It’s a new kind of Caribbean cruise.
Entertainment Cruise Productions, Don Was of Blue Note Records and Steven Bensusan of the Blue Note Jazz club have announced a five-year partnership for jazz cruises in the Caribbean.
ECP’s Contemporary Jazz Cruises will now be known as Blue Note at Sea, with seven Blue Note artists among those performing on the venture’s maiden voyage from February 4 to 11, 2017.
Among the Blue Note artists booked for the first cruise are Marcus Miller, Terence Blanchard, the Robert Glasper Trio, Gregory Porter, Dianne Reeves, Chucho Valdes and Pat Metheny.
Also appearing on the cruise will be David Sanborn, Joshua Redman Quartet, Lalah Hathaway, Ben Williams, Geoffrey Keezer, Reuben Rogers, Greg Hutchinson, Aaron Goldberg, Peter Martin, Alex Han, Grace Kelly and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz All Stars.
The first Blue Note at sea will be aboard Celebrity Summit, and will set sail from Fort Lauderdale on February 4, with calls to the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
— Dana Niland, CJ Contributor
