Jazz & Colors will return to New York City on Friday, January 30—this time at the famed Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dubbed “The MASTERWORKS Edition,” this year’s incarnation of the event will feature two sets of music performed by a dozen ensembles of various sizes in galleries throughout the museum, from the American Wing to the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Galleries. Each group will play the same set simultaneously, with the first set beginning at 6pm and the second beginning at 7:30pm. Admission will be free with entry to The Met.

Jazz & Colors debuted in New York City’s Central Park in the fall of 2012 before returning to the same iconic location in 2013. The event is a co-production of music and film entrepreneur (and Relix / Jambands.com publisher) Peter Shapiro and the Metropolitan Museum. It is programmed by Brice Roseenbloom, Music Director at Le Poisson Rouge and Producer of Winter Jazzfest, and Limer Tomer, General Manager of Concerts and Lectures at the Metropolitan Museum, and curator of the museum’s live art series Met Museum Presents.

“The Met is one of the most remarkable museums in the world,” says Shapiro. “Placing bands throughout its main building will provide an audio score, just as the leaves of Central Park from past Jazz & Colors festivals lifted the music there. Now the iconic masterworks of jazz will give new life to the Met’s stunning collection, demonstrating the fundamental power of jazz.”