MUSIC

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 – 28, 2022
Various Times

Various Locations, Manhattan

Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION

This awesome festival — scaled down from previous years, but what isn’t? — doesn’t start in earnest till Friday (which is why it’s included in this List rather than the last one), but there are scattered events on Wednesday and also on Thursday. The big event is Sunday afternoon’s show in Tompkins Square Park, featuring among others Archie Shepp and Jason Moran playing with Cecile McLorin Salvant (HOLY SHIT) and a set by Melissa Aldana (whom I think I first heard at a Parker Festival show several years ago). I can’t imagine skipping that (although the competing Sun Ra Arkestra show — wait for Friday’s List — poses an interesting dilemma).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m not gonna try to cover everywhere this Festival is taking place. But if you go to Sunday afternoon’s show at Tompkins Square — and you should — then keep the Festival going (or get it started beforehand) at Miss Lily’s 7A Cafe: FUN Jamaican!