Summer Music Series in Bushwick Inlet Park 2025: Carol Sudhalter Quintet

For the 5th summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2025 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.

The Jazz Foundation of America presents Carol Sudhalter Quintet.

Flautist and saxophonist Carol Sudhalter didn’t take up music until her third year of college (biology major), but hasn’t let up since. She was the first graduate of Smith College to become a professional jazz musician, and in 1978 moved from Boston to New York City to join the all-women Latin band, Latin Fever. In 1986 she founded the 13-piece Astoria Big Band, and later founded several performance initiatives in Queens, including the Athens Square Park Jazz Mondays series, Astoria / LIC Waterfront Jazz Festival, and Sunset Jazz Concerts in Ralph Demarco Park. Sudhalter has worked with many notable artists including Etta Jones, Jimmy McGriff, Sarah McLawler, Henry Butler, Chico Freeman, Jimmy Cobb and Jason Marsalis. She currently holds court as the intrepid leader of Flushing Town Hall’s Louis Armstrong Legacy Jam.

Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors & supporters:

1 Northside Piers

2 Northside Piers

25 Kent

Brooklyn Arts Council

Greenpoint Williamsburg Youth Soccer League

Jazz Foundation of America

NYC Department of Parks and Recreation

New York State Council on the Arts