JAZZMOBILE'S SUMMERFEST RETURNS TO NEW YORK CITY
Oldest Continuous Summer Jazz Festival to Return on June 21; Series Brings Top Talent to Neighborhoods Across the Five Boroughs
NEW YORK, NY--New York's oldest continuous--and mostly free--summer jazz festival will swing into neighborhoods across the city this summer with an eclectic mix of artists. Among the more than 40 concerts throughout the five boroughs being presented in the Jazzmobile Summerfest are the next generation of jazz innovators, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, saxophonist Yosvany Terry, jazz organist Akiko Tsuruga, and trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, Latin jazz suaperstar and percussionist Ray Mantilla and Afro-Cuban pianist Arturo O'Farrill and jazz legends Jimmy Heath, Houston Person and Barry Harris. Renowned for its summer mobile concerts that have enlivened the parks and streets of New York since 1964, Jazzmobile reaches approximately 100,000 New Yorkers annually.
Highlights of this year's Summerfest include the Harlem International Jazz Festival, bringing internationally renowned artists and artists with origins in other cultures to four historic parks in Harlem from July 5 through July 9; the “Great Jazz on the Great Hill" concert in Central Park on Saturday, July 10; and the popular Jazzmobile Jazz Vocal Competition, which confers the honor “best of the best" jazz singer on one very talented vocalist on Monday, July 26. Throughout July and August, Grant's Tomb and Jackie Robinson Park will be transformed into jazz stages with concerts at 7:00 pm each Wednesday and Friday respectively; during the week Jazzmobile presents concerts in neighborhoods across the city. The jazz festival kick-off event is scheduled for Monday, June 21 with a New Orleans-style second line music and dance performance that will grace three New York City neighborhoods--Hudson Square (Soho), Lincoln Square (upper West Side) and Harlem--as part of the Make Music New York Festival.
Jazzmobile has been bringing quality jazz performances and education programs to New York Metropolitan area residents since its founding in 1964 by pianist, educator, and NEA Jazz Master Dr. Billy Taylor and arts patron, the late Daphne Arnstein. The non-profit is working to ensure the future of jazz by training the next generation of artists in its Saturday Jazz Workshops and lecture-demonstrations in New York City public schools. For Summerfest schedule updates, log onto jazzmobile.org.
Oldest Continuous Summer Jazz Festival to Return on June 21; Series Brings Top Talent to Neighborhoods Across the Five Boroughs
NEW YORK, NY--New York's oldest continuous--and mostly free--summer jazz festival will swing into neighborhoods across the city this summer with an eclectic mix of artists. Among the more than 40 concerts throughout the five boroughs being presented in the Jazzmobile Summerfest are the next generation of jazz innovators, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, saxophonist Yosvany Terry, jazz organist Akiko Tsuruga, and trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, Latin jazz suaperstar and percussionist Ray Mantilla and Afro-Cuban pianist Arturo O'Farrill and jazz legends Jimmy Heath, Houston Person and Barry Harris. Renowned for its summer mobile concerts that have enlivened the parks and streets of New York since 1964, Jazzmobile reaches approximately 100,000 New Yorkers annually.
Highlights of this year's Summerfest include the Harlem International Jazz Festival, bringing internationally renowned artists and artists with origins in other cultures to four historic parks in Harlem from July 5 through July 9; the “Great Jazz on the Great Hill" concert in Central Park on Saturday, July 10; and the popular Jazzmobile Jazz Vocal Competition, which confers the honor “best of the best" jazz singer on one very talented vocalist on Monday, July 26. Throughout July and August, Grant's Tomb and Jackie Robinson Park will be transformed into jazz stages with concerts at 7:00 pm each Wednesday and Friday respectively; during the week Jazzmobile presents concerts in neighborhoods across the city. The jazz festival kick-off event is scheduled for Monday, June 21 with a New Orleans-style second line music and dance performance that will grace three New York City neighborhoods--Hudson Square (Soho), Lincoln Square (upper West Side) and Harlem--as part of the Make Music New York Festival.
Jazzmobile has been bringing quality jazz performances and education programs to New York Metropolitan area residents since its founding in 1964 by pianist, educator, and NEA Jazz Master Dr. Billy Taylor and arts patron, the late Daphne Arnstein. The non-profit is working to ensure the future of jazz by training the next generation of artists in its Saturday Jazz Workshops and lecture-demonstrations in New York City public schools. For Summerfest schedule updates, log onto jazzmobile.org.
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