Washington Heights Festival Brings A Dozen Types Of Jazz Uptown

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — The neighborhood's annual jazz festival is back for a third year with shows featuring a dozen different styles of the music genre.

Nonprofit Jazz WaHi kicked off its third annual Washington Heights Jazz Festival on Thursday with a sold out evening and has planned four full days of jazz shows planned before the weekend of music wraps up on Sunday.

This year, musicians playing all types of the genre — everything from "video game music meets jazz" to "contemporary Japanese jazz" — will set up shop at one of two locations the festival will run.

Here's a look at the schedule:

Friday:

• Festival All Stars — 7 to 10:30 p.m. at Kismat, 603 Ft. Washington Ave.

Saturday, at Le Cheile, 839 West 181st St.:

• Louise Rogers' Jazz for Kids — 11 a.m. to noon
• Jake Chapman's Fun House — 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
• Eddy Khaimovich — 1:40 to 2:30 p.m.
• Carol Morgan Quartet — 2:50 to 3:40 p.m.
• Gabriel Vicens Sextet — 4 to 4:50 p.m.
• Tomohiro Mori Trio — 5:10 to 6 p.m.
• Gottfried Stoger's Dreamhunter — 6:30 to 7:20 p.m.
• Max Pollak's Rumbatap — 7:45 to 8:35 p.m.
• Blue Food Blues Band — 9 to 9:50 p.m.
• Berta Moreno's Tumaini — 10:10 to 11 p.m.

Sunday, at Kismat:

• Jazz Brunch with Meg Okura & Tim Harrison — noon to 2 p.m., Kismat
• Annettee Aguilar's Latin Jazz Party — 5 to 7 p.m., 181 Cabrini

To find out more and to get tickets to the shows click here.