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On Saturday, December 17, Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT),
located at 23 Water St. Ossining NY, will close out its 2022 Music in the Box season
with a special holiday concert called Home for the Holidays, showcasing the sounds of
the KJ Denhert Jazz Project. The performance will combine holiday themes and material
from Denhert’s latest shows, including new additions from The Beatles, Paul Simon, Bob
Dylan and KJ originals. Urban folk jazz legend Denhert, named one of Jazz.com’s top
female vocalists and four-time Independent Music Award nominee, will be accompanied
by Adam Armstrong on acoustic bass, Nicki Denner on keyboard/piano, Mark McIntyre
on guitar and Eric Halvorson on drums.

The Montclair Jazz Festival announced the lineup for its Downtown Jamboree on Saturday, September 9 including Christian McBride, Antibalas, Steve Turre, Melanie Charles, Person to Person, Edmar Castaneda, Vince Ector, Regina Carter, and Michael Mwenso.

The Mini-Global Mashups continue through December 2022! Curated by acclaimed trumpeter and composer Frank London (The Klezmatics), the Mini-Global Mashup series is bringing together two amazing global music artists along with accompanists for an afternoon of music, conversation and exploration. Post-show Q&A.

Mini-Global Mashup: Jazz Piano Meets Venezuela presents American jazz artist Amina Claudine Myers and Venezuelan bandola llanera performing artist María Fernanda González.

Amina Claudine Myers is a multi-faceted artist, composer and educator who performs original works of jazz, blues, gospel, spirituals and improvisations for the pipe organ. In 2010, Myers was commissioned by the Chicago Jazz Institute to compose and direct a composition for a 17 piece jazz orchestra in honor of the late and great composer, arranger and pianist Miss Mary Lou Williams’ 100th birthday. Myers has received multiple grants and awards, including National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, and The New York Foundation for the Arts. She was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame 2001 and the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame 2010.

María Fernanda González (Mafer Bandola) is a bandola llanera player, educator, self-taught composer, and journalist from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She is one of the few women in the world performing the bandola professionally as a solo artist and has competed in and won renown music festivals of Joropo in Venezuela and Colombia. She is also a pioneer, experimenting with genres, sounds, and cross-cultural collaboration in her compositions, becoming the first woman to play the electric version of this instrument in 2016. She is both known as an innovator for her solo work and for her performances with LADAMA, a multinational band of four women from four countries, of which she is a co-founder and current member.

Two uptown organizations celebrating important milestones this year, the twenty-year-old Jazz Power Initiative (JPI), and the sixty-year-old Harlem School of the Arts (HSA), come together to honor two distinctly American music genres. Jazz and Hip-Hop are two of America’s biggest exports, embraced by international audiences and adopted by a global community of artists.

Both musical forms are rooted in the stories and experiences of America’s Black community, steeped in ancestral African, Afro-Latin, and Eurocentric rhythms and culture.

On Saturday, April 27th from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm in honor of what would have been Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, and as part of the continued celebration of Hip-Hop’s 50th, an exciting program has been curated by Eli Yamin, JPI co-founder/Managing and Artistic Director, and Lee Hogans, HSA Chief Education Officer. Featured performers include the spectacular Award-winning vocalist and educator Charenee Wade, first runner-up in the 2010 Thelonious Monk competition; as well as Brooklyn’s own Jason Fraticelli, best known as Silent Knight, indie hip-hop artist, and Ambassador at the Innocent Project.

Other performers rounding out the celebration include the All City High School Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Paul Corn; the ensemble is the product of the highly regarded Department of Education’s arts offerings. Also, Zah! Jr., Jazz Power Initiative’s advanced youth ensemble; the HSA Dance Ensemble and HSA Advance Jazz Band; the Dorothy Maynor Singers and Nat King Cole Trio.

This important collaboration and program is being held during Jazz Appreciation Month, which was created in 2001 in acknowledgment and as a celebration of the contributions “jazz has made to society”.

The event will be held at the Harlem School of the Arts, Dorothy Maynor Hall located at 645 St, Nicholas Avenue, on Saturday, April 27th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. For more information visit www.jazzpower.org or www.hsanyc.org.

Mingus Dynasty Band
at the Vermont Jazz Center

Saturday January 21, 2023
7:30 PM
 
An all-star group that tours the world, introducing & keeping afresh the complex, intense, & beautiful music of one of jazz’s greatest bassists/composers. 
 
 
Craig Handy, tenor saxophone

Conrad Herwig, trombone

Jim Ridl, piano

Boris Kozlov, bass

Donald Edwards, drums
 
“Charles Mingus would be very proud of this band”
Saxophonist Charles McPherson, member of the original Mingus Orchestra
 
Sponsor:
A Friend of VJC Educational Programs

Sliding scale $20-$50
Masks required.

Please contact in advance to facilitate
handicapped access

gingervjc@gmail.com
802 258 9088
 
www.vtjazz.org

Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hill #222
Brattleboro VT 05301

Get ready for this very special Jazz on Sloan Series performance in Spiotta Park with this stellar list of musicians. This all star cast is ready to swing it hard in South Orange Summer Saturdays Bigtime. This is a free, outdoor concert featuring the Norman Mann Sextet and Friends! Please join us for this very unique and special performance. Jazzheads!!! - The jazz will be jumping hard. Norman Mann - percussion Peter Lin - trombone Gene Ghee - saxophone Tomoko Ohno. - piano Christopher Dean Sullivan - bass Alvester Garnett - drums Joy Topping-Mann - vocals Grab your chair, your friends the kids, grab a local meal and join us in Spiotta Park. Its a great one. Norman Mann and Rafiki presented in Summer Saturday Concerts by @Souh Orange Downtown, @South Orange Village and @Gregory Burrus Productions.

Every Saturday, we’re inviting NYC’s top musicians & magicians to perform in our art deco cocktail lounge, from local legends to Grammy award-winners. This week’s musical act is the Sam Dillon Trio, who is a saxophonist, woodwind player, composer and teacher based in New York. In 2013 Sam was selected as a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. As a semifinalist, Sam performed at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. for Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, Bobby Watson and Jane Ira Bloom. Most notably, Sam has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincolin Center, Symphony Space Birdland, The Iridium, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz Club, The 55 Bar, The Zinc Bar, The Kitano Hotel, Cornelia Street Cafe and live on WBGO 88.3 FM. In 2009 Sam received his Masters in Jazz Performance from SUNY Purchase College.

Every Saturday, we’re inviting NYC’s top musicians & magicians to perform in our art deco cocktail lounge, from local legends to Grammy award-winners. This week’s musical act is the Sam Dillon Trio, who is a saxophonist, woodwind player, composer and teacher based in New York. In 2013 Sam was selected as a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. As a semifinalist, Sam performed at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. for Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, Bobby Watson and Jane Ira Bloom. Most notably, Sam has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincolin Center, Symphony Space Birdland, The Iridium, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz Club, The 55 Bar, The Zinc Bar, The Kitano Hotel, Cornelia Street Cafe and live on WBGO 88.3 FM. In 2009 Sam received his Masters in Jazz Performance from SUNY Purchase College.