Get ready to dance! DJ Brother Mister — aka GRAMMY-winning bassist Christian McBride — brings funk, soul, and R&B grooves to the Montclair Jazz Festival Block Party on September 13, 2025.

Organist and Pianist RADAM SCHWARTZ has built his reputation over the last 35 years playing with such great musicians as Arthur and Red...

With his illustrious career that includes hallmark stints with Miles Davis, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie...

A true renaissance man, Christian McBride  is a 9-time GRAMMY® Award-winning bassist/composer and advocate for jazz and American music....

The JAZZ HOUSE Collective, directed by Nathan Eklund, is composed of nationally and internationally recognized jazz artists who also...

After four decades of background singing with icons like Luther Vandross, The Rolling Stones, Chaka Khan and Tina Turner, vocalist...

Upon arriving in the United States in 1994, Colombian-born Edmar Castañeda has made a name for himself as the preeminent jazz harp...

Hailed by The Wall Street Journal  as “perhaps the best young straight-ahead jazz singer of a new generation,” Brianna Thomas is poised...

Jerome Jennings  is a drummer, activist, bandleader, sideman, and Emmy Award-winning composer. Jennings has performed, toured, and...

One of the world’s preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and seashellist Steve Turre , has consistently won both the Readers’ and...

The MONTCLAIR STATE JAZZ ENSEMBLE , directed by Oscar Perez and composed of majors in Jazz Studies and other music majors, is dedicated...

JAZZ HOUSE Legacy , directed by Caelan Cardello is composed of an elite group of alumni of JAZZ HOUSE KiDS who are rising stars in the...

Cyrus Chestnut started his musical career at age six, playing piano at the Mount Calvary Star Baptist Church in his hometown of...

Jeff Watts, the drummer they call "Tain," spent his formative years with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and his compositional skills now...

Julian Lee has performed with critically acclaimed artists, including Wynton Marsalis , Christian McBride and Jon Batiste .  He hosted...

Boasting a warm, finely burnished tone and a robust melodic and harmonic imagination, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander has been exploring...

Born in Pamplona, Spain in 1982, NYC based trombone player Juanga Lakunza completed his BM degree in Jazz Studies at Musikene-Basque...

A talented drummer, Winard Harper started his jazz career in the 1980s with Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, and with Betty Carter for four...

Meet Christian McBride: The Bass Virtuoso at the Heart of the Montclair Jazz Festival Few musicians in modern jazz command the stage—and...