NYC Winter Jazzfest 2023

We are thrilled to announce the initial list of artists to be featured at the 19th annual NYC Winter Jazzfest! Please mark your calendars for January 12-18, 2023.

 Since our founding in 2005, NYC Winter Jazzfest (NYCWJF) has cemented a reputation as a hotbed of cultural discovery, supporting the rich growth and continued vitality of the jazz community. In our 19th year we are presenting a festival slightly smaller in scope, in part of necessity given an arts and culture scene still in recovery, with numerous venues shuttered and others struggling. However, after a delayed and heavily modified festival in 2022, we are back on schedule in January 2023, proud as ever to support a host of today’s most fearless and creative musicians as we push boundaries and imagine new possibilities for our music scene and our world.

 We are excited to showcase seven nights of extraordinary programming, including our weekend multi-venue, multi-artist marathons — first in Manhattan, then Brooklyn. The NYCWJF marathon has become recognized as one of New York’s most essential nightlife offerings, giving audiences full access to all participating venues and dozens of groups performing from early evening deep into the wee hours.

CONFIRMED PERFORMERS

Adam O’Farrill's Stranger Days 

Alfredo Colon

Avishai Cohen Quartet

Ben Wendel

Black Lives: From Generation to Generation

Brandee Younger

BREAK.FAST.CLUB

Caroline Davis

Chase Elodia

Chris Lightcap’s 'Superette Deluxe'

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn's 'Pigments'

Donny McCaslin

Doug Wamble

Emile Parisien 'Louise' 

Endea Owens

Gilles Peterson

Ghost Funk Orchestra

Halvorson/Courvoisier Duo 

Hera

Immanuel Wilkins

Irreversible Entanglements

Isaiah Collier

Jamaaladeen Tacuma

JaRon Marshall

Joel Ross ‘Parables’

Julius Rodriguez

Knower

Lakecia Benjamin

Linda May Han Oh

LNDFK

Makaya McCraven

Marta Sanchez

Maurice Brown 

Miho Hazama 

Nate Mercereau

Nathalie Joachim

New Standards Live curated by Terri Lyne Carrington 

Orrin Evans Trio

Pete Rock

Photay with Carlos Niño

DJ Alissia 

DJ Raydar Ellis

Reid Anderson

Revive Big Band w/ Louis Cato 

Rich Ruth

Samara Joy

Samora Pinderhughes ‘Grief & Process'

Sara Serpa 'Intimate Strangers'

Sarah Elizabeth Charles

Sun Ra Arkestra 

Sungazer

Surya Botofasina

Susan Carol

Takuya Kuroda

Vincent Peirani 'Jokers'

Yamandu Costa 

Zoh Amba