Jazz in July at the 92NY is one of New York City’s hottest summer jazz festivals. It presents many different visions of America’s music, all grounded in its African American roots.
In the 1920s, African American culture of the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance defined American culture. Though American jazz, Brazilian choro, and Jewish klezmer developed independently, they all swing. Explain that!
The vibe at Jazz in July is great. Just go.
Jazz in July 2026: Echoes of Miles
Celebrate the Miles Davis and John Coltrane centennials with an all-star lineup of musicians connected to Davis and Coltrane, produced by Artistic Director Aaron Diehl
92NY
Upper East Side, NYC
July 15-25, 2026
$25+
Billy Hart Quartet with Nicole Glover
NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart (drums)
Nicole Glover, saxophone
Jazz in July: Echoes of Miles Davis (centennial)
92NY: Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center
Upper East Side, NYC
Wed, July 15, 2026 | 7:30pm
$50+ in-person | $25+ streaming
Billy Hart’s connection to Miles runs through the drum stool itself: he’s the drummer on Davis’s 1972 fusion landmark On the Corner, the album where Miles pushed jazz into raw, street-level funk territory. Hart also spent years in Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi sextet, extending the electric experiments Miles had pioneered into even stranger, more exploratory terrain.
At 85, Hart remains one of the most forward-thinking drummers in jazz, and this performance features a special lineup of his long-running quartet with pianist Ethan Iverson and bassist Ben Street, joined by rising saxophonist Nicole Glover.
Gregory Hutchinson
Jazz drummer plays his new Miles Davis-themed album, Kind of Now – The Pulse of Miles Davis
Jazz in July: Echoes of Miles Davis (centennial)
92NY: Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall
Upper East Side, NYC
Sat, July 18, 2026 | 7:30pm
$25+ in-person and streaming
Gregory Hutchinson built his new album entirely around Miles Davis’s evolution, from the bebop of “Ah-Leu-Cha” through the electric haze of “Bitches Brew.” Rather than replicate the originals, Hutchinson reworks the material with a band of some of jazz’s most exciting young voices, treating Davis’s catalog as raw material for reinvention rather than a museum piece.
His own words on the project: this isn’t about recreating Miles, it’s about continuing the conversation he started. Expect Wayne Shorter compositions alongside Davis originals, tracing the same lineage of musicians who passed through Davis’s bands across four decades.
Aaron Diehl and John Patitucci
Jazz duets by renowned pianist and Chick Corea bassist
Jazz in July: Echoes of Miles Davis (centennial)
92NY: Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall
Upper East Side, NYC
Tue, July 21, 2026 | 7:30pm
$25+ in-person and streaming
This is a first-ever duet pairing between two major jazz voices, and Patitucci’s link to Miles runs through Chick Corea. Patitucci spent a decade in Corea’s Elektric and Akoustic Bands starting in the mid-1980s, and Corea himself had been a key member of Miles’s electric period, playing on In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew before Patitucci ever joined him.
That lineage, plus Patitucci’s own collaborations with Miles alumni Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, threads directly back to Davis’s innovations. Aaron Diehl, this season’s artistic director, brings his own reputation for harmonic precision and elegant restraint to the pairing.
Kate Kortum and Aaron Diehl Trio
Miles Davis standards sung by Sarah Vaughan Competition Winner
Jazz in July: Echoes of Miles Davis (centennial)
92NY: Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center
Upper East Side, NYC
Wed, July 22, 2026 | 7:30pm
$36+ in-person | $25 streaming
Kate Kortum, just 24 and fresh off winning the 2025 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition, makes her first NYC small-group appearance here. Her connection to the festival’s theme is direct: she’s singing songs Miles Davis helped establish as jazz standards, including “My Funny Valentine” and “Bye Bye Blackbird,” tunes he recorded early in his career and helped cement as essential vocal repertoire.
Backed by the Aaron Diehl Trio, a group with its own deep history accompanying vocalists through Diehl’s longtime partnership with Cécile McLorin Salvant, this is a chance to hear a rising star testing herself against material that’s outlasted generations of singers before her.
Terence Blanchard E-Collective with Ravi Coltrane
NEA Jazz Master trumpeter and brilliant saxophonist celebrate Miles Davis and John Coltrane Centennials
92NY: Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall
Upper East Side, NYC
Thu, July 23, 2026 | 7:30pm
$25+ in-person and streaming
This pairing marks both centennials at once. Terence Blanchard, an NEA Jazz Master and eight-time Grammy winner, joins saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, son of John Coltrane, for their only NYC performance together this year.
The concert honors both Davis and Coltrane’s partnership in Davis’s First Great Quintet of the 1950s, the band that helped launch Coltrane’s career before he became a bandleader in his own right. It’s also worth noting this performance takes place on the same Kaufmann Concert Hall stage where John Coltrane himself gave a historic concert in February 1962.
Ron Carter’s Foursight
NEA Jazz Master and Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet Alumni
92NY: Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall
Upper East Side, NYC
Sat, Jul 25, 2026 | 7:30pm
$25+
Ron Carter closes the festival as one of the last living members of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet, the band that redefined modern jazz between 1963 and 1968 alongside Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Tony Williams. Carter’s basslines on albums like E.S.P., Nefertiti, and Miles Smiles moved the instrument beyond simple timekeeping into an active, structural voice in the music.
Now the most recorded bassist in jazz history, Carter closes out the centennial season with his own quartet, Foursight, featuring saxophonist Jimmy Greene, pianist Renee Rosnes, and drummer Payton Crossley.
Jazz in July 2025
Jazz in July, one of NYC’s hottest summer jazz festivals, features the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with John Pizzarelli, Carlos Henriquez Nonet, Tenors of Our Time, a Geri Allen and Mary Lou Williams tribute, Marta Sánchez Quintet, and a world premiere by Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society with Aaron Diehl and the Aaron Diehl Trio. It’s at the 92nd Street Y New York, from July 15-26, 2025.
The concerts can also be streamed for $25.
Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with John Pizzarelli
American jazz
Tue, July 15, 2025 | 7:30pm
$40+
Carlos Henriquez Nonet
Nuyorican jazz
Wed, July 16, 2025 | 7:30pm
$45+
Tenors of Our Time
Tenor sax players Melissa Aldana (Chile), Chris Lewis, Walter Smith III, and Lew Tabackin
Sat, July 19, 2025 | 7:30pm
$40+
American Women’s Jazz
This Geri Allen and Mary Lou Williams celebration features Vanisha Gould, Nicole Glover, Aaron Diehl, Yasushi Nakamura, and Terri Lyne Carrington paying tribute to two great jazz women.
Tue, July 22, 2025 | 7:30pm
$40+
Geri Allen (1957-2017) was an African American jazz pianist, composer, educator and Guggenheim Fellow. Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) was an African American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer who wrote and arranged for many jazz giants. Allen was a champion of Williams’ work, and NEA Jazz Master and multiple Grammy-winner Terri Lyne Carrington worked with Allen, so this concert is a direct connection to these great female jazz artists.
Marta Sánchez Quintet
Spanish jazz
Wed, July 23, 2025 | 7:30pm
$40+
Big Band Jazz
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society with Aaron Diehl plays big band jazz including an Argue arrangement of Diehl’s “Organic Consequence” and the world premiere of “A Banquet for the Birds,” Argue’s suite for piano and jazz orchestra,
Sat, July 26, 2025 | 7:30pm
$40+
Jazz in July 2024
Jazz in July is a hot summer jazz festival at the 92NY in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from July 17-27, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25.
Shows are presented both in-person and streaming online for 72 hours after the show, so you don’t have to miss a beat.
Aaron Diehl
Aaron Diehl is Jazz in July’s new Artistic Director. He is a classical and jazz pianist who is equally comfortable on either side of the classical/jazz coin. Diehl is always turning something old into something new, in the West African Sankofa tradition.
Diehl first rose to prominence as a finalist in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington competition. That led to touring with Wynton Marsalis and a Juilliard education. Now he plays with symphony orchestras and jazz stars around the world, and at the 92nd Street Y. Instagram @aaronjdiehl
Kenny, Benny & Bop!
Five pianists in one- and two-piano sets
NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron, Benny Green, Helen Sung, Joe Block, and Aaron Diehl
Wed, July 17, 2024 | 7:30pm
$25+
If you like jazz piano, you will love this show. Two-piano sets are really fun. This is jazz, so the artists will be improvising, and riffing off each other. One piano can make a very full sound. Two pianos bopping can be absolutely celestial.
Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet
2023 American Pianists Award-winner
Thu, July 18, 2024 | 7:30pm
$25+
Isaiah J. Thompson is a young pianist with a bright future in gospel and soul-influenced jazz. Just when you think they don’t make don’t make them like that anymore, along comes an artist like Thompson. The pianist in the John Pizzarelli Trio is already playing with a who’s who list of jazz greats. If you go to this show, you can say you saw Thompson back in the day when he was just starting out. @isaiahjthompson
Singers and the Song: Marilyn Maye, Catherine Russell, and Ekep Nkwelle
Marilyn Maye, Catherine Russell, and Ekep Nkwelle; three generations of jazz vocalists backed by the Aaron Diehl Trio.
Sat, July 20, 2024 | 7:30pm
$25+
Marilyn Maye has been singing jazz for around 80 years now, with artists like Charlie Parker and Count Basie. National Public Radio (NPR) called her “one of our greatest living songbook singers.” The American Songbook is special because though it leans into pop music, much of the Songbook started as jazz. @mayemarilyn
Catherine Russell is Grammy-winning jazz royalty. The daughter of Louis Armstrong’s pianist and music director has jazz in her blood. @catherinerussellmusic
Ekep Nkwelle is a Cameroonian American jazz vocalist who was a finalist in the esteemed Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Her Cameroonian heritage is interesting because Cameroon is a Central African country next to West Africa. A lot of Caribbean culture comes from that region, and New Orleans’ Caribbean culture created jazz. @ekepnkwelle
Etienne Charles and Creole Soul
Calypso rhythms of Julliard-trained Trinidadian trumpeter
Wed, July 24, 2024 | 7:30pm
$25+
Etienne Charles is originally from Trinidad, the home of calypso and soca, and the Mother of Caribbean Carnival. Trinidad’s Indian and Chinese influences make it one of the most diverse Caribbean countries. Jazz sounds a little different everywhere that it is played. Charles’ sound has that Antillean Creole Swing in it. It’s that Carnival vibe! @etiennejazz
Preludes: Adam Birnbaum, Jeb Patton, and Aaron Diehl
Explore the classical influence of jazz with Adam Birnbaum, Jeb Patton, and Aaron Diehl
Thu, July 25, 2024 | 7:30pm
$25+
Classical music and jazz are two sides of the same coin. The virtuosity of many jazz musicians comes from a lot of classical training. In a way, jazz is the American classical music. It is now accepted as the American opera. Hearing an artist flow back and forth between jazz and classical traditions is sweet like a popsicle on a hot summer day. @adambirnbaumpiano @jebpatton @aaronjdiehl
Tyshawn Sorey Trio and Warren Wolf
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey reimagine the American Songbook with Aaron Diehl on piano, Warren Wolf on vibes.
Sat, July 27, 2024 | 7:3pm|$25+
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Jazz and July Festival
The Festival has had a piano focus since its first artistic directors, pianists Dick Hyman and Bill Charlap. With Aaron Diehl taking the lead in 2024, Jazz in July opens to new horizons. An interesting thing about the piano is that though it plays melodies, it is a percussion instrument.
The 92nd Street Y has a long tradition of supporting artists of color, way before it was popular to do so. We are excited to see where Diehl takes the Festival.
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