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Monthly Jazz Jams return live at Flushing Town Hall the second Wednesday of every month! (Due to our schedule conflict in June 2022, we're presenting the June jazz jam on the first Wednesday.) Open to professional jazz musicians, graduate students studying jazz, music educators and serious hobbyists, Louis Armstrong Legacy Monthly Jazz Jams invites musicians to perform at Flushing Town Hall. All are welcome, regardless of instrument (vocalists, too!). Our Steinway baby grand and drum kit are available at each Jam. Health and safety protocols will be in place so bring a mask, and feel free to bring your own microphone. House Band and Jam Sessions are led by Carol Sudhalter, with Joe Vincent Tranchina, Scott Neumann and Eric Lemon. Don't play, but love Jazz? Come listen!

FTH's Jazz Jam house band leader, Carol Sudhalter, plays flute, baritone and tenor sax and has been running our Louis Armstrong Legacy Monthly Jazz Jams for the last four years. And for the last 17 months since March 2020, more than 200 musicians from over a dozen countries as far as New Zealand, Italy and South Africa, have participated in the virtual monthly jams. Over 7,000 viewers from across the globe have enjoyed the music and tuned in to the monthly jams to listen as the venue moved its programming online.

This program is supported in part by a grant from The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc.

EL PARRANDÓN DE LA GRAN MANZANA is a double celebration concert welcoming the Christmas Season and the long awaited reunion of the original founders of La Gran Manzana! In addition to this historic reunion, GRUPO D’AHORA with also be performing as well as special guest JOSÉ ALBERTO “EL CANARIO”!

Dr Capers on piano and vocals with John Robinson (bass), Alan Givens (sax), and Doug Richardson (drums).

Dr. Capers has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, Slide Hampton, Max Roach, and Paquito D'Rivera, among others; has recorded 5 albums: Portrait of Soul (Atlantic), Affirmation (KMA Arts), Come On Home (Columbia/Sony), Wagner Takes the 'A' Train (Elysium), and Limited Edition (VALCAP Records); and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs. Her most noted compositions are Sing About Love, a critically acclaimed Christmas cantata produced by George Wein at Carnegie Hall; Sojourner, an operatorio based on the life of Sojourner Truth, performed by the Opera Ebony Company of NY; and Song of the Seasons, commissioned by the Smithsonian.

Nova Blue is a group of veteran musicians including Al Acosta (Sax), Charlie Alletto (Guitar), Glen Lowe (Drums), Joe Mannozzi (Keyboards), Tomas Martin Lopez (Conga) and Michael Viñas (Bass), who all know how to swing. Individually, these musicians have played with the likes of Dave Valentin, The New Swing Sextet, the Machito Orchestra, Mambo Negro, Cojunto Libre, Bill O'Connell, Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, and Ruben Blades. Collectively, they create a whole new and exciting blend of Latin and Jazz.

Five Boroughs Music Festival presents the NYC debut of Boston-based arts institution Castle of Our Skins in Love Affects, a concert pairing chamber music with text to explore how love influences our sense of self, humanity, heritage, and future, and is a revival of their inaugural concert program, performed in celebration of Castle of our Skins’s 10th anniversary this season. The concert is co-curated with and features Castle of our Skins’ 3rd Annual Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence, Angel C. Dye, who is a poet, scholar of African American Literature, and the author of BREATHE (Central Square Press). The program includes works by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, William L. Dawson, Adolphus Hailstork, Charles Brown, and Undine Smith Moore.

Nat Reeves is one of the top bassists in jazz. He has worked and recorded with the “Who's Who” of jazz including Jackie McLean, Donald Byrd, Art Taylor, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Garrett, Pharoah Sanders, George Coleman, Eric Alexander, Steve Davis, Harold Mabern, George Cables, David Hazeltine, Anthony Wonsey, and Joe Farnsworth among others. He has performed around the world, at the San Francisco, New Orleans, Detroit and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and with Pharoah Sanders at Dizzy's at Lincoln Center. At the end of 2019, Nat was honored at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s event, "The Life, Times and Music of Nat Reeves."

Described as “power players” by The Los Angeles Times, the Horszowski Trio has performed to sold-out houses and critical acclaim across the United States and around the world. For their Morris Museum debut they will play a program that probes the depths of our humanity through three pieces including the U.S. premiere of Louis Karchin’s “Trio for violin, cello, and piano”.

Charlie Apicella studied composition and improvisation with musical titans Yusef Lateef and Pat Martino and was trained as a historian by Archie Shepp and Dr. Billy Taylor. As a young guitarist he met his idol BB King, who offered him advice and shared some stories. He has performed concerts and recorded with jazz legends Dave Holland, Sonny Fortune, and John Blake, Jr. as well as contemporary masters Joe Magnarelli, Vic Juris, Dave Stryker, Don Braden, and Jon Herington of Steely Dan. Charlie is the Director of Music Curriculum for The Blues and Beyond. He is an Eastman Guitars Featured Artist; a Guild Guitars Sponsored Artist; and a ZT Amplifiers Official Artist.

Five-time Grammy Awardee, Emedin Rivera is a highly respected and accomplished artist in a vast array of contemporary music genres. Emedin's unique rhythmic percussion clearly underscores the Latin-Caribbean-African influences. Emedin has performed with such accomplished artists as Stevie Wonder, Harry Belafonte, Gato Barbieri, Dave Valentin, LaToya Jackson, Michael Bolton, Paquito D Rivera, Sting, Gregory Hines, and Ben E. King. He has also appeared on the David Letterman Show, Show Time at the Apollo, Dellaventura, The Harry Belafonte PBS Special, and Robert Wuhl's World Tour.