Playboy Jazz Festival Announces Lineup

Hancock, Shorter and many others to perform June 13-14

By JazzTimes

The lineup for the 37th annual Playboy Jazz Festival, to be held June 13-14 at the Hollywood Bowl was announced today by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This year’s headliners include Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, who will be performing with the Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Ledisi, Eddie Palmieri Afro-Caribbean Jazz Band with special invited guests Ronnie Cuber, Alfredo De La Fe, Donald Harrison and Joe Locke and Terence Blanchard debuting his new band, the Terence Blanchard E-Collective.

Also performing are Aloe Blacc, the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band under the direction of John Lee, Snarky Puppy, King Sunny Ade and his African Beats, Jason Moran’s Fats Waller Dance Party, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Blue Note 75th Anniversary Presents: Our Point of View featuring Robert Glasper, Derrick Hodge, Kendrick Scott, Lionel Loueke, Marcus Strickland and Ambrose Akinmusire, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio, Morgan James, A Sacred Steel Love Supreme: The Campbell Brothers present “A Love Supreme,” the Jones Family Singers, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Vocal Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Pat Bass and, making their annual appearance, The LAUSD/Beyond the Bell All-City Jazz Big Band under the direction of Tony White and J.B. Dyas.

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ARTIST LINE-UP

Saturday, June 13 – 3:00-11:00PM
Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and the Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble
Eddie Palmieri Afro-Caribbean Jazz Band with special invited guests Ronnie Cuber, Alfredo De La Fe, Donald Harrison, Joe Locke
Aloe Blacc
Tower of Power
Jason Moran’s Fats Waller Dance Party
Celebrating Gerald Wilson Orchestra under the direction of Anthony Wilson
Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio
Morgan James
A Sacred Steel Love Supreme: The Campbell Brothers Present “A Love Supreme”
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Vocal Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Pat Bass

Sunday, June 14 – 3:00-10:30PM
Ledisi
Terence Blanchard E-Collective
Ozomatli
The Dizzy Gillespie™ Big Band under the direction of John Lee
Snarky Puppy
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Blue Note 75th Anniversary Presents: Our Point of View featuring Robert Glasper, Derrick Hodge, Kendrick Scott, Lionel Loueke, Marcus Strickland and Ambrose Akinmusire
The Jones Family Singers
The LAUSD/Beyond the Bell All-City Jazz Big Band under the direction of Tony White and J.B. Dyas