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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.
Miguel Zenón Plays Multicultural Jazz in the Dan Weiss Even Odds Trio at The Jazz Gallery
JAZZ GALLERY, NoHo, Manhattan ~ Dan Weiss Even Odds trio 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
VILLAGE VANGUARD, Greenwich Village, Manhattan ~ Miguel Zenón Quartet 🇵🇷
Spanish Harlem Orchestra with Oscar Hernández Plays the Ballet Hispánico Gala
PLAZA HOTEL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇵🇷
Cécile McLorin Salvant, One of the Great Jazz Singers of Her Generation, Sings at the 92nd Street Y
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band; Featuring Antoinette Montague, Jennifer Jade Ledesna, and Janis Siegal; Plays Jazz at the Brand New Bronx Music Hall
BRONX MUSIC HALL, Melrose, The Bronx 🇵🇷
David Virelles Nosotros Ensemble featuring Dafnis Prieto Plays Cuban Jazz and Classical New Music Curated by Tania León at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇨🇺
Tito Puente is Still “The King of Latin Music”
HARLEM, Manhattan ~ April 20, 1923 🇵🇷
Antonio Sánchez, Multiple Grammy-winning Mexican Jazz Fusion Drummer and Composer, Debuts His New All-Star Jazz Band at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇲🇽
Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas Sing Afro-Cuban Jazz at the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, Brooklyn Heights 🇨🇺
Pedrito Martinez Joins Hip Hop Jazz Singer José James at the Blue Note
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan José James’ guest, hip hop jazz 🇨🇺 🇮🇪 🇵🇦
DROM, East Village, Manhattan; rumba, timba, jazz 🇨🇺
Leyenda Plays Latin Pop Classics with Bridget Kibbey harp, Samuel Torres percussion, and Louis Arques clarinet; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE, Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church, Hudson Heights, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Paquito D’Rivera Plays Classical Latin Jazz with the New Jersey Symphony at New Jersey Performing Arts Center
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇨🇺 ~ 🇦🇷 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans Women in Latin Jazz Festival at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Hostos College, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇳🇮 🇧🇷 🇵🇹
Pete Rodríguez Plays Afro-Cuban Jazz and Puerto Rican Salsa at Pregones/PRTT
PREGONES/PRTT, Concourse, The Bronx 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Play Vintage Hot Jazz in the Birdland Theater
BIRDLAND THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇮🇹
Carlos Henriquez Directs the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in a Journey Through Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Bebop, and Nuyorican Jazz
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Eddie Palmieri Plays a Spring Residency of Latin Jazz at the Blue Note New York
BLUE NOTE NEW YORK in Greenwich Village ~ The New York Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master and 9-time Grammy winner keeps playing Latin jazz and salsa. 🇵🇷
Astor Piazzolla Renewed Argentine Tango with his Nuevo Tango
MAR DEL PLATA, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina ~ March 11, 1921 🇦🇷
Tomatito Opens the Flamenco Festival New York for the World Music Institute at The Town Hall
THE TOWN HALL, Midtown, Manhattan ~ Multiple Latin Grammy winning Spanish Romani flamenco jazz guitarist. 🇪🇸
Pedro Giraudo Plays Argentine Tango at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM, Lincoln Center 🇦🇷
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Plays Sunday Nights at Birdland
BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan ~ The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra keeps Latin big band traditions alive in New York City. 🇨🇺
Dayramir Gonzalez Plays the Art of Cuban Piano at Ideal Glass Atrium
IDEAL GLASS STUDIOS, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺
Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours Play a Puerto Rican Holiday Jazz Parranda at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ The NEA Latino Master and Grammy nominee leads a jazz version of the Puerto Rican holiday parranda tradition. 🇵🇷
Bárbara Martínez Sings and Dances Flamenco at Sala Astoria
SALA ASTORIA, Astoria, Queens 🇦🇷 🇻🇪 🇪🇸
Machito & His Afro-Cubans Defined Cubop Which We Now Call Latin Jazz
HAVANA, Cuba ~ December 3, 1907 🇨🇺
Chris Botti’s 19th Jazz Holiday Residency at the Blue Note is a New York Holiday Tradition
BLUE NOTE NEW YORK in Greenwich Village, Manhattan ~ One of America’s most popular instrumentalists plays through the holidays. 🇮🇹
Salute Tito Puente el Mambo Diablo, Celia Cruz, and La Lupe, with Family, Friends, and his Mambo Legends Orchestra, at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Go if you love mambo, salsa, and bolero by Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Vicentico Valdes, Santos Colon, and well you know.
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Big Band Holidays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis features Dominican Vocalist Ashley Pezzotti
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle ~ A New York holiday tradition with something nice for everyone. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇱
Dafnis Prieto and Luciana Souza Play the New York Debut of their Romantic Jazz Album “Cantar” at Harlem Stage
The master drummer and master vocalist bring Cuban jazz and Brazilian bossa nova together in the most romantic way.
HARLEM STAGE in Manhattanville, West Harlem
Friday, October 27, 2023
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Dizzy Gillespie Put the Latin Back in Jazz
Saturday, October 21, 2023
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Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano Orchestra Plays a Portrait of the Americas at Drom
A pan-Latin cumbia, salsa, jazz, and folkloric band with a Colombian Artistic Director.
DROM in Manhattan’s East Village
Saturday, November 18, 2023
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Omara Portuondo, the Last of the Buena Vista Social Club, Brings Her “Farewell World Tour Vida” to Sony Hall and NJ PAC
SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District 🇨🇺
NEW JERSEY CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇨🇺
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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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 🇺🇸
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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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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Louis Moreau Gottschalk Was the First Composer to Notate the Rhythms of Congo Square
New Orleans
May 8, 1829
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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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Eliane Elias, “2022 Best Latin Jazz Album” Grammy & Latin Grammy Winner Opens Her 2023 Tour at Birdland
March 28 – April 1, 2023
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
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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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Happy Birthday Lady Gaga!
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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Antônio Carlos Jobim wrote The Girl From Ipanema
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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Gregorio Uribe Celebrates His “Hombre Absurdo” Album Release at Lincoln Center
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM, Lincoln Center 🇨🇴
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
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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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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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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