Jz Shanghai Music Festival

The largest yearly outdoor music festival in Shanghai returns, with world class jazz bands and DJs descending on Shanghai for a packed week of live music. Brought to you by the JZ Group, there are two components to the JZ Shanghai Music Festival, with separate ticketing for each: a weekend-long, multi-stage outdoor festival concert at Century Park (that's on Saturday, October 16 and Sunday, October 17), and a nightly in-door series of concerts at Shanghai Center Theater from October 13 to 17.

Take note: Tickets for the nightlight indoor concerts and the outdoor festival are sold separately. To purchase tickets for the Outdoor festival, click here.

In addition to the two-day outdoor festival in Century Park, a nightly performance series will take place at Shanghai Center Theater, featuring the festival's biggest talents.

Here is the line-up of nightly performances. Each of these start at 8pm and tickets are sold on a single-night basis.

Oct 13, 8pm

Nils Landgen Funk Unit

Holding a red trombone, Nils Landgren is well known as a magician of jazz music. He mixes jazz, rock & roll, pop and Swedish folk. During the 20 years since the band formed his beautiful trombone playing and open rhythm has been a gift to music fans worldwide. Landgren believes that through music people can become happier and see more value in life.

Oct 14, 8pm

Fourplay

For two decade, the contemporary jazz quartet known as Fourplay has enjoyed consistent artistic and commercial success by grafting elements of R&B, pop and a variety of other sounds to their unwavering jazz foundation. In the course of a dozen recordings - six of which have climbed to the top of Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Album charts - the supergroup has continued to explore the limitless dimensions and permutations of jazz while at the same time appealing to a broad mainstream audience.

Oct 15, 8pm

Roy Hargrove Quintet

In the modern jazz industry whether in jam sessions or on musicians' competition stages, no one is livelier, more powerful or more skillful with such charming stage presence as Roy Hargrove. In 2002 he won a Grammy for his trumpet work on the album "Directions in Music". The Roy Hargrove Quintet is a defender of contemporary classic jazz.

Oct 16, 8pm

Dianne Reeves

Blue Note recording artists Dianne Reeves is the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world today. As a result of her virtuosity, improvisational prowess and unique jazz and R&B stylings, Reeves was awarded the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for three consecutive recordings - a Grammy first in any vocal category.

Oct 17, 8pm

The Watts Project: featuring Terence Blanchard, Branford Marsalis, Robert Hurst and Jeff "Tain" Watts.

Blessed with complexity, power and imagination, Pittsburgh-born, Brooklyn-based drummer/composer/bandleader Jeff "Tain" Watts burst onto the scene in the eighties with Wynton and Branford Marsalis. He has since distinguished himself as the most influential and innovative drummer of his generation, as a valued sideman and recording artist, with four recordings as a leader.

Shanghai Center Theatre

Shanghai Center Theater is home to one of they city's biggest tourist attractions, the acrobat show, which goes on almost every evening. Despite its excellence, the show is rarely sold out and tickets can be purchased at the concierge downstairs. The venue itself is a polished testament to Shanghai's increasing encouragement of the arts.

1/F, Shanghai Center, 1376 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Xikang Lu
南京西路1376号上海商城1楼, 近西康路

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