Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour

As one of the world’s longest running and most iconic events, the Monterey Jazz Festival celebrates its 65th year with a must-hear once-in-a-lifetime ensemble. Featuring Tony- and GRAMMY-winning NEA Jazz Master vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater alongside GRAMMY-winning vocalist Kurt Elling, and critically acclaimed rising star saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, this stellar Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour group will be directed by visionary pianist Christian Sands and anchored by his longtime rhythm section of bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Clarence Penn.

Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA

Jazz Coalition presents: DJ Logic - “Remembrance"

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Jazz Coalition presents: Fay Victor – “Sirens & Silences"

About Sirens & Silences:'Sirens and Silences' is a ‘memory document’ composition, created to reflect a specific, space, place and time: New York City from April-May 2020 when New York was the epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic, the global ground zero for the burgeoning pandemic.The city went into lockdown or ‘pause’ on March 20, 2020, New Yorkers did what we always do - we hunkered down for the common good. Some fled the city but most of us stayed inside to stem the tide of this new NEW malaise that swooped in and found many of us helpless. We stayed inside. Many of us died. So the quiet was deafening, punctuated for days only by the sound of sirens. Far and near. On repeat.  As a composer, I’m thinking a lot about recreating memory through sound from a place of actuality. In other words these tones are really what I heard during that time and space.  What we all heard as the players also lived through this time in the city.  Sirens & Silences aims to portray this sonic environment and the mood of this specific time for New York City, when it sounded like a place that didn’t exist in the same space before. As a lifelong New Yorker, I never heard the city sound the way it did then. Let these sounds be a reminder of what was and what should never be again. Thank you to the Jazz Coalition for Commissioning Sirens & Silences and the amazing players that will perform Sirens & Silences at the FalconJosh Modney (violin)Marika Hughes (cello)Kalia Vandever (trombone)Lee Odom (clarinet) 

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Jazz Coalition presents: Elio Villafranca "Illustration of A Transcendent Heart”

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Jazz Coalition presents: Helen Sung - "Temporality"

Sara Caswell: Guest ViolinistDavid Wong: BassJohn Ellis: HornsAnwar Marshall: Drums   

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Somi - The Joyce and George T Wein Shape of Jazz Series

Offering a transatlantic mix of modern jazz, soul, and African pop, Somi "creates an elegant amalgam of the musics and bi-continental experiences that have shaped her life” (NPR). Her latest album, Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba, is an all-star tribute to the great “Mama Africa” and a companion project to Dreaming Zenzile, Somi's critically acclaimed original musical. For her Carnegie Hall debut, Somi presents new electro-acoustic chamber arrangements from that album and a lush retrospective of her most beloved repertoire. Somi - VoiceMazz Swift - ViolinDana Lyn - Violin IICameren Anai - ViolaDara Hankins - CelloOtis Brown III - drumsToru Dodo - pianoMichael Olatuja - acoustic bassMyron Walden - saxophones  

Zankel Hall @ Carnegie Hall|New York, NY, New York, NY

Jazz Coalition presents: Steven Bernstein - “Tricks & Treats”

Composed during the global pandemic lockdown, Bernstein based "Tricks & Treats" - originally titled "Pandemic Possibilities" - on his exploration of musical shapes and rhythms, whittled down to the core essentials. This premiere performance showcases the arrangement for the spectacular Millennial Territory Orchestra._____________________________Featuring the Millennial Territory Orchestra:Steven Bernstein: Trumpet Curtis Fowlkes: Trombone Sam Bardfeld: Violin Doug Wieselman: Clarinet Peter Apfelbaum: Tenor Saxophone Briggan Krauss: Baritone Saxophone Matt Munisteri: Guitar,Vocals Ben Allison: Bass Ben Perowsky: Drums   

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Jazz Coalition presents: Tim Berne & Gregg Belisle-Chi “Mars”

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Jazz Coalition presents: Sarah Elizabeth Charles - “Angel Spark”

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Jazz Coalition presents: Wallace Roney, Jr. ""Noir"

Wallace Roney, Jr. - trumpetOscar Williams - PianoDarrell Green - DrumsTom Dicarlo - Bass

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Helen Sung: Quartet+ with Harlem Quartet - The Joyce and George T Wein Shape of Jazz Series

Best known as a leading figure in jazz, pianist and composer Helen Sung also has an extensive background in classical music and violin performance, bringing these musical worlds together in Quartet+. In this program, her outstanding jazz quartet is joined by the infinitely versatile, Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet to apply the uniquely powerful double-quartet treatment to works by iconic women in jazz, as well as new original pieces by Sung.Helen Sung: Quartet+ with Harlem QuartetHelen Sung, pianoJohn Ellis, tenor saxophone & fluteDavid Wong, bassRudy Royston, drums  

Zankel Hall @ Carnegie Hall|New York, NY, New York, NY

Jazz Coalition presents: Matt Wilson Quartet "The Good Trouble Suite"

“There are a few more emphatically dazzling drummers working today, but almost nobody in Wilson’s peer group with a broader sense of jazz history, or a more natural sense of time, or a stronger signature as a bandleader, or more goodwill among his fellow players.” - Nate Chinen, Jazz TimesFeaturing: Jeff Lederer: ReedsKirk Knuffke: Cornet Chris Lightcap: Bass Matt Wilson: Leader, Composer, DrumsThe Good Trouble SuiteDedicated to Rep. John Lewis & Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. the Suite comprises three movements: RBG | Walk with the Wind | Good Trouble Written by Matt Wilson and arranged for big band by Jeff Lederer, it debuted in 2021 with the Kansas All State Jazz Ensemble.  

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