Coming SOON TO NUBIAN SQUARE

Upcoming Event

Sunday, October 9 | 6:00pm

Jazz Urbane at Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen

Featuring Joey Blake

Upcoming Event

Sunday, October 2 | 6:00pm

Jazz Urbane at Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen

Featuring Ron Reid

Upcoming Event

October 30 | 4:00pm

Jazz Urbane at Boston ICA

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Upcoming Event

Sunday, October 16 | 6:00pm

Jazz Urbane at Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen

Featuring Anibal Cruz

Upcoming Event

Sunday, October 23 | 6:00pm

Jazz Urbane at Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen

Featuring Zahili Gonzalez Zamora

ABOUT
JAZZ URBANE CAFE

Jazz Urbane Cafe is a new arts and restaurant venture planned to launch soon in Boston’s Nubian Square neighborhood. Jazz Urbane Cafe will be an urban arts venue that spotlights local and national artists who define and celebrate the diverse cultural traditions that make Boston a unique and global city. Complementing our performance series will be an exciting dining program designed to make the Cafe a full sensory experience.

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Events + Updates

Next City (May 2022) | Boston Neighborhood Finally Gets the Business It Wants - And Invests in It Too"

So many things could have gone wrong with the vacant storefront at the historic former Ferdinand Furniture store building in Boston’s predominantly-Black Roxbury neighborhood [READ]

Ujima Foundation (May 2022) | Results Are In!

Boston Ujima Project is pleased to announce that we have successfully reached quorum on the 2022 Jazz Urbane Cafe Investment Vote. Over the past two weeks, 157 members voted to invest $200,000 in Jazz Urbane Cafe over 6 years [READ]

GBH News (April 2022) | How to Close the Racial Wealth Gap Through Building Community Wealth

An investment model known as community wealth building is a relatively new approach to closing the racial wealth gap, which aims for democratic ownership and puts control in the hands of people of color [READ]

Jazz Urbane CEO Featured On Good Trouble Podcast

Policymaker, strategist, and entrepreneur Turahn Dorsey is a man of many talents. In his role as a Foundation Fellow with the Eastern Bank Foundation, he is paying special attention to changing early care and learning systems [LISTEN]

On October 15th, 2021, we celebrated our new partnership with the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (The ICA) with the “Jazz Urbane Cafe at the ICA,” a showcase intended to give attendees a taste of what is to come at the Cafe in 2022.

The evening featured Greg Groover, Jr., the Charles Overton Ensemble and the Imagine Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Bill Banfield. The performances also celebrated the releases of the new Bill Banfield's Jazz Urbane and Gregory Groover, Jr. albums.

"One Night In Boston"

June 18 -20, 2021
Partners King Boston, Jazz Urbane Cafe, BAMS Fest, Boston Children’s Chorus, Boston Ujima Project, Boston While Black, Project STEP, and Roxbury Cultural District, launch Boston's first annual arts-driven Juneteenth celebration. Televised on NBC 10, activated in Nubian Square.

Nubian Nights

March/April 2021, Weekends
Partners Roxbury Cultural District, Jazz Urbane Cafe, Nubian Gallery, Black Market and LuminArtz present “Nubian Nights,” a multimedia light and music installation.

The Bay State Banner (March 2021) | Nubian Square comes alive with ‘Nubian Nights’

Installation features jazz, art and light projections [READ]

Boston Magazine (January 2019) | Dudley Square Will Get a New Jazz Club and Restaurant

JazzUrbane Café is headed for the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building [READ]

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Jazz Urbane Cafe’s sister company, Jazz Urbane Recordings, is a contemporary music label that embraces Jazz’s, R+B’s, Hip Hop’s and Classical’s powerful legacies. Check here for current album and playlist releases from the label! And, expect to see all of these wonderful artists on the Jazz Urbane Cafe stage.

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Produced by Bill Banfield and Turahn Dorsey in collaboration with Joey Blake and Prince Charles Alexander, “Hey… Holla When You Hear Me,” like its 2014 predecessor “Playing With Other People’s Heads,” seamlessly blends contemporary styles, creating a powerful dialogue between genres and musical traditions. Every Bill Banfield album is an event because it brings together an incredible community of artists and this release does not disappoint.

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“The Message: Negro Spiritual Songbook, Vol. 2.” this album builds on Gregory Groover Jr.'s independent 2018 EP (Vol. 1) and is his profound interpretation of Black America’s praise music through Jazz’s evolving language. What results is a radical theology that connects you to a higher power.