Forro in the Dark Brazilian Forro at Nublu
EAST VILLAGE, Weds, Live Brazilian forro music ~ Very danceable Brazilian party.
Jazz New York
New York Jazz Concerts, Jazz Clubs & Jazz Festivals
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Cuban Jazz at Birdland
HELL’S KITCHEN, most Sundays, Cuban jazz live music ~ Multi-Grammy winners carry on the Sunday tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Hot Jazz at Iguana
TIMES SQUARE, Mon & Tue, Italian jazz live music mondays & tuesdays ~ NYC’s specialist in early New Orleans Hot Jazz (Dixieland)
Pedro Giraudo plays Argentine Tango at Terraza 7
ELMHURST, QUEENS; Thu, May 16, 2019; Argentine tango live music ~ 2018 Latin Grammy “Best Tango Album.” Giraudo knows how to play tango for dancers.
Willie Colón Puerto Rican Salsa at Barclays Center
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN, Sat, Jun 8, 2019 ~ The original bad boy of salsa keeps it going on
Paul Winter’s Summer Solstice at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, NYC; Sat, Jun 22, 2019; Jazz concert ~ Celebrate the dawn after the summer solstice
Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) ends Carnival Season
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, Tuesday before Lent, Feb 25, 2020; French Catholic Creole Haitian winter festival ~ The last day to eat fatty foods before the pious fast of Lent is America’s most famous Latin party
Tony Bennett Italian-American pop at Radio City Music Hall
MIDTOWN; Sat, Apr 13, 2019; Italian-American pop live music ~ The legend continues with special guest Antonia Bennett
Astor Piazzolla created tango nuevo, Argentine tango jazz
MAR DE PLATA, ARGENTINA; Mar 11, 1921; Argentine tango composer ~ The father of “tango nuevo” music transformed tango by fusing it with classical music and jazz
“Now in one of my earliest tunes, ‘New Orleans Blues,’ you can notice the Spanish tinge.” Jelly Roll Morton
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Nightly ~ World-class jazz any night in one of the great New York rooms overlooking Central Park
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Blue Note
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Nightly ~ One of NYC’s legendary jazz clubs
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Birdland
HELL’S KITCHEN, Nightly, Sundays, Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Jazz Standard
NOMAD, Nightly ~ One of New York’s great jazz rooms
The Django
ROXY HOTEL, TRIBECA, Wed-Sat ~ A retro jazz cellar
Zinc Bar
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Sun, December 9 & 16, 2018 ~ Argentine Tango Dancing to live music by the Zinc Tango Trio
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway
at 27th St
NoMad, Manhattan
Village Vanguard
178 Seventh Ave South
between 11th & Perry St
West Village
Closed on Mondays
Terraza 7
It’s a tropical experience. Lots of great local Latin Jazz artists play.
40-19 Gleane Street
at Roosevelt Ave
Elmhurst / Jackson Heights, Queens
Nightly
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Jazz Festivals
There’s also the New York Hot Jazz Festival, NYC Jazz Festival, Jazz in July, Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, Generations in Jazz Festival, BRIC Jazzfest Brooklyn and the Nublu Jazz Festival
Django Reinhardt NY Festival keeps the Gypsy Jazz legend alive
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen
Tuesday – Sunday
July 10 – 15, 2018
Blue Note Jazz Festival 2019
BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB, GREENWICH VILLAGE, AND AROUND MANHATTAN, June 1-30, 2019
#JAZZ #MUSIC FESTIVAL
14th Winter JazzFest 2018 brings together 10,000 Jazz lovers
Multiple venues in Midtown, Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Hudson Square, and SoHo, Manhattan
January 10 – 17, 2018
JAZZ MARATHON
Friday – Saturday
January 12 – 13, 2018
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Latin Jazz
Jazz is Latin from its beginnings in the Caribbean. The ferry used to run between Havana and New Orleans twice a day. Jelly Roll Morton’s “Spanish Tinge” was Cuban. Machito made it Latin. Dizzy made it Jazz. Duke Ellington said, “It’s all music.” ~ Keith Widyolar
Tony Bennett Italian-American pop at Radio City Music Hall
MIDTOWN; Sat, Apr 13, 2019; Italian-American pop live music ~ The legend continues with special guest Antonia Bennett
Leyla McCalla Haitian Creole songstress at Rubenstein Atrium
LINCOLN CENTER; Thu Apr 4, 2019; New Orleans Haitian Creole folk blues ~ In the simplest of terms, Leyla McCalla is on her way to becoming one of the great American voices. FREE
Uptown Nights Curtis Brothers & Circa ’95 at Harlem Stage
HARLEM; Sat, Mar 23, 2019; African, Creole, Puerto Rican, Dominican Brazilian jazz hip-hop samba live music ~ The Curtis Brothers map the rhythms of the slave trade. Circa ’95 raps in Spanglish about what happened once we landed in El Barrio. For the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) and Carnegie Hall’s Migrations: the Making of America festival. ¡WEPA!
Flamenco Festival New York 2019 at Joe’s Pub
NOHO; Tue-Sun, Mar 7-10, 2019; FLAMENCO FESTIVAL, Spanish Romani flamenco dance theater music art exhibition books festival ~ The best artists from the flamenco heartland, Andalusia, Spain
Pedrito Martinez Cuban Rumba at Ginny’s
HARLEM; Thu, Mar 7, 2019; Cuban rumba live music ~ The world’s first-call rumbero plays up close and personal at the hottest joint in Harlem
Elio Villafranca’s ‘Cinque’ nominated for a Grammy
BELMONT, THE BRONX, Sun, Jan 27, 2019 ~ The jazz composer of the African diaspora joins Mary Ann Sweeney & Bronx Arts Ensemble to play one of the jazz greats, Charles Mingus. African Cuban jazz live music. FREE
Alexandra Jackson Brazilian Bossa Nova at City Winery
HUDSON SQUARE; Mon, Jan 7, 2019; Brazilian bossa nova jazz live music ~ A tribute to 60 years of bossa nova by a powerful blues and jazz singer with a band of great guest artists
Chris Botti, Italian-American Jazz
BLUE NOTE, GREENWICH VILLAGE, Nightly, December 10, 2018 – January 6, 2019 ~ The best-selling American instrumental artist riffs the holidays
#ITALIAN #JAZZ #LIVEMUSIC
Puerto Rican jazz legend Eddie Palmieri reopens El Teatro at El Museo
EAST HARLEM, Sat, Feb 23, 2019, Puerto Rican jazz live music ~ Palmieri celebrates the reopening of El Museo’s El Teatro and his new album ‘Mi Luz Mayor’
David Rubenstein Atrium
LINCOLN CENTER ticket office ~ Free concerts all year long on Thursdays and some Fridays
Carnegie Hall Calendar (2018-19)
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE, 2018-19 Season ~ African, Cuban, Filipino, French and Puerto Rican Boogaloo, Jazz and Hip-Hop
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Big Band Holidays
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Wed-Sun, December 19-23, 2018 ~ There’s no better way to swing the holidays than with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Carlos Henriquez and all the best players
#BIGBAND #JAZZ #LIVEMUSIC #CHRISTMASCONCERT
Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration 2018
CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Thu-Sat, December 20-22, 2018 ~ Join the Paul Winter Consort, gospel singer Theresa Thomason and the Forces of Nature Dance Theatre as they welcome back the sun inside one of NYC’s great spiritual music halls
#JAZZ #HOLIDAY #CHRISTMASCONCERT
Latin Grammys 2018 ~ the biggest night in Latin music
UNIVISION, November 15, 2018 ~ Jorge Drexler (Uruguay), Luis Miguel (Mexico), and Rosalía (Spain) were 2018’s big winners. Watch videos of all the winners in this story.
Carlos Henriquez The South Bronx Story Jazz at Lincoln Center
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, November 16-17, 2018 ~ The musical heir to Tito Puente told his story of growing up Puerto Rican in the South Bronx
Bernie Williams, former Yankee All-Star, rocks Schimmel Center
Friday, October 12, 2018
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Schimmel Center
PACE University
Financial District, Manhattan
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The former Puerto Rican MLB All-Star Yankee center fielder is a great Latin Grammy-nominated jazz and rock musician too.
Terraza 7
It’s a tropical experience. Lots of great local Latin Jazz artists play.
40-19 Gleane Street
at Roosevelt Ave
Elmhurst / Jackson Heights, Queens
Nightly
Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2018 free music, dance, movies and word
LINCOLN CENTER, Jul 25-Aug 12, 2018, Summer music festival with African, Colombian, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Mexican and Puerto Rican music, dance and word.
Django Reinhardt NY Festival keeps the Gypsy Jazz legend alive
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen
Tuesday – Sunday
July 10 – 15, 2018
Miguel Zenón joins Guillermo Klein y los Gauchos at the Village Vanguard
Puerto Rican saxophone master joins the Puerto Rican Jazz bassist’s band.
Ricky Rodriguez Group
The Jazz Gallery
NoMad, Manhattan
Friday, June 22, 2018
Jazz and Classical master Paquito D’Rivera to play Blue Note Jazz Festival
The Cuban Classical and Jazz sax legend blows the happiest horn on the planet.
Blue Note Jazz Festival
Blue Note
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Tuesday – Sunday
June 12 – 17, 2018
Gregorio Uribe is NYC’s Colombian Cumbia Jazz King
Bryant Park Dance Party
Cumbia & Vallenato for dancing
Midtown, Manhattan
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
FREE
Nano Stern is the best Chilean singer-songwriter of his generation
CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
Murray Hill, Manhattan
Friday, May 4, 2018
Arturo O’Farrill and Friends ¡ Adelante Cuba ¡ Festival at New York City Center
New York City Center
Midtown, Manhattan
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Edmar Castaneda is a Colombian Jazz virtuoso of the Andean Harp
With special guest Afro-Swiss harmonica virtuoso Gregoire Maret
LeFrak Concert Hall
Queens College
Flushing, Queens
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Brazilian Eliane Elias brings ‘Music from Man of La Mancha’ to Birdland
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Tuesday – Saturday
April 10 – 14, 2018
Daymé Arocena sings Cuban Rumba Jazz at Pioneer Works
RED HOOK, BROOKLYN, WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE, Sat, Apr 7, 2018, Cuban rumba jazz live music ~ “Cuba’s finest young female singer” (‘The Guardian’)
Dorantes Flamenco meets Jazz at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Thu-Sat, Mar 22-24, 2018 ~ One of the great flamenco pianists.
# spanish flamenco festival live music jazz
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita reconnect Cuba and Venezuela with Africa
Roulette
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Paquito D’Rivera ‘To Bird with Strings’ for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 30th
A tribute from one Sax genius to another, and the world’s leading Jazz institution.
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Rose Theater
Lincoln Square, Manhattan
Friday – Saturday
March 16 – 17, 2018
Grammys 2018 were a huge fail. ‘Despacito’ is Song of the Decade!
January 28, 2018 ~ ‘Despacito’ entered global popular culture. The entire world is singing in Spanish!
~ 2017’s most-streamed song
~ 2017’s most-purchased song
~ 16 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, tying the all-time record
~ “One of the biggest global hits ever”
I never even heard the winning song.The Recording Academy ignored the Latin community and the entire world. Why RA President Mr. Neil Portnow?
14th Winter JazzFest 2018 brings together 10,000 Jazz lovers
Multiple venues in Midtown, Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Hudson Square, and SoHo, Manhattan
January 10 – 17, 2018
JAZZ MARATHON
Friday – Saturday
January 12 – 13, 2018
‘Django’ shows us how to respond to institutional racial hate ~ Keep going
A bio-drama about how the legendary French Manouche Hot Jazz guitarist responded to Nazi persecution.
IFC Center
West Village, Manhattan
January 5 – 18, 2018
Axel Tosca Laugart, Jazz-Timba-Funk
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle
Upper West Side
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Los Van Van is Cuba’s original Rock and Roll Band
Special guests Vanessa Formell and Pedrito Calvo (original singer)
Lehman Center
250 Bedford Park Blvd W,
The Bronx
Saturday, August 26, 2017
SummerStage 2017 free concerts in NYC parks
May – October
LATIN ARTISTS
June 21 – September 10, 2017
59th Grammy Awards (2017)
Staples Center
Los Angeles, California
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Winter JazzFest 2017 Jazz marathon
OPENING EVENTS
Thursday, January 5, 2017
JAZZ MARATHON
Friday-Saturday
January 6-7, 2017
SPECIAL SHOWS
Sunday-Tuesday
January 8-10, 2017
Brian Lynch
Grammy-winning trumpet player and leader brings his latest, the Grammy-nominated Madera Latino to the Jazz Standard Tue-Wed, Jan 3-4, 2017
Cucu Diamantes
The Cuban singer-songwriter, actress and humanitarian brings her sassy style to Subrosa Friday-Saturday December 9-10, 2016.
Encuentro NYC Colombian Music Festival
Colombian music and dance for the entire family
Le Poisson Rouge
Greenwich Village
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Take the A Train: Billy Strayhorn at 100
Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y explores the music of Duke Ellington’s collaborator Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 8pm with Bill Charlap.
American Rhapsody: Gershwin, Arlen & the Blues
Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y explores the classic theater tunes of George Gershwin and Howard Arlen. Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 8pm.
Kings of Stride: Eubie, Fats & the Lion
Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y explores the Stride Jazz piano style that developed out of Ragtime. Featuring clarinetist Anat Cohen on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 8pm.
Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Songbook
Cole’s brother Freddy Cole sings hits like “Unforgettable” and “Mona Lisa.” The band is led by Jazz in July Artistic Director Bill Charlap. It’s at the 92nd Street Y, Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 8pm.
Jazz Goes Hollywood: Dietz & Schwartz
Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y goes to Hollywood with the songs of composer Arthur Schwartz and lyricist Howard Dietz. Featuring Bill Charlap, Renee Rosnes, and Sandy Stewart. Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 8pm
Bill Charlap Summertime Swing Party
The great Jazz pianist opens Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y with a night of unforgettable Swing-era hits.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 8pm
Fleur Seule
Relive all the romance and glamour of the 1940s through Swing, Jazz, and Ballroom music from around the world. Fleur Seule plays Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park Wed, June 29, 2016.
Angelica de la Riva
The Brazilian opera singer and American Jazz singer reprise the collaborations of Frank Sinatra and Antônio Carlos Jobim
Sheen Center
Fri, June 10, 2016 at 8pm
Rosa Passos sings romantic Brazilian Bossa Nova ballads
One of Brazil’s great romantic bossa nova singers
Blue Note Jazz Club
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
June 6 – 8, 2016
Nilko Andreas & Ariadna Castellano at Novecento
Colombian guitarist Nilko Andreas, Spanish pianist Ariadna Castellano and friends played a magical a night of smiles at Novecento SoHo, June 22, 2013
Chick Corea
Chick Corea and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis…
REVIEW: Borges & Piazzolla in New York
October 5, 2012
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Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan