McCoy Tyner will lead his quartet in a free performance on June 23 at SummerStage as part of the CareFusion Jazz Festival
Multiple venues
Through June 26
Admission: free – $100
www.nycjazzfestival.com
The CareFusion Jazz Festival heads into its final days with some of its best programs still ahead. At SummerStage on Wednesday, June 23, the McCoy Tyner Quartet, featuring Ravi Coltrane, Esperanza Spalding, and Francisco Mela, will be headlining a stellar free evening of jazz in Central Park along with the Stanley Clarke Band, with special guest Hiromi. On Thursday, Herbie Hancock will be celebrating his seventieth birthday at Carnegie Hall with such friends as Joe Lovano, Bill Cosby, Terence Blanchard, Wayne Shorter, Derek Trucks, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, and others ($35-$100). Also on Thursday, James Cotton will host a Blues Summit at Frederick P. Rose Hall with Taj Mahal, Pinetop Perkins, Shemekia Copeland, and others ($35-$100). On Friday night, “Habana/Harlem” at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse presents pianists Henry Butler and Osmany Paredes in “Cultural Fusion: Past, Present, and Future,” followed on Saturday night with the Pedro Martinez Project’s “Uptown Nights” ($15 each). Other events are scheduled for the Jazz Standard, Symphony Space, Zebulon, (le) poisson rouge, and the Jazz Gallery.