City Parks Foundation

CPJF Ancillary: TRILL MEGA JAM & Charlie Parker Jazz Festival After-Party
2026-08-30 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Manhattan
The Make Jazz Trill Again (MJTA) Trill Mega Jam is a high-energy, improvisation-centered jam session founded by Melanie Charles featuring special guest drummer Kassa Overall, Melanie Charles on vocals & flute, Emilo Modeste on sax, Paul wilson Bae on keys, Jerome Jennings on drums, Gervi Myles on bass, and DJ OOOChild on the ones and twos. This is a unique opportunity where musicians of all backgrounds, skill levels and instruments gather to improvise in unconventional spaces for an experience of pure celebration and connection. MJTA is truly a movement for the people, by the people. All are welcome.

(RESCHEDULED) CPJF Ancillary: TSQ LIVE + Jazz at Lincoln Center: Marcus Printup Quintet
2026-08-31 17:00 - 19:00
This event has been rescheduled to Monday, August 31 (original date Thursday, August 27) due to inclement weather.
Marcus Printup Quintet
Feat. Marcus Printup, trumpet / Greg Tardy, tenor saxophone / Helen Sung, piano / David Wong, bass / Vinton Hines, drums
In this second installment of the partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and Times Square Alliance, we will celebrate the music of the beautiful musical relationship between Kenny Dorham and Charlie Parker featuring one of the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s longstanding and heralded orchestra members: Marcus Printup. Marcus and his all-star band will revisit and explore songs recorded by Charlie Parker and Kenny Dorham on the Royal Roost sessions as well as a few compositions by Kenny Dorham.
