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

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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Fleur Seule Plays Latin Jazz at the Hard Rock Hotel

Tuesday, February 18, 2023
Times Square Theater District
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Antônio Carlos Jobim wrote The Girl From Ipanema

Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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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

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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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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Tito Rodríguez ¡El Inolvidable! is Tributed by 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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Graciela of Machito & His Afro-Cubans Was Great Latin Jazz Singer

Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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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

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

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

CITY WINERY, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇵🇷

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

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

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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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

BRYANT PARK, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺

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

TERRAZA 7, Elmhurst, Queens 🇨🇺

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

PBS THIRTEEN
July 16 – August 13, 2021
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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

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

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

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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Sponsored by
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 Thinks of Dizzy Gillespie Every Day

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

Curtis Brothers & Circa ’95 Play Uptown Nights 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

Elio Villafranca Tells Stories of the African Diaspora on His Piano

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rosa Passos sings romantic Brazilian Bossa Nova ballads

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.