Let’s start with the last of the five breathless nights in the clubs and halls of New York, because you need a symbolic moment for a jazz festival where more than 700 musicians give around 150 concerts in a good week. From this maelstrom of gig and club hopping, it should be conveyed as clearly as possible that the “NYC Winter Jazzfest” is probably the most important festival of its kind. On the one hand, because it sums up the current state of affairs, but also proves every year that New York remains the capital of jazz, and also brings this music back to the clubs and districts where modernity is in the middle decades of the 20th century. The “Winter Jazzfest” is still not that world famous. Nobody wants to go to New York in January. The winter storms push the water from the Bay into the riverside streets, and the sub-zero winds sweep through the streets. It’s better to go to Newport or Nice or New Orleans in the summer.
NYC Winter Jazz Festival: Jazz in New York, the cradle of music culture
