PRE-FESTIVAL WORKSHOP

Bruce's Garden

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10:00 am - 10:45 am

Bruce's Garden

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Hayes Greenfield's Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz

Children’s Interactive Jazz Workshop

 

 

Hayes Greenfield’s Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz is a highly 

interactive music education program that inspires all participants to take risks, gain confidence, and experience a sense of personal achievement by creating jazz through the art of improvisation!

 

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INWOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL

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Inwood Hill Park • Pat's Lawn

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12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Inwood Hill Park • Pat's Lawn

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Kevin Nathaniel Hylton & Spirit Ensemble

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The Spirit Ensemble has established itself as the primary source of music that traverses the African Diaspora. The enchanting sounds of the mbira, kora, bala, steel pan, and bamboo flute comprise the essênce of Spirit's sound and provide the foundation for rhythmic travels.

Spirit Ensemble! One of the very few bands ever to fuse the many facets of African Global Music seamlessly and make it all swing.

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• Kevin Nathaniel - composer, mbira, vocal

• Salieu Suso - kora, vocal

• Hasan Bakr - djembe, vocal 

• Colette Michaan - flute

• Chief Baba Neil Clarke - percussion

• Bill Dotts - bass

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1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Inwood Hill Park • Pat's Lawn

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Alfredo Colon Quartet

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Dominican-American saxophonist and composer Alfredo Colon is a proud New York City native. His playing has been described as authoritative and fiery yet mournful and melodic. Drawing on his interest in Dominican folklore and the works of visionary saxophonists Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, Colon creates a musical atmosphere that highlights beauty by framing it in disarray. 

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• Alfredo Colón - composer, sax, flute

• Lex Korten- piano

• Steve Williams - bass

• Connor Parks - drums

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2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Inwood Hill Park • Pat's Lawn

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African Rhythms Alumni Ensemble

 

NEA JAZZ MASTER RANDY WESTON transformed the music’s global impact. From Brooklyn, New York to Rabat, Morocco, the pianist, composer, and community ambassador integrated popular sounds and folkloric traditions from across the African continent into his own legendary performances with fellow artists from across the world. After joining the ancestors in 2018, his spiritual and musical legacy continued to live on and impact listeners worldwide. This we greatly owe to a group of outstanding musicians who were an irreplaceable part of Randy Weston’s musical family and life journey – the former members of Randy Weston’s African Rhythms.
 

T.K. Blue, Chief Baba Neil Clarke, Alex Blake, Sharp Radway and Frank Lacy, all extraordinary musicians and leaders in their own right, have joined together as the African Rhythms Alumni Ensemble to carry on and celebrate Dr. Weston’s music, spiritual message, and the close connection they each shared with their beloved “Baba Randy”, and with each other. They are united and led by a shared mission, one that is quite brilliantly defined by the title of T.K. Blue’s 2019 album dedicated to Dr. Weston, which they all contributed to, entitled “The Rhythms Continue.”

 

AFRICAN RHYTHMS ALUMNI ENSEMBLE - featuring the music of NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston

 

• T.K. Blue, sax, flute, kalimba 

• Frank Lacy, trombone 

• Sharp Radway, piano 

• Alex Blake, bass 

• Chief Baba Neil Clarke, percussion 

 

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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Inwood Hill Park • Pat's Lawn

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Steve Turre Sextet

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STEVE TURRE was passed the jazz torch early in his career by some of the music’s greatest masters – Art Blakey, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Woody Shaw and Ray Charles, among others. In recent years he’s kindled the same flame in a younger crop of rising stars. On his new album, Generations, Turre brings the eras together, inviting still- vital legends to join a gifted band of rising starts to pay tribute to the elders who have helped shape his sound.

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• Steve Turre, composer, arranger, trombone & shells

• Jeffery Miller - assistant trombone

• Wallace Roney Jr. - trumpet

• Mike Lee - sax
• Oscar Perez - piano

• Dishan Harper - bass

• OrionTurre - drums

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JAM SESSION

Inwood Farm • 600 West 218th Street

 

Join us for an after-party and jam session at the INWOOD FARM, hosted by trumpeter Melvin Vines!

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5 - 7:00 pm Performance / Audience Participation

 

Inwood Farm • 218th & Indian Road

 

Melvin "Tiger" Vines Quintet

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Trumpetist, composer, band leader, painter and sculptor Tiger has performed with Sun Ra Arkestra, Bassist Jymmie Merritt and others.

The Harlem Jazz Machine, his former band, could be heard weekly for over a decade at Harlem's world famous St. Nicks Pub & Paris Blues.

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• Melvin “Tiger” Vines - flugelhorn/trumpet

• TC III - vocals

 

Guest Artist

• Jack Glottman - keyboard

• Lonnie Plaxico - bass

• Kahlil Kwame - drums

 

 

Enjoy! the after-festival festivities.