazz with four young musicians – the Curtis Brothers, Lakecia Benjamin, Julius Rodriguez and Samara Joy – who are taking the jazz tradition to the next level. JITV observed its 20th anniversary last year as a virtual production, due to the pandemic. This year’s edition features the return of live music, with a diverse assemblage of world-class and emerging jazz musicians.

Life is a carnival! Be part of the Mask-erade with an outdoor musical experience featuring a mixture of spoken word, soul, r&b, house, and hip-hop. Curated and hosted by Kween Moore, this live, physically distanced experience will showcase creative performances by Janetza Miranda, Romainson Romain, Lyle Omolayo, and YOU are part of the show! Help create a unique art-infused experience by wearing your own creative face mask! The Arts in the Garden series is a partnership between The Newark Museum of Art & New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to bring you a vibrant outdoor series of concerts, films, and cultural celebrations. All programs will take place in the Museum’s Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden with a limited capacity and safety guidelines to ensure everyone has an enjoyable experience. Tickets must be purchased online in advance. No exceptions.

How have the past few years of turbulence, isolation, unrest, and injustice affected artists? Take a look at our newest exhibition ReVision and Respond, with artist Caren King Choi. This New Jersey Arts Annual exhibition features 45 New Jersey artists from all over the state. Choi will offer a tour of the show, looking at her work and the work of her peers. This program will be available on Zoom and will be live on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch. 2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond is a project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and The Newark Museum of Art.

Debuting at Payomet this summer on Wednesday, July 21 are duo Rachael and Vilray- together, they feel like a rare old vinyl gem that a curious collector found hidden in the dusty bins of some second-hand Cape Cod record shop and decided to share with the world, an unearthed jazz-vocal treasure. Even if listeners are in on part of the secret and already know Rachael Price as lead vocalist of Lake Street Dive, they will surely want to research these marvelous yet utterly unfamiliar songs she and guitarist-singer-composer Vilray (pronounced VILL-ree, no last name needed) perform together. Vilray is very much a contemporary composer who can truly evoke, not merely imitate, Tin Pan Alley tunes from the thirties and forties, a period that he and Price have both long been passionate about. Their songs are truly transporting: One can easily believe they could have been plucked from the soundtrack of a Hollywood musical filmed in glorious black and white or from a now-forgotten Broadway show that briefly lit up the Great White Way. But the fact that they are utterly original makes them all the more impressive and even more delightful to hear. With Rachael and Vilray, the duo adds a new chapter to the American Songbook, an opportunity to hear tomorrow's standards today.

Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history,” Grammy Award winning saxophone titan Joe Lovano has distinguished himself as a prescient and pathfinding force in the arena of creative music.