PRE-FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS
 

Bruce Reynolds Memorial Garden (BRMG) Proudly Presents:

 

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Free, 45-minute Jazz Interactive Workshops for Children (aged 1 ~ 8yrs).

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Do take advantage of these unique

workshops/ performances.

The children will love them.

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And then...

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Head down to Inwood Hill Park, where the festival begins!

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10 am - 10:45 am

Bruce Reynolds Memorial Garden in Isham Park

Click HERE for Directions

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Hayes Greenfield's Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz

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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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Children's interactive Jazz Workshop

- featuring Hayes Greenfield's Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz

• Hayes Greenfield - tenor sax

• Dave Hofstra - tuba

• Darrell Smith - drums

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INWOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL

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12:30 pm - 1:15 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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1:30 pm - 2:15 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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2:30 pm - 3:15 pm

Inwood Hill Park • Pat's Lawn

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Imani Winds

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IMANI WINDS, a Grammy winning ensemble, is an American wind quintet based in New York City, United States. The group was founded by flutist Valerie Coleman in 1997 and is known for its adventurous and diverse programming, which includes both established and newly composed works. The word Imani means "faith" in Swahili.

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• Brandon Patrick George, flute 

• Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe 

• Mark Dover, clarinet 

• Kevin Newton, french horn

• Monica Ellis, bassoon

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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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4:45 pm - 5:45 pm

Inwood Hill Park • Pat's Lawn

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Elio Villafranca / Jass Syncopators,

featuring vocalist Brianna Thomas

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ELIO VILLAFRANCO JASS SYNCOPATORS NONET, Born in the Pinar del Río province of Cuba, Steinway Artist, Grammy Nominated, and 2014 Jalc Millennium Swing Award! recipient pianist and composer Elio Villafranca was classically trained in percussion and composition at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba.

 

• Elio Villafranca - composer, piano

• Brianna Thomas - vocalist

• Bruce Williams - alto sax

• Chris Rogers - trumpet

• Sam Dillon - tenor sax

• Tom Guarna - guitar

• Stanley Ruvinov - bass

• Zach Adleman - drums 

• Mauricio Herrera - percussion

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6:00 pm - 7:15 pm

Inwood Hill Park • Pat's Lawn

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African Rhythms Alumni Sextet

 

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, Billy Harper, Sharp Radway and Frank Lacy, all extraordinary musicians and leaders in their own right, have joined together as the African Rhythms Alumni Sextet 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 SEXTET - featuring the music of NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston

 

• T.K. Blue, sax, flute, kalimba 

• Billy Harper, tenor sax

• Frank Lacy, trombone 

• Sharp Radway, piano 

• Alex Blake, bass 

• Chief Baba Neil Clarke, percussion 

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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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7 - 9:00 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.