Jazz at Lincoln center announces inaugural unity festival January 2024 in NYC: Videos, Photos

Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the lineup for the inaugural edition of its Unity Festival, held January 12-13, 2024, at three venues at its facilities at Columbus Circle in New York City.

Fifteen acts will perform over those two days at Dizzy’s, the Appel Room and the Ertegun Atrium. Among the performers scheduled to appear at the Unity Festival are: Chief Adjuah, Endea Owens, William Parker, Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, Ekep Nkwelle and many others.

The festival will also showcase artists on the Blue Engine record label, including sets from trumpet player and composer Summer Camargo, saxophonist 8347, and American Pianists Association award and fellowship winnner Isaiah J. Thompson. (See complete schedule below.)

The festival follows the Jazz Congress conference held on Thursday, January 11 at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Schedule of events:

Friday, January 12^th

6:30-8:00pm
Sonido Solar: Tribute to Eddie Palmieri
Atrium

7:00-8:30pm
Scatter the Atoms That Remain feat. Billy Harper, Isaiah Collier & Randy Brecker
Appel Room

7:30-8:40pm
Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet
Dizzy’s Club

8:30-9:45pm
Endea Owens and The Cookout
Atrium

9:30-11:00pm
Chief Adjuah
Appel Room

9:15pm-10:30pm
Summer Camargo
Dizzy’s Club

10:30-11:50pm
New Jazz Underground with Abdias Armenteros, Sebastian Rios, and TJ Reddick
Atrium

11:15pm-12:30am
Sarah Hanahan Quartet
Dizzy’s Club

Saturday, January 13^th

6:30-7:40pm
Isaiah Collier Quartet
Atrium

7:00-8:30PM
Linda May Han Oh Trio: feat Fabian Almazan, Obed Calvaire plus special guests Ambrose Akinmusire and Michael Mayo
Appel Room

7:30-8:45pm
Ekep Nkwelle
Dizzy’s Club

8:30-9:50pm
Bokani and Steve Dyer & Friends feat. Naledi Masilo
Atrium

9:30-11:00pm
Chief Adjuah
Appel Room

9:15-10:30pm
Stacy Dillard and Brooklyn Circle
Dizzy’s Club

10:30-11:50pm
William Parker’s Light Ensemble
Atrium

11:15pm-12:30am
Alphonso Horne & The Gotham Kings
Dizzy’s Club