Outdoor Jazz Shows in New York

The Grammy Museum is thrilled to welcome Infinity Song to The Greene Space in NYC to discuss the creative process behind their self-titled fourth and latest album, their career, and more, followed by a special live performance. This event is part of the GRAMMY Museum’s New York City program series, which brings the Museum’s renowned education and public programs to the city. “A New York Evening With…” is generously supported by the Dawn and Brian Hoesterey Family Foundation. ABOUT INFINITY SONG Four individual minds, perspectives, and souls set the tempo for Infinity Song. The blood bond shared by the Boyd siblings—Abraham, Angel, Israel, and Momo—fuels the band’s collective heartbeat, yet it’s the harmony between their separate personalities that expertly elevates them as a genre-agnostic anomaly. Sporting signature glasses, big brother Abraham carries melodies with confidence and charisma. Not only can Angel hold a note like her life depends on it, but she also acts as the creative force behind the group's ethos. Momo deftly rotates between guitar and bass as she exudes warmth and wonder through uncanny vocal vulnerability. Beyond flaunting a dynamic voice, Israel makes his Navigator Stratocaster sing with all the feel of your favorite guitar hero. They make the kind of music you could find on a vinyl treasure at your local indie record store, experience for the first time on festival grounds at sunset, or obsess over on social media. Signing to Roc Nation after a long grind, they captivated listeners with Mad Love [2020], Metamorphosis [2023], and Infinity Song LIVE[2025]. They shined everywhere from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to NPR’s “Tiny Desk.” Earning acclaim from Interview, Complex, GRAMMY.com, and more, they headlined a popular residency at the Blue Note, played sold-out shows worldwide, supported Lake Street Dive at Madison Square Garden, and appeared at festivals such as Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. Going viral countless times, attracting high-profile fans as diverse as Doja Cat and Academy® Award winner Anne Hathaway, and performing to packed crowds everywhere, these distinct identities come together closer than ever on the group’s 2026 self-titled LP, INFINITY SONG [Peace Industry Music Group and Roc Nation]. Check-In: 6:30pm Show Time: 7:30pm TICKET POLICY The holder of this ticket is granted admission to the indicated facility for the purpose of viewing the specified event. This ticket is for use by the holder only and the holder is bound by this policy. 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Experience the vibrant legacy of jazz in the heart of Queens this summer! Inspired by the iconic Queens Jazz Trail Map, this free concert series brings the borough’s rich jazz history to life in beautiful community parks—where legends like Armstrong, Coltrane, Fitzgerald, and more once called home. Presented by Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Flushing Town Hall, and Louis Armstrong House Museum in partnership with NYC Parks, the Queens Jazz Trail Concert Series honors Queens’ extraordinary jazz legacy and community spirit. Internationally acclaimed trombonist, composer, and educator Wycliffe Gordon is celebrated for his powerful sound, masterful plunger mute technique, and deep roots in jazz tradition. A former member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Gordon has appeared on more than 300 recordings and earned multiple DownBeat Critics Poll awards and a record 15 Jazz Journalists Association “Trombonist of the Year” honors. Alongside his global performing career, he continues to inspire new generations as Director of Jazz Studies at Augusta University.... Experience the vibrant legacy of jazz in the heart of Queens this summer! Inspired by the iconic Queens Jazz Trail Map, this free concert series brings the borough’s rich jazz history to life in beautiful community parks—where legends like Armstrong, Coltrane, Fitzgerald, and more once called home. Presented by Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Flushing Town Hall, and Louis Armstrong House Museum in partnership with NYC Parks, the Queens Jazz Trail Concert Series honors Queens’ extraordinary jazz legacy and community spirit. Internationally acclaimed trombonist, composer, and educator Wycliffe Gordon is celebrated for his powerful sound, masterful plunger mute technique, and deep roots in jazz tradition. A former member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Gordon has appeared on more than 300 recordings and earned multiple DownBeat Critics Poll awards and a record 15 Jazz Journalists Association “Trombonist of the Year” honors. Alongside his global performing career, he continues to inspire new generations as Director of Jazz Studies at Augusta University. This concert will take place at Rockaway Beach Park (Amphitheater) in Far Rockaways. It’s free—just show up! Bring a blanket, lawn chair, picnic, friends—even your dancing shoes—and join us for an evening of live jazz in the park!

Experience the vibrant legacy of jazz in the heart of Queens this summer! Inspired by the iconic Queens Jazz Trail Map, this free concert series brings the borough’s rich jazz history to life in beautiful community parks—where legends like Armstrong, Coltrane, Fitzgerald, and more once called home. Presented by Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Flushing Town Hall, and Louis Armstrong House Museum in partnership with NYC Parks, the Queens Jazz Trail Concert Series honors Queens’ extraordinary jazz legacy and community spirit. Internationally acclaimed trombonist, composer, and educator Wycliffe Gordon is celebrated for his powerful sound, masterful plunger mute technique, and deep roots in jazz tradition. A former member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Gordon has appeared on more than 300 recordings and earned multiple DownBeat Critics Poll awards and a record 15 Jazz Journalists Association “Trombonist of the Year” honors. Alongside his global performing career, he continues to inspire new generations as Director of Jazz Studies at Augusta University. This concert will take place at Rockaway Beach Park (Amphitheater) in Far Rockaways. It’s free—just show up! Bring a blanket, lawn chair, picnic, friends—even your dancing shoes—and join us for an evening of live jazz in the park!

About Sets at 7 and 8:30, $10 cash cover at door. Be our Guest and enjoy an evening of Jazz, R&B and Blues. Outdoor Shows: During the warmer summer months, the groove moves outdoors into the lodge's parking lot, featuring backlit stone walls under the stars. You will find available on-street parking along Croton Avenue. When the show is held inside the lodge front room, you can pull directly into the on-site Elks Lodge parking lot. It is free and right at the building.

Thu, Aug 6, 8:00 PM

Kenny Garrett

Blue Note Jazz Club / Manhattan / Map

$20 Minimum Per Person Full Bar & Dinner Menu NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES. All seating is first come, first served. Bar Area seating is limited and first come first served. When all available seats are occupied, the remaining bar area is standing room only. Table Seating is all ages, Bar Area is 21+. Bar Area tickets for patrons under 21 will not be honored. Group Reservations: Groups larger than 8 must purchase a group package at club@bluenote.net, or by calling 212.475.8592. Groups larger than 8 without a group package will be subject to group surcharges added to your bill. Groups arriving late or separately are not guaranteed to be seated together. All seating is first come, first served. Arrive early for best seats. We are not affiliated with any third-party ticket sellers. Tickets purchased directly through our official website or TicketWeb are the only authorized sources. We cannot guarantee the validity of tickets purchased through unauthorized sources. To protect against fraud and unauthorized ticket sales, management may require verification of the original purchase method, including presenting the credit card used for purchase and matching photo identification upon entry. Kenny Garrett Kenny Garrett With his illustrious career that includes hallmark stints with Miles Davis, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, as well as a heralded career as a solo artist that began more than 30 years ago, Kenny Garrett is easily recognized as one of modern jazz’s brightest and most influential living masters. And with the marvelous Sounds From The Ancestors, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Garrett shows no signs of resting on his laurels. Kenny Garrett’s latest release, Sounds From The Ancestors, is a multi-faceted album. The music, however, doesn’t lodge inside the tight confines of the jazz idiom, which is not surprising considering the alto saxophonist and composer acknowledges the likes of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye as significant touchstones. Similar to how Miles Davis’ seminal LP, On the Corner, subverted its main guiding lights – James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone – then crafted its own unique, polyrhythmic, groove-laden, improv-heavy universe, Sounds From The Ancestors occupies its own space with intellectual clarity, sonic ingenuity and emotional heft. “The concept initially was about trying to get some of the musical sounds that I remembered as a kid growing up – sounds that lift your spirit from people like John Coltrane, ‘A Love Supreme’; Aretha Franklin, ‘Amazing Grace’; Marvin Gaye, ‘What’s Going On’; and the spiritual side of the church,” Garrett explains. “When I started to think about them, I realized it was the spirit from my ancestors.” Indeed, Sounds From The Ancestors reflects the rich jazz, R&B, and gospel history of his hometown of Detroit. More important though, it also reverberates with a modern cosmopolitan vibrancy – notably the inclusion of music coming out of France, Cuba, Nigeria and Guadeloupe. “It’s Time to Come Home,” a sauntering yet evocative Afro-Cuban modern jazz original, kicks off the album. Garrett’s melodic passages, marked by capricious turns and pecking accents, signals a “call to action” for kids around the world to come home after playing outside all day. This incarnation reflects his experiences playing with iconic Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés. Garrett then pays tribute to the late, great trumpeter and composer Roy Hargrove with the dynamic “Hargrove,” a bracing original that evokes the namesake’s mastery of reconciling hard-bop’s intricate harmonic and interactive verve with late-20th century hypnotic R&B grooves and hip-hop bounce. The song also references John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme , which accentuates both the earthy and spiritual nature of Hargrove’s music and Garrett’s saxophone virtuosity. Traces of the Black American church also surge through “When the Days Were Different,” a warm mid-tempo original. “The idea was to take it back to the church,” Garrett explains. “It reminds me of being at a gathering with family and friends having a good time eating, drinking and spending quality time together.” On the rhythmically intrepid “For Art’s Sake,” Garrett pays homage to two legendary drummers – Art Blakey and Tony Allen. Bruner concocts a stuttering rhythm that alludes to both modern jazz and Nigerian Afrobeat, while Bird adds polyrhythmic fire with his circular conga patterns. Drums and percussion are again highlighted vividly on the swift “What Was That?” and “Soldiers of the Fields/Soldats des Champs.” The former finds Garrett in quintessential form as he navigates through a thicket of torrential polyrhythms and a jolting harmonic bed with the steely determination and dexterity associated with Coltrane and Jackie McLean. The latter is a magnificent two-part masterpiece that integrates martial beats, Guadeloupean rhythms and a haunting cyclical motif on which Garrett crafts pirouetting improvisations that dazzle with their initial lithe grace and increasing urgent wails. Garrett explains that “Soldiers of the Fields/Soldats des Champs” is a tribute to the legion of jazz musicians who fought to keep the music alive. “They’re the first ones to get hit and shot at in the line of fire on the fields of justice. ‘Soldats des Champs’ is also a tribute to the Haitian soldiers who fought against the French during the Haitian Revolution.” The leader’s love for Afro-Cuban jazz returns on the dramatic title track, which begins with Garrett playing a slow melancholy melody on the piano before the music gives way to a soul-stirring excursion, filled with passionate vocal cries from Trible and moving Yoruban lyrics from Pedrito, paying respect to Orunmila, the deity of wisdom. “It’s about remembering the spirit of the sounds of our ancestors – the sounds from their church services, the prayers they recited, the songs they sang in the fields, the African drums they played and the Yoruban chants,” Garrett says. The album closes as it opens with “It’s Time to Come Home,” this time Garrett uses his saxophone as a rhythmic instrument to have a conversation with the percussionist without the vocal accompaniment.

Thu, Aug 6, 10:30 PM

Kenny Garrett

Blue Note Jazz Club / Manhattan / Map

$20 Minimum Per Person Full Bar & Dinner Menu NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES. All seating is first come, first served. Bar Area seating is limited and first come first served. When all available seats are occupied, the remaining bar area is standing room only. Table Seating is all ages, Bar Area is 21+. Bar Area tickets for patrons under 21 will not be honored. Group Reservations: Groups larger than 8 must purchase a group package at club@bluenote.net, or by calling 212.475.8592. Groups larger than 8 without a group package will be subject to group surcharges added to your bill. Groups arriving late or separately are not guaranteed to be seated together. All seating is first come, first served. Arrive early for best seats. We are not affiliated with any third-party ticket sellers. Tickets purchased directly through our official website or TicketWeb are the only authorized sources. We cannot guarantee the validity of tickets purchased through unauthorized sources. To protect against fraud and unauthorized ticket sales, management may require verification of the original purchase method, including presenting the credit card used for purchase and matching photo identification upon entry. Kenny Garrett Kenny Garrett With his illustrious career that includes hallmark stints with Miles Davis, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, as well as a heralded career as a solo artist that began more than 30 years ago, Kenny Garrett is easily recognized as one of modern jazz’s brightest and most influential living masters. And with the marvelous Sounds From The Ancestors, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Garrett shows no signs of resting on his laurels. Kenny Garrett’s latest release, Sounds From The Ancestors, is a multi-faceted album. The music, however, doesn’t lodge inside the tight confines of the jazz idiom, which is not surprising considering the alto saxophonist and composer acknowledges the likes of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye as significant touchstones. Similar to how Miles Davis’ seminal LP, On the Corner, subverted its main guiding lights – James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone – then crafted its own unique, polyrhythmic, groove-laden, improv-heavy universe, Sounds From The Ancestors occupies its own space with intellectual clarity, sonic ingenuity and emotional heft. “The concept initially was about trying to get some of the musical sounds that I remembered as a kid growing up – sounds that lift your spirit from people like John Coltrane, ‘A Love Supreme’; Aretha Franklin, ‘Amazing Grace’; Marvin Gaye, ‘What’s Going On’; and the spiritual side of the church,” Garrett explains. “When I started to think about them, I realized it was the spirit from my ancestors.” Indeed, Sounds From The Ancestors reflects the rich jazz, R&B, and gospel history of his hometown of Detroit. More important though, it also reverberates with a modern cosmopolitan vibrancy – notably the inclusion of music coming out of France, Cuba, Nigeria and Guadeloupe. “It’s Time to Come Home,” a sauntering yet evocative Afro-Cuban modern jazz original, kicks off the album. Garrett’s melodic passages, marked by capricious turns and pecking accents, signals a “call to action” for kids around the world to come home after playing outside all day. This incarnation reflects his experiences playing with iconic Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés. Garrett then pays tribute to the late, great trumpeter and composer Roy Hargrove with the dynamic “Hargrove,” a bracing original that evokes the namesake’s mastery of reconciling hard-bop’s intricate harmonic and interactive verve with late-20th century hypnotic R&B grooves and hip-hop bounce. The song also references John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme , which accentuates both the earthy and spiritual nature of Hargrove’s music and Garrett’s saxophone virtuosity. Traces of the Black American church also surge through “When the Days Were Different,” a warm mid-tempo original. “The idea was to take it back to the church,” Garrett explains. “It reminds me of being at a gathering with family and friends having a good time eating, drinking and spending quality time together.” On the rhythmically intrepid “For Art’s Sake,” Garrett pays homage to two legendary drummers – Art Blakey and Tony Allen. Bruner concocts a stuttering rhythm that alludes to both modern jazz and Nigerian Afrobeat, while Bird adds polyrhythmic fire with his circular conga patterns. Drums and percussion are again highlighted vividly on the swift “What Was That?” and “Soldiers of the Fields/Soldats des Champs.” The former finds Garrett in quintessential form as he navigates through a thicket of torrential polyrhythms and a jolting harmonic bed with the steely determination and dexterity associated with Coltrane and Jackie McLean. The latter is a magnificent two-part masterpiece that integrates martial beats, Guadeloupean rhythms and a haunting cyclical motif on which Garrett crafts pirouetting improvisations that dazzle with their initial lithe grace and increasing urgent wails. Garrett explains that “Soldiers of the Fields/Soldats des Champs” is a tribute to the legion of jazz musicians who fought to keep the music alive. “They’re the first ones to get hit and shot at in the line of fire on the fields of justice. ‘Soldats des Champs’ is also a tribute to the Haitian soldiers who fought against the French during the Haitian Revolution.” The leader’s love for Afro-Cuban jazz returns on the dramatic title track, which begins with Garrett playing a slow melancholy melody on the piano before the music gives way to a soul-stirring excursion, filled with passionate vocal cries from Trible and moving Yoruban lyrics from Pedrito, paying respect to Orunmila, the deity of wisdom. “It’s about remembering the spirit of the sounds of our ancestors – the sounds from their church services, the prayers they recited, the songs they sang in the fields, the African drums they played and the Yoruban chants,” Garrett says. The album closes as it opens with “It’s Time to Come Home,” this time Garrett uses his saxophone as a rhythmic instrument to have a conversation with the percussionist without the vocal accompaniment.

Fri, Aug 7, 7:30 PM

NoMad Jazz Festival

The Jazz Gallery / NoMad / Map

Free Event; Presented by The NoMad Alliance in partnership with The Jazz Gallery , Flatiron NoMad Partnership , and Madison Square Park Conservancy . MORE INFO

Fri, Aug 7, 8:00 PM

Novoa/Wesely Duo

IBeam Brooklyn / Park Slope / Map

Eva Novoa - piano, Chinese gongs & synth Drew Wesely - guitar, electronics & khene Drew Wesely is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and improvisor focused on relationships between noise, timbre, and duration using various preparations and amplification systems to expand the sonic potential of the instrument. Their practice draws from the fractal scales of form that emerge in improvisation as well as the spatial and physical aspects of sound perception. Recent works include ‘blank body’ an intermedia solo work released via Infrequent Seams. Drew has performed at The Stone, Roulette Intermedium, Offene Ohren, Fire Museum, and many other venues nationally and internationally throughout Europe and Asia. Drew was recently a recipient of Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant in support of an extended tour in mainland Japan. Eva Novoa (pianist/composer) is based in Brooklyn since 2012 and has performed at The Stone, Barbès, Nublu, Cornelia Street Café, iBeam, Mis-en_place, or The Lilypad in Boston. She has performed/recorded with Masa Kamaguchi, Gerald Cleaver, Daniel Carter, Francisco Mela, Drew Gress, Devin Gray, Billy Mintz, Satoshi Takeishi, Mat Maneri amongst others. “A bold and restless pianist, moving easily between acute precision and painterly fervor” - DownBeat. Her albums are released on the independent label 577 records.