Jazzmobile's Free Live Jazz Concerts at Grant's Tomb and Marcus Garvey Park Are Back Through the Summer

Grant's Tomb is the setting for live jazz every Wednesday this summer starting July 9.

Harlem is home to many free outdoor jazz concerts every summer, but there's one that stands out: Jazzmobile's Summerfest series at Grant's Tomb and Marcus Garvey Park.

And it kicks off this week.

The venerable Harlem-based jazz organization begins its season of outdoor concerts with a perfomance by Paul West and the Bethune Big Band on the steps of the iconic General Grant National Memorial on Riverside Drive and 122nd Street this Wednesday, July 9 at 7pm.

The next concert in the series features jazz singer and blues guitarist Allan Harris at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park on Friday, July 11 at 7pm. (A performance of the Classical Theatre of Harlem's "Memnon" follows.)

The schedule of free jazz concerts continues weekly at both locations all summer long.

Note: Attendees at Grant's Tomb are encouraged to bring a chair and sit in the leafy plaza right in front of the mausoleum.

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