BRIC Jazz Fest 2026 – Melvis Santa presents GATA Jazz Trio

In alignment with BRIC’s year-long curatorial vision of bringing Radical Joy to life, BRIC JazzFest 2026 expands the circle of what we consider jazz and welcomes those who have yet to find their home within its tent. The lineup presents jazz as a collective experience, as regions to move through and music to dance to.

Across two nights, Bilal, Mohini Dey, Braxton Cook, Sparklmami, Marcus Gilmore, Melvis Santa presents Gata Jazz, Takuya Kuroda, Salin, Tyreek McDole, and Laura Anglade move jazz into conversation with soul, R&B, funk, hip-hop, electronic music, rock, house, Afro-Caribbean traditions, Indian rhythms, Indigenous Thai instrumentation, and American standards. Together, they demonstrate that jazz remains most alive when it returns to its roots in freedom and improvisation while opening itself to new voices, new bodies, and new possibilities.