Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The 2024 Next Jazz Legacy cohort opens the NYC Winter Jazzfest's Manhattan Marathon with a set of original music.
January 10, 2025 at (le) poisson rouge
Lineup:
Amyra León - vocals
Christie Dashiell - vocals
Ciara Moser - bass
Eliza Salem - drums
Kanoa Mendenhall - bass
Nicole McCabe - alto saxophone
Yvonne Rogers - keys
Video by Mariana Meraz
About Next Jazz Legacy:
Next Jazz Legacy is a national apprenticeship and mentorship program designed to elevate emerging jazz improvisers. The program’s mission is to increase opportunities for musicians who will contribute to a vibrant and inclusive jazz future, and to create waves of lasting change that benefit the whole jazz community.
Next Jazz legacy invests in its awardees through a comprehensive support package that includes intergenerational apprenticeships and mentorship, showcases, cohort learning, and an unrestricted grant that contributes to awardees’ creative and professional development.
Next Jazz Legacy is a partnership between New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. GRAMMY-winning artist and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington is the program’s Artistic Director. Next Jazz Legacy welcomes applications from musicians of all gender and sexual identities to achieve the goal of true gender diversity in the field.
Learn more: newmusicusa.org/program/next-jazz-legacy
The 2024 Next Jazz Legacy cohort opens the NYC Winter Jazzfest's Manhattan Marathon with a set of original music.
January 10, 2025 at (le) poisson rouge
Lineup:
Amyra León - vocals
Christie Dashiell - vocals
Ciara Moser - bass
Eliza Salem - drums
Kanoa Mendenhall - bass
Nicole McCabe - alto saxophone
Yvonne Rogers - keys
Video by Mariana Meraz
About Next Jazz Legacy:
Next Jazz Legacy is a national apprenticeship and mentorship program designed to elevate emerging jazz improvisers. The program’s mission is to increase opportunities for musicians who will contribute to a vibrant and inclusive jazz future, and to create waves of lasting change that benefit the whole jazz community.
Next Jazz legacy invests in its awardees through a comprehensive support package that includes intergenerational apprenticeships and mentorship, showcases, cohort learning, and an unrestricted grant that contributes to awardees’ creative and professional development.
Next Jazz Legacy is a partnership between New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. GRAMMY-winning artist and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington is the program’s Artistic Director. Next Jazz Legacy welcomes applications from musicians of all gender and sexual identities to achieve the goal of true gender diversity in the field.
Learn more: newmusicusa.org/program/next-jazz-legacy
