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Latin Jazz

Browse features on Latin jazz artists, and the NYC jazz scene in jazz clubs, theaters, performing arts centers, city parks, and on the street.

Latin Jazz News

Carlos Henriquez Nuyorican Holiday Jazz

Carlos Henriquez (Lawrence Sumulong/Jazz at Lincoln Center)

DIZZY’S CLUB at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center Swings Nightly

Dizzy's Club (courtesy)

Carlos Henriquez Nonet, Puerto Rican jazz & New Year’s Eve 🇵🇷

COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Manhattan

Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours Play a Puerto Rican Holiday Jazz Parranda

Papo Vázquez (artist/Hostos)

HOSTOS CENTER, Hostos College, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇵🇷

Bronx Music Hall Performers Make The Bronx Beautiful

Bronx Music Hall (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble “A Not So Silent Night” holiday jazz 🌎

MELROSE, The Bronx

Carnegie Hall is One of the World’s Legendary Music Halls

Carnegie Hall (courtesy)

Dave Guy trumpet @ Schomburg Center 🇺🇸
Christmas Night Opera 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇵🇷

MIDTOWN, Manhattan and CITYWIDE

Jazz at Lincoln Center is One of the World’s Leading Jazz Institutions

Jazz at Lincoln Center (vacant/Adobe)

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra ~ Big Band Holidays 🇺🇸

COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Manhattan

Blue Note is One of NYC’s Premiere Jazz Clubs

Blue Note New York (David Sagrado/Dreamstime)

Chris Botti, instrumental jazz pop 🇺🇸

GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan

Jazz Gallery is a Jazz Club and Museum in NoMad, Manhattan

The Jazz Gallery (Volodymyr/Adobe)

Giraudo Sinfonietta, Argentine tango jazz classical fusion 🇦🇷

NOMAD, Manhattan

Miguel Zenón Big Band Plays The Jazz Gallery

Miguel Zenón in 2021 (courtesy)

THE JAZZ GALLERY, Flatiron District, Manhattan 🇵🇷

BRIC JazzFest Makes Brooklyn Swing From Its Roots

BRIC Arts Media (Adobe)

BRIC JazzFest 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇮🇱 🇲🇦 🇿🇦

FORT GREENE, Brooklyn

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at NYC SummerStage Makes August Swing

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (William Gottlieb/Library of Congress)

MARCUS GARVEY PARK, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇰🇷

Claudia Acuña Sings Jazz and Chilean Folk for globalFEST at Summer for the City at Lincoln Center

Claudia Acuña (Carnegie Hall)

LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan 🇨🇱

Bryant Park Picnic Performances and Movie Nights are Highlights of Summer in New York City

Bryant Park NYC in Summer (Erix2005/Dreamstime)

Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band jazz 🇺🇸
“Carmen” opera film 🇫🇷
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 🇨🇺
Accordion Festival, La Banda Chuska, Santiago Jimenez, Jr., David Wax Museum 🇲🇽 🇵🇪

GARMENT DISTRICT, Manhattan

Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y Features African American, Puerto Rican, and Spanish Jazz

Jazz in July, Aaron Diehl (Maria Jarzyna/92NY)

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

NYO Jazz Features Sean Jones with Vocalist Luciana Souza Highlighting Brazilian Composers and New Dafnis Prieto

NYO Jazz with Sean Jones and Luciana Souza (Carnegie Hall)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺

Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to New York City

Brasil Summerfest (Viacheslav Dubrovin/Dreamstime)

Os Clavelitos
BROOKLYN: Archway, DUMBO
QUEENS: Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
🇧🇷

South Bronx Cultural Festival Celebrates Casita Maria’s 91st Anniversary with an Eddie Palmieri Tribute, Nelson González All Star Band, Bronx Banda featuring Arturo O’Farrill and Lots More

South Bronx Cultural Festival (theSamPhotography/Dreamstime)

FATHER GIGANTE PLAZA, Longwood, The Bronx 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

Paquito D’Rivera Joins the Blue Note Jazz Festival’s James Moody Tribute

Paquito D'Rivera (Hostos Center)

SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Blue Note Jazz Festival New York Presents Some Great Latin Artists

Blue Note Jazz Festival New York (olenadesign-Adobe)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan
SUMMERSTAGE Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
National Sawdust, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Kupferberg Center for the Arts is the Performing Arts Center at Queens College

Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Colden Auditorium (courtesy)

Viva el Cinco de Mayo, Mexican music and dance 🇲🇽
Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50, Cuban jazz and timba 🇨🇺
Buena Vista Orchestra, Cuban son 🇨🇺
FLUSHING, Queens

Tito Puente is Still “The King of Latin Music”

Tito Puente "Forever" (Silvio/Adobe)

HARLEM, Manhattan ~ April 20, 1923 🇵🇷

Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Play Vintage Hot Jazz on Mondays and Tuesdays

Vince Giordano (Steve Friedman)

BIRDLAND THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇮🇹

Birdland Jazz Club is One of New York City’s Legendary Jazz Clubs

Birdland (courtesy)

Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks vintage hot jazz, Mondays & Tuesdays 🇮🇹
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Sundays 🇨🇺

HELL’S KITCHEN, Manhattan

Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Play Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos”

Arturo O'Farrill (Jen Rosenstein/ Hostos Center)

CARNEGIE HALL “Nuestros sonidos,” Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇮🇱

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band Plays a Tribute to Cuban Son Legend Arsenio Rodríguez

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band (courtesy)

BRONX MUSIC HALL, Melrose, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Tyshawn Sorey Trio Plays Their Newly Commissioned Max Roach Centennial Tribute

Tyshawn Sorey (92nd Street Y)

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸

National Sawdust

National Sawdust (jelenaaloskina/Adobe)

Winter JazzFest Brooklyn Marathon: jazz 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇮🇳
Composers Now Festival: classical new music 🇨🇺
WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn

Chris Botti’s 20th Holiday Residency at the Blue Note is a New York Holiday Tradition

Chris Botti (Kubu21/Dreamstime)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇮🇹

Melvis Santa Afro-Cuban Jazz For The Ancestors

Melvis Santa (Zuza Gasiorowska)

BAR LUNÁTICO, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn 🇨🇺
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺

LunÀtico is a Laid-Back Lounge with Live Music Nightly in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

LunÀtico (Lunja/Adobe)

Melvis Santa and Jazz Orishas 🇨🇺

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn

Cuba y Puerto Rico son… Humberto Ramírez 40 and La Lupe Tribute with Michelle “La Brava,” Lena Burke, Mambo Legends Orchestra, y el Bronx Arts Ensemble

Cuba y Puerto Rico son... Humberto Ramírez 40 and La Lupe Tribute (Hostos Center)

Humberto Ramírez, Michelle “La Brava,” Joe Conzo Sr. 🇵🇷
Mambo Legends Orchestra, Bronx Arts Ensemble 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
La Lupe, Lena Burke 🇨🇺

HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a New York Public Library Research Library With Great Community Programs

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL)

Visibility & Resistance: Afro-Mexican photography 🇲🇽
Open House 🇺🇸
Liany Matteo with Melvis Santa jazz 🇺🇸 🇨🇺

HARLEM, Manhattan

Dayramir González Jazz Piano with Afro-Cuban Soul

Dayramir Gonzalez (Lincoln Center)

QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL LIBRARY, Jamaica, Queens 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇺🇾

Eddie Palmieri is a Salsa and Latin Jazz Legend

Eddie Palmieri (Erik Valind)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Presents Latin Culture in Newark

New Jersey Performing Arts Center, NJPAC (Lei Xu/Dreamstime)

Malevo, malambo gaucho dance 🇦🇷
Paquito D’Rivera New Jersey Symphony classical jazz 🇨🇺 ~ 🇦🇷 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
René Vaca comedy 🇲🇽
Franco Escamilla “1995” comedy en Español 🇲🇽

NEWARK, New Jersey

Daymé Arocena, “Cuba’s Finest Young Female Singer,” Joins Sofía Rey for a Night of Folk & Futurism

Daymé Arocena (Carnegie Hall)

HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇨🇺

National Jazz Museum in Harlem Preserves, Promotes, and Presents America’s National Music

National Jazz Museum in Harlem (Afroto/Dreamstime)

Salsa! art and music exhibition 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
John Benitez Quartet, Puerto Rican jazz 🇵🇷
Ivanna Cuesta Quartet, Dominican jazz 🇩🇴
Cocomama, women’s jazz and tap 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇬🇵 🇮🇱 🇲🇽
Brenda Navarette, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
JCFI Music Ensemble, South African jazz 🇿🇦
Melvis Santa and Rafael Monteagudo Duo, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺

HARLEM, Manhattan

Pedrito Martinez is the World’s First-Call Rumbero

Pedrito Martinez (Richard Termine)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Belongó Performs, Teaches, and Preserves Afro Latin Jazz

Belongó (Anna Tolipova/Dreamstime)

ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn: Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, LaTasha Barnes, Soles of Duende 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇮🇳 🇪🇸
RIVERBANK STATE PARK, Hamilton Heights / West Harlem, Manhattan: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra live music, youth workshops, salsa dance lessons 🇨🇺
BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 🇨🇺

Dafnis Prieto Sí o Sí Quartet Celebrates the Release of “3 Sides of the Coin”

Dafnis Prieto in 2024 (Osmani Tellez/Prieto)

JAZZ GALLERY, NoHo, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Zinc Bar Latin Jazz in an Underground Greenwich Village Jazz Club

Zinc Bar (Adrien H. Tillmann/Zinc)

Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
Axel Tosca & Xiomara Laugart, Afro-Cuban timba, trova, and jazz 🇨🇺
Valtinho Anastácio, Brazilian bossa nova 🇧🇷
Santi Debriano Bembé Arktet, Panamanian jazz 🇵🇦
Marta Sanchez Trio, Spanish jazz 🇪🇸

GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan

Eliane Elias, the Grammy-winning Brazilian Jazz Pianist, Starts Her “Time and Again Tour”

Eliane Elias (Daniel Azoulay/Jazz at Lincoln Center)

BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇧🇷

Spanish Harlem Orchestra with Oscar Hernández Celebrates Their “Swing Forever” Album Release

Spanish Harlem Orchestra with Oscar Hernández (George Pruitt/Hostos Center)

THE IRIDIUM, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano Orchestra Performs Colombian Cumbia, Salsa, and Folkloric for Carnegie Hall’s Family Day

Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano NYC "El Barrio Project" (courtesy)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇴

Edmar Castaneda is the Jimi Hendrix of the Andean Harp

Edmar Castaneda in 2011 (Diana Bejarano)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇴

Antonio Sánchez is a Multiple Grammy-winning Mexican Jazz Fusion Drummer and Composer

Antonio Sánchez (Carnegie Hall)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Gregorio Uribe Celebrates Colombian Independence Day With Vallenato Jazz

Gregorio Uribe (Lincoln Center)

DROM, East Village, Manhattan 🇨🇴
COLOMBIAN CONSULATE, Midtown East, Manhattan 🇨🇴

SOB’s Sounds of Brazil is a World Music Night Club in Hudson Square

SOB's Sounds of Brazil (Mirko Vitali/Dreamstime)

Latin Alternative Music Conference Acoustic Showcase, Spanish guitarist Twanguero, Colombian singer Jona Camacho, Puerto Rican singer Nohemy, Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena, Peruvian singer Sebastian Llosa, Venezuelan Henry D’Arthenay, Cheo, and Dominican rapper Lismar 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Louis Hayes, NEA Jazz Master Drummer, Plays the SummerStage Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

Louis Hayes Quintet (Anna Yatskevich/Harlem Stage)

TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra is One of New York’s Busiest Latin Jazz Big Bands

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (David Garten/Hostos Center)

THE TOWN HALL, Midtown Manhattan, Blue Note Jazz Festival 🇨🇺 🇧🇷
BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇨🇺

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