Jan
18
Featuring William Parker, Alicia Hall Moran, Anne Marie Sandy, Juan Pablo Carletti, Gabby Fluke-mogul, James Brandon Lewis, Taylor Ho Bynum, Steve Swell, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ellen Christi, Eri Yamamoto, Diego Hedez, Isaiah Parker and Surprise Guests TBA - Presented by NYC Winter Jazzfest
Mon January 18th, 2027
8:00PM
Main Space
Minimum Age: 18+
Doors Open: 7:00PM
Show Time: 8:00PM
Event Ticket: $40-$65
Day of Show: $45-$65
“Flower In a Stained Glass Window,” is one of William Parker’s deeply affecting works brought forth by the essence of Dr. Martin Luther King. Here, the vision is of MLK as a seminary student, looking through a stained-glass window, hearing the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Henry Stephens Salt and Henry David Thoreau; the message being social and political justice and equality for all human beings. Imagine it is April 4, 1968. A dying Dr. King’s spirit leaves his body. On the way home, it encounters Tasunke Witko the Lakota Sioux leader who was rushing to the scene to bring Dr. King back to life through music, sounds, and movement. Instead of reminiscing about the past they talk about how revolution must come from within. Freedom cannot be handed out. It is already inside of us. Parker has pulled together a characteristically large-tent group of idiosyncratic performers ranging from the operatic singers Alicia Hall Moran and AnnMarie Sandy to Argentinian drummer Juan Pablo Carletti to veteran New York singer & sound artist Ellen Christi to Cuban trumpeter Diego Hedez. His cast of musical associates will bring “Flower..” and other works for Dr. King to life in an extended and mixed program including interludes of spoken word, poetry and small and large ensembles.
William Parker is a composer, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, an author and educator who has recorded over 40 albums as a leader that feature a range of concepts, and ensembles from solo bass, quartets, sextets, large ensembles such as the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, as well as special projects such as The Essence Of Ellington and The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield. He has composed music for The Wroclaw Symphony Orchestra as well as host of commissions by large and small ensembles. He has composed music and librettos for numerous multi-media operas such as Trail of Tears, Vision Peace and Battle Cries, Mass for the Healing World in addition to hundreds of pieces of vocal music. All of Parker’s music incorporates his concept of Universal Tonality. They all include improvisational languages and possibilities.
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William Parker
A composer, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, an author and educator who has recorded over 40 albums as a leader that feature a range of concepts, and ensembles from solo bass, quartets, sextets, large ensembles such as the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, as well as special projects such as The Essence Of Ellington and The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield. He has composed music for The Wroclaw Symphony Orchestra as well as host of commissions by large and small ensembles. He has composed music and librettos for numerous multi-media operas such as Trail of Tears, Vision Peace and Battle Cries, Mass for the Healing World in addition to hundreds of pieces of vocal music. All of Parker’s music incorporates his concept of Universal Tonality. They all include improvisational languages and possibilities.
Anne Marie Sandy
AnnMarie Sandy is garnering praise for her operatic, concert, and recorded work. She is featured on the New World Records recording of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, which BBC Magazine has called “a work of tremendous significance”, and is said to be “among the inspired cast’s stand-out performances” by Classics Today. The mezzo-soprano grew up in Houston TX and is based in Harlem NY.
In 2003 AnnMarie performed the role of Eliza Brooks in the Central City Opera world premiere Gabriel’s Daughter. She also sang the roles of Stephano with Opera North in Roméo et Juliette, Second Lady with Brevard Music Center in The Magic Flute, and Mercedes with One World Symphony in Carmen.
In 2007 she made her Lincoln Center debut at Avery Fisher Hall, performing the alto solo in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. AnnMarie made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013 singing the role of Ursula, performing with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Collegiate Chorale, and the Manhattan Girls Chorus, in the Strauss opera Feuersnot.
In the fall of 2014 AnnMarie returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago and performed in the reprised ensemble cast of Porgy and Bess. She was featured in the work Let My People Go! A Spiritual Journey Along the Underground Railroad with the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, and also performed in recital the Ravel song cycle Chansons madécasses at Bucknell University.
AnnMarie is featured on the album Voices Fall from the Sky, the vocal compilation album of renowned free jazz bassist and composer William Parker. Described by PopMatters as William Parker’s “album of a lifetime”, in the featured piece The Blinking of the Ear the magazine states AnnMarie as: “stretching her operatic range to sing notes of freedom, healing, and peace.” In the fall of 2018 she performed at the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola with William Parker and his jazz ensemble.
AnnMarie is an original cast member of the 2012 workshop production ¡Figaro! (90210), performing the role of Donna Curson, which featured with Morningside Opera at the New York City venue Dixon Place. She joined the cast of ¡Figaro! (90210) in 2016, making its second Off Broadway feature at The Duke Theater on 42nd Street, reprising the cover role of Donna Curson.
In October 2020 she featured her debut recital at Scholes Street Studio, performing works by Ravel, Faure, Mozart, Strauss, Danielpour, and more. In the Fall of 2021, she featured in The Pleiades Project production of A Women’s Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza!. Other performances include the Open Gates Project concert The Divine Feminine: Centering the Voices of Women of Color in Early Music. Winter of 2022 brought AnnMarie to Paris, performing Trail of Tears Continuum 1492-2020, at jazz festival Sons d’hiver, with William Parker and his ensemble. Fall 2023 brought her to the Kaufman Music Center, performing “I Will Tell You About This, I Will Tell You About It.” – which features the poem of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith, and composition by Aaron Siegel. AnnMarie featured at the Bang on a Can Long Play 2024 concert series, performing The Blinking of the Ear with William Parker and his ensemble. Summer 2024 brought her to Madison Square Garden in an ensemble performance of GHIBLI Films of Hayao Miyazaki – lead by conductor and composer Joe Hisaishi. She performed at Carnegie Hall in January 2025 in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 “Kaddish” with The Orchestra of St. Luke and Bard Festival Chorale. In the summer of 2025, AnnMarie performed at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn with William Parker and his ensemble, presenting Ellington in Mourning. She is featured with Paragon Ragtime Orchestra in the 2026 PBS Great Performances show Now Hear This – in the episode “Everyone Loves Joplin”
gabby fluke-mogul
Gabby Fluke-Mogul is an improviser, composer, facilitator, organizer, and doula based in New York. Weaving within threads of the avant-garde, experimental, and free jazz continuums, their praxis is devotional, somatic, and uncompromisingly queer. fluke-mogul’s playing has been described as “embodied, visceral, and virtuosic” and “the most striking sound in improvised music in years.” gabby is humbled to have collaborated with Nava Dunkelman, Joanna Mattrey, Ava Mendoza, Charles Burnham, Fred Frith, Luke Stewart, Zeena Parkins, Tcheser Holmes, Mariá Portugal, Lotte Anker, Paula Sanchez, Susana Santos Silva, Dave Rempis, Lily Finnegan, Nate Wooley, Lester St. Louis, William Parker, Anh Vo, Dimos Vryzas and Pauline Oliveros among many other musicians, poets, dancers and visual artists.
Recent performances include Cafe OTO (London), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Curva Minore (Palermo), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris), Nasjonal Jazzscene (Oslo), Stadtgarten (Cologne), Constellation (Chicago), Koncertkirken (Copenhagen), Schl8hof (Wels), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis), Roulette (Brooklyn), The Stone (Manhattan), the Lab (San Francisco), Temescal Arts Center (Oakland), and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Ensenada), and Inkonst (Malmö).
James Brandon Lewis
James Brandon Lewis is a New York-based jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His instrumental voice marries the emotional power of gospel and the grit and groove of blues and R&B to the modal and vanguard influences of Albert Ayler and John Coltrane , and Sonny Rollins ‘ expressive melodic and tonal discipline. Moments, his 2010 debut, was followed by two outings for Sony Masterworks ‘ revived OKeh imprint: Divine Travels in 2014 and the widely celebrated Days of Freeman the following year. After working American stages and clubs, he toured European and Asian festivals. Radiant Imprints, a duo outing with drummer Chad Taylor , appeared in 2018 and was followed by the quintet offering An UnRuly Manifesto a year later. In 2021, after he was selected as the “Rising Star Tenor Saxophonist” in the Downbeat International Critics Poll, Lewis issued The Jesup Wagon, his debut for Tao Forms .
Lewis was born in Buffalo, New York in 1983. Raised in the church, he was exposed to the aforementioned genres early, and studied music with Carol McLaughlin . He attended the Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts. Upon graduation, he continued his studies with Charlie Young at Howard University. While at Howard, Lewis was able to study and perform with jazz artists including Geri Allen , Benny Golson , Wallace Roney , and Bill Pierce. He was a member of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble that toured Japan under the direction of Fred Irby, and performed at the Kennedy Center Honors backing John Legend , k.d. lang , and Vanessa Williams .
After graduating from Howard in 2006, Lewis moved to Colorado, where he became active in the gospel music community, performing with Albertina Walker and other luminaries. He also performed on the WORD television network and won an award for Best Instrumentalist at Dorinda Clark-Cole ‘s singers and musicians conference in 2007.
After establishing himself as a gospel musician, Lewis sought to expand his musical horizons. He attended CalArts, where he studied with Charlie Haden , Wadada Leo Smith , Vinny Golia , and Alphonso Johnson . He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2010. Moments, his debut album, was independently issued the same year.
Lewis attended the Banf Jazz Residency, where he worked with Dave Douglas , Angelica Sanchez , Joshua Redman , Hank Roberts , and Tony Malaby . It was there that he encountered the dynamic universe of free jazz. He was invited to participate in the Atlantic Center for the Arts residency by pianist Matthew Shipp and made more than an impression. Urged on by the pianist and others in the New York jazz community, Lewis relocated to New York City in 2012. He began woodshedding with a host of veteran musicians including Marilyn Crispell , Charles Gayle , Karl Berger , and Eri Yamamoto , to name a few. He was especially fond of playing with bassist William Parker and drummer Gerald Cleaver .
With the latter two musicians, Lewis released Divine Travels on Okeh in February 2014 and achieved instant acclaim for his ability to embrace and update the sounds of his influences with a unique, utterly contemporary voice. The following year, he issued the conceptual suite Days of Freeman for the label, leading a trio composed of drummer Rudy Royston and bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma . The set won international acclaim for the saxophonist’s writing as well as his playing, providing Lewis the ability to play the European festival circuit as a bandleader for the first time.
In 2018, Lewis and drummer/percussionist Chad Taylor issued the improvised Radiant Imprints for Belgium’s Off label. He also appeared on guitarist Marc Ribot ‘s widely celebrated Songs of Resistance 1942-2018, the William Hooker -led Pillars … At the Portal, and on Allen Lowe ‘s Avant Garde of Our Own: Disconnected Works, 1980-2018.
The following year, Lewis issued An UnRuly Manifesto for Relative Pitch Records , leading a quintet that included guitarist Anthony Pirog , trumpeter Jaimie Branch , drummer Warren G. Crudup III, and bassist Luke Stewart. The set drew rave reviews for the finesse in Lewis’ playing and his canny interactions with Pirog . The same year, Lewis and the U.K. rhythm section of bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders issued the improvised digital outing 4.2.19 on Otoroku . He appeared on saxophonist Michael Eaton ‘s Dialogical, and on the digital Ropeadope -released Tenor Triage, with saxophonists Eaton and Sean Sonderegger appearing alongside him with the rhythm section of bassist Brad Jones and drummer Calvin Weston .
Though the world was shut down for much of 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Lewis’ and Taylor ‘s concert performance at Switzerland’s annual jazz festival the previous fall was released as Live in Willisau by Intakt , as was the studio quartet outing Molecular with Jones, Taylor , and pianist Aruán Ortiz . To debut his new compositional strategy, Lewis dubbed the album “Molecular Systematic Music.” That year Lewis was voted Rising Star Tenor Saxophonist in Downbeat’s International Jazz Critics Poll.
Though he couldn’t tour in 2020, he was able to write and record. He conceived of a suite of compositions inspired by the life and work of George Washington Carver. In the fall of 2020 he assembled the intergenerational Red Lily Quintet — Taylor on drums, William Parker on bass, Kirk Knuffke on cornet, and Chris Hoffman on cello — to record it while socially distanced at the Park West Studio in Brooklyn with engineer Jim Clouse; it was titled The Jesup Wagon after the Carver-invented vehicle used in the Tuskegee Institute’s Movable School program. Author Robin D.G. Kelley stated in his liner notes for the album that on The Jesup Wagon “… Lewis has composed a body of work that captures the essence of Carver’s life, work, and vision. A serious student of Carver, Lewis peels back the facade of the old, kindly man conjuring up new uses for peanuts, to reveal the artist, botanist, ecologist, aesthete, musician, teacher, and seer who anticipated our current planetary crisis.” The Jesup Wagon was released by Whit Dickey ‘s Tao Forms label in May 2021. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi
Steve Swell
Born in Newark, NJ, Steve Swell has been an active member of the NYC music community since 1975. His breadth of versatility has allowed him to tour and record with such mainstream artists as Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich in the past, as well as more contemporary artists like Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor and William Parker. He has over 50 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artists on more than 125 other releases. He runs workshops around the world and is a teaching artist in the NYC public school system focusing on special needs children.
Swell has worked on music transcriptions of the Bosavi tribe of New Guinea for MacArthur fellow, Steve Feld in 2000. His CD, “Suite For Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers” (CIMP) ranked number 2 in the 2004 Cadence Readers Poll. He has also received grants from USArtists International in 2006, MCAF (LMCC) awards in 2008 and 2013 and has been commissioned three times for the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall in 2006 and at Roulette in 2012 and 2017.
Steve was nominated for Trombonist of the Year 2008, 2011 & 2020 by the Jazz Journalists Association, was selected Trombonist of the Year 2008-2010 , 2012, 2014-2021 and 2023, 2024 by the online journal El Intruso of Argentina and received the 2008 Jubilation Foundation Fellowship Award of the Tides Foundation. Steve has also been selected by the Downbeat Critics Poll in the Trombone category each year from 2010-2018 & 2020-2025. His recording “Soul Travelers” with Jemeel Moondoc, Dave Burrell, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver was chosen as Album of the Year in 2016 by the New York City Jazz Record. His performance of “Kende Dreams” with Connie Crothers, Rob Brown, Larry Roland and Chad Taylor at the 2016 Vision Festival was cited as one of the best performances of the year by the same journal. This was also one of Connie’s last performances. We miss her dearly.
Steve is presently a teaching artist through the American Composers Orchestra, Healing Arts Initiative , Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center (Bronx), the Jazz Foundation of America, Leman Manhattan Preparatory School and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Steve was also awarded the 2014 Creative Curricula grant (LMCC) for the project: “Metamorphoses: Modern Mythology in Sound and Words” which was taught in a month long residency at Baruch College Campus High School in Manhattan.
Steve’s CD Music for Six Musicians: Hommage à Olivier Messiaen was listed in NPR’s top 50 albums for 2018.
Steve is an inaugural recipient of a Jazz Road Tours grant (SouthArts.org) begun in 2019 and received a 2020 Creative Engagement grant (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) for performances to take place in Manhattan.
In 2021 Steve received the City Artists Corps Grant (NYC).
Ellen Christi
Since the mid-seventies, Ellen Christi has steadily gained ground as an important contributor to American improvised music and contemporary jazz. As a composer/vocalist, Ms. Christi has worked in varying performance venues ranging from multi-media theatrical productions to solo vocal concerts. She has also been an active advocate in supporting innovative performing artists through organizations that she has co-founded or directed.
Ms. Christi came to New York in the nascent period of the downtown loft scene. Jimmy Hopp was a positive catalyst introducing her to a musicians’ collective at 501 Canal Street. And it was there that she lived and performed for many years with Tom Bruno, Ray Anderson, David Ware, Dave Burrell, and Coopermore.
Ms. Christi studied piano technique, composition, and arranging with Jaki Byard, an internationally acclaimed pianist/composer and a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. She studied the bel canto technique with Galli Campi, a coloratura singer with the Metropolitan Opera. Earlier on in her career, she studied vocal technique and movement with Jeanne Lee, an avant-garde jazz vocalist. Presently, Ms. Christi is working with vocal coach, Dr. Virgina Davidson, composer/conductor and founder of New York Treble Singers.
Ms. Christi was one of the co-founders of New York City Artists’ Collective, a non-profit organization committed to developing creative independence for artists, fostering appreciation of visual and performing arts, and record documentation/ production (N.Y.C.A.C. Records). New York City Artists’ Collective was housed at 501 Canal Street, one ofthe prominent loft performance spaces of the 70’s in Tribeca.
She is also the founder of Network Records, an independent record label promoting contemporary jazz music.
She has received numerous grants and commissions from the New York State Council of the Arts and Meet the Composer as well as having received varied commissions for dance and theater performances throughout the years. Her most recent commission has been funded through the prestigious Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. She is currently performing and teaching master classes in vocal technique/improvisation and movement throughout the United States and Europe.
Ms. Christi has been performing and recording with musicians in the United States and Europe for the past twenty five years. She has worked with: Tom Bruno, Ray Anderson, Mark Dresser, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Rashid Ali, Tony Scott, Ed Blackwell, William Parker, Lisa Sokolov, Jeanne Lee, Kenny Wheeler, Steve McCall, Rahn Burton, Roy Campbell, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, and Hans Koch.
For the past twelve years, she has been collaborating with Fiorenzo Sordini, Claudio Lodati, Carlo Actis Dato, and Enrico Fazio in Italy. In Switzerland, she has been performing and recording with Thomi Hirt , Fritz Heigi, and Pit Gutmann of the trio, Illustrio. Currently she is working with Joe Gallant’s Illuminati, a 22-piece ensemble,as well as performing and producing concerts with her present performing ensemble, Aliens’ Talk. She is developing a world music project with Vincent Nguini of Cameroon. And the most recent recording project is with bassist, Habib Faye and balafonist, Babacar Konate of Senegal. A great portion of her time has been spent working as a producer for Bliss Corporation, a euro dance music production company in Torino, Italy.
Eri Yamamoto
Since moving to the New York in 1995, Eri Yamamoto has established herself as one of jazz’s most original and compelling pianists and composers. Musical legend Herbie Hancock has said, “My hat’s off to her……she’s found her own voice.”
During the past thirty years, Eri has been sharing her uniquely lyrical and evocative music with listeners in New York City, throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, Africa, Jamaica, and Australia; with appearances in concerts, clubs, and major festivals.
This year, Eri celebrated her thirtieth year in New York by releasing a duo recording with fellow pianist Matthew Shipp. Soon after moving to the city, she had a weekly gig at the Avenue B Social Club in the East Village, where she met Matthew; he became one of her first musical friends here. This recording, Horizon, is Eri’s eighteenth as a leader.
Eri continues to play her original music in several groups: last year she released Fly With the Wings with her new quartet, “Quadraphonic;” and Let’s Keep Walking, her third solo piano recording. She also released a live recording with her “Colors of the Night” trio, featuring bassist William Parker. Eri has been collaborating with William for twenty years, appearing on eight of his recordings and concerts throughout the world.
Eri continues to work with her long-time trio members bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi. The New Yorker writes about their recording, A Woman With a Purple Wig: “Purposeful songs…… also step back to celebrate simple joys. Colors are Beautiful is as affirming as the title track is critical.” Filmmaker Aleksandra Szczepanowska was moved to create music videos of both songs. “A Woman With a Purple Wig,” won the prize for best music video at the prestigious Big Apple Film Festival in 2023.
Downbeat magazine gave four stars to Eri’s trio release, Firefly, saying: “Her CD reaffirms Yamamoto’s standing as a contemporary pianist of the highest order. Her virtuosity never gets in the way of playing it straight from the heart.”
Eri was born in Osaka, Japan. She began playing classical piano at age three, and started composing at eight. In 1995, she visited New York for the first time, and was so inspired by a performance by pianist Tommy Flanagan that she decided to move to New York to study jazz. She entered the New School University’s jazz program, where she studied with Reggie Workman, Junior Mance, and LeeAnn Ledgerwood.
Finally, Eri is a gifted educator. She received her master of music in education and composition from Shiga University, Japan. She has taught private lessons and workshops to jazz musicians of all instruments from the U. S., Japan, Europe, and North Africa.
Diego Hedez
Trumpeter and composer Diego Hedez aka Diego Miguel Hernández González was born on February 17, 2000 in Remedios Villa Clara At nine years old Diego began his musical career, studying at the Olga Alonso vocational school where he experimented with various instruments and started his elementary studies in trumpet. By 2012 he won his first competition as a trumpeter and in 2014 he recorded his first solo with the Villa Clara Youth Symphony.
In 2015 Diego was admitted into Cuba’s selective National School of Arts (ENA) where he began developing his professional abilities and exploring his passion for music. He connected with several influential trumpet players during this time, most notably maestro Robert Garcia, a world-class and emblematic trumpeter of Cuba, who would guide Diego and reveal for him the magic within jazz music, showcasing how to mix contemporary elements with classic styles like bebop and Cuban rumba.This led Diego to develop his own vision as a composer, focused on Afro-Cuban music fused with jazz. He explored this sound through a new ensemble that he directed called Afro Cubanos. He also collaborated with several other bands during this time including the ENA Jazz Band and Joaquín Betancourt’s Joven Jazz Band, performing in significant theaters such as the National Theater of Cuba and the Teatro de Bellas Artes in Havana.
These groups opened a new world for Diego, allowing him to connect and work with some other great players and artists from Cuba and also global artists like Dave Weckl, Brian Lynch , Victor Goines among others.
Diego then connected with renowned jazz trumpeter Kervin Barreto, from the GRAMMY-award winning band Calle 13, and received transformative insight into performing on stage. He took these new learnings and went on to establish a name for himself in the Havana jazz scene, performing alongside first-rate musicians in notable clubs such as La Zorra y el Cuervo and Jazz Café.Diego’s debut album “Distante. ”
The seven-track live studio album was composed by Diego and dedicated to the creation of Latin jazz, maintaining a profound connection with musical expressions from the Caribbean and Latin America. The album featured the Diego Hedez Quintet, made up of Diego on trumpet, Miguel Angel Wiwi on keyboard, Lino Piquero on bass, Miguel Pacifico on congas, and Rey Ponce on drums.
In October 2022 Diego was selected for a free jazz residency in Sutri Italy , small town 35 min of the north of Rome. Diego recorded his last album featuring the acclaimed Cuban-American drummer Francisco Mela , Italian drummer Federico Ughi among other musicians. Early 2023 Hedez moved to New Jersey, USA. He was selected for the SIM summer program based in Brooklyn New York led by the acclaimed trumpet player Ralph Alessi. Diego’s musical journey includes collaborations with avant-garde icons in the New York City creative scene like William Parker, Kweku Sumbry, Immanuel Wilkins. David Virelles, Daniel Carter among others and performances at notable venues and festivals globally. His recent projects, including “The New Latin Jazz Collective” and collaborations with the William Parker Ensemble, Turn of Events by Matthieu Mazué released on 577 records, The Singer Grove with David Virelles, showcase his commitment to pushing musical boundaries through free improvisation and sonic exploration.