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Festival

Jersey City Jazz Festival 2026: A Fest For Musicians And More

Source: G Sib
June 26, 2026

The Jersey City Jazz Festival has always felt less like a festival built for ticket sales and more like one dreamed up by musicians. Across three days at Exchange Place Plaza, artists stood side-stage to watch one another and lingered in conversations long after their sets ended. The festival's merger with the Jersey City Latin Jazz Festival expanded the musical palette without sacrificing coherence, creating a weekend where straight-ahead jazz, Afro-Caribbean traditions, free improvisation and contemporary groove-based approaches shared the ...

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Festival

Jersey City Jazz Festival 2026 Lineup Revealed

Source: G Sib
April 29, 2026

The Jersey City Jazz Festival returns in 2026 with its biggest event yet, inviting music fans of all ages to experience jazz from across the spectrum including straight-ahead, Latin jazz and more throughout an unforgettable three-day celebration. Presented by Exchange Place Alliance, the free event runs from Friday evening, May 29 through Sunday, May 31 along the Hudson River waterfront at Exchange Place Plaza, offering sweeping views of lower Manhattan. Designed to welcome both locals and visitors, the Jersey City ...

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Performance / Tour

Christian McBride Gives Fans A Preview Of McBride’s World At Sea Via New Musical Collaborations With Samara Joy, Ledisi, Cécile Mclorin Salvant And José James - All Are Scheduled To Perform On The Cruise, Sailing January 20-27, 2026

Source: G Sib
September 4, 2025

Nine-time GRAMMY Award-winning bassist, composer and bandleader Christian McBride is giving fans a glimpse into the creative energy and collaborative spirit that will defineChristian McBride’s World at Sea, his week-long music cruise that sails from January 20-27, 2026. Starting this summer and continuing through October, McBride unveils a series of projects with artists who will join him on the cruise that will take place aboard the Celebrity Summit (departing from Ft. Lauderdale with stops in Jamaica and Grand Cayman). Earlier ...

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Event

Christian McBride's World At Sea Sets Sail January 2026

Source: G Sib
July 3, 2025

Nine-time GRAMMY Award-winning bassist Christian McBride has a new production in the works: his very first cruise, Christian McBride’s World at Sea. A celebration of jazz and more, McBride personally invited an expansive lineup of jazz greats, incomparable vocalists, top comedians and special guests to join his cruise, including Ledisi, Samara Joy, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Angélique Kidjo, José James, Melissa Walker, comedians Alonzo Bodden and George Wallace, featured instrumentalists Benny Green, Gregory Hutchinson, Sullivan Fortner, Christian Sands, Julius Rodriguez, Steve ...

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Recording

Bill Kwan Brings Jazz Concepts To Singer/Songwriter Fare

Source: G Sib
October 3, 2015

On Poison & Wine, jazz vocalist Bill Kwan experiments with new sounds and styles, delivering an impeccably curated collection of songs by the some of the most transcendent songwriters of our generation. With lyrics filtered through his own heartbroken lens, he delicately reconstructs the tracks much like a jazz singer interpreting the great classics. A lovelorn rendering of these painful-yet-beautiful songs, Poison & Wine was released on August 17th, and debuted a video for the lead track, “Missing,” last month. ...

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