Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at TFANA
Three performances in one night at Theater for a New Audience, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
4 pm – Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton
6:30 pm – The Kris Davis Trio featuring Robert Hurst and special guest Jeff Tain Watts
9 pm – Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith
Saxophonist/composer Steve Lehman and his long-running trio – featuring bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damion Reid – are joined by special guest tenor saxophonist Mark Turner for The Music of Anthony Braxton, commemorating the 80th anniversary of Braxton’s birth.
Kris Davis Trio performs music from “Run the Gauntlet,” her latest album. A testament to Davis’ singular voice within the jazz landscape, “Run the Gauntlet” serves as a metaphor for overcoming challenges to achieve one’s goals. In this project, Davis pays homage to six trailblazing women pianists: Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Renee Rosnes, Angelica Sanchez, Marilyn Crispell, and Sylvie Courvoisier.
Sylvie Courvoisier is a Swiss American pianist, composer, improviser, and bandleader whose work bridges the rigor of European chamber music with the exploratory spirit of the city’s downtown jazz scene. She is known for her distinctive compositional voice and fearless improvisation. Wadada Leo Smith is a Pulitzer Prize–nominated composer, trumpeter, and visionary artist whose work has profoundly shaped the landscape of creative music for more than five decades.
You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.
Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.