{"id":332290,"date":"2026-08-28T23:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332290\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:34:24","slug":"ev-grieve-ravi-coltrane-headlines-the-charlie-parker-jazz-festival-in-tompkins-square-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332290\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Ravi Coltrane headlines the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Tompkins Square Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjm6wxCbT2jHmd0Ox043kuZC0zrguvPG8ZRmpmsdePvNQcd3s-v6iRqkbHgDWEoyZc-YhMDXfOCFzDRqiSJNPhjXPavexthuEiOr1fFewOeuAFldqtgEjKO-I5q3IKe58MeO86hEZiGtZAhSVnkztzFG074R762Xk5UYp9timJ_4GjBtuj8z7T56uaT12Y\/s1024\/CharlieParker_2026_Logo-1024x771.webp\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CharlieParker_2026_Logo-1024x771.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival returns to Tompkins Square Park on Sunday afternoon for its annual free concert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s program is headlined by saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, the son of jazz legends John and Alice Coltrane \u2014 and an accomplished bandleader and collaborator in his own right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon also includes performances by the Billy Hart Quartet, Kassa Overall and Vanisha Gould.<\/p>\n<p>The music is scheduled from 3 to 7 p.m. Find more details <a href=\"https:\/\/cityparksfoundation.org\/events\/cpjf-ravi-coltrane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The festival, which started in Tompkins Square Park in 1993, holds a significant place in the jazz community. It takes place near or on Parker&#8217;s birthday on Aug. 29. Additional dates were added in Harlem in 2000, further expanding its reach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parker, who died in 1955 at age 34, lived at 151 Avenue B from 1950 to 1954. That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlieparkerresidence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">residential building<\/a> between Ninth Street and 10th Street is landmarked \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2025\/11\/jazz-landmark-alert-charlie-parker.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival returns to Tompkins Square Park on Sunday afternoon for its annual free concert.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-332290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}