Monday, December 30, 2013

Preview- Winter Jazzfest 2014, New York City, January 7th-11th, 2014. Winter Jazzfest Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary With Over 90 Performances


Preview:

Celebrating its Tenth Anniversary -

Winter Jazzfest 2014, New York City, January 7-11, 2014,



Preview and photo credits/copyrights:

E. Joyce Glasgow, www.artsandculturescene.com

All photos are of last year’s Winter Jazzfest 2013. 


Winter Jazzfest is celebrating its tenth anniversary with five nights of dynamic jazz in New York City.

Le Poisson Rouge will feature a kickoff concert by Bobby Previte’s group, Terminals, with Nels Cline, John Medeski, So Percussion, and Helado Negro as the opening act, on January 7th.

Blue Note Records 75th Anniversary Concert will take place on January 8th at The Town Hall, featuring Robert Glasper and Jason Moran, with special guests, Ravi Coltrane, Bilal, Eric Harland and Alan Hampton.

Blue Note Records will continue its 75th anniversary celebration on January 9th at Le Poisson Rouge, featuring the Revive Big Band, with special guests Bilal and Dr. Lonnie Smith, plus the Wallace Roney Orchestra playing Wayne Shorter’s compositions, Universe, Twin Dragons and Legend, never released music written for Miles Davis, conducted by David Weiss.

There will be a two-night music marathon in eight Greenwich Village venues, featuring over ninety, yes, ninety jazz groups, on January 10th and 11th. Venues are Le Poisson Rouge, The Bitter End, The Blue Note, Judson Church, Subculture, Bowery Electric, Zinc Bar and the NYU Lounge.

The two-night music marathon features a phenomenally stellar line up of jazz groups, of incredible, intriguing musical variety and looks to be two remarkable evenings for jazz lovers, not to be missed. This is an ambitious lineup and the most impressive over all to date for Winter Jazzfest. Just a handful of the remarkable performers are:  Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society; Henry Threadgill’s  “Ensemble Double-Up” In Remembrance of Lawrence Butch Morris, Elliott Sharp’s Orchestra Carbon, Michele Rosewoman’s New Yor-Uba; Slavic Soul Party! Plays Ellington: The Far East Suite; Roy Hargrove Quintet; Rene Marie; Don Byron’s Six Musician Group; Hypnotic Brass Ensemble; Matthew Shipp Trio; Tim Berne Snakeoil; No BS! Brass; ABRAXAS- John Zorn’s Book of Angels by Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, and so many more fabulous musicians.

Video of the No BS! Brass Band below.

For complete information visit www.winterjazzfest.com
  

Rudresh Mahanthappa


Gregory Porter
The Cookers

Gregory Porter

Amina Figarova
Catherine Russell


Amina Figarova


Catherine Russell

Monty Alexander


Monty Alexander


Don Byron

Don Byron


Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra

Toshi Reagon


James Carter

Celebrate Great Women of Blues and Jazz with Toshi Reagon, Allison Miller and Friends

The Cookers, Cecil McBee, Acoustic Bass

The Big Picture featuring David Krakauer

The Big Picture featuring David Krakauer, Adam Rogers, Guitar

Toshi Reagon

The Cookers, George Cables, Piano