The Jazz Poetry Finale welcomes artists who bring the spirit of this festival into the future: the Hip Hop Orchestra and our 2023 Youth Poet Laureates and Ambassadors, Rho Bloom-Wang, Aja Lynn, Jade Davis, and Audrey Alling.

Jazz and hip hop have been connected in many ways since the latter’s very inception. Their collaboration and mutual influence as genres has only grown with time, bringing jazz to a new generation and bringing new visions to the production of jazz.