Keep your cool in January at the Winter JazzFest marathon in the Village during APAP. Artists, including some Latin artists, perform for national booking agents. It sells out every year.
Get tickets at www.winterjazzfest.com
Winter JazzFest 2017
Winter Jazz Fest 2017 starts with a couple of opening events on Thursday, January 5. The Jazz marathon is Friday-Saturday, January 6-7. The festival closes with special shows Sunday-Tuesday, January 8-10, 2017.
A Full Festival Pass is $160.
Marathon 2-day Pass is $80 in advance.
Marathon 1-day Pass is $45 in advance.
Other shows are individually ticketed.
Latin Artists on Friday, January 6
New School 12th Street Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
The multi-Grammy® Spanish Harlem Orchestra big band Salsa dance band plays at 8pm. It is led by Puerto Rican New Yorker Oscar Hernández and features some fine musicians from El Barrio.
www.spanishharlemorchestra.com
Chilean tenor sax player Melissa Aldana plays at 9:20pm. Aldana plays straight ahead Jazz.
www.melissaaldana.com
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
Cuban folk/jazz singer Daymé Arocena plays at 6:20pm. She makes a delicious mix somewhere between a Santería ceremony and Jazz.
www.daymearocena.com
SOBs
204 Varick Street
Brazilian singer-songwriter Vinicius Cantuaria plays at 9:40pm. He plays contemporary pop over Bossa Nova.
www.vinicius.com
The Bitter End
147 Bleecker Street
Grammy®-nominated Colombian saxophonist and composer Jay Rodriguez plays at 1:20am. He plays straight ahead Jazz. Paquito D’Rivera became his mentor when Rodriguez was barely a teenager.
www.jayrodriguez.com
Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street
Saxophonist Roy Nathanson plays with Cuban-American pianist Arturo O’Farrill at 11:40pm. The duo are long-time collaborators. O’Farrill won a 2016 Grammy “for Best Latin Jazz Album.”
www.roynathanson.net
www.arturoofarrill.com
Zinc Bar gets points for being owned by an Argentine-American family.
Latin Artists on Saturday, January 7
New School 5th Floor Theater
55 West 13th Street NYC
Colombian Jazz harpist’s Edmar Castaneda World Ensemble plays at 9:40pm. The Colombian harp is a Native American instrument. Castaneda makes it sound like a host of Jazz and Classical angels.
www.edmarcastaneda.com
New School Glass Box Theater
55 West 13th Street
American trumpet player Adam O’Farrill’s Stranger Days plays at 9:20pm. Adam is the son of Cuban-American piano legend Arturo O’Farrill (and grandson of Chico), but Adam has his own chops.
www.adam-ofarrill.com
Subculture
45 Bleeker Street
Cuban Jazz pianist Harold López-Nussa plays at 10pm. He took first place in the Montreux Jazz Festival solo piano competition.
www.HaroldLopezNussa.com
Multi-Grammy® winning Cuban-American Jazz band Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble plays at 11:20pm. Every one of this band’s albums has won or been Grammy nominated.
www.ArturoOfarrill.com
Spanish Jazz pianist Chano Dominguez plays at 12:40am. Dominguez brings a Flamenco touch to straight ahead Jazz.
www.ChanoDominguez.info
Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street
Chilean Jazz singer Claudia Acuña and Chilean Connection plays at 7:40pm.
www.facebook.com/Claudiaacunamusic/