Inwood Jazz Festival

Inwood Jazz Festival INWOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL
Bringing JAZZ All The Way UP Uptown! It’s all about the music 🎶

INWOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL
(Bringing JAZZ All The Way UP Uptown)

BRUCE REYNOLDS GARDEN is proud to present the 1st Annual free, one day, outdoor, Inwood Jazz Festival! WHY do we want to create the first ever outdoor jazz festival in Inwood, free of charge, and open to all?

1) Bringing this exciting new cultural offering to Inwood and thereby highlighting this vibrant (yet sometimes overlooked) part o

f NYC will benefit both visitors and residents and enrich the community, and the city in more ways than one. Whether it's the economic, cultural, or even educational benefit - there are only upsides to this idea!

2) Festival will be another way to support and engage local businesses, many of whom are still recovering from economic blows handed to them by the pandemic.

3) With IJF, we will be adding another new platform for all the jazz artists in NY, who have lost so many venues during shutdowns, and with them - their livelihoods.

4) This event will allow the local community (families and youth in particular), to experience first-hand, and in their very own "backyard", the magnificent power and beauty of the American classical art form - JAZZ. New York's jazz clubs, while admirable staples of our City, tend to be unattainable to youngest New Yorkers, either due to cost or the "bedtime" incompatibilities (parents will know what we mean here!)

“Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of t...
05/17/2025

“Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.”
- Dexter Gordon
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05/15/2025

22 TRUMPETERS (from the Jazz Stage archives)

Looks like a dream, but it really happened in the summer of 1961 in Central Park, New York. Twenty-two trumpet players from different generations have appeared in front of Herb Snitzer's camera.
Johnny Letman, Doc Severinsen, Max Kaminsky, Ted Curson (standing), Ernie Royal, Booker Little, Joe Thomas, Yank Lawson , Clark Terry , Don Ferrera, Nick Travis, Bobby Bradford, Jimmy Nottingham , Herman Autrey. Joe Newman, Dizzy Reece, Freddie Hubbard and Henry "Red" Allen, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Shavers.
Photo by Herb Snitzer

Arturo Sandoval:
Wowwww, incredible photo,priceless!!!!!

Greg Thymius:
It's beautiful that Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge ended up together in a group photo again, just like in the Art Kane picture. In the film, "A Great Day in Harlem", Eldridge remarked that Dizzy made him look away from the camera for the Art Kane photo; I see it happened again here, perhaps not on purpose this time!

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