Arlington Jazz Festival in Arlington, MA

Thursday April 7
Menotomy Grill, 25 Mass. Ave, Arlington
Jesse Williams Group  w/ Cassandra McKinley (vocals), Bruce Bears (piano), Mark Teixeira (drums), Jesse Williams (bass)
8:00pm – 10:30
No Cover

Friday April 8
Arlington Center for the Arts, 20 Academy St., Arlington
Proof of vaccination needed to enter ACA

El Eco with Guillermo Nojechowicz    Marco Pignataro (sax), Fernando Huergo (bass),  Guillermo Nojechowicz (drums), Anastassyia Petrova (piano) and Milena Casado (trumpet)
Farayi Malek (vocals)
8:00 – 9:45
Opening act:  Morningside Music Studio Jazz Combo 
$20 General Admission
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Saturday April 9 – each event is ticketed separately
Arlington Center for the Arts, 20 Academy St., Arlington
Proof of vaccination needed to enter ACA
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Morningside Music Studio Jazz Ensembles
3:00 – 5:00
$5 General Admission
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Tom Ferrante’s Saxafras – 4 saxes and rhythm section
Tom Ferrante (soprano sax), Todd Brunel (tenor sax), Arthur Bakapolous (alto sax),
Jerry Vejmola (bari sax), Dan Fox (bass), Bill Reynolds (drums)
5:30 – 7:00
$10 General Admission
Opening act:  Morningside Music Studio Teen Jazz Combo 
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The Samba Jazz Project – Dan Fox (trombone), Anna Borges (vocals), Ian Coury (bandolin)
Yulia Musayelyan (flute), Fernando Huergo (bass), Alexei Tsiganov (piano),
​Rafael Barata (drums)
8:00 – 9:30
Opening act:  Morningside Music Studio Jazz Combo 
$20 General Admission
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Sunday April 10
Regent Theatre  7 Medford St., Arlington

Mark Walker’s World Jazz Ensemble feat.
​Randy Brecker
​7–9:30 pm
Mark Walker and Friends featuring Randy Brecker:
This concert will showcase legendary trumpeter Randy Brecker in the context of Grammy Award-winning drummer/composer Mark Walker’s world jazz ensemble, featuring French pianist Alain Mallet, Peruvian bassist Oscar Stagnaro, Colombian percussionist Ernesto Diaz and Puerto Rican saxophonist Edmar Colon. The music will focus on a combination of Walker’s originals heard on his album You Get What You Give, and jazz repertoire reimagined with an Afro-Latin sensibility, informed by his work with Paquito D’Rivera, Michel Camilo, Oregon, Caribbean Jazz Project and Lyle Mays. Randy Brecker and Mark Walker can be heard together on several albums, including Steve Khan’s Backlog, Caribbean Jazz Project’s Birds of a Feather, and the upcoming release by guitarist Akio Sasajima, Silence Between the Notes. 
7X Grammy winner, trumpeter and composer Randy Brecker has helped shape the sound of jazz, R&B and rock for more than four decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament/Funkadelic to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa.
AHS Jazz Band 7:00-7:30
MW and RB – 7:45-9:15