Throughout the month of September the Middlesex jazz festival will take place in five locations with great jazz and free admission at each. Here is the schedule:
- Edison September 25th - Akiko Tsurguga Quartet on September 25th with Carrie Jackson Quartet, Off the Hook, and JP Stevens HS Dance Troupe.
- Carteret September 26th - Nat Adderley, jr on September 26th with the Carteret High School Jazz Band.
- New Brunswick September 28th -Buster Williams Quartet on September 28th with Winard Harper & Jeli Posse and the New Brunswick Jazz Project Brass
- Metuchen September 28th - Russel Malone Quartet with Mariel Bildsten Septet, Metuchen HS Jazz Ensemble & Chamber Orchestra Prana Arts.
- Woodbridge September 29th - Stephane Wrembe's Django New Orleans with Brandon Woody's Upendo and the Woodbridge HS Jazz ensemble.
Celebrate the Middlesex County Jazz Festival! This common experience of neighboring towns and our love of jazz music was the seed which led to a cooperative dialogue and agreement to join to create this cross-town event. The event was so successful that Carteret was added to the festival in 2024.
New Brunswick Jazz Project has been producing jazz in New Brunswick twice a week for the last 15 years.
The workshop runs August 5-17, 2024
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New Brunswick Jazz Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting world class jazz performances in downtown New Brunswick & other Central Jersey venues. Since its inception in 2010 NBJP has gone from presenting two jazz performances a month, to offering FREE year around shows, four nights every week. The Jazz Project has successfully fostered a supportive environment for regular live jazz performance in New Brunswick and has presented more than 700 events featuring over 1000 acclaimed national and international jazz leaders, sidemen and special guests, including among many others: Arturo O’Farrill, John Lee, Ed Cherry, Dave Stryker, Akiko Tsuruga, Roseanna Vitro, Mimi Jones, Jerry Weldon, Rudy Royston, Virginia Mayhew, Luis Perdomo, Dezron Douglas, Joe Magnarelli, Ralph Peterson, Steve Williams, Kenny Davis, Tia Fuller, Orrin Evans, Jared Gold, Tim Ries, Victor Lewis, Conrad Herwig, and Ravi Coltrane.
NBJP also regularly partners with the New Brunswick Public Schools and the Hub Teen Center to provide after-school enrichment programming in the form of jazz performances with student participation and talk backs.
An amazing 14x GRAMMY winner, HERBIE HANCOCK returns to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on Sunday, September 29, 2024, at 7:00 p.m., in a highly anticipated one-night only concert.
A true icon of modern music, Herbie is now 70 years into his astounding cross-genre career. He’s one of the most acclaimed and honored musicians of our time. With an illustrious career spanning five decades, multiple GRAMMY Awards including Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters and a Lifetime Achievement Award, an Oscar, NEA Jazz Master, and Kennedy Center Honors awards, and more, he continues to amaze audiences across the globe.
There are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock.
More details and ickets for Herbie Hancock can be purchased by visiting NJPAC.org or calling 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722) or by visiting the NJPAC Box Office at 1 Center Street, Newark, New Jersey.
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In the meantime, click on the link to learn more about Philadelphia's JazzBridge organization.
