The 13th Annual 2017 NYC Winter Jazzfest | January 5-10, 2017
THIS IS OUR MUSIC PRESENTS The 2017 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST
Celebrating Its 13th Season | January 5-10, 2017
30+ New Acts Added to Previously Announced Lineup Including
SONGS OF FREEDOM with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja & Musical Director: Ulysses Owens, Jr., Arturo O’Farrill Octet, Kendrick Scott Oracle, Omer Avital, Somi, Ben Wendel’s Seasons Band, Scott Tixier, Hazmat Modine & Alash Ensemble, Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Jim Black, Claudia Acuña, Melissa Aldana, Black Rock Coalition’s Get Down, Ralph Peterson & Aggregate Prime, Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones, Aaron Goldberg & Leon Parker, Nir Felder, Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures, Becca Stevens & MANY MORE
Artist-in-Residence ANDREW CYRILLE will perform with HAITIAN FASCINATION & in duo with Saxophonist BILL MCHENRY; Cyrille Added to
SAM AMIDON Night Monday January 9 at (le) poisson rouge
FESTIVAL ADDS S.O.B.’s As Official Venue, Removes Judson Memorial Church From Previously Announced Venues List
Tentative Lineup, More To Be Announced
(Updates in blue text with • symbol in front of name):
• Aaron Goldberg and Leon Parker
• Adam O’Farrill’s Stranger Days
• Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Octet
Amina Claudine Myers
• Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones
• Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination
• Andrew Cyrille & Bill McHenry
• Andy Milne & The Seasons of Being
• Arturo O’Farrill Octet
Battle Trance
• Becca Stevens Trio
• Ben Allison & Think Free
• Ben Goldberg’s Invisible Guy
• Ben Wendel Seasons Band
Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan Duo
• Black Rock Coalition’s Get Down Revue
BREATHE: Conceived and Directed by Craig Harris
BRM: Coltrane Raga Tribute
Chico Freeman Plus+tet
• Claudia Acuña’s The Chilean Connection
Criss Cross – The Music of Monk and Bill Evans with Florian Weber, Donny McCaslin, and Dan Weiss
• Daniel Freedman
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Dave Douglas High Risk with Shigeto
David Murray Big Band
Daymé Arocena
• Deva Mahal
Donny McCaslin Group
Earth Wind and Brown featuring Butcher Brown and Nigel Hall
Edmar Castaneda World Ensemble
• Fleurine and the Boys From Brazil
Harold López-Nussa
• Hazmat Modine with Alash Ensemble
• Jaimeo Brown Transcendence
Jakob Bro / Thomas Morgan / Joey Baron
Jason Moran & The Bandwagon Plays Monk
• Jim Black’s MALAMUTE
• John Hébert’s Rambling Confessions
Justin Brown NYEUSI
Kandace Springs
• Kendrick Scott Oracle
Killiam Shakespeare
Kneebody
Kris Davis’ Duopoly
Madison McFerrin
Marc Ribot & The Young Philadelphians
Mary Halvorson Octet
• Melissa Aldana
Michael Leonhart Orchestra
Nate Smith +kinfolk
Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble
Nik Bärtsch’s Mobile
• Nir Felder Trio
• Omer Avital
Peter Bernstein’s Monk Trio
Pharoah Sanders
Quantic Live
• Ralph Peterson and Aggregate Prime
Ravi Coltrane / David Virelles Duo
• Roy Nathanson & Arturo O’Farrill
Russell Gunn’s Ethnomusicology
Sam Amidon
Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformations Suite
• Scott Tixier with special guest Tony Tixier
Shabaka & The Ancestors
• Somi
• Songs of Freedom w/ Dee Dee Bridgewater, Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja and Musical Director Ulysses Owens, Jr.
Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Steven Bernstein’s Universal Melody Brass Band
• TALIBAM! HARD VIBE featuring Matt Nelson & Ron Stabinsky
Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science
• Tigue
Tomasz Stanko NY Quartet
Tomeka Reid
Uri Caine Trio
Vinicius Cantuaria Quintet
William Parker / Cooper Moore / Hamid Drake / Rob Brown Quartet
• Zig-Zag Trio with Will Calhoun, Vernon Reid, and Melvin Gibbs
Since its founding in 2005, NYC Winter Jazzfest has cemented a reputation as a hotbed of cultural discovery, presenting new and exciting sounds and sights throughout New York City.
Praised by The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR and countless others, the festival, year-after-year, continues to grow at a rapid pace, from its original one-day, single-location program to a 2017 master plan that will put 150+ groups comprised of 600+ artists onto 13 stages over five nights across Downtown Manhattan. In 2015, the festival was voted “#1 Jazz Festival in North America” by JazzTimes Magazine and has become a pivotal destination for arts leaders and cultural cognoscenti who visit the city early in the year.
The marathon that takes place during the festival’s Friday and Saturday nights is recognized as a crucial, unique New York City nightlife offering, giving audiences full access to participating venues from early evening to deep into the wee hours of the morning. Winter Jazzfest is an unparalleled experience for all consumers of jazz, experimental sound, and global creative impulses–from hardcore fans to novices. In 2016, the festival welcomed over 8500 audience members. In 2017, the festival anticipates an estimated 10,000 audience members from New York City, the United States, Europe, and beyond.
Conceived as an event to showcase the latest and most cutting edge of jazz acts during the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Conference, NYC Winter Jazzfest, founded by New York concert impresario Brice Rosenbloom, has grown to truly epic proportions. It has become the definitive all-inclusive jazz event that offers a “state of the union” for jazz and its many stylistic camps from hot swing to avant garde to modern straight-ahead, post-bop, jazz-funk, fusion, hypermodern through-composed music and jazz-inflected world music. From party bands to ambient electronic groups to the most advanced compositional approaches–through Winter Jazzfest, fans, critics, industry members and novice listeners gain an opportunity to discover all that jazz world has to offer.
In 2017, Winter Jazzfest seeks to directly address some of the bleak realities facing our nation. This year we stand firmly with #BLACKLIVESMATTER, as police brutality and gross abuse of power have become the new normal. Jazz music was created by African American and Creole musicians as a form of self-expression over 100 years ago. Since then, it has had a long history as protest music from the blues hollers of the delta to the bebop revolution to the overtly political works of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Nina Simone, David Murray, Don Byron and Wynton Marsalis, among many others. It continues to be a vital art form within the black community. In support of the struggles facing black Americans in New York City and worldwide, this year the festival gives voice to the struggle through musical expression. Various artists will offer their own takes on racial profiling, police brutality and the broken criminal justice system as part of this year’s festival.
The signature Winter Jazzfest Marathon is scheduled for Friday January 6th and Saturday January 7th. This two-night event straddles venues on the North and South ends of Greenwich Village, taking over four stages at The New School and six stages south of Washington Square Park including returning venues (le) poisson rouge, S.O.B.’s, Zinc Bar, The Bitter End, The Django at The Roxy Hotel, Bowery Ballroom and nublu. More than 150 groups will perform over the two nights, featuring over 500 musicians. Continuing a tradition of supporting like-minded jazz presenters Winter Jazzfest is pleased to again feature the unique programming vision Search & Restore and New York Hot Jazz Festival who will each curate their own stages during these two-nights.
Winter Jazzfest welcomes all Arts Presenter conference badge-holders to obtain a single discounted Two-Day Marathon Pass to the 2017 WINTER JAZZFEST (good for Jan 6 & 7) by emailing [email protected]. Only 2017 APAP Conference attendees are able to RSVP for the discounted pass.
OFFICIAL FESTIVAL HASHTAG: #NYCWJF
www.winterjazzfest.com
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2017 WINTER JAZZFEST GENERAL SCHEDULE & TICKETING:
***TICKETS ON SALE NOW***
Thursday January 5, 2017 (at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street)
NYC Winter Jazzfest presents
PHAROAH SANDERS, SHABAKA AND THE ANCESTORS + GUESTS
7pm – Doors / 8pm Show
$35 ADV, $45 DOS
Friday January 6, 2017 (multiple venues around Greenwich Village)
NYC WINTER JAZZFEST MARATHON: DAY 1
13th edition of NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon featuring over 150 groups performing over two days at multiple different venues around Greenwich Village.
Check winterjazzfest.com for the full lineup, schedule updates, and more details.
5pm – Box Office Opens, Passes Available for Purchase and Pickup (Pickup Locations TBA)
$45 Single-Day WJF Marathon Festival Pass
$80 2-day Marathon WJF Pass
Saturday January 7, 2017 (multiple venues in Greenwich Village)
NYC WINTER JAZZFEST MARATHON: DAY 2
13th edition of NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon featuring over 150 groups performing over two days at multiple different venues around Greenwich Village.
Check winterjazzfest.com for the full lineup, schedule updates, and more details.
5pm – Box Office Opens, Passes Available for Purchase and Pickup (Pickup Locations TBA)
$45 Single-Day WJF Marathon Festival Pass
$80 2-day Marathon WJF Pass
Sunday January 8, 2017
THELONIOUS MONK 100th BIRTHDAY ROUND ROBIN – 12 IMPROVISORS WILL PLAY MONK’S CLASSIC ALBUM “SOLO MONK” IN VARIETY OF CONFIGURATIONS FROM SOLOS, DUOS & TRIOS
7pm – Doors / 8pm Show
$25 ADV, $30 DOS
Monday January 9, 2017 (at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street)
NYC Winter Jazzfest presents
SAM AMIDON EXTENDED WITH GUESTS SHAHZAD ISMAILY, BEN GOLDBERG, ANDREW CYRILLE & MORE
7pm – Doors / 8pm Show
$20 ADV, $25 DOS
Tuesday January 10, 2017
PERFORMANCE TBA
Details TBA
2017 WINTER JAZZFEST PARTICIPATING VENUES:
The New School Tishman Auditorium 63 Fifth Avenue NYC
The New School Auditorium on 12th Street 66 W. 12th Street NYC
The New School Jazz Building Glass Box Theater 55 West 13th Street NYC
The New School Jazz Building 5th Floor Theater 55 West 13th Street NYC
Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street
S.O.B.’s 204 Varick St, NYC
Subculture 45 Bleecker St NYC
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street NYC
Zinc Bar 82 West 3rd Street NYC
The Django at Roxy Hotel 2 6th Avenue NYC
Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St, NYC
nublu, 151 Avenue C, NYC
Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, NYC
2017 WINTER JAZZFEST TICKETING OPTIONS:
Multi-Day Festival Pass Options:
$80 – 2-day WJF Marathon Pass (January 6 AND 7)
PRICE TBA – 6-day WJF Full Festival Pass (includes Jan 5 – 10 shows)
Individual Tickets & Marathon Passes:
Jan 5 – Pharoah Sanders, Shabaka Hutchings, & Guests: $35 ADV, $45 DOS
Jan 6/7 – Winter Jazzfest Marathon Nights: $45 1-day / $80 2-day
Jan 8 – Solo Monk Round Robin: $25 ADV, $30 DOS
Jan 9 – Sam Amidon & Friends: $20 ADV, $25 DOS
APAP Delegate Discounted Admission:
(RSVP Required for verification and discount codes)
If you are a 2017 registered APAP delegate you have the opportunity to attend the 2017 NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon at a reduced price, please [email protected] for more details.
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