Flowers of Shanghai: A Spring Equinox Concert with The Red Pavilion Jazz Band

“Flowers of Shanghai: A Spring Equinox Concert” is a live jazz set now playing at The Red Pavilion in New York City. The program draws on Shanghai’s early‑20th‑century nightlife as a point of reference, filtering that atmosphere through contemporary improvisation rather than historical reenactment. In a city where jazz often signals American lineage, this concert uses the form to trace a different modernity, shaped by migration, commerce, and memory. The result feels less like fusion and more like a documentary in sound, attentive to detail and silence.