Thanks to everybody— funders, sponsors, supporters, presenting partners, venues, staff, volunteers, audiences and ARTISTS!— for an outstanding 17th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival 2023

Cant wait for the 18th Annual NM Jazz Festival, September 2024!!
 
Meanwhile heres what happened this year. 
24 events in 25 days!

17TH ANNUAL NM JAZZ FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 7-30, 2023
9.7 John Trentacosta (Outpost)
9.8 Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey Duo (Outpost)
9.9 Dafnis Prieto w. Luciana Souza (Outpost)
9.10 Mark Weber & Roch Doran (Outpost)
9.10 Cal Haines (Outpost)
9.14 A.B. Spellman Regina Carter (Lensic)
9.14 Regina Carter Quintet (Lensic)
9.15 Willard Jenkins & A.B. Spellman (Collected Works Bookstore/Santa Fe)
9.15 Stefon Harris (Lensic)
9.16 Eddie Daniels (Dave’s Jazz Bistro)
9.16 Christian McBride (Lensic)
9.17 Spanish Harlem Orchestra (Lensic)
9.18 Spanish Harlem Orchestra (Albuquerque Museum)
9.21 Donny McCaslin (Outpost)
9.23 Cameron Kimbrough & GA-20 (Railyard Park/Santa Fe)
9.24 GA-20; Toni Morgan; Charlie Musselwhite (ABQ Civic Plaza)
9.25 Lakecia Benjamin (Outpost)
9.26 Cindy Blackman Santana (Outpost)
9.27 Sullivan Fortner (Outpost)
9.28 Sullivan Fortner (NM School for the Arts)
9.28 Joel Harrison w. Greg Tardy, Gary Versace, E.J. Strickland (Outpost)
9.29 Sullivan Fortner (Harwood Museum/Taos)
9.29 Connie Han (Outpost)
9.30 Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers, Eric Harland (Outpost)

BROUGHT TO YOU BY

The New Mexico Jazz Festival is a collaborative project of The Outpost Performance Space and The Lensic Performing Arts Center, both 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.


OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE

Established in 1988, The Outpost Performance Space is Albuquerque’s non-profit, member-supported, community-based Performing Arts Center. While presenting numerous concerts in larger venues, including those of the New Mexico Jazz Festival each July, Outpost’s home is at The Space— an intimate venue located at 210 Yale Blvd SE just down the street from the University of New Mexico. Outpost presents more than 100 concerts each year— jazz, experimental, folk & roots, spoken word, teen performance nights and much more— plus classes for youth and adults. Outpost also hosts visual arts exhibits in the Inpost Artspace. The Outpost Performance Space is unique— intimate and elegant— and we invite you to come see us.


The Lensic Performing Arts Center

The Lensic Performing Arts Center is Santa Fe’s premier year-round performing arts center: a state-of-the art venue for theater, music, dance, film, lectures, community events and family programming set in a historic theater in the heart of the City Different. The Lensic offers over 250 performances a year, technical apprenticeships in the performing arts, and free performances to over 20,000 local school children a year. The “Lensic Presents Series” reaches out beyond the traditional performing arts to bring new and original works to Santa Fe. “Under Construction” an original, ongoing series showcases theater pieces under development. “Big Screen Classics” honors The Lensic’s origins as a movie house by screening treasured movies from the earliest silent films to the latest in high definition satellite broadcasting. “World Music Series” brings international musicians and artists from the Balkans and Bhutan to Egypt, Ireland, Ethiopia and Japan to The Lensic stage. For more information go to www.lensic.org


The Santa Fe Jazz Foundation (Jazz Festival Partner Emeritus)

The Santa Fe Jazz Foundation was founded in 1990. Its mission is to help musicians in need and to financially support college jazz programs as well as other jazz organizations throughout the country. Traditionally, the Foundation has helped musicians who are experiencing health problems and are without insurance or who are unable to work. Over the years, many musicians have been helped by the generous support of individuals through the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation. In addition to its philanthropic work, the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation has presented hundreds of concerts in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque in venues ranging from the Santa Fe Opera to the St Francis Auditorium and The Hive.


NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL PRESENTING PARTNERS

Santa Fe Bandstand/Outside In

Santa Fe Bandstand is a free summer festival on the Santa Fe Plaza Stage produced by Outside In, in collaboration with the City of Santa Fe and featuring the best music of this region including Latin, Blues, Rock, R&B, Native, World beat, Country, Jazz, Swing, Reggae, Folk, Zydeco, Electronic, Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Classical, Dance etc. Santa Fe Bandstand 2008 will feature up to 80 performances from July 7th to August 21st. Monday through Thursday evenings 6 to 8:30 pm and every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from noon to 12:30pm. Outside In is a nonprofit, community-based group established in the spring of 1995, to bring free, live performances, presentations and workshops to people confined to shelters, residential treatment facilities, nursing homes, correctional facilities, and any other institutions or human services programs where people would otherwise not have access to the arts. The Youth with Promise program presents free weekly guitar, dance, & visual arts workshops to juvenile offenders in detention and on probation, to at-risk youth in shelters and residential treatment programs and other underserved youth in the community. For more information about Santa Fe Bandstand and Outside/In go to www.outsideinproductions.org/santafebandstand


NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL VENUES

SANTA FE VENUES

The Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 West San Francisco St.

Santa Fe Plaza
West San Francisco St. and Lincoln Avenue

St John’s College- Music on the Hill
Camino Cruz Blanca

SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo De Peralta

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe
208 Grant Ave


ALBUQUERQUE VENUES

The Outpost Performance Space
210 Yale Blvd. SE: 2 blocks south of Central

South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway Blvd SE

African American Performing Arts Center
310 San Pedro Dr. NE

Route 66 Summerfest
Central Ave. and side streets between Girard & Washington

Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater
2000 Mountain Rd. NW

New Mexico Jazz Festival Sponsorship Categories include Festival Sponsor, Concert Sponsor, Festival Friend and Festival Advertiser ranging from $1,500-$10,000 and up, and include benefits of tickets to concerts, logo recognition, ad space and so on. The non-profit New Mexico Jazz Festival also gladly accepts tax-deductible donations from individuals and businesses.

New Mexico Jazz Festival Sponsorship Brochure

Click above image to view our sponsorship brochure. 

For more information contact New Mexico Jazz Festival Directors
Tom Guralnick at tguralnick@comcast.net or 505-268-0044 (Outpost Performance Space)


NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL SPONSORS & FUNDERS

  • Albuquerque City Councilor Isaac Benton
  • Albuquerque City Councilor Pat Davis
  • City of Albuquerque–Mayor Tim Keller & The Cultural Services Department
  • Kaman Foundation
  • McCune Charitable Foundation
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • La Cumbre Brewing Company
  • Thornburg Investment Management

NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS

  • Albuquerque The Magazine
  • Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Café
  • Eldorado Hotel & Spa
  • KUNM 89.9FM
  • KSFR 101.1FM
  • 103.7 The Oasis
  • Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel
  • Southwest Gastroenterology Associates
  • City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund
  • Wells Fargo
  • Western Jazz Presenters Network

NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL FRIENDS & IN KIND CONTRIBUTORS

  • Alibi
  • Carey Southwest Limousine
  • Doubletree by Hilton
  • Don Mickey Designs/Printnm.com
  • Guerilla Graphix
  • Hotel Albuquerque Old Town
  • Hotel Santa Fe
  • Heritage Hotels
  • Michael Motley Studio
  • Nicholas Potter Bookseller
  • OGB Architectural Millwork
  • Santa Fe Audio Visual
  • Santa Fe Music Collective
  • Santa Fe New Mexican
  • Zephyr Design Inc/Judith Suiter

NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL PRESENTING PARTNERS

  • City of Albuquerque Cultural Services Department
  • African American Performing Arts Center
  • First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe
  • John Aaron Lewis Legacy Project
  • Melaza Music Productions
  • New Mexico Jazz Workshop
  • Nob Hill Main Street
  • Roots & Wires Presents
  • Santa Fe Bandstand & Outside In
  • St John’s College— Music on the Hill
  • Santa Fe Music Collective
  • SITE Santa Fe
  • South Broadway Cultural Center
  • Taos Jazz Bebop Society
  • UNM College of Fine Arts

Call Outpost Executive Director, Tom Guralnick at 505-268-0044 for details on New Mexico Jazz Festival Sponsorship Opportunities.

Founded in 2006, the New Mexico Jazz Festival followed on the work of the Open Arts Foundation’s Santa Fe Jazz and International Music Festival (2000-2005) which produced hundreds of concerts and brought an unprecedented wealth of high quality jazz to Santa Fe. In 2006, our inaugural effort presented McCoy Tyner, Branford Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Newport Jazz Allstars, and more. In 2007 we expanded our efforts and presented more concerts in both cities including performances by the legendary Sonny Rollins in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. We also inaugurated a partnership with the City of Albuquerque’s Summerfest by offering 5 hours of music on Civic Plaza— an evening which was free and open to the public and which was capped by a performance by Toumani Diabaté’s Symmetric Orchestra. In 2010 that evening on Civic Plaza moved to Route 66 in Nob Hill and event which features 120 performers on 3 stages and draws 60,000 people. The New Mexico Jazz Festival continues to grow and you can see the line-ups for all the years listed below.


PAST FESTIVAL LINE UPS


17TH ANNUAL NM JAZZ FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 7-30, 2023

  • JOHN TRENTACOSTA
  • INGRID LAUBROCK, TOM RAINEY DUO
  • DAFNIS PRIETO W. LUCIANA SOUZA
  • MARK WEBER & ROCH DORAN
  • CAL HAINES
  • A.B. SPELLMAN REGINA CARTER
  • REGINA CARTER QUINTET
  • WILLARD JENKINS & A.B. SPELLMAN
  • STEFON HARRIS
  • EDDIE DANIELS
  • CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE
  • SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTR
  • SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA
  • DONNY MCCASLIN
  • CAMERON KIMBROUGH & GA-20
  • GA-20; TONI MORGAN; CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE
  • LAKECIA BENJAMIN
  • CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA
  • SULLIVAN FORTNER
  • JOEL HARRISON W. GREG TARDY, GARY VERSACE, E.J. STRICKLAND
  • CONNIE HAN
  • AARON GOLDBERG, REUBEN ROGERS, ERIC HARLAND

16TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | SEPTEMBER 15-OCTOBER 8, 2022

  • THE LEGENDARY COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA
  • RAVI COLTRANE COSMIC MUSIC FEATURING BRANDEE YOUNGER
  • JAZZ BRUNCH AT DAVE’S JAZZ BISTRO WITH THE NEW MEXICO LATIN JAZZ CONTINUUM
  • A.B. SPELLMAN W. TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION
  • TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON + SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • DOUG LAWRENCE QUINTET FEATURING CARMEN BRADFORD
  • THE COOKERS
  • JOEL ROSS QUARTET
  • BLUES NIGHT ON CIVIC PLAZA, ALBUQUERQUE WITH RUTHIE FOSTER; CHILLHOUSE W. HILLARY SMITH; LEVI PLATERO
  • ERIC VLOEIMANS & WILL HOLSHOUSER
  • SAMARA JOY
  • PETER ERSKINE QUARTET W. GEORGE GARZONE, ALAN PASQUA & DAREK OLES
  • TOWER OF POWER
  • KURT ROSENWINKEL
  • INPOST ARTSPACE RECEPTION. 25 YEARS OF JAZZ AT OUTPOST AND THE NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM GALE

PANDEMIC JAZZ FESTIVAL 2020-2021 | JULY 1, 2020-JULY 2021

  • CHRIS BOTTI
  • PAT METHENY SIDE-EYE
  • BRANFORD MARSALIS
  • GEORGE CABLES TRIO
  • JOSE JAMES
  • JOEY DEFRANCESCO TRIO
  • OMAR SOSA & SECKOU KEITA- SUBA TRIO
  • DAVE GRUSIN LEE RITENOUR GROUP
  • PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP
  • DR MICHAEL WHITE ORIGINAL LIBERTY JAZZ BAND
  • JAMIE BAUM SEPTET
  • CHA WA
  • ROUTE 66 SUMMERFEST: NM JAZZ FESTIVAL STAGE- FOCUS ON BLACK MUSIC IN NEW MEXICO
  • SON COMO SON
  • DELBERT ANDERSON‘S D’DAT
  • FILM SCREENING: DAVE GRUSIN- NOT ENOUGH TIME: A FILM BY BARBARA BENTREE
  • FILM SCREENING: CITY OF A MILIION DREAMS

14th ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | JULY 11- 28, 2019

  • STANLEY CLARKE
  • DAVE HOLLAND
  • KENNY BARRON
  • JOEY ALEXANDER
  • DAFNIS PRIETO
  • EDMAR CASTANEDA
  • DOUG LAWRENCE
  • NM JAZZ LATINO ORCHESTRA
  • FRANKIE VASQUEZ
  • HONEYHOUSE
  • LEYLA MCCALLA
  • MARCIA BALL
  • CHA WA
  • AARON DIEHL
  • WARREN WOLF
  • A.B. SPELLMAN
  • GEORGE SCHULLER
  • CHUY MARTINEZ & TRIO LOS TRINOS
  • FILM SCREENING— THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: FROM RESIDENCY TO LEGACY
  • ART EXHIBIT: EDGAR SORRELLS-ADEWALE
  • JOHN LEWIS LEGACY YOUTH JAZZ PROJECT
  • ROUTE 66 SUMMERFEST NM JAZZ FEST TENT
  • NM JAZZ FEST ON ABQ CIVIC PLAZA


13th ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | JULY 11- 30, 2018

  • John Lewis Youth Clinics and Concert
  • Tootie Heath Trio
  • Spanish Harlem Orchestra
  • Eric Bibb
  • Inpost Artspace Jazz Art Reception: Musicians Making Art
  • Ranky Tanky
  • Irma Thomas, Ranky Tanky + 15 local bands on 4 stages Route 66 Summerfest
  • Dave Grusin Film Screening & Performance
  • Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra featuring Hillary Smith/John Maestas & Hakim Be
  • Charles McPherson Quartet
  • AB Spellman
  • NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater
  • Chucho Valdés & Gonzalo Rubalcaba
  • Alicia Hall Moran & Jason Moran: Black Wall Street

12TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 13-August 5, 2017

  • Pat Martino Trio
  • Dexter Gordon Tribute Project: Doug Lawrence with NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb Trio
  • Inpost Artspace Reception: Prints by Reginald Gammon
  • Dexter Gordon Round Midnight Tribute Project: Round Midnight 30th Anniversary Film Screening
  • Jane Bunnett & Maqueque
  • Summerfest: Los Lobos + 17 Acts on 3 Stages
  • César Bauvallet’s Cuban Jazz Project
  • Davina & the Vagabonds + Banda Atómica
  • John Lewis Youth Piano Competition
  • Ambrose Akinmusire Youth Concert
  • Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet
  • Buika
  • NEA Jazz Master Pharoah Sanders
  • A.B. Spellman
  • Ravi Coltrane Quartet
  • René Marie

11TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 14-31, 2016

  • NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd
  • NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland
  • Chris Potter
  • Lisa Fischer
  • Nea Jazz Master Dr. Lonnie Smith
  • Booker T Jones Soul & Blues Review
  • Pedrito Martinez
  • Django Festival Allstars
  • Nikki Hill
  • Ginkgoa
  • Mark Weaver
  • Neospectric
  • Revoso
  • Douglas Cardwell
  • Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra
  • Hillary Smith
  • Route 66 Summerfest
  • A.B. Spellman

10TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 10-August 6, 2015

  • The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra
  • Esperanza Spalding
  • Kenny Barron Trio featuring Stefon Harris
  • Christian McBride Trio
  • Marc Cary Focus Trio- Rhodes Ahead
  • René Marie
  • Vinicius Cantuaria
  • The Klezmatics
  • Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
  • Roomful of Blues
  • Route 66 Summerfest
  • Doug Lawrence New Organ Trio
  • Leni Stern African Quartet
  • John Trentacosta & Friends
  • Jazz Brunches
  • Cathryn McGill
  • Cal Haines’ Flora Purim Project


9TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 11-27, 2014

  • Claudia Villela
  • Cedric Watson
  • Wagogo
  • Paintings by Jeff Stipe & Greg Tucker
  • Film Screening: Bayou Maharajah- The Tragic Genius of James Booker
  • Tootie Heath, Ethan Iverson & Ben Street
  • Henry Butler, Steven Bernstein & the Hot 9
  • Arrested Development | Raul Midon & 20 Acts On 3 Stages
  • Jazz Brunches
  • Bumblebee’s Jazz All Stars w. Dick Hyman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jimmy Greene, Randy Sandke, Jay Leonhardt, Lewis Nash
  • Omar Sosa
  • Cal Haines 5
  • Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project
  • A.B. Spellman With Nea Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette
  • Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matt Carrison Trio
  • Jazz & Poetry w. A.B. Spellman, Jessica Helen Lopez, Damien Flores, Carlos Contreras, V.B. Price, Lauren Camp and Don McIver; plus musicians, Asher Barreras, Kanoa Kaluhiwa, John Rangel and Diego Arencon

8TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 12-28, 2013

  • Trio Da Paz
  • Catherine Russell
  • Dan Dowling-john Griffin Duo
  • Jazz Photos By Mark Weber
  • Film Screening: The Legend Of Bop City
  • Arlen Asher & Straight Up
  • Yellowjackets
  • Red Baraat | The Relatives & 20 Acts On 3 Stages
  • Jazz Brunches
  • Stanley Clarke Band
  • Larry Mitchell
  • Mil-tones Brass Band
  • Lionel Loueke Trio
  • Terence Blanchard
  • Lionel Loueke
  • A.B. Spellman With Nea Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri
  • Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Band
  • Tom Mcdermott

7TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | JULY 2012

  • Stephane Wrembel
  • Leni Stern
  • Doug Lawrence
  • Regina Carter
  • Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  • Allen Toussaint
  • Ravi Coltrane
  • Dianne Reeves
  • Sheila Jordan
  • Jon Hendricks
  • Photos by Paul Slaughter & jim Gale
  • Hakim Bellamy
  • A.B. Spellman

6TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | JULY 19–31, 2011

  • Mose Allison
  • Patti Littlefield & Main Stem
  • Michael Anthony
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater
  • Maceo Parker
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  • Christian McBride & Inside Straight
  • John Pizzarelli w. special guests Jessica Molaskey & Buccky Pizzarelli
  • Randy Weston African Rhythms Quintet
  • Hallelujah!: A Film by Steven Feld about Ghandaba

5TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | JULY 13–25, 2010

  • STEPOLOGY’s “Tap On!”
  • Doug Lawrence Quartet featuring Jimmy Cobb
  • Simone + Somi
  • The Jazz Loft Project
  • Bitches Brew Revisited: with Cindy Blackman, James Blood Ulmer,DJ Logic, Marco Benevento, Graham Haynes, Antoine Roney, Lonnie Plaxico & Adam Rudolph
  • Miguel Zenón Quintet
  • Los Pleneros de la 21
  • NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet featuring Lew Tabackin & Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra led by Bobby Shew

4TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 14-26, 2009

  • Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  • NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath & the Generations Band
  • Kurt Elling
  • Mingus Dynasty
  • Dave & Don Grusin Quartet
  • Marco Benevento Trio
  • Matt Brewer Quartet w/ Aaron Parks

3RD ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 17-28, 2008

  • Pharoah Sanders
  • Allen Toussaint
  • Kenny Garrett
  • Habib Koité
  • Cassandra Wilson
  • Paquito D’Rivera
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  • Bert Dalton
  • Chris Calloway
  • Straight Up
  • Arlen Asher
  • Tetragon

2ND ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 19-29, 2007

  • Sonny Rollins Quintet
  • Dianne Reeves Trio
  • John Pizzarelli Quartet
  • Toumani Diabaté’s Symmetric Orchestra
  • Michel Camilo Trio
  • Richard Bona Group
  • Bobby Shew Quintet with Gary Foster
  • Eddie Daniels Quintet
  • Mighty Clouds of Joy
  • Le Chat Lunatique
  • Kanoa Kaluhiwa Afro-Latin Esemble
  • Stu MacAskie’s Sidewinders with Cathryn McGill
  • Albuquerque African Ensemble
  • Wagogo
  • Ben Martinez Project
  • Outpost Youth Jazz Ensemble directed by David Parlato

INAUGURAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 20-29, 2006

  • Branford Marsalis Quartet
  • Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra led by Arturo O’Farrill
  • McCoy Tyner Septet
  • Newport Jazz Allstars Tribute with Frank Wess, Lew Tabackin, Kenny Davern, Randy Sandke, Cedar Walton, Peter Washington, Kenny Washington & Howard Alden
  • Doug Lawrence Quartet
  • Henry Butler
  • Los Hombres Calientes
  • Steve Figueroa Trio
  • Tetragon
  • Patti Littlefield Quintet

Outpost Performance Space

PO Box 4543 Albuquerque, NM 87196 505.268.0044 www.outpostspace.org


The Lensic, Santa Fe’s Performing Arts Center

211 West San Francisco St. Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.988.7050 www.lensic.org

The Outpost