A Love Letter from the Past : RESIST
SAVE THE DATE!

Thursday, February 27 thru Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Arts for Art presents the Third Annual OUT FESTIVAL
History of FreeJazz in the Lower East Side!

DAY 2: NuBlu Classic
Location: 62 Ave C near 5 St

7:30pm Steve Swell Quartet
Steve Swell – trombone / Dave Sewelson - baritone /
Aakash Mittal – alto sax / Juan Pablo Carletti - drums

8:30pm Konjur Collective
Jeron White - Upright Bass / Jamal Moore - sax, percussion, electronics / Emperor King Solomon - keys, sax, vocals / David Diongue - sax, keys / Bashi Rose - drums, spoken word

9pm Bob Holman – poet & Melanie Dyer - viola

10pm SSAJ Big Band ( Led by Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson)

Trumpets: Will Evans, Robert Vega / Trombones - AJ Medeiros, Andre Perlman
Woodwinds: Samantha Kochis, Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee, Chris Ferrari, Francisco de la Garza, John Masso
Guitar: Nathan Chamberlain
Bass: Kayla Kessler
Drum: Josh Mathews




The OUT Fest tracks the history of FreeJazz development on the LES and surrounding areas. It was where the music and art developed in an intensely creative unbounded scene. We will celebrate and make space for this creativity to bring Light into these times with older and younger artists, as we build a future from the best of our past.

Arts for Art is PARTNERING to bring cutting edge Music and Art into the Future:
NuBlu Classic
Artists Space
Fridman Gallery


About Arts for Art
Founded in 1996, Arts for Art (AFA) is a New York City based nonprofit dedicated to the promotion and advancement of FreeJazz, which is recognized for its variety of highly developed and personalized improvisational languages. The music, dance, poetry and visual arts that AFA presents holds deep roots in Black and multicultural creativity. Moreover, it derives its energy from the tradition and power of free improvisation that was inspired by the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950’s and 60’s.

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