Latin jazz is a New York native. It has long roots, but “cubop” was defined in “El Barrio” East Harlem by Mario Bauzá, music director for Machito and His Afro-Cubans, in 1943.
Jazz and classical are two sides of the same coin.
A lot of Latin music is in conversation with jazz.
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Pedrito Martinez Backs Cimafunk & La Tribu, Featuring Chucho Valdés, at the Blue Note
The world’s first call rumbero plays everything from sacred Yoruba traditions to jazz and rock.
Thursday-Saturday, September 28-30, 2023
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village
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Cimafunk, “the James Brown of Cuba,” Plays Timba Backed by Chucho Valdés and Pedrito Martinez at the Blue Note
One of the hottest young singers out of Cuba gets everyone dancing.
Thursday-Sunday, September 28 – October 1, 2023
BLUE NOTE in Greenwich Village
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The Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano Orchestra Plays Colombian Salsa for Uptown Nights at Harlem Stage
Colombian salsa with jazz and folkloric influences. Plus a DJ’d salsa dance party.
HARLEM STAGE in Manhattanville, West Harlem
Friday, September 22, 2023
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Yasser Tejeda Grows Danceable Latin Alternative From Dominican Folk Roots
His brilliant fusion of jazz and rock with Afro-Dominican folk make you want to dance. 🇩🇴 🇭🇹
HARLEM STAGE: Manhattanville, West Harlem
Friday, December 1, 2023
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Blue Note Jazz Festival 2023 Brings Latin Jazz Legends to NYC
A jazz festival with everything from the blues to Latin to hip-hop.
Hammerstein Ballroom, The Town Hall, Sony Hall, Blue Note NYC
May 31 – July 2, 2023
Grace Jones 🇯🇲
Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’Rivera 🇨🇺
Omara Portuondo 🇨🇺
Sergio Mendes 🇧🇷
Julius Rodriguez 🇺🇸
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ACO SONiC Festival with Miguel Zenón and Angélica Negrón Creates Avant-Garde Puerto Rican Classical Music at Hostos
A primer on some of the young Latin artists who are doing incredible work stretching the jazz and classical music canon in New York City.
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Miguel Zenón Curates the American Composers Orchestra SONiC Festival
A primer on some of the young Latin artists who are doing incredible work stretching the jazz and classical music canon in New York City.
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets
DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village
African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
DANCEFEST Tompkins Square Park
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
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Nation Beat Plays Brazilian Maracatu Forró Funk Jazz Fusion at Flushing Town Hall
This New York Brazilian maracatu, forró, funk jazz band is fun!
FLUSHING TOWN HALL
Flushing, Queens
Saturday, May 13, 2023
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Banda Iroko Will Make You Want to Dance Like You’re Madly in Love
Banda Iroko is Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen and Nuyorican conguero-vocalist Abraham Rodriguez Jr’s Nuyorican jazz project.
It’s the perfect blend of singing bass and singing drum.
BLUE NOTE
Greenwich Village
Tuesday-Sunday, April 25-30, 2023
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Louis Hayes, a Chief Architect of Modern Jazz Drumming, Celebrates His NEA Jazz Master Award & New Album
Mentored by Papa Jo Jones of the Count Basie Orchestra, Hayes came up in Detroit with Yusef Lateef and Kenny Burrell. In New York Hayes made his name with Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley and Oscar Peterson. Now he’s a legend himself.
HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Friday, April 21, 2023
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Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita with Gustavo Ovalles Revisit “Suba” and the Connections Between Cuba and Mother Africa
Thursday, May 4, 2023
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM
Boerum Hill (Downtown), Brooklyn
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Xiomara Fortuna, the Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion, Plays Hostos Center
Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Villalobos Brothers Play Their Unique Blend of Mexican Folk, Jazz, Classical at Pregones/PRTT
Saturday, March 25, 2023
PREGONES/PRTT
Concourse, The Bronx 🇲🇽
Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans Bring the Women in Latin Jazz Festival to Hostos Center
Saturday, March 25, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Remember Astor Piazzolla and Nuevo Tango Jazz
March 11, 1921
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina 🇦🇷
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Robert Browning Associates is a Pioneering Global Music Producer
Arab, Spanish, Malian, Cuban, Senegalese, Venezuelan, MUSIC, flamenco, afrobeats, jazz
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Bárbara Martínez Flamenco is at Sala Astoria
Tuesdays
Astoria, Queens
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Fleur Seule Plays Latin Jazz at the Hard Rock Hotel
Tuesday, February 18, 2023
Times Square Theater District
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Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Play Hot Jazz in the Birdland Theater
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
BIRDLAND THEATER
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
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Pedro Giraudo Plays Argentine Tango on Valentines Day at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Valentine’s Day
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Central Park, New York City
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Happy Birthday Lady Gaga!
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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Paquito D’Rivera Joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for Elio Villafranca’s “Tres Aguas” & Edmar Castaneda’s “Music & Colombia”
Friday, April 14, 2023
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Colombus Circle, NYC
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Tito Puente is Still “The King of Latin Music”
Thursday, April 20, 2023
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Gregorio Uribe Celebrates His “Hombre Absurdo” Album Release at Lincoln Center
Thursday, January 19, 2023
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM
Lincoln Center
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Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival 2023 Brings New York Street Dance to the Guggenheim Museum
Thursday-Tuesday, January 12-17, 2023
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
Upper East Side
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Winter Jazzfest 2023 is the Hottest Thing In January
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Thursday-Wednesday, January 12-18, 2023
Manhattan Jazz Marathon Friday, January 13
Brooklyn Jazz Marathon Sat, January 14
MULTIPLE VENUES
Chelsea, East Village, Greenwich Village, NoMad, Manhattan
Gowanus & Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Pianist Dayramir Gonzalez Plays Cuban Jazz for the Winter Jazzfest Brooklyn Marathon at National Sawdust
Saturday, January 14, 2023
NATIONAL SAWDUST
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Daymé Arocena Joins Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra in a Dizzy, Chano and Chico Tribute at The Town Hall
Saturday, January 14, 2023
THE TOWN HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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Happy Birthday Eddie Palmieri!
Thursday, December 15, 2022
“El Barrio” East Harlem
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Chris Botti Plays His 18th Holiday Residency of Jazz at the Blue Note
Monday, December 5, 2022 – January 1, 2023
BLUE NOTE
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
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The Carlos Henriquez Nonet Plays Jazz at Dizzy’s Including New Year’s Eve
Monday-Friday, December 26-30, 2022
NEW YEAR’S EVE
Saturday, December 31, 2022
DIZZY’S CLUB
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Columbus Circle, NYC
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Big Band Holidays 2022
Wednesday-Sunday, December 14-18, 2022
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Columbus Circle
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Papo Vázquez Celebrates 40 Years of Jazz in a Holiday Parranda Concert with his Mighty Pirates Troubadours, Camille Thurman & Héctor Cordero
Saturday, December 10, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, the New Queens of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Play Hostos Center
Thursday, November 17, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Remember Tito Rodríguez ¡El Inolvidable! with Tito Rodríguez Jr, Gilberto Santa Rosa & Friends at Hostos Center
Friday-Sunday, November 11-13, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Happy 93rd Birthday Omara Portuondo!
Sunday, October 29, 2023
HAVANA, CUBA
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Etienne Charles “San Juan Hill: A New York Story” World Premiere is about the Indigenous, Black & Latin Neighborhood on which Lincoln Center was Built
Saturday, October 8, 2022
DAVID GEFFEN HALL
Lincoln Center
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The CCCADI Hurricane Fiona Puerto Rico Benefit Supports Caribbean Artists & Cultural Workers at City Winery
Thursday, October 6, 2022
CITY WINERY
Chelsea, Manhattan
Rock, Bomba, Plena, Jazz 🇵🇷
The Axel Tosca Trio Featuring Xiomara Laugart Play Cuban Jazz at Zinc Bar
Thursday, September 29, 2022
ZINC BAR
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
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The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival 2022 is Hot!
Friday-Sunday, August 26-28, 2022
MARCUS GARVEY PARK, Harlem
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village
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Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band Plays Jazz for Jazzmobile at Grant’s Tomb
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
GRANT’S TOMB
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
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Harlem Week 2022 is a Great Black Arts Festival
August 12-21, 2022
HARLEM
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The BAAND Together Dance Festival 2022 Brings Ailey, ABT, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and City Ballet to Lincoln Center for Free!
Tuesday-Saturday, August 9-13, 2022
LINCOLN CENTER
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BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn 2022 Brings A Global Party to Prospect Park!
June 8 – August 6, 2022
Circus, Cumbia, Global, Jazz, Juneteenth, Pop, Rap, Reggae, Rock, Vallenato
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92Y Jazz in July 2022 is NYC’s Hottest Summer Jazz Festival
Tuesdays & Thursdays, July 19-28, 2022
92NY (92nd Street Y)
Upper East Side, Manhattan
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Myriam Phiro Celebrates Bastille Day at Joe’s Pub
Thursday, July 14, 2022
JOE’S PUB AT THE PUBLIC
NoHo, Manhattan
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Where to Watch Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks 2022
Monday, July 4, 2022
NBC 4, Manhattan, Brooklyn & Queens
Jazz, Rap, R&B, Rock & Country
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The Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Latin Experience Plays Latin Jazz at the Blue Note
FOURTH OF JULY
Monday, July 4, 2022
BLUE NOTE
Greenwich Village
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The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble with Malika Zarra, Akua Dixon & Quartette Indigo Play Carnegie Hall Citywide at Bryant Park
Friday, July 1, 2022
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
BRYANT PARK
Midtown, Manhattan
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NYC Dance Week is 10 Days of Free Dance, Fitness & Wellness Classes
Thu, June 9 – Sat, June 18, 2022
ALL OVER NYC
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David Sánchez Plays Jazz for Carnegie Hall Citywide at El Museo del Barrio
Saturday, May 21, 2022
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
“El Barrio” East Harlem
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El Laberinto del Coco Plays Bomba Fusion at CasaSaffra in Santurce
Thursday, May 12, 2022
CASASAFFRA
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Josean Jacobo “Herencia Criolla” Master Class & Concert of Afro-Dominican Jazz at Hostos Center
MASTERCLASS
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
CONCERT
Friday, April 29, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros Play Cuban Timba at Terraza 7
Saturday, May 6, 2022
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
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Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita “Suba” Reunites the Caribbean with Mother Africa at Roulette Intermedium
Thursday, March 31, 2022
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
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Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet Plays Minton’s harlem
Friday, April 29, 2022
MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE
Harlem
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El Laberinto del Coco featuring El Hijo de Borikén Plays Hip-Hop Bomba Fusion at La Respuesta, Santurce, San Juan
TRAVEL
Thursday, March 17, 2022
LA RESPUESTA
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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El Laberinto del Coco Plays Bomba Fusion at Lote 23 in Santurce, Puerto Rico
TRAVEL
Saturday, January 8, 2022
LOTE 23
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Edmar Castaneda to Celebrate “Family” Album Release
Thursday, October 14, 2021
DIZZY’S CLUB
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Columbus Circle
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Bernie Williams, Former Yankee All-Star, Plays Jazz at the Blue Note
BLUE NOTE
Greenwich Village
Tuesday-Wednesday, August 17-18, 2021
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Blue Note Jazz Festival 2021 is Back!
BLUE NOTE Greenwich Village
SUMMERSTAGE Central Park
June 15 – August 15, 2021
New York City’s 1980s Rebound Revolutionized the Music World(s)
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
“El Barrio” East Harlem
Ongoing
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Zaccai Curtis Afro-Cuban Jazz Quartet Keeps Stretching Cubop
HOSTOS CENTER
Zoom, Facebook, YouTube
Friday, May 28, 2021 at 7:30pm ET FREE
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Héctor “Coco” Barez & El Laberinto del Coco Take Bomba to the World
richmond.edu 🇵🇷 Monday, February 22, 2021, FREE
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Xiomara Laugart Celebrates Mi Salsa Kitchen’s 1st Anniversary with Cuban Timba
Friday, February 25, 2022
MI SALSA KITCHEN
Lower East Side
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Bobby Sanabria talks the African-Caribbean Roots of Jazz
Part 1, June 30, 2020
Part 2, July 7, 2020
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) YouTube & Facebook channels
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Los Aurora
Sunday, March 29, 2020
WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE
LE POISSON ROUGE
Greenwich Village, NYC
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An entertaining blend of flamenco, jazz and rock that is part of the Nuevo Flamenco movement out of Barcelona, Spain.
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World Music Institute
Brian Lynch
Sunday, January 26, 2020
62nd GRAMMY AWARDS
Los Angeles, California
The Grammy-winning trumpeter’s “Crucible for Crisis” was nominated for Best Instrumental Composition and “The Omni-American Book Club” won Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Winter JazzFest 2020
January 9-18, 2020
BROOKLYN Marathon
Friday, January 17, 2020
MANHATTAN Marathon
Friday-Saturday January 9-10, 2020
Concerts and marathons for jazz lovers and APAP booking agents
Arturo Sandoval
Wed-Sun, December 4-8, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ The jazz legend of Irakere, Dizzy Gillespie and Danzón plays the Blue Note
Holman Trio plays Indigenous Chilean Jazz at Lincoln Center
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Live music Indigenous Chilean jazz
LINCOLN CENTER ~ Ancestral Chilean rhythms, cueca (Chilean national dance) and traditional jazz. FREE
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Uptown Nights Curtis Brothers & Circa ’95 at Harlem Stage
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
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Elio Villafranca
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
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Django Reinhardt NY Festival
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen
Tuesday – Sunday
July 10 – 15, 2018
Arturo O’Farrill and Friends ¡ Adelante Cuba ¡ Festival at New York City Center
Saturday, April 28, 2018
New York City Center
Midtown, Manhattan
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Dorantes
Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24, 2018
FLAMENCO FESTIVAL
DIZZY’S CLUB
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Columbus Circle, NYC
One of the great flamenco pianists plays a concert of “Flamenco Meets Jazz.”
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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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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
New York Jazz Clubs
Jazz at Lincoln Center is the world’s leading jazz organization.
Terraza 7 is New York’s most Latin jazz club.
Birdland and the Blue Note are legendary jazz clubs.
Minton’s is the room where bebop was born.
The Village Vanguard is New York’s oldest continually operating jazz club.
Drom is a world music club that hosts a lot of latin jazz.
Hostos Center has the Northeast’s most adventurous Latin jazz programming.
Harlem Stage hosts legends and is an incubator for artists who become legends.
The 92nd Street Y has a strong jazz program.
Latin Jazz is From New York
Latin Jazz in NYC is native. It was a long time coming, and we think jazz was Latin from birth, but latin jazz (cubop) was created by Mario Bauzá, music director for Machito and his Afro-Cubans, at the Park Avenue Ballroom on the intersection of Harlem and “El Barrio” East Harlem on May 29, 1943.
That night Bauzá composed “Tanga,” the first song that fully expressed the latin jazz form. It was the first true blending of New Orleans and Cuban jazz traditions. Listen to it on YouTube.
So bebop (modern jazz) and cubop (latin jazz) were created Uptown in Harlem and East Harlem by people who were playing together. Dizzy Gillespie completed the reunion when he later asked Bauzá for a conga player. His collaboration with conguero Chano Pozo led to jazz classics “Manteca” and “Tin tin deo.”
The Caribbean hero twins, separated at birth by colonial divisions in New Orleans and Ayití (Hispaniola), were reunited. It sounds like magical realism, but it’s real.
Don’t think badly of us for pointing this out, but “tanga” means cannabis in one of the African languages, and g-string in Spanish. Those two go together like jazz and latin jazz. It takes us back to the beginning of jass in Storyville, New Orleans.
Turns out Bauzá also played sax on “El manisero,” the first global Latin hit recorded by RCA Victor in 1930 New York. You can’t make this up.