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| Jazz Programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater October 11 - October 24 October 11 (Monday) 7:00 PM – Birdland Jazz Club Chad LB Quartet Hailed early on as a virtuoso of the saxophone, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown has matured into one of the first prominent jazz musicians emerging out of the millennial generation. As a soloist and sideman, he has toured globally, performing at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Super Bowl, and Madison Square Garden. Image Manifesto, his debut album, was named "Debut Album of the Year" by jazz critic Doug Ramsey—and Onward, his May 2017 release, was named as an Editor's Pick for 2017 by Downbeat. Tours with Taylor Swift and Chris Botti have marked his star-studded career. He brings his quartet to the Birdland Theater featuring some of New York's most exciting young jazz talent. $30 + $20 food/drink minimum October 12-14 (Tuesday – Thursday) 7:00 PM & 9:30 – Birdland Jazz Club John Pizzarelli Trio October 15-16 (Friday – Saturday) 7:00 PM & 9:30 – Birdland Jazz Club John Pizzarelli + Special Guests John Pizzarelli charms audiences with his warmth, sense of humor, and musical chops. Through his multifaceted career as a jazz guitarist, vocalist and bandleader, the son of the legendary New Jersey native guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, has become one of the most recognizable faces and voices in contemporary jazz for his interpretations of classic standards, romantic ballads and the cool jazz flavor he brings to his performances and recordings. While maintaining a busy touring schedule, John also founded "Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli, " a nationally syndicated radio program co-hosted with his wife, Broadway star Jessica Molaskey. The trio includes bassist Michael Karn and pianist Isaiah Thompson. Special guests on Friday and Saturday include Molaskey, guitarist Matt Munisteri and violinist Aaron Weinstein. $40 tables / $30 bar seating + $20 food/drink minimum October 13 (Wednesday) 5:00 - Birdland Jazz Club David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band Inspired by the noble jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and their colleagues, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band breathes life and passion into America's own great art form. Now in its 18th year of residency at Birdland, the weekly post-workday engagement is the city's best musical bargain! Tuba player David Ostwald leads a rotating lineup that features talents such as clarinetist Anat Cohen, trombonist/vocalist Wycliffe Gordon, pianist Ehud Asherie, drummer Marion Felder and more! $30 tables; $20 bar + $10 food/drink minimum October 13 (Wednesday) 8:30 PM – Birdland Theater Tony Glausi Quartet With EVERYTHING AT ONCE, his new album out September 3rd, Tony Glausi makes an unblinking transition from standards-driven jazz trumpeter to full-blown R&B star. A full set of lyric-centered songs, rapped verses and funk horn backgrounds; guest appearances and cinematic music videos; and an inspiring melange of deep backbeats, jazz drumming, and string section arrangements; Glausi's EVERYTHING AT ONCE manages really to do everything at once—and, in the process, defines a totally new vision for his artistry. Deftly handling keys, vocals, and trumpet on the lushly produced new release, he cements a new path: the jazz musician is not gone, but he is only one country on a much larger map. Of course, Tony the trumpeter is highly accomplished: the 1st Prize Jazz Division winner of both the 2014 National Trumpet Competition and the 2017 ITG International Trumpet Competition, and the winner of the 2017 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Solo Competition. From this appearance at Birdland, however, expect to see a much broader array of powers unleashed by a blossoming visionary. $30 + $20 food/drink minimum October 14 (Thursday) 8:30 PM – Birdland Theater Fleur Seule "Latin Love Songs" Fleur Seule, the glamorous retro jazz band, takes audiences back in time to the days of elegant music and Hollywood fashion. Allyson Briggs leads this tight-knit group with her lush vocal renditions of beloved classics and rare gems. Performing their successful new set, "Latin Love Songs, " Fleur Seule returns to Birdland to treat audiences to new renditions of classic songs of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and beyond. Expect hits by Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Vikki Carr, Eydie Gorme, and more. After 7 years performing at Manhattan's prestigious Tavern on the Green, and now returning for their 7th concert series at Birdland, Fleur Seule is a real band, and it shows in their joyous uptempo numbers, heart wrenching ballads, and gorgeous arrangements. Don't miss this chance to fall in love all over again! $30 + $20 food/drink minimum October 15 (Friday) 5:00 PM - Birdland Jazz Club The Birdland Big Band Every Friday, and for two headlining weeks a year, the "BBB" roars into action playing a thrilling and original mix of jazz, funk, Brazilian, Latin and world music for sold-out audiences. Featured weekly guest artists drop-in from television bands (David Letterman, Saturday Night Live) and pop music touring bands (Rob Thomas, Rod Stewart). Come see for yourself why Time Out New York called the BBB, "a completely unique experience… there isn't another band like this anywhere, " and yelp.com proclaims, "if you hear one band in NYC make sure this is it… and prepare to be blown away!" $30 + $10 food/drink minimum October 17 (Sunday) 5:00 PM – Birdland Jazz Club Jared Schonig Big Band Grammy-Award winning drummer, composer & bandleader Jared Schonig celebrates the September release of two new albums on Anzic Records with an exciting new big band. Teaming up with modern compositional masters Jim McNeely, Darcy James Argue, Miho Hazama and others, Schonig—one of New York's hottest drummers on the jazz scene—brings his own original music to life featuring a cast of the world's finest players. Music lovers will marvel at Nir Felder on guitar, Scott Wendholt on trumpet, Marshall Gilkes on trombone, Jason Rigby on saxophone, and many others. Schonig himself has toured and/or recorded internationally with Kurt Elling, Kristen Chenoweth, Cynthia Erivo, Nicholas Payton, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Tim Hagans, Fred Hersch, Wycliffe Gordon, and Tom Harrell, to name a few. A fixture on the Broadway circuit, he held the drum chair in the Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-award winning Broadway revival of The Color Purple and currently plays drums and percussion for Moulin Rouge! The Musical. $30 + $20 food/drink minimum October 17 (Sunday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Octet The tradition continues. Pianist, composer, and leader of "the first family of Afro-Latin Jazz, " (New York Times) Arturo O'Farrill, continues a weekly Sunday night Birdland residency that started over 20 years ago. The Afro-Latin Octet features pared down, appropriately socially-distanced, version of the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra performing a program of original compositions and arrangements of Afro-Latin Jazz standards contributed by the band members. His new album on Blue Note, ...dreaming in lions..., is out now. $30 + $10 food/drink minimum October 18 (Monday) 8:30 PM – Birdland Theater Dominick Farinacci Don’t let his impeccable three-piece suit fool you: Dominick Farinacci may blow cool as Miles on Porgy and Bess, but this visionary artist’s broad stylistic palette and ever-expanding conceptualism don’t fit into any neat box. Armed with a venerable technique and a penchant for bringing large-scale grandeur to his arrangements, Farinacci—who launched his career in 2005 after graduating Juilliard and releasing a prodigious 8 albums in Japan—composes powerful records with world-class casts and genre-bending orchestrations. A successful career has seen him featured in Vanity Fair and on ABC’s Good Morning America, as well as giving a TED Talk in 2014 at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts; dates at the Newport Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and festivals and clubs throughout the world have made Farinacci a force to be reckoned with in the jazz world. His latest album, Short Stories, was produced by legendary Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and features guest artists like Jacob Collier, Christian McBride, and Steve Gadd. $30 + $20 food/drink minimum October 19-23 (Tuesday – Saturday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM – Birdland Jazz Club Issac Delgado y La Novena Known as the “Chevere de la Salsa, ” vocalist and composer Issac Delgado has been on the cutting edge of Cuban popular dance music for decades including his stint as lead vocalist with NG la Banda, the originators of Timba. Issac Delgado y La Novena (The 9th Street Band), a new band featuring some of Cuba’s best and brightest musicians, will be joined by percussionist and special guest, Pedrito Martinez. The group will play new music in addition to Delgado’s hits and cornerstones of Afro-Cuban music, Son, Bolero, Guaracha, Rumba and Guaguancó. $40 tables / $30 bar seating + $20 food/drink minimum October 20 (Wednesday) 5:00 – Birdland Jazz Club David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band Inspired by the noble jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and their colleagues, David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band breathes life and passion into America’s own great art form. Now in its 18th year of residency at Birdland, the weekly post-workday engagement is the city’s best musical bargain! Tuba player David Ostwald leads a rotating lineup that features talents such as clarinetist Anat Cohen, trombonist/vocalist Wycliffe Gordon, pianist Ehud Asherie, drummer Marion Felder and more! $30 tables; $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum October 22 (Friday) 5:00 PM – Birdland Jazz Club The Birdland Big Band Every Friday, and for two headlining weeks a year, the “BBB” roars into action playing a thrilling and original mix of jazz, funk, Brazilian, Latin and world music for sold-out audiences. Featured weekly guest artists drop-in from television bands (David Letterman, Saturday Night Live) and pop music touring bands (Rob Thomas, Rod Stewart). Come see for yourself why Time Out New York called the BBB, “a completely unique experience… there isn’t another band like this anywhere, ” and yelp.com proclaims, “if you hear one band in NYC make sure this is it… and prepare to be blown away!” $30 + $20 food/drink minimum October 24 (Sunday) 5:00 PM – Birdland Jazz Club Jennifer Wharton’s BONEGASM Bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton presents her trombone-powered ensemble, Bonegasm, whose second record, Not a Novelty, was released in April 2021. After the group’s self-titled album was released in 2019 on Sunnyside Records to great critical and popular acclaim, Wharton knew she had created something important by highlighting the primacy of the trombone in jazz music. Bonegasm features trombonists John Fedchock, Nate Mayland and Alan Ferber, along with the rhythm section of pianist Michael Eckroth, bassist Evan Gregor and drummer Don Peretz. Producing a record during the height of the pandemic—which meant making music while adhering to social-distancing practices—wasn’t easy. But Wharton’s skills and ambition led her through, having been honed through years performing in some of the world’s top modern big bands and Broadway shows: like Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Birdland’s-own Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, West Side Story, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Enjoy BONEGASM at Birdland as they rip through imaginative originals and arrangements with their unique sound. $30 + $20 food/drink minimum October 24 (Sunday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Octet The tradition continues. Pianist, composer, and leader of “the first family of Afro-Latin Jazz, ” (New York Times) Arturo O’Farrill, continues a weekly Sunday night Birdland residency that started over 20 years ago. The Afro-Latin Octet features pared down, appropriately socially-distanced, version of the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra performing a program of original compositions and arrangements of Afro-Latin Jazz standards contributed by the band members. His new album on Blue Note, ...dreaming in lions..., is out now. $30 + $10 food/drink minimum October 24 (Sunday) 8:30 PM – Birdland Theater Benny Benack III Quartet A trumpeter’s trumpeter with a true entertainer’s gift, Benny Benack’s boundless energy and charismatic crooning has earned him his spot at the front of his generation’s jazz talent. With trumpet chops in the legacy of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Freddie Hubbard—and with a singing voice reminiscent of Sinatra and Mel Torme—Benny has brought his high spirits and remarkable virtuosity across the country and around the world. Appearing as a soloist with Josh Groban, Ben Folds and fashion icon Isaac Mizrahi, as well as with jazz bass extraordinaire Christian McBride, cabaret legend Ann Hampton-Callaway (at Birdland!), and several regarded philharmonic orchestras, Benack is a captivating figure to watch and hear. He brings a quartet to Birdland, comprised of New York’s finest jazz talent. $30 + $20 food/drink minimum write your comments about the article :: © 2021 Jazz News :: home page |