Jersey Jazz LIVE! Women’s History Month Concert

The New Jersey Jazz Society’s Jersey Jazz LIVE! concert by vocalist/pianist Champian Fulton’s trio will celebrate Women’s History Month by recognizing female jazz musicians, such as Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.

Fulton will be accompanied by bassist Hide Tanaka and drummer Aleksi Heinola.

The Champian Fulton Trio will be preceded by a Rising Stars opening act featuring a quartet led by pianist Karen Xie, who is studying for her master’s degree in Jazz Studies at Montclair State’s John J. Cali School of Music. The other members of her quartet, all Cali students, will be bassist Dominic Carnival and drummer Benjamin Barham-Wiese, from New York City; and tenor saxophonist Will Travis, from Hollis, ME. Xie was the Jersey Jazz Magazine December 2024 Rising Star.

Admission is $10 for NJJS members and $15 for non-members. Student ad­mission is $5 with valid ID. There will be light refreshments for pur­chase.