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The New Mexico Jazz Festival is a collaborative project of the Outpost Performance Space, the Lensic, Santa Fe’s Performing Arts Center, and the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation, all 501(c)3 non profit organizations. The two week Festival takes place each year in the last two weeks of July. The New Mexico Jazz Festival is exciting in that it features local as well as world renowned artists and jazz masters and brings together the two major New Mexico cities— Albuquerque & Santa Fe.

HISTORY: 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. 2008 saw the performances of Cassandra Wilson, Pharoah Sanders, Kenny Garrett, Habib Koite, Allen Toussaint and more; and in 2009 we featured Jimmy Heath, the Mingus Dynasty, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dave & Don Grusin, Kurt Elling and more. Once again, 2010 was another great line-up with Tom McDermott, Stepology, Doug Lawrence with Jimmy Cobb, Simone, Somi, Los Pleneros de 21, Bitches Brew Revisited, Miguel Zenon, Toshiko Akiyoshi with Lew Tabackin, and more.

6th Annual NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL
JULY 19-31, 2011

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

MOSE ALLISON opening: Pat Malone TUESDAY, JULY 19, 6-9PM SANTA FE PLAZA/SANTA FE for more information opening: Patti LittlefiELD & Main Stem FRIDAY, JULY 22, 6:30–9 PM OLD TOWN PLAZA/ OLD TOWN ABQ for more information

MICHAEL ANTHONY THURSDAY, JULY 21, 8PM OUTPOST for more information

DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER FRIDAY, JULY 22, 7:30PM LENSIC for more information

MACEO PARKER SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2-10:30PM NOB HILL SUMMERFEST ALBUQUERQUE for more information

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND SUNDAY, JULY 24, 7:30PM LENSIC for more information

CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE & INSIDE STRAIGHT WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 8PM OUTPOST THURSDAY, JULY 28, 8PM/ OUTPOST for more information

JOHN PIZZARELLI with special guests JESSICA MOLASKEY & BUCKY PIZZARELLI FRIDAY, JULY 29, 7:30PM LENSIC for more information

RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS QUINTET SATURDAY, JULY 30, 7:30PM LENSIC for more information

Meet the Artist & Booksigning with A.B. Spellman, Willard Jenkins, & Randy Weston SATURDAY, JULY 30, NOON OUTPOST for more information

Film Screening & Discussion HALLELUJAH! A Film by STEVEN FELD about Ghanaba Post-screening Discussion with Steven Feld & Randy Weston SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2PM OUTPOST for more information