Saxophonist/Clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera is an international treasure: A star since childhood, a featured soloist at 17 with Cuba’s National Symphony, founding member of the legendary Afro-Cuban jazz fusion group Irakere and Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra, over 30 albums, 14 Grammys, an NEA Jazz Master, a Kennedy Center Legend…the list is endless. With trumpeter/flugelhornist Diego Urcola, pianist Alex Brown, bassist Hamish Smith and drummer Eric Doob, Paquito will make more history in Tarrytown.

“Extraordinary” best describes Shunzo Ohno. Considered Japan’s greatest trumpeter while still a teenager, recruited to Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1974, his rise to jazz’s pinnacle — Grammy-winning recordings and international awards – came while overcoming cancer and a serious car accident. Incorporating traditional jazz, hip hop, and Japanese melodies in his music, he creates a tapestry that is distinctly Shunzo Ohno to inspire and unite audiences globally.

Thursday, Dec 5th    6 – 8 pm
Artist Conversation at 7 pm

Wine and cheese will be served. Free to attend!

The Jazz Forum Winter 2020 Art Exhibit “Impressions of Color” features art by:

Gerald Cannon: https://www.cannonmusicnart.com/

Adam Shultz: https://www.adamshultz.com/

Alexis Wheeler: http://awheelerart.com/

Canadian-born Renee Rosnes is one of her generation’s most acclaimed pianists and composers. With 17 albums as a leader, celebrated side work (with legends like Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, J.J. Johnson, James Moody and Ron Carter), plus playing in jazz supergroups OTB, the SF Jazz Collective and, most recently, forming the all-star ensemble Artemis, she’s been an award-winning international star since moving to New York in the 1980s.

See the Renee Rosnes Quartet feat. Steve Nelson, vibes, Peter Washington, bass and Lewis Nash, drums. 

Jazz Forum Arts is very proud to present the world premiere of “Voyages” for jazz quintet and string quartet. This extended work, inspired by the writings of Ben’s grandfather, an immigrant to the U.S. who campaigned against the racism and oppression Asian-Americans faced in World War II, features Ben’s long-standing quintet augmented by a stellar string section.  

See the Ben Kono Group feat Ben Kono: woodwinds/composition, Pete McCann: guitar, Mike Holober: piano, Jared Schonig: drums, Matt Clohesy: bass, Sara Caswell: violin, Meg Okura: violin, Lois Martin: viola, Jody Redhage Ferber: cello.

This performance was made possible by the 2018 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant and funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

For over two decades, the Bill Charlap Trio – with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington – has reigned as one of jazz’s top groups, displaying jaw-dropping chemistry and on-the-fly interactivity, the result of their superior technique and hard-earned experience. Time Magazine wrote that Charlap “approaches a song the way a lover approaches his beloved. When he sits down to play, the result is an embrace, an act of possession.”

Known as one of the finest pianists of the past 60 years, Eddie Palmieri is a bandleader, arranger and composer of salsa and Latin jazz. His playing skillfully fuses the rhythm of his Puerto Rican heritage with the complexity of his jazz influences: Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner as well as his older brother, Charlie Palmieri.

A 10-time Grammy winner, NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Master, Palmieri is known for his unconventional and innovative sound that mixes American jazz with Afro-Caribbean rhythms that encompasses elements of salsa, funk, soul, and jazz. 

“Over his renowned career, Eddie Palmieri has evolved from rebel Mambo King to wise sage of salsa.” —Miami Herald

“Palmieri has been making the world dance since he started playing music…” —Miami Herald

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