The Jazz Gallery: Next Jazz Legacy

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway, 5th Fl.
New York, NY 10001

Sets at 7:30pm and 9:30pm

DoYeon Kim – gayageum performer
Carmen Quill – upright bass, composer, songwriter
Melissa Almaguer – tap dance/feet percussion, multidisciplinary artist & educator
Chanelle Ignant – guitarist, educator & composer
April May Webb – vocalist, composer & educator
Nora Stanley – alto saxophone
Brenda Navarrete Guzman – Afro-Cuban percussionist, singer & composer
Alexandra Ridout – trumpeter, bandleader, composer and educator (not performing)

Next Jazz Legacy is a national apprenticeship program for diverse improvisers in jazz with the intersection of gender and race as a guiding principle. The mission of Next Jazz Legacy is to increase opportunities for musicians most underrepresented in the art form and to create waves of lasting change that benefit the whole community. Next Jazz Legacy invests in its awardees through a comprehensive support package that includes intergenerational apprenticeships and mentorship, showcases, cohort learning, and a grant that contributes to awardees’ creative and professional development. Next Jazz Legacy is a partnership between New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. GRAMMY-winning artist and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington is the program’s Artistic Director. Next Jazz Legacy welcomes applications from musicians of all gender and sexual identities to achieve the goal of true gender diversity in the field.