CABARET-JAZZ EVENTS FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR TONIGHT FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
Here are today's cabaret events as listed on the home page of CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE! Every day in every way we're promoting Cabaret! Your event missing? Send press releases to stuhamstra@svhamstra.com to be included - listings are FREE!
NYC: THE BIRDLAND BIG BAND DIRECTED BY TOMMY IGOE
Featuring the finest musicians in New York! The Birdland Big Band roars into action at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080) 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!" There is a $30 cover plus a $10 food/drink minimum.
NYC: JOE LOVANO'S VILLAGE RHYTHMS BAND AT BIRDLAND
Joe Lovano's Village Rhythms Band will perform at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080) on Friday & Saturday, January 9th & 10th with shows at 8:30 & 11:00 pm. At Cleveland's infamous "Togo Suite," a then 28-year old Joe Lovano met and performed with a group of Nigerian musicians involved in an impromptu and joyous cultural exchange. About one year later on his 29th birthday in 1981, as a result of that initial late night club session, Lovano found himself in Lagos, Nigeria, meeting and spending time with the esteemed godfather of the afro-beat movement - Fela Kuti. The meeting of Kuti and his extended family of musicians led to a performance with the Cleveland and Nigerian musicians joined together in "Tafawa Balewa Square." The entire experience of performing with Kuti and his family left Lovano with a lasting feeling that still touches him to this day, and a new sense of possibilities within his own music - in all aspects of the sonic palette. Over three decades later, one of the most prominent voices in jazz, looks back to a historic musical landmark in his life and brings it into his own evolving musical vernacular. Joined by guitarist Liberty Ellman, electric bassist Matthew Garrison, percussionist/African harpist Abdou Mboup, and drummer Otis Brown III; "The Village Rhythm Band" showcases the linear relationship between West African music and jazz in a way that is totally unique to Lovano's voice - warm, sinuous, and constantly moving over an emphatic pulse. There is a $40 cover plus a $10 food/drink minimum.
NYC: BLUE NOTE: WORLD PREMIERE: MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR
The Monterey Jazz Festival, the longest continuously-running jazz festival in the world, presents its fourth national tour with a special appearance at THE BLUE NOTE (131 West 3rd Street, NYC - 212-475-8592) from Tuesday, January 6th through Sunday, January 11th with shows at 8:00 & 10:30 pm. Featuring critically-acclaimed, GRAMMY-winning jazz artists, the all-star tour band features Terence Blanchard on trumpet; Ravi Coltrane on tenor and soprano saxophones; musical director Gerald Clayton on piano; Joe Sanders on bass; and Justin Brown on drums. World-renowned for its artistic excellence, sophisticated informality, and longstanding mission to create and support year-round jazz education and performance programs in local, regional, national, and international venues, Monterey Jazz Festival has stayed true to expanding live performances of jazz around the country since 2008 by presenting national tours that have reached over 100,000 fans in 135 shows across the United States and Canada. Terence Blanchard, a frequent performer at Monterey over the last several decades, led an all-Star group across the country in 2008 to celebrate the Festival's 50th year, and has acted as the Festival's Artist-In-Residence. Ravi Coltrane first appeared at Monterey in 2001, nearly 41 years to the day after his own father made his debut at Monterey in 1960. Ravi recently appeared at the Festival in 2013. Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders and Justin Brown, some of the rising stars in the jazz world, have been recent performers on Monterey stages, both at the Monterey Jazz Festival itself, and as high school students at the Festival's student competition, the Next Generation Jazz Festival. Clayton, a scholarship and soloist award winner at Monterey's 2000 and 2001 springtime Next Generation Jazz Festival with the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, madetrio appearances at MJF in 2010 and 2012with Joe Sanders, and recently performed in 2014 in duo with Charles Lloyd. Justin Brown, also an alumnus of the Monterey Jazz Festival's jazz education programs - including the Next Generation Jazz Festival with Berkeley High School and the 2000 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra - performed at Monterey with the Gerald Clayton Trio in 2010, and with fellow two-time Next Generation Jazz Orchestra alumnus Ambrose Akinmusire in 2014. The Monterey Jazz Festival has presented nearly every major jazz star - from Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong to Esperanza Spalding and Trombone Shorty - since it was founded in 1958. Held every third full weekend in September on the Monterey County Fairgrounds, the Monterey Jazz Festival is a three-day celebration of music, commissioned jazz compositions, in-depth conversations with artists, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, clinics, and an international array of food, shopping, and festivities spread throughout 20 acres. A nonprofit organization, Monterey Jazz Festival now budgets more than $500,000 annually for jazz education. Cutting-edge educational components include the Traveling Clinician and Latin Jazz Programs; the Festival's Summer Jazz Camp; the Instrument and Sheet Music Library; the Digital Education Music Project; the Monterey County High School All-Star Bands; and the Next Generation Jazz Festival - which draws thousands of the most talented young musicians from across the country and around the world to Monterey each spring. The Artist-In-Residence Program, a key component of Monterey Jazz Festival's philosophy of bringing leading jazz performers to work with students throughout the year, includes their appearance at the Next Generation Jazz Festival, Summer Jazz Camp and the Monterey Jazz Festival, both in performance and instruction. There is a $20-$35 cover.
NYC: MARCUS ROBERTS' MODERN JAZZ GENERATION AT DIZZY'S
After a recent successful run in The Appel Room, Marcus Roberts is debuting the Modern Jazz Generation at DIZZY'S CLUB AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER (33 West 60th Street, NYC - 212-258-9595) on Wednesday through Sunday, January 7th through 11th with shows at 7:30 & 9:30 pm. Roberts, recently featured on 60 minutes, has a long history of treasuring the tenets of jazz through his work, which for the last quarter century has epitomized preservation through innovation. Since his Jazz at Lincoln Center debut in 1987, his presence has been deeply significant, and his recorded and commissioned works have honored some of his most revered predecessors of the piano. For this project, Marcus Roberts and The Modern Jazz Generation pay tribute to Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, and Chick Corea. The 7:00 pm show will feature Joey Alexander, solo piano as an opening act. There is a $45 cover. copyright 2015 - See cabaret listings from all over the world at CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
