Suggested Admission
Adults $3; Children and Museum members FREE
For more than 40 years, The Newark Museum has presented all-star lineups of jazz greats during its annual Jazz in the Garden Summer Concert Series. This year promises music lovers another wonderful season in the Museum's award-winning Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, adding new musicians to the impressive list of such past performers as Andy Bey, Ron Carter, Will Calhoun and Carrie Smith. Attracting thousands of adults and children annually to the Museum's Garden, these Thursday concerts are among the most popular of our educational and culturally significant events.
Held rain or shine, Jazz in the Garden offers its audience an opportunity to enjoy wonderful music in a magnificent and serene museum setting.
Support education and public programs at the
museum by joining us for this special event!
June 22
Jazz and BBQ Benefit – Featuring Carmen Lundy
Advanced ticketing is required for this event.
For more information visit the Jazz and BBQ Benefit page.
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 June 30
Willie Jones III Quartet
With an unparalleled style of rhythmic expression, drummer Willie Jones III is one of the world's leading jazz drummers. In addition to honoring his monumental influences—the late greats Philly Joe Jones, Art Blakey and Billy Higgins— Jones' bold articulation and constantly innovative sense of swing are results of his life-long musical experience.
 Cecil Brooks III featuring "Hot Dog"
A contemporary drummer and aggressive, polyrhythmic stylist, Cecil Brooks III has worked in the New York area with such musicians as Greg Osby, Geri Allen and Lonnie Plaxico. He recorded his debut album as a leader for Muse in 1989, subsequently releasing efforts including 1990's Hangin' with Smooth, 1993's Neck Peckin' Jammie and 2000's Our Mister Brooks in addition to session work in both a hard bop and bebop setting. The intimate setting of Live at Sweet Basil (2001).
July 7
The Cookers
(Septet of trumpets, saxophone, piano, bass, drums)
 Taking their group name from a 1965 Blue Note album “The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal” (by the late, great trumpeter Freddie Hubbard), this exciting new all-star septet summons up an aggressive mid '60s spirit on Warriors, a potent collection of expansive post-bop originals marked by all the requisite killer instincts and pyrotechnic playing expected of some of the heaviest hitters on the scene today.
This world-class union of jazz veterans, colleagues and kindred spirits consists of Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, George Cables, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, David Weiss and Craig Handy.
 July 14
Helen Sung (pianist)
Award-winning jazz pianist/composer Helen Sung is pioneering her own path: as an Asian-American artist, she challenges stereotypes with a singular voice informed by her virtuosity in jazz, classical & popular music. An aspiring classical pianist before "a Tommy Flanagan solo changed everything," Sung is a graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, and has gone on to work with such jazz masters as Clark Terry, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter and MacArthur Fellow Regina Carter.
 July 21
Dafnis Prieto (drummer)
A drummer, composer and arranger, his arrival in the U.S. has been compared by the New York Times to that of an asteroid hitting New York. Within a short period of time, the revolutionary drumming techniques of this Cuban-born artist has had a powerful impact on both the Latin and jazz music scene both locally and internationally. Having studied at the School of Fine Arts in Santa Clara as a youngster and later at the National School of Music in Havana, he obtained a thorough classical education while broadening his knowledge of Afro-Cuban music, jazz and world music outside of the academy.
“Dafnis Prieto is easily the most impressive young drummer to come on the jazz scene during the past decade. Possessing awesome virtuosity and astonishing versatility, Prieto has made important contributions to the music of a broad range of leaders… His compositions are elaborate composites melding Afro-Cuban rhythms and modern jazz harmonies into music that is ecstatic and intelligent.” — All About Jazz
Sponsored by William Paterson University 
 July 28
Gregory Porter (vocalist)
With a voice that can caress or confront, embrace or exhort, Gregory Porter exhibits such an incredible degree of vocal mastery that no less a jazz luminary than Wynton Marsalis called him “a fantastic young singer.” No wonder then that his recording debut, Water, was nominated for a Grammy award as “Best Jazz Vocal Album.”
Born and raised in California, Porter now lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York, but in reality has made the world his musical home. A frequent guest performer with the “Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra,” he also maintains a long-standing residency at Smoke, one of the premier jazz clubs in New York.
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