Compiled by the El Reportero‘s staff
San Jose, Calif. — Northern California’s renowned non-profit arts institution San Jose Jazz welcomes 2022 with the return of its beloved 10th Annual San Jose Jazz Winter Fest 2022 featuring riveting concerts curated for audiences within the heart of Silicon Valley. With the festival’s epicenter as San Jose Jazz’s new state-of-the-art venue SJZ Break Room, SJZ Winter Fest 2022 reaches the far corners of the South Bay region with eight venues presenting acts from Friday, February 11 – Sunday, February 27, 2022. Tickets to SJZ Winter Fest 2022 are now on sale ranging in price from $20 – $40. For detailed ticket information as well as updates on the artists and performance schedule, please visit: sanjosejazz.org/winterfest.
Artist Lineup Announcement — 10th Annual San Jose Jazz Winter Fest 2022:
San Jose Jazz Winter Fest 2022 encompasses the South First Street arts district in downtown San Jose with venues SJZ Break Room and The Continental. Premier South Bay performance venues also include Stanford University’s Bing Studio, Hammer Theatre, Hammer 4, Mexican Heritage Plaza Pavilion, SJ Women’s Club, and Club Fox in Redwood City.
San Jose Jazz proudly announces today the SJZ Winter Fest 2022 artist lineup: La Santa Cecilia; The Cookers; Marquis Hill New Gospel Revisited; Harriet Tubman; An Evening of Ukulele with Danial Ho, Featuring Randy Drake and Danna Xue; Mads Tolling Trio with Kenny Washington; Jacam Manricks With Mike Clark; Sasha Berliner; SJZ Collective Plays Wayne Shorter; Joe Kye Duo; Black/Pacific: Dispatches from the Noble Savage, co-presented by Mosaic America; Jazz Organ Fellowship Tribute to Dr. Lonnie Smith; 7th Street Big Band; Chris Cain; Maxx Cabello; Oscar Peñas; MNDSGN; Mason Rasavi Quartet; Chris Pierce; SJZ High School All Stars; and more!
San Jose Jazz’s state-of-the-art pop-up video recording and performance venue The SJZ Break Room will feature more than a dozen live concerts during SJZ Winter Fest 2022. The SJZ Break Room is housed inside San Jose Jazz’s downtown office on South 1st Street (at San Carlos) featuring a multi-media digital video wall that projection-maps live performances with Ultra-Short Throw Projectors onto high-end projection fabric mounted on motorized rollers. Sound from outdoor speakers and projections fill a 35 x 14 feet bank of floor-to-ceiling windows, providing a special multi-media concert experience for viewers, both inside the venue and outdoors.
