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THE DJANGO, downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz membership, gives a formidable month of music with jazz legends and rising stars. At present’s main artists collect on The Django stage to have fun NEA Jazz Grasp Dr. Lonnie Smith in particular back-to-back tribute live shows 12/9. Two main pianists make their Django debut: Benito Gonzalez 12/3 adopted by Orrin Evans 12/8 main his new Brazilian undertaking “Terreno Comun”.
The vacations are in full swing with festive live shows by Charles Turner & Uptown Swing Dance 12/11, Duchess 12/17, New Alchemy Jazz Orchestra 12/22, and Martina DaSilva and Danny Jonokuchi Quintet Vacation Particular 12/23, adopted by a New 12 months’s Eve celebration 12/31 with jazz legend Houston Particular person and rising vocalist Lucy Yeghiazaryan adopted by King Solomon Hicks ringing in 2022. The Django’s new weekly residency with the Mingus Large Band continues each Tuesday showing 12/14, 12/21, and 12/28, with a particular look by the Mingus Orchestra 12/7. The Ken Fowser Quintet returns for its weekly Friday evening present 12/3, 12/10 and 12/17, and guitarist Mark Whitfield hosts his month-to-month Django gig 12/10. Below is a complete schedule of December pertypeances at The Django.
DECEMBER SCHEDULE:
12/1-2 Closed for Personal Occasions
12/3 KEN FOWSER QUINTET
7:00PM
Ken Fowser – Saxophone
TBA – Trumpet
Rick Germanson – Piano
TBA – Bass
TBA – Drums
Ken Fowser is the Music Curator for The Roxy Lodge New York, Music Director of The Django, and performs each Friday evening on our stage with particular visitors every week. Since his arrival on the New York scene in 2005, Ken Fowser has continued to steer conventional concord in uncharted instructions. His lyrical method to line development and depth of harmonic sensibility permits him to report and play everywhere in the world. A prolific composer, Fowser has celebrated 4 cooperative releases on Posi-tone Information, co-led with vibraphone virtuoso, Behn Gillece. His debut launch as a frontrunner, Standing Tall earned him the #1 spot on Jazz Week Radio Chart seven weeks in a row. Fowser loved each downtown and uptown residencies at iconic New York venues, internet hosting the session at Smalls Jazz Membership each Tuesday for 4 years and taking part in the late set at Smoke Jazz and Supper Membership each Friday for 2 years.
12/3 BENITO GONZALEZ QUARTET
10:00PM
Benito Gonzalez – Piano
Troy Roberts – Saxophone
Will Slater – Bass
Curtis McPhetter Jr – Drums
Two-time Grammy nominated-pianist Benito Gonzalez is an internationally beloved artist who combines a protracted lineage of American jazz traditions with rhythms from all over the world. Benito is an exhilarating pianist who received the 2005 Nice America Jazz Piano Competitors and was honored in 2020 to be a Steinway & Sons artist for “his sound [that] is recognizable for the highly effective rhythm part and Afro-Latin patterns he prioritizes throughout his initiatives.” The Venezuela-born, New York-based artist grew up taking part in conventional Venezuelan people music along with his household earlier than absorbing the inventiveness of such pianists as Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett who impressed him to hitch within the explorations on the instrument.
12/4 DAVID GIBSON QUARTET
7:00PM
David Gibson – Trombone
Mike King – Piano
Joseph Lepore – Bass
Anwar Marshall – Drums
David Gibson is at the moment energetic on the New York music scene as a trombonist, composer, arranger, educator, musical director, and bandleader. Legendary trombonist/composer Slide Hampton says, “David Gibson is without doubt one of the very gifted, really devoted musicians on the New York scene in the present day.” Gibson’s early expertise in New York noticed him performing alongside Mr. Hampton, in addition to Jon Faddis, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Heath, James Moody, and others. In 2003, he was a finalist within the Thelonious Monk Worldwide Jazz Trombone Competitors and has subsequently launched seven recordings as a bandleader. Gibson’s preparations and compositions have been featured by the bands of Roy Hargrove, Josh Evans, George Gee, Danny Aiello, John Dokes, and others. His work as a composer/arranger can be heard on a number of recordings of Orrin Evans’ GRAMMY-nominated Captain Black Large Band, of which he is a member. The famend group’s 2020 launch, The Intangible Between, on SMOKE Classes marked their second GRAMMY nomination within the Giant Jazz Ensemble class.
12/4 CRAIG HANDY & 2ND LINE SMITH
10:00PM
Craig Useful -Tenor Saxophone
Kyle Koehler-Organ
Clark Gayton- Sousaphone
Jerome Jennings-Drums
Saxophonist Craig Useful started his profession performing with jazz masters resembling Artwork Blakey, Roy Haynes, Abdullah Ibrahim, and the Mingus Dynasty Band. By his late 20s, Useful was already recognized for his technical mastery and prodigious post-bop expertise, in addition to the flexibility demonstrated by performing with vocalists like Betty Carter and Dee Dee Bridgewater. Useful has since toured and carried out with quite a few jazz masters, together with Herbie Hancock, Cedar Walton, Wynton Marsalis, and The Cookers. Useful now leads a brand new undertaking entitled Craig Useful & 2nd Line Smith, drawing on New Orleans music and the groove-filled re-imaginings of originals and requirements by the late, nice organist Jimmy Smith.
12/7 MINGUS ORCHESTRA
7:30 + 9:30PM
Our in style Mingus collection resumes tonight with the eclectic Mingus Orchestra, deploying its mix of “jazz” and “non-jazz” instrumentation to carry out a number of the legendary bassist/composer’s most adventurous compositions. “Among the many giants of jazz, composer, bandleader, and string bass participant Charles Mingus ranged the furthest stylistically. Whereas specializing in bop, particularly laborious bop, his performances explored the entire different primary currents in jazz – the New Orleans fashion, swing, free jazz, and fusion – and different genres as properly – blues, rhythm & blues, boogie woogie, and gospel music.” – From The Blackwell Information to Recorded Jazz, edited by Barry Kernfeld (1992)
12/8 “TERRENO COMUN” that includes ALEXIA BOMTEMPO
7:00PM
Alexia Bomtempo – Vocals
Orrin Evans – Piano
Leandro Pellegrino – Guitar
Luques Curtis – Bass
TBA – Drums
Pianist-composer Orrin Evans unveiled his new Brazilian undertaking for the primary time in Cape Could. Born out of a commissioned undertaking by The August Wilson African American Cultural Heart, Terreno Comun is a strong collective comprised of a number of the most acclaimed musicians in fashionable jazz and Brazilian music. With Evans as musical director, this new quintet options Brazilian-American singer-songwriter Alexia Bomtempo, bassist Luques Curtis, drummer Clarence Penn and São Paulo-born guitarist Leandro Pellegrino. The music checklist contains stunning preparations of Brazilian requirements giving a possibility for all to shine. Their debut album can be launched on Evans’ label, Imani Information, later in 2021. Whereas the members of Terreno Comun could come from disparate backgrounds – Alexia from Rio de Janeiro, Leandro from São Paulo, Luques from Hartford, Clarence from Detroit, Orrin from Trenton – they share a musical “widespread floor” (the English translation of the band title).
12/8 LAUREN HENDERSON
10:00PM
Lauren Henderson – Voice
TBA – Saxophone
TBA – Piano
TBA – Bass
TBA – Drums
Lauren Henderson paints a reflective and impassioned tales together with her haunting voice and enchanting compositions. Breaking the Jazz Charts High 5 and the 12 months Finish Jazz Week High 50 (2020), Henderson’s eclectic vocal influences unfold throughout genres producing a definite but versatile sound. Henderson uncovers layers of her various background in English and Spanish. Her compositions paint tales reflecting journeys imposed by means of the African Diaspora in connection to Henderson’s Panamanian, Montserratian, and huge Caribbean roots as they interaction together with her North American upbringing.
12/9 DR. LONNIE SMITH TRIBUTE that includes JASON MARSHALL, ED CHERRY, AKIKO
TSURUGA, AND JONHATHAN BLAKE
7:00PM
Jason Marshall – Saxophone
Ed Cherry – Guitar
Akiko Tsuruga – Organ
Jonathan Blake – Drums
4 of Dr. Lonnie Smith’s very long time band mates come collectively to pay tribute to one of the vital prolific Hammond B3 organists of all time. This particular tribute live performance honors the music and legacy of NEA Jazz Grasp Dr. Lonnie Smith who died earlier this 12 months (1942-2021). Usually hailed as “The Doc, a “Legend,” a “Dwelling Musical Icon,” Lonnie was an unparalleled musician, composer, performer, and recording artist. He was an genuine grasp and guru of the Hammond B-3 organist for over 5 a long time.
12/9 IAN-HENDRICKSON SMITH QUINTET PLAYS THE MUSIC OF DR. LONNIE SMITH
9:00PM
Ian Hendrickson-Smith – Saxophone
TBA – Trumpet
TBA – Guitar
TBA – Organ
TBA – Drums
The Lonnie Smith celebration continues with a tribute live performance by saxophonist Ian Hendrickson-Smith, longtime co-producer of and performer on lots of The Doc’s albums together with the final recording of Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Be aware) launched in 2021.
New York Metropolis-based saxophonist and flutist Ian Hendrickson-Smith is usually famous for his exceptional tone, soulful method and blues-driven melodies. Equally adept on all of the saxophones, Ian stays very busy doing what he loves and loves staying busy! At the moment, you’ll find Ian taking part in on the highway with The Roots or on The Tonight Present starring Jimmy Fallon. Hendrickson-Smith’s in depth recording expertise contains the discharge of 12 jazz information as a frontrunner. His most up-to-date, The Lowdown (Cellar Music 2020) is at the moment charting at #18 on the nationwide jazz charts.
12/10 KEN FOWSER QUINTET
7:00PM
Ken Fowser – Saxophone
Peter Bernstein – Guitar
Rick Germanson – Piano
Gerald Cannon – Bass
Willie Jones III – Drums
Ken Fowser is the Music Curator for The Roxy Lodge New York, Music Director of The Django, and performs each Friday evening on our stage with particular visitors every week. Since his arrival on the New York scene in 2005, Ken Fowser has continued to steer conventional concord in uncharted instructions. His lyrical method to line development and depth of harmonic sensibility permits him to report and play everywhere in the world. A prolific composer, Fowser has celebrated 4 cooperative releases on Posi-tone Information, co-led with vibraphone virtuoso, Behn Gillece. His debut launch as a frontrunner, Standing Tall earned him the #1 spot on Jazz Week Radio Chart seven weeks in a row. Fowser loved each downtown and uptown residencies at iconic New York venues, internet hosting the session at Smalls Jazz Membership each Tuesday for 4 years and taking part in the late set at Smoke Jazz and Supper Membership each Friday for 2 years.
12/10 MARK WHITFIELD QUINTET
10:00PM
Mark Whitfield – Guitar
Craig Useful – Saxophone
Davis Whitfield – Piano
Eric Wheeler – Bass
Kush Abadey – Drums
The Django is thrilled to welcome again Mark Whitfield as a part of a month-to-month residency. Whitfield graduated from Boston’s prestigious Berklee Faculty of Music, the world’s foremost establishment for the examine of Jazz and fashionable American music within the spring of 1987. Shortly thereafter, he returned to his to his native New York to embark on a profession as a Jazz Guitarist that afforded him the chance to collaborate with legendary artists together with Dizzy Gillespie, Artwork Blakey, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Carmen McRae, Gladys Knight, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Smith, Clark Terry, Shirley Horn, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joe Williams, Stanley Turrentine and his best trainer and mentor George Benson.
In 1990 The New York Occasions dubbed Whitfield “The Greatest Younger Guitarist within the Enterprise”. Later that 12 months, Warner Bros. launched his debut album The Marksman. The success of his debut launch led to a recording profession that has produced a complete of 14 solo recordings and a myriad of collaborative efforts with a number of the most necessary artists in recent times; Sting, Steven Tyler, D’Angelo, Mary J. Blige, John Mayer, Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Diana Krall, Christian McBride, Chris Botti, Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton.
12/11 SASHA BERLINER
7:00PM
Sasha Berliner – Vibraphone
TBA – Piano
TBA – Bass
TBA – Drums
Sasha Berliner is a musician, composer, producer, and band chief from San Francisco, CA. Along with performing internationally together with her personal undertaking, Sasha Berliner Azalea, her current notable performances and recordings have been with musicians resembling Tyshawn Sorey, Nicholas Payton, and Quincy Davis. She is an endorsing artist for Vater and Marimba One, and is a college member on the MalletLab percussion intensive, the place she provides masterclasses and clinics. She has additionally lead masterclasses and Q&As at esteemed universities like MSU Denver and Berklee Faculty of Music.
12/11 CHARLES TURNER & UPTOWN SWING DANCE HOLIDAY SPECIAL
10:00PM
Charles Turner – Vocals
Christopher McBride – Saxophone
Jeffery Miller – Trombone
Sean Mason – Piano
Felix Molesohm – Bass
TBA – Drums
Charles Turner is a multi-faceted, charismatic, Brooklyn-based composer and vocalist whose work transcends borders and types from Jazz, R&B to Soul. Turner has held residencies, hosted, and carried out at venues resembling Dizzy’s Membership Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Heart, Birdland, Smoke Jazz membership and the historic Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem. A daily at Jazz at Lincoln Heart’s late-night dance periods, Turner and his five-piece rhythm and horn part, Uptown Swing, make their manner downtown, bringing a vigorous night of melodies from the Harlem Renaissance by means of to in the present day’s swing music. For this particular one-nighter, Turner peppers the set with some enjoyable, festive tunes.
12/14 MINGUS BIG BAND
7:30 + 9:30PM
The Django welcomes the Grammy award-winning Mingus Large Band to its stage each Tuesday evening. The “metropolis’s hardest huge band (Time Out New York),” celebrates the music of composer/bassist Charles Mingus, who died in 1979. Below the inventive path of Sue Mingus, this 14-piece band carried out Thursday nights from 1991 to 2004 at Fez underneath Time Cafe in New York Metropolis. It maintained weekly performances within the metropolis from Could 2004 till October 2008, when it started “Mingus Mondays” at Jazz Customary the place it alternated with the Mingus Orchestra and Mingus Dynasty. Mingus Mondays grew to become a NYC establishment and Monday evening stronghold for over 12 years, halted solely by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mingus Large Band excursions extensively in the US and overseas, and has 11 recordings to its credit score, six of which have been nominated for Grammys.
12/15 Closed for Personal Occasion
12/16 BEN PATTERSON QUARTET
7:00PM
Ben Paterson – Piano
TBA – Saxophone
TBA – Bass
TBA – Drums
Combining a joyful swing really feel with an impeccable contact, Steinway Artist Ben Paterson has shortly established himself as one of the vital thrilling younger pianist / organists on the jazz scene in the present day, garnering worldwide popularity of his very good musicianship and interesting performances. Initially from Philadelphia, Ben studied each classical and jazz music earlier than transferring to the nice metropolis of Chicago, absorbing the distinctive mix of jazz and blues that may solely be discovered within the Windy Metropolis. Now primarily based in New York, Ben is poised to carry his distinctive abilities and magnificence to a wider viewers, performing often at prime notch venues round city, and at golf equipment and festivals all over the world. In 2018 Ben was named because the First Place Winner of the Ellis Marsalis Worldwide Jazz Piano Competitors. Notable collaborations embody work with NEA Jazz Grasp Von Freeman, Bobby Broom, Johnny O’Neal, Purple Holloway, Eldee Younger, Jerry Weldon, Peter Bernstein and Ed Cherry to call a number of, with performances opening for teams resembling Steely Dan and B.B. King.
12/16 “THE ZEALOTS” that includes MEMBERS OF THE ROOTS AND THE DAP-KINGS
10:00PM
Dave Man – Trumpet
Ian Hendrickson-Smith – Saxophone
TBA – Guitar
Ray Indignant – Keys
Mark Kelley – Bass
Homer Steinweiss – Drums
Members of the Roots and Dap-Kings unite to type a collective unit often called “The Zealots”, taking part in a singular mix of jazz, soul, and funk. Be a part of us for a really particular debut efficiency of this tremendous group, solely on the Django!
12/17 HARMONY FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITH DUCHESS
7:00PM
Amy Cervini – Voice
Hilary Gardner – Voice
Melissa Stylianou – Voice
Michael Cabe – Piano
Matt Aronoff – Bass
Jimmy MacBride – Drums
Nadje Noordhius – Trumpet
Positive-footed swing, sweet-toned concord, and ever-insouciant allure are embodied within the jazz vocal trio Duchess, that includes notable New York singers Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, and Melissa Stylianou. Mixing the basic and the modern, the trio has carried out at main festivals and esteemed jazz golf equipment all through the US, Canada, Europe, and Israel, rightly incomes a popularity for stunning singing and large enjoyable. The New York Metropolis-based threesome debuted on Anzic Information in 2015 with the eponymous Duchess, channeling the Nineteen Thirties inspiration of the virtuosic Boswell Sisters right into a splendidly entertaining package deal. Their 2017 follow-up, Laughing at Life (Anzic), garnered rave opinions, prompting Downbeat Journal to declare, “For a very good time, name Duchess.” The trio launched their critically acclaimed vacation EP, Concord for the Holidays, in 2018. Duchess debuted in Europe in July 2019, and their recording, Stay at Jazz Customary, was launched to rave opinions on Anzic Information in 2020. Duchess enjoys an ongoing collaboration with the Paul Taylor Dance Firm and carried out the music of the Andrews Sisters for Taylor’s seminal piece, “Firm B,” at Lincoln Heart in October/November 2019. Within the inaugural 12 months for the class, Duchess was named “Vocal Group of the 12 months” within the 2021 Jazz Journalists Affiliation Awards. “Catching a reside Duchess present needs to be in your “to-do checklist” subsequent time they’re on the town.” – Blu Jazz
12/17 ALPHONSO HORNE & THE GOTHAM KINGS
10:00PM
Alphonso Horn – Trumpet/Vocals
TBA – Vocals
TBA – Piano
TBA – Bass
TBA – Drums
Gotham Kings is a excessive power immersive jazz expertise! Two-time Grammy nominated trumpeter, Alphonso Horne has put collectively a band that weaves the sound of New Orleans right into a wealthy musical material that demonstrates the historical past of the trumpet and the story of jazz. Impressed by the music of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Gotham Kings makes use of the virtuosity of the younger Louis Armstrong and progressive genius of King Oliver to take you on a journey of sound that encompasses rags, stomps, shouts and funk! The band has performed in venues together with Caramoor Jazz Competition, Louis Armstrong Home Museum, Jazz at Lincoln Heart and lots of extra!
12/18 DAVE STRYKER QUARTET
7:00PM
Dave Stryker – Guitar
Joe Doubleday – Vibraphone
Jared Gold – Organ
McClenty Hunter – Drums
Whether or not you’ve got heard guitarist Dave Stryker main his personal group (with 30 CDs as a frontrunner to this point), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and lots of others, you realize why the Village Voice calls him “one of the vital distinctive guitarists to come back alongside in recent times.” Scorching Home journal awarded him Greatest Guitarist Followers Choice for 2017. He was not too long ago voted as soon as once more as one of many prime Jazz Guitarists within the 2019 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls for the tenth time.
12/18 JOE FARNSWORTH
10:00PM
Joe Farnsworth – Drums
TBA – Saxophone
TBA – Piano
TBA – Bass
Some of the extremely regarded jazz drummers on the scene in the present day, Joe is understood for his blazing velocity, precision, musical, and melodic taking part in. Upon transferring to New York Metropolis, he led the weekend jazz combos at Augie’s (now Smoke Jazz & Supper Membership). He carried out with Junior Prepare dinner, Cecil Payne, John Ore, Large John Patton, Harold Mabern, Eddie Henderson, John Jenkins and his brothers, John and James. Joseph’s profession contains recording over 100 CDs as chief and side-man, jazz festivals and world excursions with Pharaoh Sanders, Horace Silver, Harold Mabern, McCoy Tyner, Cedar Walton, Diana Krall, Benny Golson, George Coleman, Johnny Griffin, Lou Donaldson, Benny Inexperienced, Harold Mabern, Barry Harris, Curtis Fuller to call a number of.
12/21 MINGUS BIG BAND
7:30 + 9:30PM
The Django welcomes the Grammy award-winning Mingus Large Band to its stage each Tuesday evening. The “metropolis’s hardest huge band (Time Out New York),” celebrates the music of composer/bassist Charles Mingus, who died in 1979. Below the inventive path of Sue Mingus, this 14-piece band carried out Thursday nights from 1991 to 2004 at Fez underneath Time Cafe in New York Metropolis. It maintained weekly performances within the metropolis from Could 2004 till October 2008, when it started “Mingus Mondays” at Jazz Customary the place it alternated with the Mingus Orchestra and Mingus Dynasty. Mingus Mondays grew to become a NYC establishment and Monday evening stronghold for over 12 years, halted solely by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mingus Large Band excursions extensively in the US and overseas, and has 11 recordings to its credit score, six of which have been nominated for Grammys.
12/22 NEW ALCHEMY JAZZ ORCHESTRA HOLIDAY SHOW
7:30 + 9:30PM
TBA
The New Alchemy Jazz Orchestra (NAJO) is an thrilling 17-piece huge band taking New York Metropolis by storm. Broadway World wrote they’re “the very best musicians NYC has to supply”. The band has featured a wide range of visitor artists like Peter Bernstein, Dick Oatts, and Terell Stafford, they usually completely carry out new preparations of basic and modern works by the impressed co-leaders John Lake, Mike Sailors, Steve Kortyka, and Danny Jonokuchi. Their vacation present options newly wrapped preparations of Christmas classics with decorations of soul, r&b, and blues. Hearken to their single “We Three Kings” that includes vocal sensation J. Hoard and an beautiful association by co-leader John Lake.
12/23 MARTINA DASILVA CHRISTMAS SHOW
7:00PM
Martina DaSilva – Vocals
TBA – Piano
TBA – Bass
New York native Martina DaSilva has been fascinating audiences together with her signature mix of daring technical virtuosity and expressive emotional sensitivity since she burst on the scene. Drawing equally from the types of early jazz, opera, and chamber music, her musicality transcends typical style labelling. As a Brazilian-American, Martina additionally has a ardour for performing the works of Brazilian composers. She is maybe greatest often called the chief of the jazz vocal concord group The Ladybugs. In 2020, she launched the festive album A Very ChimyTina Christmas (Exterior in), a mirrored image of Dan Chmielinski and DaSilva’s favourite vacation classics, in addition to their very own private tackle the Christmas spirit. For this vacation live performance at The Django, DaSilva will carry a wealthy, heat mix of timbres that brings all listeners a heat, vacation glow.
12/23 DANNY JONOKUCHI QUINTET HOLIDAY SPECIAL
10:00PM
Danny Jonokuchi – Trumpet
TBA – Voice
TBA – Piano
TBA – Bass
TBA – Drums
Danny Jonokuchi is an award-winning trumpeter and composer and has been referred to as “a sound of this period” (Nextbop). As a New York Metropolis-based jazz trumpeter, arranger, producer, vocalist, and educator, few artists are as diversely concerned of their craft. You’ll be able to hear his authentic compositions and “world-class preparations” (Broadway World) in famend jazz golf equipment, take heed to albums he has organized and produced for a myriad of artists, and listen to him carry out on Broadway phases.
In 2020, he was unanimously named winner of the inaugural Depend Basie Nice American Swing Contest by a panel of noteworthy judges. Vibraphonist Stefon Harris famous that Danny “understood the texture of the music-the significance and the worth of the religious power that is embodied in swing.” DownBeat Journal remarked, “The music is expertly executed and gives an infectious, kinetic high quality.” Danny was additionally the recipient of the 2020 ASCAP Basis Louis Armstrong Award.
12/24-25 Closed for Christmas Eve and Day
12/28 MINGUS BIG BAND
7:30 + 9:30PM
The Django welcomes the Grammy award-winning Mingus Large Band to its stage each Tuesday evening. The “metropolis’s hardest huge band (Time Out New York),” celebrates the music of composer/bassist Charles Mingus, who died in 1979. Below the inventive path of Sue Mingus, this 14-piece band carried out Thursday nights from 1991 to 2004 at Fez underneath Time Cafe in New York Metropolis. It maintained weekly performances within the metropolis from Could 2004 till October 2008, when it started “Mingus Mondays” at Jazz Customary the place it alternated with the Mingus Orchestra and Mingus Dynasty. Mingus Mondays grew to become a NYC establishment and Monday evening stronghold for over 12 years, halted solely by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mingus Large Band excursions extensively in the US and overseas, and has 11 recordings to its credit score, six of which have been nominated for Grammys.
12/29 EMILY BRADEN
7:00PM
Emily Braden – Vocals
Luke Carlos O’Reilly – Piano
Corcoran Holt – Bass
John Davis – Drums
Large, dangerous magnificence from Boise, Idaho, Emily Braden covers plenty of floor. Whether or not she’s fronting an orchestra or main a world-class trio within the coronary heart of Manhattan, Braden has the innate potential to win the guts of any viewers together with her powerhouse vocals and hanging stage presence. Winner of New York Metropolis’s prestigious “Better of the Greatest” Jazzmobile Vocal Competitors, Braden’s signature sound is an easy mix of jazz and soul. She is at the moment finishing her sophomore launch Cannon & Sparrow. Her debut album Soul Stroll consists of high-energy originals, bilingual improvisations (Braden is fluent in Spanish and obtained her Masters diploma in Latin American Research) and “flipped-out” jazz requirements. Producer Misha Piatigorsky says, “As a singer, Emily has no boundaries. She provides me goosebumps.” Earlier than the COVID-19 international pandemic, Braden toured often and could possibly be seen each first Friday at NYC’s famed 55 Bar. She has carried out at NYC’s Blue Be aware Jazz Membership, Birdland Jazz Membership and Minton’s Playhouse in addition to on worldwide pageant circuits. She has been a featured vocalist with Postmodern Jukebox and is the entrance lady for NYC’s Sketchy Orkestra.
12/29 RICHARD CORTEZ
9:00PM
Richard Cortez – Voice
James Sarno – Trumpet
Gabe Medd – Trumpet
Nicole Glover – Tenor Saxophone
Andrew Hadro – Baritone Saxophone
Robert Edwards – Trombone
Joe Block – Piano
Russell Corridor – Bass
Eric Hallenbeck – Drums
Within the true spirit of the Roaring Twenties, radically queer jazz music interpreter, Richard Cortez, spent the pandemic setting the underground music scene ablaze along with his provocative and high-energy horn pushed reveals. Cortez, recognized for his ambition and in depth information of The Nice American Songbook, at the moment performs 5 weekly residencies along with his band that options a few of New York Metropolis’s most celebrated jazz musicians. Richard breathes thrilling new life into this beloved timeless materials, perpetually reminding us that as we progress as a society – so do our tales informed inside these sacred songs.
12/30 RAY GALLON TRIO
7:00PM
Ray Gallon – Piano
David Wong – Bass
Jimmy Macbride – Drums
A NYC-native, pianist Ray Gallon has been a mainstay on the jazz scene for over 30 years. Rooted in bebop and blues, his expressive, swinging taking part in melds outdated and new right into a recent, authentic fashion. As a younger participant, Ray was mentored by jazz piano giants John Lewis, Hank Jones, and Jaki Byard. He has carried out at main jazz festivals and venues all over the world with such luminaries as Ron Carter, Lionel Hampton, Artwork Farmer, Benny Golson, George Adams, Les Paul, and Wycliffe Gordon. Ray has appeared on the White Home and the Kennedy Heart, sharing the stage with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, Sweets Edison, and Joe Williams. An in-demand accompanist, he has labored with many vocal greats, together with Jon Hendricks, Sheila Jordan, Dakota Staton, Gloria Lynne, Jane Monheit and Chaka Khan. Ray’s ingenious compositions have been recorded by acclaimed artists T.S. Monk and George Adams. His new trio album Make Your Transfer is accessible on Cellar Stay and options the stellar rhythm part of David Wong and Kenny Washington, with liner notes by Ron Carter. Ray is a college member of the jazz applications at The Metropolis Faculty of NY in Harlem and the Vermont Jazz Heart’s Summer time Workshop Collection and has taught courses at Juilliard and The New College.
12/30 CLAFFY’S ELECTRIC SLIDE
10:00PM
Alexander Claffy – Bass
TBA – Band
From delivery, Alexander Claffy was raised in a musical family (his father is a pianist, his mom, a vocalist), and had lots of his earliest classes on bandstands within the coronary heart of Philadelphia. As a youngster, Claffy was lucky sufficient to discover a mentor in lots of Philly natives, and has continued his examine of the double bass with a number of the world’s best musicians, together with Ron Carter, Dwayne Burno and Orin O’Brien. Since transferring to New York Metropolis in 2011, he has had the distinction of working with lots of his residing heroes, together with Jimmy Cobb, Louis Hayes, Harold Mabern, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Christian Scott, Joey Alexander, Wallace Roney and lots of extra. Previously three years he has recorded for the Verve, HighNote, Positone, RopeADope and LaReserve report labels.
12/31 NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION: JAZZ LEGEND HOUSTON PERSON that includes LUCY YEGHIAZRIAN
7:00-9:45PM
Lucy Yeghiazaryan – Voice
Houston Particular person – Tenor
Tardo Hammer – Piano
Russell Corridor – Bass
Chris Beck – Drums
As a younger immigrant who has introduced the actual richness of her Armenian heritage collectively together with her love for what is really American, Lucy fantastically sounds out the very best expression of the American dream. Finalist within the 2015 Monk Competitors, Yeghiazaryan can be a grant recipient for varied initiatives from the Doris Duke Basis, Chamber Music America and the New York Basis for the Arts. She has shared the stage with Grant Stewart, Harold Mabern, Houston Particular person, Bernadette Peters and can launch her second album In Her Phrases this September.
Along with his sturdy sound and swinging fashion, tenor saxophonist Houston Particular person has saved the laborious bop and organ-soaked soul-jazz traditions alive. Rising from organist Johnny “Hammond” Smith’s group, Particular person established his popularity as one of many Large Boss tenors within the Gene Ammons fashion with albums together with 1968’s Blue Odyssey, 1969’s Goodness!, and 1970’s Particular person to Particular person. He joins Lucy this New 12 months’s Eve for what guarantees to be an distinctive evening of music!
Tickets: $125 per particular person contains cowl cost and three-course pre-fixe menu. Doesn’t embody drinks, tax, or hospitality.
12/31 NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION: KING SOLOMON HICKS
10:00PM-1:30AM
Solomon Hicks – Guitar
TBA – Organ
TBA – Bass
TBA – Drums
“King” Solomon Hicks is a guitarist/vocalist from Harlem, New York Metropolis. On the age of 13 Solomon began taking part in with the Cotton Membership 17-piece band as lead guitarist and nonetheless continues to carry out there in the present day. He has been referred to as Lil’ B.B. and East Montgomery as a result of he seamlessly merges jazz and blues. Solomon opened up for the band KISS on the KISS Kruise V from Miami to Jamaica.
In 2017 King Solomon Hicks performed on the Blues Cruise opening for Joe Bonamassa from Tampa to Cancún with Gregg Allman and Eric Gales on board too. Solomon has 4 albums underneath his belt and has performed festivals in Spain, Germany, France, Japan, Denmark, Mexico, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, and lots of US states!
He’s an eclectic musician and composer. His blues has a contemporary melodic line, with emotional statements and story conditions that may solely be informed as blues. He has performed and labored with many artists resembling Ne-Yo, Tony Bennett, Jon Hendricks, Mike Stern, and Lee Ritenour.
Tickets: $200 per particular person contains cowl cost, three-course pre-fixe menu, and midnight glass of champagne. Doesn’t embody drinks, tax, or hospitality.
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