Winter Jazzfest: 2019 lineup & tix (Meshell Ndegeocello, Ezra Collective, more)
The 15th annual Winter Jazzfest happens January 4-12 at clubs all over NYC. Meshell Ndegeocello will be the 2019 artist in residence, and the lineup includes Pharoah Sanders, Terence Blanchard feat. The E-Collective, Amina Claudine Myers, Amir Elsaffar’s Rivers of Sound, Blake Mills, Donny McCaslin Group, Kandace Springs, Mary Halvorson Code Girl, Pedrito Martinez Group, The Juju Exchange, Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn, and more.
For the second year, BBC Music Introducing & PRS Foundation will present a U.K. Jazz stage hosted by Gilles Peterson featuring emerging British acts, including Ezra Collective, Yazmine Lace, Yessef Dayes, Emma-Jean Thackray, and more.
For the first time, the Winter Jazzfest Marathon will happen across two weekends, with a “Half Marathon” happening January 5 at six venues in Greenwich Village, and then the regular two-day Marathon happening January 11 & 12 with more than 100 artists across 11 venues in Lower Manhattan. Tickets for the 2019 Winter Jazzfest go on sale Friday, October 26 at noon.
The festival has also joined Keychange, a European music industry initiative for gender parity that aims to make Jazzfest 50% gender equitable by 2022.
Check out the full lineup for Winter Jazzfest 2019 below.
WINTER JAZZFEST – 2019 LINEUP
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
(ARTIST IN RESIDENCE)
AKENYA
ALEXIS CUADRADO GROUP
PERFORMS SHOES (LIVE SILENT FILM SCORE)
ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ &
PEDRITO MARTINEZ DUO
ALLISON MILLER AND CARMEN STAAF
SCIENCE FAIR
AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS
AMIR ELSAFFAR’S RIVERS OF SOUND
ANGEL BAT DAWID & THE BROTHAHOOD
ARTIFACTS TRIO (TOMEKA REID,
NICOLE MITCHELL, MIKE REED)
BEN LAMAR GAY
BEN WENDEL “HIGH HEART”
BILLY HART QUARTET
BLAKE MILLS & PINO PALLADINO
BRIA SKONBERG
BUTCHER BROWN
CLEAVER, CLINE & OCHS
DAVID VIRELLES SOLO
DONNY MCCASLIN GROUP
EDMAR CASTANEDA
EMMAJEAN THACKERAY
EXPANSIONS: THE DAVE LIEBMAN GROUP
EZRA COLLECTIVE
GARY BARTZ PLAYS
ANOTHER PLANET WITH PHAROAH SANDERS
GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA PLAYS MOONDOG
GILLES PETERSON
JASON LINDNER’S NOW VS NOW
JD ALLEN ENCOUNTERS DAVID MURRAY
JENNY SCHEINMAN &
ALLISON MILLER’S PARLOUR GAME
JEREMY CUNNINGHAM
JOEL ROSS
KANDACE SPRINGS
KASSA OVERALL BLUE SWAMINI
KASSA OVERALL TRIO FEATURING MARK SHIM
LARRY GRENADIER
LEYLA MCCALLA
LIEBMAN, RUDOLPH & DRAKE
MAKAYA MCCRAVEN
MARIA GRAND
MARY HALVORSON CODE GIRL
MATHIAS EICK
MATTHEW STEVENS TRIO
MELISSA ALDANA
MICHAEL FORMANEK, MARY HALVORSON,
TIM BERNE
MIKEL PATRICK AVERY’S PLAY
NATE WOOD: FOUR
NUBYA GARCIA
PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP
POCKET SCIENCE W/ GARY BARTZ,
KAHIL EL ZABAR, JAMAALADEEN TACUMA,
ROBERT IRVING III
RALPH ALESSI QUINTET FEATURING
RAVI COLTRANE
RALPH PETERSON AND THE MESSENGER LEGACY
ROXY COSS QUINTET
SAMORA PINDERHUGHES
TRANSFORMATIONS SUITE
SARAH ELIZABETH CHARLES AND SCOPE
SEUN KUTI
SHAI MAESTRO TRIO
SISTERHOOD OF SWING
(LED BY BRIA SKONBERG)
SPENCER ZAHN
SUBTLE DEGREES: TRAVIS LAPLANTE
& GERALD CLEAVER
TAKUYA KURODA
TAWIAH
TERENCE BLANCHARD FEATURING
THE ECOLLECTIVE
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
THE JUJU EXCHANGE
THEO BLECKMANN AND THE WESTERLIES
TIA FULLER
UNFOLD ORDINARY MIND
VIJAY IYER & CRAIG TABORN DUO
WILL MILLER’S RESAVOIR
YAZMIN LACEY
YUSSEF DAYES
