2026 NYC Winter Jazzfest Lineup Sampler
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This playlist captures the spirit of NYC Winter Jazzfest 2026: jazz not as a fixed style, but as a living, adaptable scene—rooted in history while in constant conversation with the present. The music moves easily between groove and abstraction, the club, the church, the street, and the global underground.
From Kassa Overall to Lakecia Benjamin to Samora Pinderhughes, from Lady Blackbird to Endea Owens to Mei Semones, these artists pull from hip-hop, soul, Afro-diasporic traditions, experimental composition, electronic minimalism, and song craft. Some tracks invite close listening; others insist you move your body. We strive for a socially aware and rooted sound.
This playlist mirrors Winter Jazzfest’s core ethos: porous boundaries of what jazz is, intergenerational dialogue, and a belief that jazz remains most vital when it stays open to risk, new rhythm, and everything around it.
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