2023 New Mexico Jazz Festival

September 7–30, 2023
The New Mexico Jazz Festival is a collaborative project of the Lensic Performing Arts Center and Outpost Performance Space.
Events at the Lensic
Events around New Mexico
Sep 7 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
John Trentacosta’s Drummin’ Man: Gene Krupa
Sep 8 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey Duo
Sponsored by Dino’s Safe Haven Concert Series
Sep 9 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Dafnis Prieto: Cantar featuring Luciana Souza
Sponsored by Chamber Music America
Sep 10 | 3 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Inpost Artspace Reception: IN FLIGHT: Taken at the Outpost
Sep 15 | 5:30 pm | Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Santa Fe
There Ain’t But a Few of Us. A Conversation with Willard Jenkins and A.B. Spellman
Sep 16 | 11 am | Dave’s Jazz Bistro, Santa Fe
Eddie Daniels Quartet Jazz Brunch
Sept 18 | 7 pm | Albuquerque Museum
Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Sponsored by Marcus & Miriam Ray
Sept 21 | 7 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Donny McCaslin
Sponsored by Bob Lynn & Janet Braziel
Sept 23 | 7 pm | Santa Fe Railyard
Blues at the Railyard: GA-20 + Cameron Kimbrough
Sponsored by the City of Santa Fe
Sept 24 | 6 pm | Albuquerque Civic Plaza
Blues Night on Civic Plaza featuring GA-20; Toni Morgan & Soulful Sounds; Charlie Musselwhite
Presented in partnership with the City of Albuquerque, Sponsored by the McCune Charitable Foundation
Sept 25 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Lakecia Benjamin & Phoenix
Sponsored by Lynn Slade & Susan Zimmerman
Sept 26 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Cindy Blackman Santana Band
Sponsored by George & Cheri Koinis
Sept 27 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Sullivan Fortner Trio
Sponsored by Two Jazz Fans
Sept 28 | 2:15 pm | New Mexico School for the Arts
Sullivan Fortner Master Class
Sept 28 | 7 pm | SITE Santa Fe
Sullivan Fortner Trio
Sept 28 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Joel Harrison’s Anthems of Unity w. Gary Versace, Greg Tardy, & EJ Strickland
Sept 29 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
Connie Han Trio
Sponsored by the Outpost Board of Directors
Sept 29 | 7:30 pm | Harwood Museum, Taos
Sullivan Fortner Trio
Sept 30 | 7:30 pm | Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque
We ARE: Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers, Eric Harland