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Jazz Foundation of America: George Braith

Live at Plaza33
July 17, 2025, 6:00pm–7:30pm

A free sunset music festival featuring Americana, jazz, and emerging indie acts. Curated by keystone cultural partners including Jalopy Theatre, The Jazz Gallery, New Colossus Festival and Jazz Foundation of America.

A true original, saxophonist George Braith has brightened jazz with his innovations, from his classic 1960s recordings for Blue Note and Prestige, to his 1970s presentations at the lower Manhattan club Musart (which he ran), to his own, original instrument the Braithophone, which fuses soprano and alto saxophones into one horn. He has worked with many of the greats (Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Grant Green, Roy Haynes) and has even been commemorated in mosaic tile in the walls of the 2nd Ave subway.

where + when

Plaza33
33rd Street and Seventh Avenue
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May 22 – September 18
Select Thursdays beginning 6pm