Jazzmeia Horn: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA

For Jazzmeia Horn, this concert defined a moment. This was The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, after all, one of the most prestigious stages in the America jazz circuit. “Not a lot of people get that opportunity,“ she reflected, not only to show up for herself and her art, but to act as a good steward of jazz music, an African American art form and legacy by which the idioms of today’s industry, according to Horn, don’t always reflect the culture of a specific people. She hand-picked an entirely Black and brown team from bandmates to to hair and makeup and even a hired backstage film crew, people she knew would share a common goal. “I was nit-picky on everything,“ Horn says. She even made sure everybody was well-fed backstage, so they could honor this music with the highest possible energy and focus. Horn didn’t know it at the time but this would be her last performance before the pandemic shuttered music venues around the world. Since then, she has been grateful f