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

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk Was the First Composer to Notate the Rhythms of Congo Square

Louis Moreau Gottschalk ca. 1855-65 (Matthew Brady & Handy/Library of Congress)

New Orleans
May 8, 1829
🇭🇹 🇺🇸

Banda Iroko Will Make You Want to Dance Like You’re Madly in Love

Banda Iroko (Thibault Lajouanie)

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

🇮🇱 🇵🇷

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita with Gustavo Ovalles Revisit “Suba” and the Connections Between Cuba and Mother Africa

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita: SUBA Revisited (Tom Ehrlich/RBA)

Thursday, May 4, 2023
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM
Boerum Hill (Downtown), Brooklyn
🇨🇺 🇸🇳 🇻🇪

Xiomara Fortuna, the Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion, Plays Hostos Center

Xiomara Fortuna, The Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion (Hostos Center)

Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
🇩🇴

Fleur Seule Plays Latin Jazz at the Hard Rock Hotel

Allyson Briggs of Fleur Seule (Manonce/Fleur Seule)

Tuesday, February 18, 2023
Times Square Theater District
🇵🇷

Lady Gaga in New York City

Lady Gaga in 2018 (Anita Zvonar/Dreamstime)

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
🇮🇹

Antônio Carlos Jobim wrote The Girl From Ipanema

Antônio Carlos Jobim statue on Ipanema Beach (Jptinoco/Dreamstime)

Wednesday, January 25, 2023
🇧🇷
 

Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival 2023 Brings New York Street Dance to the Guggenheim Museum

Works and Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival (Guggenheim)

Thursday-Tuesday, January 12-17, 2023
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
Upper East Side
🇺🇸🇧🇷
 

Winter Jazzfest 2023 is the Hottest Thing In January

Winter Jazzfest (Jaroslaw Kochanowic/Adobe)

🇧🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇫🇷🇭🇹🇵🇦🇵🇹🇪🇸
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

Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, the New Queens of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Play Hostos Center

Jane Bunnett & Maqueque (the artist/Hostos)

Thursday, November 17, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
🇨🇺

Tito Rodríguez ¡El Inolvidable! is Tributed by Tito Rodríguez Jr, Gilberto Santa Rosa & Friends at Hostos Center

Tito Rodríguez in 1960 by James J. Kriegsmann for United Artists (Tito Rodríguez Jr)

Friday-Sunday, November 11-13, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
🇵🇷

Graciela of Machito & His Afro-Cubans Was Great Latin Jazz Singer

Graciela Grillo and Machito at Glen Island Casino in Westchester in 1947 (PD/William Gottlieb/Library of Congress)

Wednesday, August 23, 2023
🇨🇺

Etienne Charles “San Juan Hill: A New York Story” World Premiere is about the Indigenous, Black & Latin Neighborhood on which Lincoln Center was Built

Etienne Charles "San Juan Hill" (Lincoln Center)

DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇹🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

CCCADI Hurricane Fiona Puerto Rico Benefit Supports Caribbean Artists & Cultural Workers at City Winery

CCCADI Hurricane Fiona Puerto Rico Benefit (Aleksanda Mijatovic/Dreamstime)

CITY WINERY, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Axel Tosca Trio Featuring Xiomara Laugart Play Cuban Jazz at Zinc Bar

Axel Tosca. Courtesy the artist.

Thursday, September 29, 2022
ZINC BAR
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
🇨🇺

BAAND Together Dance Festival 2022 Brings Ailey, ABT, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and City Ballet to Lincoln Center for Free!

BAAND Together Dance Festival 2022: Ballet Hispánico, NY City Ballet, ABT, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Dan Jackson/Lincoln Center)

LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Myriam Phiro Celebrates Bastille Day at Joe’s Pub

Myriam Phiro French-Canadian chanteuse (the artist)

Thursday, July 14, 2022
JOE’S PUB AT THE PUBLIC
NoHo, Manhattan
🇫🇷🇨🇦

Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Latin Experience Plays Latin Jazz at the Blue Note

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇺🇸

Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble with Malika Zarra, Akua Dixon & Quartette Indigo Play Carnegie Hall Citywide at Bryant Park

Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble (Carnegie Hall)

BRYANT PARK, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺

NYC Dance Week is 10 Days of Free Dance, Fitness & Wellness Classes

NYC Dance Week 2022 (Iakov Filimonov/Dreamstime)

Thu, June 9 – Sat, June 18, 2022
ALL OVER NYC
🇦🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇫🇷🇬🇵🇮🇳🇵🇷🇪🇸

David Sánchez Plays Jazz for Carnegie Hall Citywide at El Museo del Barrio

David Sánchez (the artist)

Saturday, May 21, 2022
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
“El Barrio” East Harlem
🇵🇷

El Laberinto del Coco Plays Bomba Fusion at CasaSaffra in Santurce

El Laberinto del Coco to play CasaSaffra (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

Thursday, May 12, 2022
CASASAFFRA
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
🇵🇷

Josean Jacobo “Herencia Criolla” Master Class & Concert of Afro-Dominican Jazz at Hostos Center

Josean Jacobo 2022 "Herencia Criolla" (the artist)

MASTERCLASS
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

CONCERT
Friday, April 29, 2022

HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
🇩🇴

Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros Play Cuban Timba at Terraza 7

Gerard Contino y Los Habaneros (Gigi de la Torre/the artists)

TERRAZA 7, Elmhurst, Queens 🇨🇺

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita “Suba” Reunites the Caribbean with Mother Africa at Roulette Intermedium

Omar Sosa, Seckou Keita, Gustavo Ovalles, "Suba" (Laurent Seroussi/Robert Browning Associates)

Thursday, March 31, 2022
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
🇨🇺🇸🇳🇻🇪

Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet Plays Minton’s harlem

Gabriel Alegria Afro Peruvian Sextet (GAAPS)

Friday, April 29, 2022
MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE
Harlem
🇵🇪

El Laberinto del Coco featuring El Hijo de Borikén Plays Hip-Hop Bomba Fusion at La Respuesta, Santurce, San Juan

El Laberinto del Coco featuring Hijo de Borikén (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

TRAVEL
Thursday, March 17, 2022
LA RESPUESTA
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
🇵🇷

El Laberinto del Coco Plays Bomba Fusion at Lote 23 in Santurce, Puerto Rico

El Laberinto del Coco Héctor Barez (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

TRAVEL
Saturday, January 8, 2022
LOTE 23
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
🇵🇷

“Roots of Latin Jazz” PBS Great Performances by Tony Succar with Sheila E, Pablo Gil, Richard Bona & Anaadi

Pablo Gil, Sheila E, and Tony Succar for Roots of Latin Jazz PBS Great Performances (Leigh Kelly/PBS)

PBS THIRTEEN
July 16 – August 13, 2021
🇧🇷🇨🇺🇵🇪🇪🇸🇺🇸

New York City’s 1980s Rebound Revolutionized the Music World(s)

Willie Colón & Celia Cruz in New York New Music 1980-1986 (Adál Maldonado Estate/Roberto Paradise)

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
“El Barrio” East Harlem
Ongoing
🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷

Zaccai Curtis Afro-Cuban Jazz Quartet Keeps Stretching Cubop

Luques and Zaccai of Zaccai Curtis Afro-Cuban Jazz Quartet (Hostos)

HOSTOS CENTER
Zoom, Facebook, YouTube
Friday, May 28, 2021 at 7:30pm ET FREE
🇨🇺🇵🇷

Héctor “Coco” Barez & El Laberinto del Coco Take Bomba to the World

Héctor Barez "Coco" (German Baratto/Meinl)

richmond.edu 🇵🇷 Monday, February 22, 2021, FREE

Xiomara Laugart Celebrates Mi Salsa Kitchen’s 1st Anniversary with Cuban Timba

Xiomara Laugart, the Cuban trova legend (the artist)

MI SALSA KITCHEN, Lower East Side, Manhattan ~ From Guantamano, to Yerba Buena, to Broadway, Xiomara will sooth your soul. 🇨🇺

Los Aurora

Los Aurora (Clara Cardona)

Sunday, March 29, 2020
WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE
LE POISSON ROUGE
Greenwich Village, NYC
–
An entertaining blend of flamenco, jazz and rock that is part of the Nuevo Flamenco movement out of Barcelona, Spain.
–
Sponsored by
World Music Institute

Brian Lynch

Brian Lynch ~ Grammy-winning Jazz trumpet player and leader

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

Winter JazzFest (Voloshyn Roman/Dreamstime)

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 Thinks of Dizzy Gillespie Every Day

Arturo Sandoval (courtesy the artist)

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

Holman Trio. Courtesy the artists / Lincoln Center.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Live music Indigenous Chilean jazz
LINCOLN CENTER ~ Ancestral Chilean rhythms, cueca (Chilean national dance) and traditional jazz. FREE

Curtis Brothers & Circa ’95 Play Uptown Nights at Harlem Stage

The Curtis Brothers & Circa '95. Courtesy the artists / 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

Elio Villafranca Tells Stories of the African Diaspora on His Piano

Elio Villafranca. Courtesy the artist.

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

Alexandra Jackson "Legacy and Alchemy"

CITY WINERY, Hudson Square, Manhattan ~ A tribute to 60 years of bossa nova by a powerful blues and jazz singer with a band of great guest artists. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷

Django Reinhardt NY Festival

Django Reinhardt by William P. Gottlieb

Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen
Tuesday – Sunday
July 10 – 15, 2018

Arturo O’Farrill and Friends ¡ Adelante Cuba ¡ Festival at New York City Center

Ayodele Casel. Courtesy of the artist / New York City Center.

Saturday, April 28, 2018
New York City Center
Midtown, Manhattan
🇨🇺

Dorantes Plays Flamenco Jazz for the Flamenco Festival at Dizzy’s Club at Lincoln Center

DORANTES ~ Adam Ben Ezra, Dorantes, & Tim Ries. Courtesy of the Flamenco Festival / Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola.

DIZZY’S CLUB at JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle, Manhattan ~ Flamenco Festival. 🇪🇸

Winter JazzFest 2018 brings together 10,000 Jazz lovers

Winter JazzFest

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

Winter JazzFest 2017 Jazz marathon

Winter Jazz Fest

OPENING EVENTS
Thursday, January 5, 2017
JAZZ MARATHON
Friday-Saturday
January 6-7, 2017
SPECIAL SHOWS
Sunday-Tuesday
January 8-10, 2017

Rosa Passos sings romantic Brazilian Bossa Nova ballads

Rosa Passos

One of Brazil’s great romantic bossa nova singers
Blue Note Jazz Club
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
June 6 – 8, 2016

Escalandrum

New York ~ Oct 6, 2012 Birdland presented “Escalandrum,” the sextet of drummer Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla playing a tribute to his grandfather, the originator of Tango Jazz he called “Tango Nuevo,” with special appearances by Ute Lemper and Paquito D’Rivera.

REVIEW: Borges & Piazzolla in New York

Daniel Piazzolla at Birdland by Keith Widyolar

October 5, 2012
~
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

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