Artist Lineup
-
12:00 PMCentral Library of Rochester and Monroe County
Quinn Lawrence
...
-
1:00 PMEastman School of Music Ray Wright Room
Jazz Workshop with Cory Weeds
A saxophonist with an expressive sound rooted in Jazz tradition, a label owner tirelessly documenting unsung Jazz heroes, one of Canada’s most important Jazz impresarios, the hardest-working man in Jazz business – Cory Weeds is all of these things, and much more. Weeds may be best known as the founder and owner of Cory Weeds&rsquo...
-
4:30 PMCity of Rochester Jazz Street Stage presented by the Community Foundation
Greece Arcadia High School Jazz Band
...
-
5:15 PMCity of Rochester Jazz Street Stage presented by the Community Foundation
Pittsford Sutherland High School Jazz Band
...
-
5:45 PMHatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music
David Hazeltine
David Hazeltine is one of a handful of contemporary pianists who has mastered all of the major musical skills, from improvisation and technique to accompaniment, arranging, and composition. Even more impressive, David is the rare artist able to innovate in each category. Thus it’s no surprise that he’s the most recorded contemporary jazz pia...
-
6:00 PMMontage Music Hall
The Bossa Nova Wave Diego Figueiredo + Ken Peplowski
Playing the music of the famous album "Jazz Samba" from 1962 that launched the Brazilian Bossa Nova craze in North America, and more. The original album featured Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz. It was an explosion of Grammy's and Billboard hits including "One Note Samba", "Desafinado", and "Wave". Grammy nominated Diego Figueiredo (pronounced fig...
-
6:00 PMRochester Regional Health Big Tent
Penfield Big Band
...
-
6:00 PMCity of Rochester Jazz Street Stage presented by the Community Foundation
ECMS Faculty With Special Guest Vocalists!
Amelia Nugent Emmie Paluck Ella Smith Elliot Farmer Natalie Leclair Shannon Beel Gracie Maggiulli Kayla Sconiers Maya Cooper Dr Crystal Sellers-Battle...
-
6:00 PMWilder Room
Luis Deniz Quartet
Winner of the Grand Prix de Jazz General Motors 2006 at the Montreal Jazz Festival (David Virelles Quintet) and Galaxie Rising Star 2010 at the Halifax Jazz Festival (Rich Brown & Rinsethealgorithm), Grammy Nominated and Juno Award Wining artist (Hilario Duran Latin Jazz Big Band),Alto saxophonist Luis Gonzalez Deniz was born in Camaguey, Cuba on Ap...
-
6:00 PMKilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
Christian Sands Trio
Christian Sands — Steinway Artist and five-time Grammy Nominee — is an emerging jazz force. His abundant piano technique perfectly matches his conception, accomplishing a much deeper musical goal: a fresh look at the entire language of jazz. Christian says, “My music is about teaching the way of jazz and keeping it aliv...
-
6:15 PMMax of Eastman Place
Tia Fuller Quintet
When Grammy-nominated Mack Avenue recording artist, composer, and bandleader Tia Fuller picks up her saxophone, something amazing happens. Blending technical brilliance, melodic creativity, and the performing precision drawn from both her academic and stage experience, Fuller is a force to be reckoned with in the worlds of jazz, pop, R&B, and more. ...
-
6:30 PMTheater at Innovation Square
Catherine Russell
GRAMMY®-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell, when asked to characterize her new album, Send For Me, replied, “I love romance that swings.” Due out on April 1, 2022 via Dot Time Records, Send For Me features a baker’s dozen of newly recorded tunes on her eighth album as a leader, meeting...
-
7:00 PMThe Little Theatre - Roots & Americana Series
Twisted Pine
Coming Summer of 2020, Right Now is a cosmic map of the new and glistening journeys of TWISTED PINE, the Boston-based spacecraft of a band that was once bluegrass but is now “something else, a wider version of a stringband, boundary jumpers akin to outfits like Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, and Crooked Still [The Boston Globe].&rdqu...
-
7:00 PMWegmans Stage at Parcel 5
Bill Tiberio Band
In addition to being an accomplished and versatile saxophonist and woodwind player, Bill Tiberio is a music educator. He has over 25 years of experience in the field of public music education, and has been at Fairport (NY) high school since 1988. At Fairport, Bill conducts the top Concert Band, two jazz ensembles, jazz combos, pit orchestras, cha...
-
7:00 PMTemple Theater
Marc Broussard
Long hailed as a powerhouse vocalist and king of Bayou Soul, Marc Broussard is altering his iconic recipe of classic soul, R&B, & blues with the help of renowned blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa, on his new album S.O.S. 4: Blues For Your Soul. Produced by Bonamassa, who contributes mesmerizing guitar solos on four tracks, alongside l...
-
7:00 PMWegmans Pavilion
Mambo Kings
MAMBO KINGS, together since 1995, are enjoying great success as Upstate New York's foremost Latin jazz ensemble, and have rapidly earned a national reputation for their explosive blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz improvisation. Since their orchestral debut in 1997 with the Rochester Philharmonic and Conductor Jeff Tyzik, Mambo Kings have appea...
-
7:30 PMChrist Church - Global Jazz Now
Ralph Alessi & This Against That
Ralph Alessi & This Against That is a group that organically tows the line between jazz, pop and contemporary classical music. The band has toured Europe and the United States since 2004 playing venues such as The Earshot Festival in Seattle, RedCat Theatre in Los Angeles, Bimhuis in Amsterdam and The New Morning in Paris. Recently they released the...
-
7:30 PMCity of Rochester Jazz Street Stage presented by the Community Foundation
Rochester Metro Jazz Orchestra
The Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra was established to provide entertaining and educational big band enrichment to the Rochester community. Big band jazz is the quintessential fusion of individual artistic expression with large ensemble collaboration. While the group prides itself on finding unique and challenging literature to develop and share, ...
-
7:45 PMHatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music
David Hazeltine
David Hazeltine is one of a handful of contemporary pianists who has mastered all of the major musical skills, from improvisation and technique to accompaniment, arranging, and composition. Even more impressive, David is the rare artist able to innovate in each category. Thus it’s no surprise that he’s the most recorded contemporary jazz pia...
-
7:45 PMHyatt Regency Rochester Grand Ballroom
Akiko Tsuruga Organ Group
She’s “Sweet and Funky,” she’s “Cute and Bad”. A Composer. A Performer extraordinaire.The legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith describes her this way: “Akiko's playing is like watching a flower blooming, a bird spreading her wings in the music world. Akiko is here to stay.” Raised in Osaka, Japan, this talented mu...
-
8:30 PMRochester Regional Health Big Tent
Glen David Andrews
Glen David Andrews, a native son and a beloved musician of New Orleans, is a warrior for cultural preservation at a time when indigenous traditions are being threatened in the city. His commanding voice and fierce trombone sound – both a powerful, emotional, and resonant blend of smoothness and grit – as well as his disarmingly honest manne...
-
8:30 PMTheater at Innovation Square
Catherine Russell
GRAMMY®-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell, when asked to characterize her new album, Send For Me, replied, “I love romance that swings.” Due out on April 1, 2022 via Dot Time Records, Send For Me features a baker’s dozen of newly recorded tunes on her eighth album as a leader, meeting...
-
9:00 PMWegmans Stage at Parcel 5
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers
Based out of Williamsburg, VA, Hornsby first rose to national prominence with The Way It Is, his 1986 Grammy-winning debut album with The Range. The title track became the most-played song on American radio in 1987 while Tupac Shakur's timeless song "Changes" builds on "The Way It Is" and set the stage for many subsequent versions of the track. In ...
-
9:00 PMKilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
Christian Sands Trio
Christian Sands — Steinway Artist and five-time Grammy Nominee — is an emerging jazz force. His abundant piano technique perfectly matches his conception, accomplishing a much deeper musical goal: a fresh look at the entire language of jazz. Christian says, “My music is about teaching the way of jazz and keeping it aliv...
-
9:00 PMWegmans Pavilion
Mambo Kings
MAMBO KINGS, together since 1995, are enjoying great success as Upstate New York's foremost Latin jazz ensemble, and have rapidly earned a national reputation for their explosive blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz improvisation. Since their orchestral debut in 1997 with the Rochester Philharmonic and Conductor Jeff Tyzik, Mambo Kings have appea...
-
9:15 PMTemple Theater
Marc Broussard
Long hailed as a powerhouse vocalist and king of Bayou Soul, Marc Broussard is altering his iconic recipe of classic soul, R&B, & blues with the help of renowned blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa, on his new album S.O.S. 4: Blues For Your Soul. Produced by Bonamassa, who contributes mesmerizing guitar solos on four tracks, alongside l...
-
9:15 PMThe Little Theatre - Roots & Americana Series
Twisted Pine
Coming Summer of 2020, Right Now is a cosmic map of the new and glistening journeys of TWISTED PINE, the Boston-based spacecraft of a band that was once bluegrass but is now “something else, a wider version of a stringband, boundary jumpers akin to outfits like Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, and Crooked Still [The Boston Globe].&rdqu...
-
9:30 PMChrist Church - Global Jazz Now
Ralph Alessi & This Against That
Ralph Alessi & This Against That is a group that organically tows the line between jazz, pop and contemporary classical music. The band has toured Europe and the United States since 2004 playing venues such as The Earshot Festival in Seattle, RedCat Theatre in Los Angeles, Bimhuis in Amsterdam and The New Morning in Paris. Recently they released the...
-
9:30 PMCity of Rochester Jazz Street Stage presented by the Community Foundation
Rochester Metro Jazz Orchestra
The Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra was established to provide entertaining and educational big band enrichment to the Rochester community. Big band jazz is the quintessential fusion of individual artistic expression with large ensemble collaboration. While the group prides itself on finding unique and challenging literature to develop and share, ...
-
9:45 PMHyatt Regency Rochester Grand Ballroom
Akiko Tsuruga Organ Group
She’s “Sweet and Funky,” she’s “Cute and Bad”. A Composer. A Performer extraordinaire.The legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith describes her this way: “Akiko's playing is like watching a flower blooming, a bird spreading her wings in the music world. Akiko is here to stay.” Raised in Osaka, Japan, this talented mu...
-
10:00 PMWilder Room
Luis Deniz Quartet
Winner of the Grand Prix de Jazz General Motors 2006 at the Montreal Jazz Festival (David Virelles Quintet) and Galaxie Rising Star 2010 at the Halifax Jazz Festival (Rich Brown & Rinsethealgorithm), Grammy Nominated and Juno Award Wining artist (Hilario Duran Latin Jazz Big Band),Alto saxophonist Luis Gonzalez Deniz was born in Camaguey, Cuba on Ap...
-
10:00 PMMontage Music Hall
The Bossa Nova Wave Diego Figueiredo + Ken Peplowski
Playing the music of the famous album "Jazz Samba" from 1962 that launched the Brazilian Bossa Nova craze in North America, and more. The original album featured Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz. It was an explosion of Grammy's and Billboard hits including "One Note Samba", "Desafinado", and "Wave". Grammy nominated Diego Figueiredo (pronounced fig...
-
10:00 PMMax of Eastman Place
Tia Fuller Quintet
When Grammy-nominated Mack Avenue recording artist, composer, and bandleader Tia Fuller picks up her saxophone, something amazing happens. Blending technical brilliance, melodic creativity, and the performing precision drawn from both her academic and stage experience, Fuller is a force to be reckoned with in the worlds of jazz, pop, R&B, and more. ...
-
10:00 PMRochester Regional Health Big Tent
Glen David Andrews
Glen David Andrews, a native son and a beloved musician of New Orleans, is a warrior for cultural preservation at a time when indigenous traditions are being threatened in the city. His commanding voice and fierce trombone sound – both a powerful, emotional, and resonant blend of smoothness and grit – as well as his disarmingly honest manne...
-
10:30 PMHyatt Regency Rochester Astor on Main - Squeezers Jam Sessions
Jam Session with Bob Sneider
For all 20 years of the Rochester International Jazz Festival, The Bob Sneider Trio has been playing the Late Night Jam Session. Within the same set, you may hear local players, Eastman students, high school students and festival headliners jamming on the same stage. None of the music is rehearsed. The trio draws upon their collective knowledge of the...
Latest News
- Exchange Club Pass Tickets for Passes Starting Monday June 19th June 7, 2023
- Countdown to the Festival! Venue Update May 4, 2023
- 2023 App New Available for Download April 27, 2023
Quick Links
Contact Us
(585) 454-2060
Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing
(585) 586-6650
Contact Info
2002-2023 © All Rights Reserved. Policies