BIRDLAND SCHEDULE
Concert Grand Piano Courtesy of Bosendorfer
Since June 2004, Birdland's Concert Grand Piano has been made available through the support of Bosendorfer. The brand was recommended by the late Dr. Oscar Peterson for his final two New York Engagements at Birdland. Since then, Bosendorfer pianos have been enjoyed at Birdland by some of the greatest pianists in Jazz including Toshiko Akiyoshi, Monty Alexander, Geri Allen, Kenny Barron, Richie Beirach, Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Stefano Bollani, Alan Broadbent, Bill Charlap, Freddy Cole, Marc Copland, Barry Harris, Andrew Hill, Vijay Iyer, Hank Jones, Roger Kellaway, Frank Kimbrough, Steve Kuhn, Michel Legrand, Harold Mabern, Bill Mays, Brad Mehldau, Mulgrew Miller, Jason Moran, Sal Mosca, Arturo O'Farrill, Danilo Perez, Enrico Pieranunzi, Mike Renzi, Renee Rosnes, Dan Tepfer, Cedar Walton, Randy Weston and others.
AIR LINES PRESENTS
LENY ANDRADE
"RETURN TO BIRDLAND:
BOSSA, BOLEROS AND JAZZ"
Produced by Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta
Tuesday-Saturday, August 31-September 4 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
Multi talented songstress Leny Andrade, takes listeners on a jazz flavored musical journey. From the sensual sounds of Bossa Nova from her native Brazil to the mystery of the Bolero learned in her adopted home in Mexico, all featured on the new CD, "ALMA MIA."
"To describe Ms. Andrade as both the Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald of Bossa Nova only goes so far in evoking a performer whose voice seems to contain the body and soul of Brazil... like everything else she performs, it seems to well up from the center of the earth." (Stephen Holden, New York Times)
Ms. Andrade will be accompanied by pianist Klaus Mueller, bassist Sergio Brandao and drummer Helio Schiavo.
DELTA AIR LINES currenty flies to 4 different destinations in Brazil: Rio, Sao Paulo, Manaos and Brasilia with connections to the rest of the country.
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Media Sponsor: The Brasilians Newspaper
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DAVID OSTWALD'S LOUIS ARMSTRONG CENTENNIAL BAND
Every Wednesday from 5pm-7pm
Music Charge: $10
THE BIRDLAND BIG BAND directed by TOMMY IGOE
Every Friday from 5-7pm
Music Charge: $20
Featuring the finest musicians in New York! The BBB roars into action every Friday, playing the finest Jazz, Latin and Brazilian music from the world's best arrangers. After work or before a show, drinks or a great dinner, come hear one of the world's best drummers driving the hardest swinging band in New York. Experience why the BBB is fast becoming the must-see weekly jazz event in New York and kick off your weekend with what critics are calling "the best live music bargain in all of NYC!" Visit TOMMYIGOE.com for our surprise special guest line-up.
*Tommy Igoe and The Birdland Band will ring in the new year with an unprecedented week-long headlining engagement, featuring guest vocalist Hilary Kole:
Tuesday-Thursday, December 28-30 & Saturday, January 1 @ 8:30 & 11pm
Music Charge: $30 side seating; $40 center seating (+ $10 food/drink minimum)
New Year's Eve, Friday, December 31
8pm show: $50 table seating + $20 food/drink minimum; $40 bar seating includes one drink
11pm show: $75 admission + $20 food/drink minimum; $40 bar seating includes one drink
The Birdland Jazz Party
hosted by Vocalist Hilary Kole
Come join the party as Hilary Kole and a rotating line-up of New York's finest musicians jam at the early set on Sunday nights! Vocalist Hilary Kole began her professional career at the legendary Rainbow Room as the youngest singer ever to grace the stage. From there, Hilary co-wrote and starred in the long running Off Broadway hits, "Our Sinatra" and “Singing Astaire,” as well as headlined at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and international venues such as the Umbria Jazz Festival and the Nairn Jazz Festival. Hilary has also performed and recorded with the late Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, and Michel LeGrand, to name but a few. Her solo debut album, “Haunted Heart,” produced by jazz guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli, has earned critical acclaim and a fast-growing local and international fanbase, and her follow-up album, a duets album with a remarkable line-up of some of the greatest pianist in jazz, is scheduled to release this spring. Rex Reed (New York Observer) calls her "hip and lovely, a musical marvel," and Time Out New York notes that "Kole presents her own distinctive style. She is the best at selling a song."
Sundays, September 5,12,19,26; October 10,17,24,31 @ 6pm
Music Charge: $20
*The Jazz Party will be guest gosted by jazz vocalist Barbara Rosene, October 10,17,24,31.
Jazz vocalist Barbara Rosene has shared stages with jazz icons, performing internationally with The Harry James Orchestra, performing with the late Les Paul at Iridium Jazz Club and with Woody Allen at The Carlisle Hotel. Barbara has been featured on Judy Carmichael's NPR program entitled "Jazz Inspired," and recently on NPR's "Hot Jazz Saturday Night." She has been recognized by Backstage Magazine (Bistro Award, 2006) "Jazz Improv Magazine," and is featured in Scott Yanow’s “Great Jazz Singers.”
CHICO O'FARRILL'S AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Directed by Arturo O'Farrill:
Sundays September 5,12,19,26; October 3,10,17,31 - 9 & 11pm shows
Music Charge: $30
Arranger-bandleader Arturo “Chico” O’ Farrill, Sr. began introducing Afro-Cuban rhythms into jazz in the 1940’s. The band bearing Chico’s name “continues to showcase the most seamless blend of clavè rhythm and bebop harmony anywhere.” (Time Out) The weekly orchestra is directed by Chico’s son, the Grammy Award winning pianist, composer and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill. Along with maintaining a busy performance schedule in settings ranging from solo to big band, Arturo is a jazz educator and leads the SUNY Purchase Latin Jazz Orchestra.
JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY
Hosted by Jim Caruso, with the Cast Party "Symphony Orchestra"
Mondays September 6,13,20,27; October 4,11,18,25
9:30pm until 1am, $20 admission + $10 minimum
"No one can call themselves a true New Yorker until they've been to the 'Cast Party,' which is to Broadway what the Conde Nast cafeteria is to publishing. Divas and dapper-dans insouciantly sip cocktails while watching each other sing and perform at the open-mic event during Broadway's dark night." (Next Magazine) Broadway impresario Jim Caruso hosts a combination open-mic, networking event and party in which the biggest stars on Broadway relax on their night off by performing their favorite songs in an informal setting.
William Blake
Monday, September 6 @ 7pm
Music Charge: $30
William Blake, a native of Dallas, Texas, made the move to New York City in early 2007. After performing in clubs since the age of 19, he made his Carnegie Hall debut in March of this year as a guest vocalist in “Standard Time With Michael Feinstein.” He has also appeared in the city at Don't Tell Mama, Uncle Charlie’s and the Metropolitan Room. In 2005, he released his first studio album, “Day Dreamer.” He also appeared on the fourth season of “American Idol,” where he competed in Hollywood. As an actor, his regional theatre credits include The Who’s Tommy (Cousin Kevin), Chicago (Mary Sunshine), The Rocky Horror Show (Riff Raff) and Pageant: The Musical (Bible Belt).
William is thrilled and honored to make his NYC solo performance debut at Birdland. Joining him for his Labor Day show will be musical director Michael Thomas Murray (Fender Rhodes), Mike Noordzy (bass), Doug Mikula (guitar), and Jakubu Griffin (drums). The set will feature classic R&B and soul songs, including Solomon Burke’s 1962 hit “Cry to Me” and Sly and the Family Stone’s 1969 funk standard “I Want to Take You Higher.”
Steve Kuhn (piano) Dave Liebman (sax)
Steve Swallow (bass) Billy Drummond (drums)
Tuesday-Saturday, September 7-11 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
For this five-night run, four of the genre’s leading instrumentalists come together in a quartet setting to play the best in modern jazz. Pianist Steve Kuhn first his mark as a sideman with John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, and grew beyond the powerful influence of Bill Evans into a unique stylist with incredible technique and sense of dynamics and lyricism. Saxophonist Dave Liebman has played with some of the best in the business, spending extensive periods as a member of the Miles Davis and Elvin Jones groups. As a leader, he has been associated since 1970 with a succession of extraordinary groups from Open Sky Trio to Lookout Farm to Quest, each of which has framed a distinct phase of his musical evolution. Double bass and bass guitar master and composer Steve Swallow joined the Paul Bley Trio in 1960, subsequently playing in groups led by Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Art Farmer, Stan Getz and Gary Burton. After the late 70s, Swallow has been closely associated Carla Bley's groups, while also touring and recording with various other collaborations with top jazz performers such as John Scofield, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian and many more. Highly in-demand sideman and "one of the hippest bandleaders now at work," (Downbeat) drummer Billy Drummond began his career with the Horace Silver sextet and, later, played with J. J. Johnson and Sonny Rollins. A longtime member of Carla Bley's Lost Chords Quartet as well as the Steve Kuhn Trio, Drummond rounds out this all-star jazz quartet.
Broadway's Christopher Fitzgerald @ Birdland:
An Evening of Silliness, Sentiment and Songs
Monday, September 13th @ 7pm
Music Charge: $25
Two-time Tony-nominee Christopher Fitzgerald recently starred in the Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow as Og, the lovesick leprechaun, for which he won the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. He was also nominated for a Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award for that role. Other Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Wicked, and Amour (Drama Desk Award nomination). Christopher’s thirty year performing career began in Portland Maine when his mother, out of a combination of intuitive insight and sheer desperation, enrolled him in a clown class at age five. What has followed has been a diverse professional odyssey encompassing theater, film, television and balancing large objects on his face. He received a bachelor’s degree in theater at Rollins College and an MFA from The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Most influential were the eleven seasons spent with the Williamstown Theater festival where he began as an apprentice in 1993 and continues to work today. Favorite productions there include The Trojan Women 2.0, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Where’s Charley and Dead End. Christopher most recently starred in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Directed by his wife, Jessica Stone, it marked the first all-male production of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical. Christopher currently resides in New York city in a much too small apartment with his wife Jessica Stone and their two sons Charlie and Emmett. The musical director for the evening will be David Turner.
Nicholas Payton "seXXXtet"
Tuesday-Saturday, September 14-18 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
Since 1994 when Nicholas Payton made his recording debut as a leader with ‘From This Moment,’ the trumpeter has been lauded as a significant, top-tier voice in jazz. Even though he started out as a “young lion of jazz,” heralded as one of the new-generation guardians of the hard bop flame, 34 year-old Payton devoted himself to discovering his voice outside of the strict confines of that rearview mirror approach to the music. Having grown up in a family of musicians in the jazz Mecca of New Orleans, Payton has built his unique voice by melding a post-bop foundation, a heavy emphasis on groove, his soulful history, and various experimental elements. While his jazz journey has taken him down many roads – from heritage artist to electric experimenter – the 34-year-old trumpeter arrives at a new plateau of jazz maturity with his most recent release, ‘Into the Blue,’ his ninth album and his first for Nonesuch. The New York Times has called Payton “Abundantly gifted”, and Music Direct describes his music as “Soulful, pensive and romantic.”
Jay Armstrong Johnson
Monday, September 20th @ 7pm
Music Charge: $25
After Broadway performances playing a pool boy, a hippie and a dancer on the line, Jay Armstrong Johnson will be making his solo New York City concert debut. The soaring tenor explores a collection of old and new songs that capture his spirit of peace, love & rock ‘n roll. From classic rock greats to the music of Ryan Scott Oliver, Jay will share his innate R&B sensibility, Texas roots and Broadway background. This show will be an eclectic mix showcasing the talent, humor and heart of this rising star.
Jay Armstrong Johnson has performed on Broadway in Hair (Claude u/s), First National Tour: A Chorus Line (Mark). In regional theater he has starred in Pool Boy (Nick) World premiere at Barrington Stage, Hairspray (Link) at the Weston Playhouse, andGodspell (Jefrey) at Casa Manana. He won the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Merit Award Winner in Spoken/Musical Theatre, was the Recipient of Music Talent Scholarship at NYU, and the New York City Dance Alliance Senior Outstanding Dancer and Triple Threat Award.
"Coltrane Revisited" Joe Lovano (sax)
Steve Kuhn (piano) Lonnie Plaxico (bass)
Andrew Cyrille (drums)
Tuesday-Saturday, September 21-25 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
Coltrane Revisited is an annual all-star gathering in celebration of legendary saxophonist and jazz innovator John Coltrane’s birthday. Born in North Carolina in 1926, John Coltrane emerged on the jazz scene in the 1950s, playing tenor and soprano sax with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. A pioneer of “hard bop” in the 1960s, he led his own groups and reinvented jazz with experimentation and improvisation, his later recordings reflecting his belief that music was a form of
spiritual expression. Leading the celebration of Coltrane’s 84th birthday are pianist Steve Kuhn, who performed briefly with Coltrane and recently release a critically acclaimed ECM recording exploring the repertoire, and Grammy-Award winning saxophonist Joe Lovano, who The NY Times calls “...one of the greatest musicians in jazz history."
Grace Kelly Quintet
Grace Kelly (sax/vocals) Jason Palmer (trumpet) Doug Johnson (piano) Evan Gregor (bass) Jordan Perlson (drums)
Kate Pazakis & Megan Reinking
Monday, September 27th @ 7pm
Music Charge: $25
Kate Pazakis and Megan Reinking, two popular red headed singers, come together for a one night concert. The show will feature new arrangments, exciting harmonies and unique takes on some favorite music from all genres. Backed by a 5 piece band, this vocal duo will present a sensational evening of songs, featuring their different views and experiences on love, lost or burning brightly.
Theatre audiences know Kate Pazakis from Jerry Springer The Opera at Carnegie Hall, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Broadway Diva Christmas, Newsical, and The Sexless Years. Every Friday night at the Duplex in NYC, Kate can be found co-hosting Mostly Sondheim, a weekly event celebrating musical theatre with the best of Broadway. Kate just released her debut album entitled “Unzipped: Live at the Zipper” which is available at iTunes, PS Classics, and Amazon.com. Kate was recently seen on the silver screen in “The Big Gay Musical.”
Megan Reinking was recently seen on Broadway in Hair, Lestat, Dracula The Musical, and Bye Bye Birdie. She recently returned to NYC from her appearance in the West End production of Hair. This Fall, Megan will be making her television debut in “Boardwalk Empire” on HBO.
*Just Announced:
Wallace Roney Sextet
Tuesday-Saturday, September 28-October 2 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
Trumpeter Wallace Roney's recent High Note Records CD release, "documents a fierce and free-spirited postbop band." (New York Times)
"At a time when much of the Jazz world seems content to simply attempt to recreate the past, trumpeter/composer Wallace Roney follows the true Jazz tradition of utilizing the past to move forward.” (All About Jazz) The three-time Grammy Award winner has been highly acclaimed by fans, critics and his peers alike, and been nominated for numerous projects in which he was the featured performer and/or collaborator. Roney has been a key part of the band alongside artists such as Tony Williams, Ornette Coleman, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Walter Davis Jr., Herbie Hancock, Jay McShann, David Murray, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Curtis Fuller, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Dizzy Gillespie, to name a few. He was one of the few musicians of his generation who learned and perfected his craft directly from alliances with Jazz Masters. His most integral and meaningful relationship was with Miles Davis, who mentored Wallace after Miles heard him in 1983 at his birthday gala performance at Carnegie Hall. Their association peaked when Miles chose Wallace to share the stage at his historic performance in Montreux in 1991. After Davis’ death, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams and Roney banded together and toured the world in tribute. Hear for yourself what makes Roney stand out as a leader of his musical generation, as he brings his sextet to Birdland for this five-night engagement.
Miranda Sings Celebrates Halloween
Monday, October 4th @ 7pm
Music Charge: $25 Side Seating; $35 Center Seating
YouTube sensation MIRANDA SINGS returns to Birdland for a celebration of all things Halloween, with dazzling costumes and a Miranda lookalike contest. Special guests will include Todrick Hall (“American Idol”, Memphis), Michael Buckley (“What The Buck”), and Tituss Burgess (Little Mermaid, Guys & Dolls).
The character of Miranda Sings, brought to us by actress Colleen Ballinger, is a satire of increasingly common YouTube videos featuring mediocre or even bad, but egotistical, singers who film themselves singing as a form of self-promotion, and who ignore the realistic or cruel comments of "haters" commenting on their videos. "Miranda" lives with her mother in Tacoma, Washington, sings comically off-key, uses spoonerisms, is self-absorbed and has a sassy attitude. The Times describes the character as "self-obsessed and immune to criticism.” She responds to viewers who take the videos seriously with the catchphrase "Haters back off!" telling her critics that they are "just jealous" and that "haters make me famous". The character includes facial tics, unusually active eyebrows, a crooked smile, her head cocked to one side and bizarre pronunciation quirks. In place of lyrics that she cannot remember, the character "scat" sings. She also wears lipstick drawn beyond the borders of her lips, dresses in mismatched and out-of-style clothing and dances stiffly to the music she is performing.
Beginning in the summer of 2009, in addition to her internet videos, Miranda Sings has also performed a cabaret act at sold-out cabaret spaces and theatres in New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, cities in Australia and elsewhere. In 1999, BroadwayWorld.com called her "the hottest, freshest and oddest breakout star in the musical theatre/cabaret scene". Typically, in her cabaret act, Miranda sings several songs from the musical theatre repertory or popular songs that are featured in her videos; gives "voice lessons" to Broadway or West End stars, such as Shoshana Bean and to the Broadway casts of shows such as Bye Bye Birdie, Mamma Mia, Shrek, Billy Elliot (to which cast she also gave dance and acting "lessons") and Rock of Ages. She critiques the stars' performances, sings duets with established musical theatre singers, reads "hate mail" that she has received on her YouTube channel, and improvises a song based on audience suggestions.
Kurt Elling Quartet
Tuesday-Saturday, October 5-9 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
Kurt Elling currently reigns as the jazz world’s predominant male vocalist. He has spent the last ten consecutive years at the top of the DownBeat Critics poll and topped the JazzTimes Readers’ poll five times. Elling is a nine-time Grammy award nominee, and his latest release for Concord/Universal, 2009’s Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane & Hartman was his first Grammy-winning record, propelling his career to new heights. He has also won six Jazz Journalists Association Awards for Male Singer of the Year and the Prix Billie Holiday from the Académie du Jazz in Paris. As a singer, Kurt has won fans with his rich baritone voice that spans four octaves and displays astonishing technical facility and emotional depth, and as an artist, he is known for his major contributions as a writer and performer of vocalese, a style of singing wherein lyrics are set over over melodies that were originally part of an all-instrumental jazz improvisation or composition. Deeply influenced by singer and poet, Mark Murphy, Elling began to develop his idiosyncratic scat style in the smaller clubs of Chicago. As the natural heir to jazz pioneers Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure, and Jon Hendricks, Elling is the contemporary voice in vocalese. Whether it be Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, or Dexter Gordon, Elling’s vocalized interpretation is flawless. Upon Blue Note’s reception of Elling’s demo, Close Your Eyes, released in 1995, he began to get attention from jazz press, not only for his talent and original style, but also his choice in sidemen, which included Laurence Hobgood and Paul Wertico for a time. Over the past fifteen years, Kurt Elling has won over jazz critics and fans alike, and The New York Times calls him, “the standout male jazz vocalist of our time.”
Natalie Douglas
John Abercrombie Quartet
Tuesday-Saturday, October 12-16 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
Over a career spanning more than 40 years and nearly 50 albums, John Abercrombie has established himself as one the masters of jazz guitar. Favoring unusual sounds and nontraditional ensembles (recent quartet recordings have included violinist Mark Feldman), Abercrombie is a restless experimenter, working firmly in the jazz tradition while pushing the boundaries of meter and harmony. Abercrombie has performed live and recorded with a long list of jazz greats, including Gil Evans, Gato Barbieri, Barry Miles, Chico Hamilton, Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, Richie Beirach, to name a few. Abercrombie keeps up a heavy touring schedule and continues to record with ECM, a relationship that has spanned more than 30 years. As he told one interviewer, “I'd like people to perceive me as having a direct connection to the history of jazz guitar, while expanding some musical boundaries.” That, without a doubt, will be his legacy. John Abercombie Quartet features Mark Feldman (Violin), Joey Baron (Drums), and Thomas Morgan (Bass).
Zachary James: "Imbecile D'Amour"
Monday, October 18th @ 7pm
Music Charge: $25
Broadway's Zachary James brings his hit solo show IMBÉCILE D'AMOUR to Birdland as part of Jim Caruso’s BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND series. IMBÉCILE D'AMOUR is back by popular demand, after a sold-out engagement in NYC and a celebrated turn in Chicago. BroadwayWorld deemed the show a "dark, music hall through-line of love, loss, moving on, and the consequences in between,” "startlingly beautiful" and "baritonal bliss.” The one-night-only performance will feature Jonathan Rose on piano, Kiersten Cunningham on Violin, Allison Seidner on Cello, Fred Poholek on Guitar, with Shadow Puppetry by Ceili Clemens and Orchestrations by Will Van Dyke.
Zachary James is currently starring as Lurch in The Addams Family on Broadway. He has also been seen in South Pacific, Coram Boy, Kristin Hevner’s Il Sogno (Oberon), and Bryan Putnam’s The Toymaker (Petr). Regional theatre/opera/concert appearances include Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd), A Funny Thing…Forum (Miles Gloriosus), La Bohème (Colline), Madama Butterfly (Bonzo), Don Giovanni (Commendatore), Carmina Burana (baritone soloist). The Florida native and graduate of Ithaca College is a Kurt Weill Foundation Lotte Lenya Competition winnerl and founding director of NYC’s Metropolis Opera Project.
Jane Monheit
Tuesday-Saturday, October 19-23 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $40
Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Jane Monheit returns to Birdland to celebrate her eagerly anticipated new CD, “Home,” which is set to release by Emarcy/Universal Records on September 21st, 2010. An ode to the golden age of the jazz standard — the genre which Jane identifies with most — “Home” celebrates the treasured tracks of songwriters and lyricists past and present whom Monheit greatly admires including Rodgers and Hart and Schwartz & Dietz. A sumptuously sung passionate song cycle of 12 tunes self-produced by the modern-day jazz diva, “Home” is Monheit’s tenth CD and will be accompanied by a world tour beginning in the Fall. It seems like a lifelong musical journey from the fresh-faced innocence of the “Never Never Land” debut album (2000) to the world-weary maturity of 2009’s release, entitled “The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me,” and now her 2010 return “Home.” However, Jane Monheit has managed to make the trip in just ten years, establishing herself as one of her generation’s most beloved and accomplished jazz vocalists. Monheit’s honey-smooth vocals, silky phrasing and natural knack for storytelling have earned her chart-topping success, two Grammy nominations, and a prominent career that shows no sign of slowing.
Johnny Rodgers
Pat Martino Organ Quartet
Tuesday-Saturday, October 26-30 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
Virtuoso guitarist Martino got his start on the "chitlin' circuit" with organ groups led by "Groove" Holmes, Jack McDuff, Don Patterson, Trudy Pitts, Charles Earland and others in the 1960s. Having fully recovered from a life-threatening illness in the 1980's that caused him to forget how to play the guitar and relearn by listening to his own 1960's recordings, Martino has re-emerged as a veteran presence on the jazz scene due in part to a successful association with Blue Note Records. As the New York Times noted, "Mr. Martino is back and he is plotting new musical directions, adding more layers to his myth." His playing is as fiery and technically brilliant as ever and he constantly challenges himself with new music and exciting bandmates.
Presents:
The 11th Annual
DJANGO REINHARDT NY FESTIVAL
"Celebrating The Django Reinhardt Centennial"
Featuring: legendary gypsy guitarist DORADO SCHMITT, with top gypsy rhythm guitarist HONO WINTERSTEIN, bassist XAVIER NIKQ, violinist PIERRE BLANCHARD and the debut of the 14-year old guitar virtuoso AMATI SCHMITT (Dorado's son). Plus Special Guests harpist Edmar Castaneda and more TBA
Produced by Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta
Also sponsored by: RD Wright Inc., John Pearse Strings, La Bella World Class Strings
*The Festival will also honor gypsy guitar patriarch George Schmitt who passed away this year and taught the family to play gypsy jazz guitar.
Tuesday-Sunday, November 2-7 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
Jim Hall Quartet
80th Birthday Celebration
Greg Osby (alto sax) Steve Laspina (bass) Joey Baron (drums)
Tuesday-Saturday, November 9-13 @ 8:30 &11pm
Music Charge: $30, side seating; $40, center seating
"Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World" - - Charlie Parker
