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Vibraphonist and Composer, Stefon Harris has been heralded as “one of the most important young artists in jazz” by The Los Angeles Times. A four-time GRAMMY™ nominee, he is a seven-time Best Mallet player by the Jazz Journalist Association, the recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, Downbeat’s Critics Poll Winner for Vibraphone (2015, 2013) and 2014 Expanded Critic’s Poll for Vibes from Jazz Times. He won a 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album for Wonder: The Songs of Stevie Wonder as a member of the SF Jazz Collective. Harris earned a BM in Classical Percussion and a MM in Jazz Performance from Manhattan School of Music. He tours worldwide with his bands Sonic Creed, Blackout and Ninety Miles. Harris teaches at New York University and is Artistic Director of Jazz Education at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). He has been Artist in Residence at Fontana Chamber Arts, Kalamazoo, The Lied Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, and San Francisco Performances. Harris currently teaches at the Brubeck Institute through their Distance Learning program and at the Institute’s Summer Jazz Colony. Stefon’s landmark TED Talk, “There are No Mistakes On The Bandstand” was the most watched in its 2011 release and has over 500,000 views. He has emerged as a leading informance presenter in Corporate Leadership workshops with Fortune 100 companies around the world. In 2014 Stefon co founded The Melodic Progression Institute with business partner Clif Swiggett. Their first app, Harmony Cloud™ was released on iTunes in January 2016.

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.

International Jazz Day, the 125th birthday of Duke Ellington, and the 50th Anniversary of Hip-hop. Featuring vocalist Charenee Wade, MC Silent Knight, and youth performers from Jazz Power Initiative, Harlem School of the Arts, and All City High School Jazz Ensemble Produced by Jazz Power Initiative and Harlem School of the Arts on April 27, 2024, at HSA. Co-hosted and co-produced by Eli “Dr. E” Yamin (JPI) and Lee Hogans (HSA).

Samara McLendon took first place in the eighth annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, also known as the Sassy Awards.Hosted by WBGO's…

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This year's Grand Finale will feature over 150 artists, internationally acclaimed headliners, regional favorites and emerging talent on four stages spanning an all-pedestrian Bloomfield Avenue, the main artery of downtown Montclair, from Lackawanna Plaza to South Park. Performances by: Emmet Cohen Trio, The Baylor Project, Christian McBride All Stars featuring Chris Potter and Mike Stern, Rudresh Mahanthappa "Hero Trio" featuring Gene Lake, Camille Thurman Quintet, Alicia Olatuja, Zaccai Curtis Afro-Cuban Quintet Cubop, Billy Hart Quartet, the JAZZ HOUSE Faculty Collective and many more! The nearly half-mile long jazz playground will feature more than 100 artisan food and craft vendors from across the town and region and a Family Jazz Discovery Zone with partners Montclair Museum, Montclair Library and the YMCA of Montclair. Produced by JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, one of the nation's foremost jazz education organizations for young people with its Artistic Director and festival curator, 7-time GRAMMY Award-winning bassist CHRISTIAN McBRIDE, the 12th annual festival celebrates the vibrant and diverse town of Montclair and its many music fans. Winner of three consecutive JerseyArts.com "People's Choice Awards'' for Favorite Music Festival, the MONTCLAIR JAZZ FEST presents a diverse range of styles, ages, and talent featuring gospel, soul, Latin and traditional jazz. RAIN DATE: September 26 Information at montclairjazzfestival.org

On this edition of AOS, host Doug Doyle focuses on film director Malcolm D. Lee and his appreciation for jazz (his father Cliff was a jazz musician). Lee, cousin of Spike Lee, also talks about the fun he had making SpaceJam: A New Legacy starting Lebron James.

In this episode of AOS, legendary bassist Carol Kaye talks about her jazz roots.

On this July 2 edition of the WBGO Journal, Leo Sidran takes us to the Montreal Jazz Festival, Nate Chinen chats with Ashley Kahn about the "new" jazz emigres and Jon Kalish reports on the JetLAG Festival in the Catskills

After opening the SummerStage season in 2021, the renowned jazz ensemble returns with its critically-acclaimed director to this year’s season. Director Wynton Marsalis’s name looms large in the world of jazz, and for good reason— the Grammy-winning trumpeter, composer, and bandleader has helped shepherd the cultural institution of jazz into a new millennium. Under his direction, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire: from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. Since the orchestra’s founding in 1988, the group’s performances have been leaving its global audiences inspired and uplifted with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis’s vast, innovative body of original work over the past decade demonstrates the orchestra composers’ and arrangers’ thematic ambitions, distinctive musical personalities, and unprecedented range.