Taking place next year from 13th to 17th January in New York, the Winter Jazzfest will present more than 100 concerts held by up and coming and established jazz musicians.
With the next edition opening night, the festival aims to celebrate collective creativity as a whole by presenting concerts of three ensembles without a leader: The Ex, a duet by Bill Laswell & Colin Stetson and the trio Happy Apple whose drummer Dave King will be artist in residence. We listened King in Sarajevo at 16th Jazz Fest when he performed as a member of the trio The bad Plus.
Saxophonist Kamasi Washington and his guests will perform on second festival day, while on the third and fourth day, the audience will have the chance to listen to tens of concerts on 11 locations during a concert marathon this festival is known for.
The ECM artists showcase within the festival program will present 13 concerts during two nights played by the ensembles of Chris Potter, Mark Turner, Vijay Iyer, Avishai Cohen, David Viralles…
The festival ends on 17th January with a concert of the Rova Saxophone Quartet presenting reinterpretations from John Coltrane‘s album Ascension.
The impressive list of performers, with more names to be added until the beginning of 12th Winter Jazzfest, follows below:
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: DAVE KING
AL STRONG
ALICIA HALL MORAN WITH BRANDON ROSS
AMIR ELSAFFAR AND TWO RIVERS
BEN WILLIAMS & SOUND EFFECT
BILL LASWELL
BRANDON SEABROOK POWER PLANT
BUMPER JACKSONS
BUTLER, BERNSTEIN & THE HOT 9
CAMILA MEZA
CHANNELING COLTRANE – ROVA’S ELECTRIC ASCENSION WITH NELS CLINE
CHARENEE WADE GROUP: THE MUSIC OF GIL SCOTT-HERON AND BRIAN JACKSON
CHARGAUX
CHRIS MORRISSEY’S STANDARD CANDLE (W/ MIKE LEWIS)
CHRIS SPEED TRIO
CHRIS WASHBURNE’S ACID MAMBO PROJECT
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE
CHRISTIAN SANDS
COLIN STETSON
CORY HENRY… THE REVIVAL
CYRO BAPTISTA’S BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS
CYRUS CHESTNUT’S AFRICAN REFLECTIONS
DAVE KING TRUCKING COMPANY
DAWN OF MIDI
DAYNA STEPHENS: 3WI FEATURING SAM YAHEL
DITHER
DJ MARK DE CLIVE LOWE
DJ RAYDAR ELLIS
DON BYRON QUARTET
DR. LONNIE SMITH’S EVOLUTION
ELI DEGIBRI
EMILE PARISIEN QUARTET
EVAN CHRISTOPHER’S CLARINET ROAD FEATURING HILARY GARDNER
FABIAN ALMAZAN W/ RHIZOME
FORRO IN THE DARK PLAYS ZORN
FRANK CATALANO
FREELANCE
GILAD HEKSELMAN
GOGO PENGUIN
GORDON AU’S GRAND ST STOMPERS WITH TAMAR KORN AND MOLLY RYAN
GREGOIRE MARET AND THE INNER VOICES WITH GUEST JEAN BAYLOR
GREGORIO URIBE BIG BAND
HAPPY APPLE
HOLLER & BAM WITH TOSHI REAGON & ALLISON MILLER
IBRAHIM MAALOUF
JAMES BRANDON LEWIS
JAMES CARNEY SEXTET
JAMES FRANCIES’ KINETIC
JAMES “BLOOD” ULMER
JAY RODRIGUEZ EVOLUTIONS
JEFF LEDERER’S BROOKLYN BLOWHARDS PLAY ALBERT AYLER AND SONGS OF THE SEA
JIM BLACK TRIO
JOEY ARIAS: BASIC BLACK
JON-ERIK KELLSO & THE EARREGULARS FEATURING KAT EDMONSON
JOSE JAMES
JULIAN LAGE TRIO
KAKI KING
KAMASI WASHINGTON
KEYON HAROLD
KING
KRIS BOWERS
LAKECIA BENJAMIN
MAKAYA MCCRAVEN
MARC CARY’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
MARK DE CLIVE LOWE’S CHURCH
MARK GUILIANA JAZZ QUARTET
MARIKA HUGHES
MATANA ROBERTS
MAURICE BROWN
MEKLIT
MICHAEL MWENSO & BRIANNA THOMAS LOUIS & ELLA TRIBUTE
MIKE DAVIS’ NEW WONDERS
MIVOS QUARTET AND DAN BLAKE
MONTY ALEXANDER AND THE HARLEM KINGSTON EXPRESS
NAYTRONIX
NICOLE HENRY
NO BS! BRASS BAND
NUBLU ORCHESTRA “WE PLAY FOR YOU, BUTCH MORRIS”
OGJB QUARTET W/ OLIVER LAKE, GRAHAM HAYNES, JOE FONDA, BARRY ALTSCHUL
OHAD TALMOR LARGE ENSEMBLE
OSCAR NORIEGA QUARTET
PEDRITO MARTINEZ
QUARKTET BURNT PLAYS ORNETTE, SUNNY, AND WAYNE
RED BARAAT
REID ANDERSON WITH ANDREW D’ANGELO & BILL MCHENRY
RENE MARIE
REZ ABBASI’S JUNCTION
RHYTHM FUTURE QUARTET
ROBERTA GAMBARINI
ROY HARGROVE
SAMY DAUSSAT GYPSEY TRIBUTE TO SERGE GAINSBOURG
SARAH NEUFELD & COLIN STETSON
SARAH VAUGHAN & CLIFFORD BROWN REIMAGINED
SEXMOB@20
SHAI MAESTRO TRIO
SHAREL CASSITY & ELEKTRA
SLINGBAUM’S RAVEL REIMAGINED
SOFIA REI
SUN RA ARKESTRA DIRECTED BY MARSHALL ALLEN
SYLVAIN RIFFLET “MECHANICS”
TAKUYA KURODA
TATIANA EVA-MARIE & THE AVALON JAZZ BAND FEATURING ORAN ETKIN
TERRACE MARTIN
THE EX
THEO CROKER
THIEFS & GUESTS
TIERNEY SUTTON
TOM MCDERMOTT
TONGUES IN TREES
VECTOR FAMILIES FEAT. DAVE KING & ANTHONY COX
VÉRONIQUE HERMANN SAMBIN & XAVIER RICHARDEAU
WILL CALHOUN CELEBRATING ELVIN JONES
YELLOWJACKETS
YOSVANY TERRY
CHES SMITH / CRAIG TABORN / MAT MANERI
CHRIS POTTER QUARTET
CRAIG TABORN
DAVID TORN
DAVID VIRELLES’ MBOKO
ETHAN IVERSON / MARK TURNER DUO
MARK TURNER QUARTET
MICHAEL FORMANEK LARGE ENSEMBLE
RALPH ALESSI QUARTET
THEO BLECKMANN GROUP
TIM BERNE GROUP
VIJAY IYER TRIO