On Wednesday, March 31, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium for a press conference announcing the 11th annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival to run through April 30. This year’s Festival, entitled Expressions of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, will present over 40 concerts and events and feature more than 30 jazz bands celebrating Brooklyn’s contributions to jazz.

“In April, you ‘must take the A train to Brooklyn’ and the Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival, where you’ll be able to hear ‘blue notes’ practically any day of the week throughout Brooklyn,” said BP Markowitz. “You might say the ‘vanguard’ of jazz is happening right here in our borough—after all, who needs Manhattan when Brooklyn is ‘Birdland’!”

The Brooklyn Tourism and Visitors Center, an initiative of BP Markowitz, is a proud sponsor of this year’s Festival.