Upcoming Events
November 1, 2016The Pedrito Martinez Group
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem invites you to its 2nd Annual Harlem Shout Fall Benefit Concert featuring GRAMMY nominated Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez and The Pedrito Martinez Group. Proceeds from…
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October 11, 2016The Legatees
A previously unpublished photo of Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis is the centerpiece of a gallery of musicians who spoke to their generations about the great legacy of African-American genius….
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September 16, 2016Deadline to Apply to Fall Internships
NJMH internships offer an unparalleled opportunity to gain in-depth work experience with a not-for-profit organization that is a quickly expanding force for jazz in New York City and the world.
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November 21, 2016Dayna Stephens Group featuring Patrick Bartley, Jr.
Since the release of his 2007 disc, The Timeless Now (CTA), Dayna Stephens has emerged as one of his generation’s most distinguished modern jazz tenor saxophonists and composers. He hones…
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October 20, 2016Hamiet Bluiett
For more than 55 years, Hamiet Bluiett has pushed the limits of the baritone saxophone while exploring a musical path that includes co-founding the Black Artists Group of St. Louis,…
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November 7, 2016The Conversation Continued with Arturo O’Farrill
GRAMMY Award-winning pianist and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill will reflect on the journey of his father, composer Chico O’Farrill, from Cuba to Manhattan. He will discuss his own journeys in reverse,…
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December 13, 2016Raydar Ellis
Revive Music hosts an intimate discussion with Berklee College of Music songwriting professor of Hip-Hop Brian ”Raydar” Ellis and special guests discussing the impact of Kendrick Lamar’s widely successful album…
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September 20, 2016Harlem Celebrates Tito Puente
To celebrate the Museum’s new Tito Puente exhibit opening in September at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, we will have live music as well as three of Puente’s closest…
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September 13, 2016Benny Carter’s Cashmere Coat
Before breaking the color line in 1940s Hollywood, Benny Carter was a king in the Harlem music scene. Carter biographer/producer Ed Berger will join us as we trace Carter’s path…
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November 3, 2016Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era
Jazz historian and author John Wriggle explores New York City’s vibrant entertainment industry of the 1930s and ‘40s to celebrate the big band jazz arrangers who built the Swing Era…
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December 6, 2016The Amazing Nina Simone
Nina Simone was beyond category in her music, life and now legacy. In the new documentary film, The Amazing Nina Simone, Director Jeff L. Lieberman spoke to over 50 of…
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October 25, 2016Mapping Harlem’s Heyday
Elmer Simms Campbell drew a vibrantly brilliant map of Harlem nightspots in 1932 for Manhattan magazine. A pioneering African-American illustrator, he created a stirring image at once well-informed and devoid…
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November 19, 2016Considering Genius: The Life and Times of Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch has long been a leading voice in American culture, as an essayist and critic who has no time for conformity. Please join us as we begin our season-long…
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December 1, 2016Terri Lyne Carrington
Three-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Terri Lyne Carrington has been expanding boundaries for years: she is a jazz drummer, composer, singer, record producer, and entrepreneur. Please join us for an in-depth conversation…
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September 27, 2016Ellington Scored Life
Jazz combines written and improvised music in a truly American way. We have taken Ellington’s hand-written manuscript for his classic “Harlem Air Shaft” and enlarged it to wall size. Join…
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November 15, 2016New Yor-Uba, Then and Now with Michele Rosewoman
More than 30 years ago, pianist and composer Michele Rosewoman’s parallel paths—jazz and Afro-Cuban folklore—merged into a compelling whole in New York through her New Yor-Uba ensemble. Rosewoman will describe…
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September 22, 2016New Thrones, New Kings with Yosvany Terry
Saxophonist and bandleader Yosvany Terry, a Harlem resident who directs Harvard University’s jazz ensembles, discusses growing up in Cuba’s Camagüey province and the influence of his father, Eladio “Don Pancho”…
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September 24, 2016Lift Every Voice: Celebrating the Grand Opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Join The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, a Smithsonian Affiliate, as we celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.,…
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December 8, 2016The Year in Jazz: A Critics Roundtable hosted by Nate Chinen
Four leading music critics representing a range of perspectives and publications will converge in this annual critics’ roundtable, hosted and moderated by Nate Chinen, author and music critic for The New…
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October 18, 2016History, Mystery and Modernism with David Virelles and Román Díaz
Pianist and composer David Virelles mines traditions of his native Santiago, Cuba, while using his current home in Brooklyn as a base for some of New York’s most striking and…
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August 19, 2016Havana Harlem Festival Concert
Featuring Tim Porter Trio and Jorge Luis Pacheco Y Su Grupo $10 suggested donation In partnership with The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and as part of Harlem Week and…
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August 13, 2016Swinging Saturday
Join us for an old-fashioned SATURDAY-AT-THE-MOVIE-THEATER show with: live jazz tap dancing jazzy cartoons sing-a-longs and a selection of the best of Ellington, Basie, Miles Davis and other jazz giants. For…
view event August 6, 2016Swinging Saturday
Join us for an old-fashioned SATURDAY-AT-THE-MOVIE-THEATER show with: live jazz tap dancing jazzy cartoons sing-a-longs and a selection of the best of Ellington, Basie, Miles Davis and other jazz giants. Bring…
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