East Coast Jazz Festival 2021 at Keystone Korner Baltimore

A collection of the most beloved and well-known jazz clubs on the East Coast have banded together for the first multi-city East Coast Jazz Festival, which will take place online on Saturday, March 20th from 5 to 11 p.m. The festival will be available to listeners for 72 hours. The proprietors of Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, Smalls and Birdland in New York, Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia, Keystone Korner in Baltimore and Blues Alley in Washington, DC began planning this all-virtual jazz fest at the start of 2021, and the music will flow live with some pre-recorded sessions mixed in from six different stages, and will showcase the talents of more than 80 of the most renown and respected jazz talents of our time....

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A collection of the most beloved and well-known jazz clubs on the East Coast have banded together for the first multi-city East Coast Jazz Festival, which will take place online on Saturday, March 20th from 5 to 11 p.m. The festival will be available to listeners for 72 hours. The proprietors of Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, Smalls and Birdland in New York, Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia, Keystone Korner in Baltimore and Blues Alley in Washington, DC began planning this all-virtual jazz fest at the start of 2021, and the music will flow live with some pre-recorded sessions mixed in from six different stages, and will showcase the talents of more than 80 of the most renown and respected jazz talents of our time.

Please visit http://bit.ly/ECJF0320 to pre-register.
Online guests will be able to flip back and forth from one venue to another to check out each club’s shows.

Here is the impressive lineup for ECJF:

SCULLERS JAZZ CLUB, Boston
6 p.m. Christian Sands Christian Sands
8 p.m. Keyon Harrold Keyon Harrold
10 p.m. Tia Fuller @tiafulller

CHRIS'S JAZZ CAFE, Philadelphia
6 p.m.- Alex Claffy Quartet, featuring saxophonist/vocalist Sonny Step
8 p.m. - Ari Hoenig Trio with pianist Gadi Lehavi and bassist Ben Tiberio
10 p.m. - Orrin Evans Quartet with bassist Luques Curtis, drummer Mark Whitfield Jr., and special guest saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins

SMALLS LIVE Foundation, NYC
5 p.m. - Nicole Glover Trio
7 p.m. - Warren Wolf Quartet
9 p.m. - Mike Ledonne Quartet feat. Vincent Herring

KEYSTONE KORNER, Baltimore
5 p.m. - Obasi Akoto Oceanic Jazz Orchestra/ Jean Carn/ George Cables
7 p.m. - Cyrus Chestnut & Affirmation with Tim Green, Obasi Akoto & Eric Kennedy/ Freda Payne & More
9 p.m. - Big Chief Donald Harrison with Warren Wolf, Kris Funn, Alex Brown, John Lamkin III

BLUES ALLEY, Washington DC
6 p.m. - Miki Yamanaka
8 p.m. - Eri Yamamoto
10 p.m. - Yoko Miwa

BIRDLAND, NYC
5 p.m. - David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band / Ken Peplowski & Rossano Sportiello Duo
7 p.m. - Ben Allison, Ted Nash, & Steve Cardeans Play The Music of Jimmy Giuffre & Jim Hall / Champian Fulton Quartet "Bird Song" A Charlie Parker Centennial Celebration
9 p.m. - Houston Person Quartet / Veronica Swift with The Emmet Cohen Trio

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