Melba’s Kitchen Big Band Concert And Conversation
Friday, January 16, 2026, 19:00 -
Friday, January 16, 2026, 21:15
Event duration 2 hours
General Admission:
USD 23.18
About Melba’s Kitchen Big Band Concert And Conversation
Welcome to MELBA’s KITCHEN big band an intimate Concert and Conversation celebrating MELBA LISTON’S CENTENNIAL featuring the Melba Liston Research Collective! Join us at the Plymouth Jazz & Justice Church, for a night of incredible music and engaging discussions. This in-person event promises to be a unique experience that you won't want to miss. Get ready to groove to the sounds of the big band tunes chosen especially for this show, and hear new insights from jazz researchers. Mark your calendars and come join us for a memorable evening! Get your tickets early for this limited-seating musical experience.
MELBA’S KITCHEN - the all women big band that celebrates Black women musical geniuses Melba Liston, Mary Lou Williams, and their friends - invites you to an intimate evening toasting Liston’s Centennial. The band, cited in Downbeat magazine as “crackling,” presents new arrangements of Liston’s jazz pieces, and hosts conversations with the members of the Melba Liston Research Collective, who dig deeply into Liston’s contributions to the jazz universe.
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Friday, January 16, 2026, 19:00
Friday, January 16, 2026, 21:15
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Melba's Kitchen Big Band
Home » Melba’s Kitchen Melba’s Kitchen MELBA’S KITCHEN is an all women big band that offers a tasty menu of music by Black women musical geniuses, training the spotlight on the tremendous trombonist, composer, and arranger MELBA LISTON, under-appreciated jazz icon MARY LOU WILLIAMS, and their friends. This unique band of women stirs it up in an atmosphere of kindness, joy, political action and fun. The band has been taking their audiences on unforgettable musical journeys, including their auspicious debut at YOSHIs jazz house in Oakland, CA and subsequent appearances at San Francisco’s de Young Museum. MELBA’S KITCHEN honors the under-recognized jazz great MELBA LISTON and her formidable contributions to jazz. Liston toured with and wrote for Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Gerald Wilson, and collaborated for decades with piano titan Randy Weston. A pioneer as a woman in jazz, Liston arranged for many, including her friend MARY LOU WILLIAMS, an activist for jazz, and a virtuosic and inspired pianist, composer, and arranger. MELBA’S KITCHEN intends to bring Liston’s and Williams’ names into your musical household.