Latin jazz concerts, festivals and clubs in New York City
Friday, November 15, 2019
PURCHASE, New York ~ Discover the rich textures of Haitian music and dance in the jazz and classical arts at.'(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Art, Culture and Ideas – Haiti’ at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center
Mondays & Tuesdays
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ Live music by New York’s specialist in early New Orleans jazz
Wednesdays
EAST VILLAGE, NYC ~ Live music by New York City’s leading Brazilian forro band. It’s Brazil night!
Wed, November 20, 2019
STUYVESANT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ “Best Tango Album” Latin Grammy winner plays Argentine tango at lunÁtico
Friday, November 22, 2019
WESTBURY, Long Island ~ El Cigala blends flamenco with rumba, tango and salsa at the Theatre at Westbury
Friday, November 15, 2019
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The world’s best Cuban rumba percussionist plays the 92nd Street Y
Sundays
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ Cuban jazz live music by this multiple Grammy winning band continues a Sunday tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
Dec 9, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ The Italian-American jazz trumpet player who is the best-selling American instrumental artist riffs through his 15th annual holiday residency at The Blue Note
Saturday, December 14, 2019
JEROME PARK, The Bronx ~ Celebrate Christmas with El Malo en Navidad at Lehman Center
Thu-Sat, December 19-21, 2019
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, NYC ~ The Paul Winter Consort jazz band, gospel singer Theresa Thomason and the Forces of Nature Dance welcome back the sun in this Christmas holiday spectacular at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
December 26-31, 2019
COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NYC ~ The most important Latin Jazz artist in New York City (Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra) rings in the New Year at Dizzy’s Club
“Now in one of my earliest tunes, ‘New Orleans Blues,’ you can notice the Spanish tinge.” Jelly Roll Morton
GREENWICH VILLAGE ~ One of New York’s legendary jazz clubs has live music nightly
GREENWICH VILLAGE ~ An old-school underground Greenwich Village jazz club owned by an Argentine family
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
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ The legendary jazz club hosts the Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra on Sundays
COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NYC ~ Jazz supper club overlooking Central park swings nightly at Jazz at Lincoln Center
ROXY HOTEL, TRIBECA, Wed-Sat ~ A retro jazz cellar
1160 Broadway
at 27th St
NoMad, Manhattan
178 Seventh Ave South
between 11th & Perry St
West Village
Closed on Mondays
NOMAD, Nightly ~ One of New York’s great jazz rooms
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
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana ~ “Fat Tuesday” is the end of Carnival before the pious Catholic fast of Lent
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen
Tuesday – Sunday
July 10 – 15, 2018
June 1-30, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ Latin jazz greats play one of the great jazz clubs and around town
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
Monday, August 3, 2020
Happy birthday Tony!
LINCOLN CENTER ticket office ~ Free concerts all year long on Thursdays and some Fridays
Saturday, November 2, 2019
JEROME PARK, The Bronx ~ One of Puerto Rico’s legendary salsa bands plays Lehman Center. “Moreno soy, porque nací de la rumba…”
Monday, October 21, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ Venezuela, Berklee, the world’s top flamenco producer, IMG Artists, the movie that opened Cannes, and a Latin Grammy nomination. World Music Institute brings Nella to Le Poisson Rouge.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
PURCHASE, NYC (White Plains) ~ Javier Limón, the world’s best flamenco producer, brings “the best flamenco group in the world” to Purchase College
Sunday, October 13, 2019
UPPER WEST SIDE, NYC ~ The World Music Institute brings the last touring band of the greatest flamenco guitarist in history to Symphony Space
Sat, September 21, 2019
JEROME PARK, The Bronx ~ El maestro and Dominican jazz pianist Michel Camilo play a double-bill at Lehman Center. ¡WEPA!
Sat, September 14, 2019
HUDSON SQUARE, NYC ~ Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a Colombian big band at SOB’s
Saturday, August 3, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ One of New York City’s best young timba musicians is joined by his mother, the legendary voice of Xiomara Laugart for a hot night of Cuban jazz at Zinc Bar
Sat, August 3, 10 & 17, 2019
MANHATTAN ~ Seven miles of city streets become a long pedestrian mall with rest stops that offer free African, Brazilian, Disability, French, Indigenous, Mexican, Peruvian and Puerto Rican entertainment and family activities
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Live music Indigenous Chilean jazz
LINCOLN CENTER ~ Ancestral Chilean rhythms, cueca (Chilean national dance) and traditional jazz. FREE
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Jazz live music concert
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, NYC ~ Celebrate the dawn after the summer solstice
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Live music Cuban jazz
Blue Note Jazz Festival
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ One of Dizzy’s legacy bands plays Gillespie’s Latin hits like ‘Manteca’ and ‘Tin Tin Deo’
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
Saturday, March 23, 2019
HARLEM, NYC ~ 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. At Harlem Stage
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
LINCOLN CENTER, Jul 25-Aug 12, 2018, Summer music festival with African, Colombian, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Mexican and Puerto Rican music, dance and word.
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen
Tuesday – Sunday
July 10 – 15, 2018
Puerto Rican saxophone master joins the Puerto Rican Jazz bassist’s band.
Ricky Rodriguez Group
The Jazz Gallery
NoMad, Manhattan
Friday, June 22, 2018
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
CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
Murray Hill, Manhattan
Friday, May 4, 2018
New York City Center
Midtown, Manhattan
Saturday, April 28, 2018
With special guest Afro-Swiss harmonica virtuoso Gregoire Maret
LeFrak Concert Hall
Queens College
Flushing, Queens
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Tuesday – Saturday
April 10 – 14, 2018
RED HOOK, BROOKLYN, WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE, Sat, Apr 7, 2018, Cuban rumba jazz live music ~ “Cuba’s finest young female singer” (‘The Guardian’)
COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Thu-Sat, Mar 22-24, 2018 ~ One of the great flamenco pianists.
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Roulette
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Thursday, March 22, 2018
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
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?
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
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
Special guests Vanessa Formell and Pedrito Calvo (original singer)
Lehman Center
250 Bedford Park Blvd W,
The Bronx
Saturday, August 26, 2017
May – October
LATIN ARTISTS
June 21 – September 10, 2017
Staples Center
Los Angeles, California
Sunday, February 12, 2017
OPENING EVENTS
Thursday, January 5, 2017
JAZZ MARATHON
Friday-Saturday
January 6-7, 2017
SPECIAL SHOWS
Sunday-Tuesday
January 8-10, 2017
Grammy-winning trumpet player and leader brings his latest, the Grammy-nominated Madera Latino to the Jazz Standard Tue-Wed, Jan 3-4, 2017
The Cuban singer-songwriter, actress and humanitarian brings her sassy style to Subrosa Friday-Saturday December 9-10, 2016.
Colombian music and dance for the entire family
Le Poisson Rouge
Greenwich Village
Saturday, December 3, 2016
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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
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.
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
One of Brazil’s great romantic bossa nova singers
Blue Note Jazz Club
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
June 6 – 8, 2016
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 and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis…
October 5, 2012
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Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan