Inwood Jazz Festival

Inwood Jazz Festival INWOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL
Bringing JAZZ All The Way UP Uptown! It’s all about the music 🎶

INWOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL
(Bringing JAZZ All The Way UP Uptown)

BRUCE REYNOLDS GARDEN is proud to present the 1st Annual free, one day, outdoor, Inwood Jazz Festival! WHY do we want to create the first ever outdoor jazz festival in Inwood, free of charge, and open to all?

1) Bringing this exciting new cultural offering to Inwood and thereby highlighting this vibrant (yet sometimes overlooked) part o

f NYC will benefit both visitors and residents and enrich the community, and the city in more ways than one. Whether it's the economic, cultural, or even educational benefit - there are only upsides to this idea!

2) Festival will be another way to support and engage local businesses, many of whom are still recovering from economic blows handed to them by the pandemic.

3) With IJF, we will be adding another new platform for all the jazz artists in NY, who have lost so many venues during shutdowns, and with them - their livelihoods.

4) This event will allow the local community (families and youth in particular), to experience first-hand, and in their very own "backyard", the magnificent power and beauty of the American classical art form - JAZZ. New York's jazz clubs, while admirable staples of our City, tend to be unattainable to youngest New Yorkers, either due to cost or the "bedtime" incompatibilities (parents will know what we mean here!)

Happy Birthday Kareem Abdul-Jabbar! From the Inwood Jazz Festival in your hometown !
04/16/2025

Happy Birthday Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!
From the Inwood Jazz Festival in your hometown !

Speaking in New York recently, NBA all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivered an impassioned plea to the jazz community to make its music “the music of liberation because it’s about liberation.”

The IJF loves our local Girl Scouts of America troop and troop leaders who have been part of the festival volunteers sin...
04/11/2025

The IJF loves our local Girl Scouts of America troop and troop leaders who have been part of the festival volunteers since year 1!

When Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia, in 1912, she dreamed of an inclusive space where every girl could develop leadership skills, courage, and confidence. But it wasn’t until 1941 that Savannah saw its first African American Girl Scout troop—a significant step toward greater inclusion.

Among the young girls invited to join was Barbara Wilbourne. She didn’t just participate—she went on to become a Girl Scout leader, guiding future generations. Today, her original pin and membership card are proudly displayed at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace and the First Girl Scout Headquarters, now a national historic landmark.

For over a century, Girl Scouts have broken barriers, challenged norms, and led the way toward a more inclusive world. The legacy of those first African American Girl Scouts in Savannah lives on, reminding us that every girl, regardless of background, deserves a chance to lead and inspire.


~Old Photo Club

04/10/2025
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04/09/2025

Randy Weston, birthday
Roy Haynes and Randy Weston photographed on Feb. 28, 2017, in Harlem, New York.
-Ruven Afanador

McCoy Tyner Ron Carter Aaron Scott  Murray  Blythe
04/08/2025

McCoy Tyner Ron Carter Aaron Scott Murray Blythe

Falling in Love With Love - McCoy Tyner

Save the date! Sunday, September 21,  2025 in Inwood Hill Park!🎶 Preparations for the 3rd Annual Inwood Jazz Festival ar...
04/07/2025

Save the date! Sunday, September 21, 2025 in Inwood Hill Park!

🎶 Preparations for the 3rd Annual Inwood Jazz Festival are well under way! Stay tuned!

04/02/2025

Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus". ...

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