The Lincoln Square Business Improvement District's FREE lunchtime summer concert series is back! The Lincoln Square BID's Summer Jazz Sensations will be held on Wednesdays from Noon to 1:30pm from July 6 to August 31, 2022 at Dante Park, Broadway between 63rd & 64th Streets. There will be cold drinks and light fare from Le Botaniste available for purchase while supplies last at the July 27th Luke Franco Quartet concert.

This week's performer will be the Luke Franco Quartet. Guitarist Luke Franco purveys the rich tradition of jazz guitar by gleaning from the masters, both past and present. Formative years spent with John Abercrombie—his main influence and one of the great innovators—led Franco to develop his own compositional voice. While pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Miami, he was a teacher's Assistant in John Hart's talented and ambitious guitar studio and performed as a featured soloist with the award-winning Concert Jazz Band led by Grammy winner Jon Daversa alongside guest artists, including Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Alan Ferber. He was featured as lead guitarist at the world premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas’s “Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind” along with the New World Symphony in 2016. Presently, Franco has been performing in the Berkshires, Hudson Valley, and NY Capital region presenting his own music both as a leader and as an in-demand sideman.