Tilles Jazz Fest

LIVE JAZZ, FOOD TRUCKS, VENDORS, and FAMILY-FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES, including an INSTRUMENT PETTING ZOO!

Introducing the first ever Tilles Jazz Fest, produced by Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center. This one-day event will take place on four indoor and outdoor stages across the beautiful Long Island University Post campus, with performances starting at 1pm and swinging into the night!

Please note an evening performance by festival headliner Branford Marsalis Quartet is now sold out – so be sure to get your DAY-ONLY Passes before they’re gone!

Daytime performances by Matt Wilson's Good Trouble, Sean Mason Quartet, The Brandee Younger Trio, Mariel Bildsten Septet, Jalen Baker Duo, Georgia Heers Quintet, and Student Ensembles from LIU and area high schools.

Grab your picnic blanket and enjoy food trucks by Green Street Eatery, Demi's Spot Food Truck and Sid's All American, local artisans and vendors, including Rosie's Vintage and Sweet Treats to the Rescue, and an instrument petting zoo for a fun-for-the-whole-family day!

Presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center

PURCHASE DAY PASS 

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis is one of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music.  The NEA Jazz Master, Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee is equally at home performing concertos with symphony orchestras and sitting in with members of the Grateful Dead, but the core of his musical universe remains in the Branford Marsalis Quartet. After more than three decades of existence with minimal personnel changes, this celebrated ensemble is revered for its uncompromising interpretation of a kaleidoscopic range of both original compositions and jazz and popular classics. After the Grammy-nominated Upward Spiral, on which guest vocalist Kurt Elling was seamlessly integrated into the group, the Quartet followed up with the Grammy-nominated The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul, its most emotionally wide-ranging and melody driven collection to date. John Zeugner captured the impact of the Quartet in live performance in a recent concert review, calling it, “casually confident, professional, cerebral, and supercharged with energy. The Branford Marsalis Quartet…was all of those adjectives and more.”
 

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