While the return to live performance throughout the year has proven slow and at times faltering, New York City’s jazz scene has nevertheless enjoyed precious opportunities to celebrate and breathe collective sighs of relief. Indeed, this month offers such a moment, as the Mingus Big Band returns with a weekly residency by performing on Tuesday nights at The Django. While famed for its long association with the Jazz Standard, the band abruptly found itself without a permanent home as the new year rang in, following the Jazz Standard’s December 2020 closure as a casualty of the pandemic. While the closedown left the band’s fortunes for the coming year uncertain, the upcoming residency spells an exciting new possibility, and hopefully the beginning of a longstanding relationship with a new performance home.

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