Blue Note Jazz Festival
The Blue Note Jazz Festival is a jazz festival that has been held in New York City every June since 2011 . It's hosted by Danny Bensusan for the Blue Note Entertainment Group , which also runs one of New York's premier jazz clubs, the Blue Note .
The festival takes place in the clubs of the Blue Note Group (in addition to the Blue Note, the BB King Blues Club and Highline Ball Room) and other venues such as Town Hall and Central Park . It goes on for the whole of June.
The festival endeavored to fill the gap in the summer festival plan in New York that was created by the discontinuation of the JVC Jazz Festival , which existed until 2007, and the two sequels in 2009/10 under the sponsor CareFusion. This became clear at the very first festival, when George Wein performed with his Newport All Stars and gave a birthday tribute concert to Jon Hendricks and a tribute to Jimmy Scott , one of the hallmarks of the JVC Festival.
In 2011, McCoy Tyner , Bill Frisell , Lee Konitz , Patti Austin , Gary Peacock , Joey Baron , Gregory Porter , Hiromi , Medeski, Martin & Wood , Gato Barbieri , Marc Ribot , Jim Hall and Ron Carter , Eric Burdon & The Animals, Chaka Khan , The Manhattan Transfer , Bobby McFerrin and the Yellowjackets , Milton Nascimento , Roberta Flack , Eddie Palmieri , Nancy Wilson , Chris Botti , Dave Holland Quintet with Chris Potter and Robin Eubanks , Jon Hendricks (90th birthday with Annie Ross ), Madeleine Peyroux , Dave Brubeck , Diane Schuur , George Wein and Newport All Stars, Brian Wilson ( Reimagines Gershwin ).
In 2012 they performed McCoy Tyner , Béla Fleck , Soulive , Buika , Kathleen Battle , Cassandra Wilson , Stanley Clarke / George Duke , Groove Theory, Michel Camilo , Jimmy Scott , Roy Haynes , Jack DeJohnette , Charles Tolliver , Lou Donaldson , Arturo Sandoval , James Carter , Jerry Douglas , Black Thought & Rahzel with Strings.
In 2013 Wayne Shorter performed with quintet at Town Hall with Terri Lyne Carrington , Geri Allen , Esperanza Spalding and Dave Douglas / Joe Lovano quintet at a tribute for Shorter's 80th birthday. In addition, Buddy Guy , John McLaughlin and 4th Dimension, McCoy Tyner and Latin All Stars, Gato Barbieri , Kenny Werner Coalition with Lionel Loueke and Miguel Zenón , Pedrito Martinez , Poncho Sanchez , Willie Colón , Joshua Redman Quartet with Brad Mehldau and Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade , Chucho Valdés Quintet, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and her Motown Project (with Jason Moran on piano), Sadao Watanabe , Bill Payne , Tommy Emmanuel , Amel Larrieux , Wyclef Jean , Bob James and David Sanborn , the Harlem Gospel Choir, Bucky Pizzarelli , the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, the Rebirth Brass Band and The Greyboy Allstars (with Gary Bartz as a guest among others ).