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Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this November with a full slate of nightly performances! At Birdland Jazz Club, catch Bill Charlap Duets with Houston Person, Jon Faddis, Chris Potter and Ron Carter, Peter Cincotti, Jihye Lee Big Band, The Hot Sardines, and more.
Multi-time GRAMMY nominee Kate McGarry, "one of the country's premier jazz singers today" per NPR, has teamed with renowned guitarist Keith Ganz (Harry Connick Jr, Luciana Souza) - her partner in life and music - for What To Wear In The Dark, a new collaborative collection out September 3rd via Resilience Music Alliance. Teaming with Downbeat Critics Poll winner Gary Versace on keyboard, Blue Note recording artist Ron Miles on trumpet, and a host of jazz A-listers, What To Wear In The Dark finds McGarry and Ganz using their decorated jazz backgrounds to offer imaginative and fresh persp...
New Music Monday: Live at No Black Tie, Sing to the World, & Tough Baritones Jeremy Monteiro-Jay Anderson-Lewis Nash Trio – “Live at No Black Tie-Kuala Lumpur” Jeremy Monteiro is a jazz pianist, singer, composer, and music educator. In his native country he was named “Singapore’s King of Swing” by the local press. He was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2002. Jeremy has played at jazz festivals all around the globe and has accompanied jazz giants touring Singapore. This recording displays how swinging he sounds in concert. Benito Gonzalez – “Sing to the World” The Venezuela...
13 March 2021 Brian Charette thinks like a jazz organist and like a rock and roll lover, both, so his latest recording for his four-woodwind sextet testifies. On the one hand, Charette’s latest release, Power from the Air, is a classic jazz organ session, with Charette’s Hammond B3 swelling, shimmering, and providing the bass lines as it grooves with drummer Brian Fishler, saxophone solos riding on top. The grooves are powerful and swinging—you can tell that Charette has never skimped on the Jimmy Smith or Jimmy McGriff listening that Hammond B3 specialists need to have in their blood...
Amy Cervini Hailed by Time Out New York for tearing down boundaries between old and new jazz styles, rock, pop, country and more, Toronto-born, New York-based vocalist Amy Cervini follows up her 2014 Anzic release Jazz Country with th... more »e gritty, blues-oriented No One Ever Tells You. Joined by her brilliant longtime cohorts Jesse Lewis (guitar), Michael Cabe (piano), Matt Aronoff (bass), Jared Schonig (drums) and special guest organist Gary Versace (on four cuts), Cervini puts her stamp on songs that have resonated with me as a mother, as a partner, and as a woman, she writ...