Jazz Mandolin Project will play its first extended run of shows in 22 years with a four-show, February 2026 tour of the Northeast. The Burlington, VT experimental jazz fusion ensemble, founded by Jamie Masefield, features Phish drummer Jon Fishman.
The tour will start with a hometown show at Higher Ground on February 4th, followed by dates at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club (site of many early Phish shows) on the 5th, Brooklyn Bowl in New York on the 6th, and finally the Assembly in Kingston, NY on the 7th. Following the Kingston show, JMP will board the MSC Davina for its previously announced Jam Cruise debut. The current JMP lineup features Masefield, Fishman, bassist Danton Boller, and trumpeter/multi-instrumentalist Michael “Mad Dog” Mavridoglou.
Tickets to all newly announced tour dates will go on sale to the general public on Friday, November 21st at 10 a.m. ET. Find tickets here.
Masefield, a onetime member of New Orleans’ famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band, formed the original Jazz Mandolin Project in 1993 with bassist Stacey Starkweather and drummer Gabe Jarrett. The group issued its self-titled debut album in 1996 and dissolved the following year, before Masefield reformed the Jazz Mandolin Project with Fish on drums and Chris Dahlgren on bass. This reformed band ventured beyond jazz, exploring progressive rock and world music on 1999’s Tour de Flux and recruiting Trey Anastasio for the live follow-up, Xenoblast, the next year.
Since a 2004 summer tour in the run-up to Phish’s Coventry “farewell” festival, Jazz Mandolin Project has performed sporadically. Back in February, the group staged its first performance in 15 years during a memorial concert at the now-defunct Nectar’s for its late sound engineer Sergei Ushakov, a longtime staple of the Burlington music community.
JAZZ MANDOLIN PROJECT — FEBRUARY 2026
February 4 – Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
February 5 – Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
February 6 – Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY
February 7 – Assembly, Kingston NY
February 8-11 – Jamcruise (previously announced)
Jazz Mandolin Project w/ Jon Fishman — Hobart & William Smith College Folk Fest
[Video: John Brown]