Review: Winter Jazzfest 2017 (New York, U.S. – 5th to 10th January 2017)

Despite jazz’s being born to warm weather New Orleans, a city full of “elaborate wedding-cake ceilings, wide sliding doors, tall French windows” to quote New Orleans native Truman Capote, the music has always adapted itself to cold weather living pretty well. If a life of surrounding swamps, deltas, briar patches,…

Artists: Arturo O’Farrill , David Virelles , Daymé Arocena , Ilhan Ersahin , Imany , Julien Labro Quartet , Michael Formanek Quartet , Ravi Coltrane , Somi