Family Affair: Jazz Ensemble in New York

About Family Affair

Family Affair is a jazz collective heard in New York City rooms including National Sawdust, often appearing in programs led by bassist-composer Alune Wade. The group works in close coordination with Wade’s groove-centered writing, where ensemble interplay is the main engine and individual solos stay in conversation with the rhythm section. In JGI-presented bills alongside artists such as faiith, Family Affair functions less as a backing band than as a unit with shared responsibility for shape and pulse. Their performances favor cohesion over display.