Notorious Jazz

PALM SPRINGS WOMEN'S JAZZ FESTIVAL
2022-11-11 10:00 - 2022-11-13 23:30 (America/New_York) | Palm Springs Convention Center, 271 N Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs, CA, 92262, United States
2021 Grammy Award winner Ledisi is a twelve-time Grammy nominated powerhouse vocalist with a career spanning almost two decades. Since arriving on the scene in the late 1990s, she’s garnered three Soul Train Music Awards, an NAACP Theater Award, and six NAACP Image Award nominations. Most recently, Ledisi received two LA Alliance Ovation Award nominations, one for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Friday | November 11 @ 4:000pm ~ Nnenna Freelon, Cyrille Aimee, Lea Delaria
Saturday | November 12 @ 3:00pm-9:00pm ~ Ledisi | Sold Out
Sunday | November 13 @ 2:30pm ~ Divas Of The Desert (Hope Diamond, Gennine Francis, Melba Miller, Cynthia Thomas, Chris Bennett, Rose Mallett, Keisha D, Yve Evans, Patrice Morris)
Art Faire | Friday & Saturday ~ 10am – 4pm, concert begins at 7pm, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. After party begin at 9pm.
More information: palmspringswomensjazzfestival.org

CHARLES MCPHERSON & SEAN JONES
2022-11-10 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Keystone Korner Baltimore, 1350 Lancaster Street, Baltimore, MD, 21231, United States
Charles McPherson with Sean Jones featuring Jeb Patton, Russell Hall & Billy Drummond
Thursday-Sunday, November 10-13th
Thursday: 7:30pm
Friday & Saturday: 7pm & 9:30pm
Sunday: 5pm & 7:30pm
Four incredible nights with these five grand masters!
“Charles is the very definition of excellence in our music. He is the definitive master on this instrument. He plays with exceptional harmonic accuracy and sophistication. He performs free-flowing, melodic and thematically developed solos with unbelievable fire and an unparalleled depth of soul.” – Wynton Marsalis

CHARLES LLOYD
2022-11-10 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club, 135 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, United States
NEA Jazz Master & GRAMMY® Award Nominated Saxophonist, Composer & Bandleader CHARLES LLOYD, now in his eighth decade, has never sounded better. The depth of his sound reflects a lifetime of experience. Charles Lloyd concerts and recordings are events of pristine beauty and elegance, full of intensely felt emotion and passion that touches deep inside the heart. Lloyd was one of the first jazz artists to sell a million copies of a recording: ‘Forest Flower’ (1966) & his quartet was the first jazz group to perform at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. He was invited to guest on recordings with the Doors, the Birds, The Grateful Dead, and the Beach Boys. Lloyd is the 2021 Downbeat Critic’s Poll “Saxophonist of the Year” and his group, Charles Lloyd & The Marvels were the 2021 Downbeat Critic’s Poll “Jazz Group of the Year.”

LESLIE UGGAMS
2022-11-10 19:00 - 2022-11-12 20:30 (America/New_York) | 54 Below, 254 W 54th Street, New York City, NY, 10019, United States
Stage and screen legend Leslie Uggams returns to 54 Below with an all new show drawing from Broadway and beyond. Featuring musical theater showstoppers, American Songbook classics, jazz standards and current pop hits, this timeless romp through an exciting song catalog will have audiences cheering, “Hallelujah, Baby!”
Ms. Uggams is a celebrated Tony® and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer whose seven-decade career has brought her from Harlem (The Apollo Theater) to Broadway (Hallelujah, Baby!), the big screen (Deadpool, Skyjacked) to television (“Empire,” “The Leslie Uggams Show”). Perhaps best known for her stirring portrayal of Kizzy in the landmark TV mini-series Alex Haley’s “Roots” (Critics Choice Award, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), Leslie has performed to critical and popular acclaim ever since her first professional appearances at the age of nine at the famed Apollo Theater in New York City.
Doors at 5:30pm

NNENNA FREELON DUO | TIME TRAVELER
2022-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Myron’s @ The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas, NV, 89106, United States
Having earned seven Grammy nominations, including the latest for her recent album, Time Traveler, Nnenna Freelon brings her distinctive take to contemporary Jazz. Whether performing an exquisite original, putting her spin on a soulful cover, or redefining a standard from the Great American Songbook, she delivers the message in an unforgettable way!
Approximately 75 minutes with no intermission

KEVIN COLE
2022-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Middle C Jazz, 300 South Brevard Street, Charlotte, NC, 28202, United States
KEVIN COLE: THE FAVORITE PIANIST OF SONGWRITERS MARVIN HAMLISCH AND IRVING BERLIN… AND HE HAS STORIES TO TELL!
“America’s Pianist,” Kevin Cole, has received accolades from some of the foremost critics in America: “A piano genius…he reveals an understanding of harmony, rhythmic complexity and pure show-biz virtuosity that would have had Horowitz Vladimir smiling with envy,” wrote arts critic Andrew Patner.
When Cole sits down at the piano, you would swear Gershwin himself was at work… Cole stands as the best Gershwin pianist in America today,” Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune.
Cole has performed with over 100 orchestras worldwide including: sold-out performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall; National Symphony at the Kennedy Center; Hong Kong Philharmonic; San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and many others.
He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Albany Symphony in May 2013.
Kevin Cole is an award-winning musical director, arranger, composer, vocalist, archivist and producer who garnered the praises of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Hugh Martin, BurtonLane, Marvin Hamlisch, Stephen Sondheim and members of the Jerome Kern and Gershwin families.
He was the only pianist Hamlisch used for his Gershwin concerts from 2004 to his untimely death in 2012 and Kevin was featured soloist for the PBS special, Gershwin at One Symphony Place with the Nashville Symphony.

DONNY MCCASLIN QUINTET
2022-11-08 08:00 - 2022-11-13 23:30 (America/New_York) | Village Vanguard, 178 7th Avenue S, New York City, NY, 10014, United States
For more than two decades, protean saxist and composer Donny McCaslin has relentlessly expanded his musical purview in a variety of ensemble settings: as a sideman, as the pilot of his own diverse groups and, more recently, as a collaborator on the late Bowie’s final album, Blackstar. That investment in genres outside of jazz is visible on the tenorist’s recent work.
Donny McCaslin – Saxophone
Gregoire Maret – Harmonica
Julian Lage – Guitar
Scott Colley – Bass
Johnathan Blake – Drums

TONY HIGHTOWER
2022-11-07 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | City Winery Atlanta, Ponce City Market, 650 North Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA, 30308, United States
Singer/Songwriter Tony Hightower is taking up the mantle to be a bridge that ushers R&B audiences into Jazz…Real Jazz. With years of experience as a musical performer and actor with familial roots that place him firmly within the music’s firmament, Atlanta-native Hightower is still just getting started on this benevolent turn in his journey. And he is bringing a lot of young people with him.
His sophomore project, LEGACY, finds Hightower exploring Jazz vocal stylings from a dazzling prism of angles. The 10-song album moves confidently and assuredly from original compositions such as the soulful scat-laced “All to the Good,” the seductive Brazilian bossa nova of “Rendezvous” and the tender carnal Jarreau-esque love beg “I Need You” to swingin’ covers of Earth, Wind & Fire’s classic Skip Scarborough-penned “Can’t Hide Love,” a mean shuffle boogie groove through Al Green’s “Love and Happiness” and a smoldering upright bass accompanied tiptoe through the 1929 Andy Razaf standard “Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good To You” made further famous in 1944 by one of Hightower’s greatest and earliest Jazz vocal heroes, Nat “King” Cole. That one’ll make the women wiggle.
“I didn’t have a choice about doing this music,” Hightower confesses. “My mother, Theresa Hightower, lived her life onstage. She was a fiery and versatile vocal pro by age 16 and had me when she was 19. So, you could say I’ve been performing since the womb.” And though he did not know his father, Ralph Baker, well, the man’s DNA pulsed within his being as Hightower inherited the percussionist’s keen sense of fascinating rhythm, which led to Tony’s first pro gig at age 14 playing drums in the stage band for “The Dinah Washington Story” at the 14th Street Playhouse.

CHARLES LLOYD
2022-11-06 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Great Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
We wind things up at that same venue on November 6 with NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd, the giant old-growth sequoia of jazz. Charles Lloyd’s Ocean Trio includes the brilliant pianist Gerald Clayton and guitarist Anthony Wilson, both of whom grew in the rich environment provided by their famous fathers; bassist/educator John Clayton and big-band leader Gerald Wilson.
Performance At: Great Hall of Town Hall Seattle | 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 | 206-652-4255

OJEDA PENN
2022-11-06 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan Street, East Point, GA, 30344, United States
Ojeda Penn is an accomplished Jazz artist from Montgomery, Alabama. Since moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1967 he has become a well~known and respected figure in the city’s Jazz scene for over 40 years.
Joe’s Jazz Joint is a Joseph Jennings Production and held in the Paul Roberson Theater | Sundays through November 2022

ALAN BROADBENT W/ HARVIE S & BILLY MINTZ
2022-11-05 20:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | The Side Door, Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, 06371, United States
Alan Broadbent was born in Auckland, New Zealand and in 1966, at the age of 19, received a Downbeat Magazine scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1969 he was asked to join Woody Herman’s band as his pianist and arranger for 3 years. In 1972 he settled in Los Angeles, beginning a musical relationship with the legendary singer Irene Kral (no relation to Diana Krall). Soon he was also invited into the studio scene as a pianist for the great Nelson Riddle, David Rose and Johnny Mandel. In the early 90s he was asked to be a part of Natalie Cole’s famous “Unforgettable” cd, at which time he toured as her pianist and, a little while later, as her conductor. At this time he wrote an orchestral arrangement for her second video with her dad, “When I Fall In Love”, which won him his first Grammy Award for “best orchestral arrangement accompanying a vocal”.
Alan Broadbent ~ piano
Harvie S ~ bass
Billy Mintz ~ drums

BRANFORD MARSALIS
2022-11-04 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Cullen Theater, 501 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX, 77002, United States
After four decades in the international spotlight, the achievements of saxophonist Branford Marsalis continue to grow. He is an instrumentalist, composer and bandleader to be reckoned with, crossing stylistic boundaries while maintaining an unwavering creative integrity. With three Grammys and a citation by the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master, he is an avatar of contemporary artistic excellence.

DUDUKA DA FONSECA & BRAZILIAN ALL STARS
2022-11-04 19:30 - 2022-11-06 23:30 (America/New_York) | Keystone Korner Baltimore, 1350 Lancaster Street, Baltimore, MD, 21231, United States
Duduka Da Fonseca & Brazilian All Stars: Samba Jazz & Bossa Nova
Special Guest: Maucha Adnet – voice
Featuring:
Billy Drewes – sax & flute
Helio Alves – piano
Peter Washington – bass
Duduka Da Fonseca – drums
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duduka Da Fonseca is a 4-time Grammy Award nominated drummer. He has appeared on over 250 albums alongside American Jazz icons as well as Brazilian Jazz Icons, including 25 albums as a leader/co-leader, making him one of the most recorded Brazilian drummers in this idiom.
Also born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Maucha Adnet started singing professionally at age 15 as part of vocal group Céu da Boca, from 1978 to 1984. With Céu da Boca, Maucha toured around Brazil and recorded two albums released by Polygram. From 1984 until 1994, Maucha performed all over the world with legendary composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and that’s how she ended up in New York, where she has been living since 1987.
Showtimes:
Streaming: Fri, Sat, November 4~5, 7:30 pm
$10 + $1.70 fee
Live: Fri, Sat, November 4~5, 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm
$35 – $45 + $3.46 – $4.16 fee

CURTIS LUNDY TRIO
2022-11-04 19:30 - 2022-11-05 23:00 (America/New_York) | The Velvet Note, 4075 Old Milton Parkway, Alpharetta, GA, 30005, United States
Curtis Lundy is arguably one of the most prolific — in-demand bassists on the modern jazz scene — he is a disciple of the mainstream — straight ahead — hard bop school. Highly regarded for his robust, lyrical, ‘lead from the front’ approach to the acoustic bass — he delivers an unsurpassed brand of masterful excellence in performing standards, originals and the American songbook. His fluid voicings and exceptional dexterity allow listeners to delve into a song — in any time signature — with an equal measure of challenge and enjoyment.
Born in 1963, Cyrus Chestnut started his musical career at the age of three, playing piano at the Mount Calvary StaR&Baptist Church at the age of six in his hometown of Baltimore, MD. By age nine, he was studying classical music at the Peabody Preparatory Institute in Baltimore. In the fall of 1981, Cyrus began jazz education in Boston, MA at the Berklee College of Music. In 1985, he earned a degree in jazz composition and arranging. While at Berklee, Chestnut was awarded the Eubie Blake Fellowship, the Oscar Peterson, Quincy Jones, and Count Basie awards for exceptional performance standards at the college. His association with Betty Carter, which began in 1991 significantly affected his outlook and approach to music, confirming his already iconoclastic instincts. Carter advised him to “take chances” and play things I’ve never heard,” Chestnut says. As Cyrus was absorbing experiences as a sideman, he was also developing as a leader, recording and playing live around the world.
Victor Jones, considered a visionary in today’s music business, is a new breed of Drummer/Bandleader bringing new and exciting ideas to the world of jazz and world music. No stranger to traditional or modern jazz, Victor Jones started his career as a teen-age musician playing in local bands in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey and touring world-wide with Lou Donaldson. In his early twenties he toured the world with Stan Getz. Later tours were with James Moody, Michel Petrucciani, Joe, Olivia, Stanley Clarke,, Phyllis Hyman,, Dizzy Gillespie and Chaka Khan as well as others. Victor played on the Grammy nominated EMI Korean recording, Second Moon, which won Record of the Year in 2006. Victor also was featured on the Best Latin Jazz recording in 2008 with Papo Vasquez. When asked about his greatest achievement he replied, “My greatest achievement in life was having five children with my wife Ane Jones.” Since 2003 he has been a Bandleader with his own World Music Band, Cultur-Versy, these days specializing in a new age type of music, a mix of dance music, hip-hop and electro pop.

CAROL ANN TAYLOR
2022-11-04 19:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Sandrell Rivers Theater, 6103 NW 7th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33127, United States
Love, Peace & Jazz! The Sunshine Jazz Organization is celebrating our 36th Season! Promoting America’s Precious Art form in South Florida Since 1986.
Join Sunshine Jazz Organization at the beautiful Sandrell Rivers Theater for a spectacular performance by the incomparable Carole Ann Taylor!
Carole Ann Taylor is a skillful interpreter of other people’s songs, she turns classic tunes like “You Can Have Him” by Nina Simone and “For All We Know” by Nat King Cole into poignant renditions, enriched by her own musical expression. “I am basically a singer of jazz standards,” says Taylor. “I evoke another time when people sat in clubs and listened to music.” But the nostalgia stops there. In contrast to her role as a soul singer, Taylor is progressive in her personal experiences. The balance between conviction and experimentation in her jazz singing voice is a natural extension of her speaking voice. And yet there is so much more.
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BOB JAMES
2022-11-04 19:00 - 2022-11-06 23:00 (America/New_York) | Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20007, United States
From his first days in Marshall, Missouri, the music of Bob James has captivated audiences throughout the world. Discovered by Quincy Jones at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival in 1963, James recorded his first solo album, Bold Conceptions, that same year for Mercury Records. More than 60 albums and innumerable awards would follow through the nearly six decades.
Bob James honed his skills working with Creed Taylor, and on albums for artists like Hank Crawford and Grover Washington, Jr, among others. While with CTI, James found great popular success overseeing significant hits for Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, Maynard Ferguson, and Kenny Loggins.
While James is recognized as one of the progenitors of smooth jazz, his music has also had a profound effect on the history of hip hop. Two of James’ songs – “Nautilus” from 1974’s One and “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” from 1975’s Two – are among the most sampled in hip hop history.
Showtimes:
7:00 pm | Fri, Sat~$55 Sun~$40.00
9:00 pm | Fri, Sat~$55 Sun~$20.00
$15 food/beverage minimum per person not included in ticket price.

MARIA HOWELL & NOEL FRIEDLINE
2022-11-04 19:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Middle C Jazz, 300 South Brevard Street, Charlotte, NC, 28202, United States
Middle C Jazz 3rd Anniversary | Noel & Maria: The Very Best of Billy, Stevie, Elton and Ray with a twist of…
Noel & Maria: The Very Best of Billy, Stevie, Elton and Ray with a twist of Motown, Chicago, Sam Cooke, Luther Vandross, Donny Hathaway, Peter Cetera, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Supremes, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, The Four Tops, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, and more!
Friday ~ November 4 | 7:00pm & 9:15PM
Saturday ~ November 5 | 7:00pm & 9:15PM

ROY HARGROVE BIG BAND
2022-11-03 19:30 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Jazz Gallery, 1158 Broadway 5th Floor, New York City, NY, 10001, United States
The Jazz Gallery presents the Roy Hargrove Big Band // Live & Livestreamed // Thurs Nov 3 // 7.30pm & 9.30pm ET

The Roy Hargrove Big Band’s monthly residency at the venue where it all began, The Jazz Gallery, first Thursdays!

Tickets: $35/$10 members; cabaret seating: $45/$20 members. www.jazzgallery.org

“There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you’re hearing your compositions and arrangements played by a wall of sound.” ~ Roy Hargrove

JOHN PIZZARELLI
2022-11-02 19:30 - 2022-11-06 23:00 (America/Chicago) | Jazz St. Louis, 3536 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 63103, United States
John Pizzarelli, the world-renowned guitarist and singer, has established himself as a prime contemporary interpreter of the Great American Songbook and beyond, with a repertoire that includes Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and The Beatles. Following high-profile collaborations with Sir Paul McCartney and Michael McDonald, Pizzarelli returns to his roots to honor his hero, the legendary jazz/pop vocalist and pianist Nat King Cole, whose centennial is being celebrated around the world.
Valet Parking ~ $10.00 prepaid
Valet parking is available for all Jazz St. Louis performances. Discounted $10 valet parking may be purchased when ordering your tickets. Please make sure to select the correct date and time when adding parking to your cart with your tickets before purchasing.
Performances
November 2 ~ 7:30pm
November 3 ~ 11:00am | 7:30pm
November 4 ~ 7:30pm | 9:30pm
November 5 ~ 7:30pm | 9:30pm
November 6 ~ 6:30pm

BEN WENDEL QUARTET
2022-11-01 20:00 - 2022-11-06 23:30 (America/New_York) | Village Vanguard, 178 7th Avenue S, New York City, NY, 10014, United States
Ben Wendel is a naturally inquisitive musician whose credentials branch out beyond jazz. He briefly toured with Snoop Dogg. He’s a member of Kneebody, a postmillennial groove band with a sizable following, as well as an accomplished solo artist and producer.
Ben Wendel – Saxophone
Gerald Clayton – Piano
Linda May Han Oh – Bass
Obed Calvaire – Drums

MALA WALDRON
2022-10-29 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | BeanRunner Café, 201 South Division Street, Peekskill, NY, 10566, United States
Mala’s music career has taken her all over the world, performing for international tours and festivals, as well in some of NYC’s most prestigious stages, including the Iridium Jazz Club, the Blue Note, the Jazz Standard, the 55 Bar, and Brooklyn’s BAM Café. Most recently she performed in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center.
Mala was a featured performer at the first annual Coltrane Day Festival, was featured in the book, Giving Birth to Sound: Women in Creative Music (Renate da Rin and & William Parker editors) and can be seen in the documentary film, ‘The Girls in the Band,” directed by Judy Chaikin.

BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET
2022-10-28 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Adrienne Arsht Center | Knight Concert Hall, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
A CELEBRATION OF BRUBECK featuring the Brubeck Brothers Quartet with the award-winning Frost Concert Jazz Band from the Frost School of Music and special guest Catherine Russell in the Knight Concert Hall

MARCUS ELLIOT QUARTET
2022-10-28 19:30 - 2022-10-30 23:30 (America/New_York) | Cliff Bell’s, 2030 Park Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48226, United States
Marcus Elliot (Marcus Elliot Miller) is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. Marcus is a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit. His compositions and improvisations have been described by the New York Times as “convincing and confident, evolved in touch and tone…”, and the Detroit Free Press has said, “Marcus Elliot represents next generation of jazz”. Elliot leads and co-leads many different Detroit based bands including the Marcus Elliot Quartet, Clockwork, Balance, Beyond Rebellious, and Lanula. Elliot performs in the Shigeto Live Ensemble. He is a Fellow of the Geri Allen Gathering Orchestra. He co-founded the nonprofit Polyfold Musical Arts Collective. Elliot is the director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Jazz Ensembles. Elliot received his master’s degree in improvisation from the University of Michigan.
Elliot is a disciple of the Detroit music scene. His mentors include Rodney Whitaker, Marcus Belgrave, Robert Hurst, Donald Walden, Bennie Maupin, Marion Hayden, and Karriem Riggins. After graduating with a bachelors degree in Jazz Studies from Michigan State University, Marcus began to curate weekly performances in Detroit, showcasing some of Detroit’s young jazz musicians. He held a weekly residency at Detroit’s premiere jazz club, Cliff Bell’s, for four years. Marcus self-released three albums with his ensemble, the Marcus Elliot Quartet and co-released an album with his duo project with Michael Malis, Balance.

TIA FULLER, MIMI JONES & MATT WILSON
2022-10-28 19:30 - 2022-10-29 23:00 (America/Chicago) | Jazz St. Louis, 3536 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 63103, United States
Join saxophonist Tia Fuller, bassist Mimi Jones, and drummer Matt Wilson as they cap off their week in St. Louis with performances on the Ferring Jazz Bistro stage! Jazz St. Louis’s Artist Residency bands are one-of-a-kind groupings brought together for the specific purpose of securing the future of jazz through clinics, masterclasses, and in-school performances. Jazz St. Louis engages these artists for an entire week, during which they visit area schools and conduct masterclasses and clinics for middle and high school students.
Valet Parking ~ $10.00 prepaid
Valet parking is available for all Jazz St. Louis performances. Discounted $10 valet parking may be purchased when ordering your tickets. Please make sure to select the correct date and time when adding parking to your cart with your tickets before purchasing.
October 28 ~ 7:30pm | 9:30pm
October 29 ~ 7:30pm | 9:30pm

ARTURO SANDOVAL
2022-10-27 19:00 - 2022-10-30 23:00 (America/New_York) | Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20007, United States
“Born into poverty in Cuba and held back by his government, he risked everything to share his gifts with the world. In the decades since, this astonishing trumpeter, pianist and composer has inspired audiences in every corner of the world and awakened a new generation of great performers. He remains one of the best ever to play.”
~ Barack Obama (presenting The Presidential Medal of Freedom to Arturo Sandoval)
A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November 6, 1949, just two years after Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American Jazz. Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at the age of twelve, but it didn’t take him long to catch the excitement of the jazz world. He has since evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer.
Showtimes:
7:00 pm | Thurs, Sun~$65.00, Fri, Sat~$75.00
9:00 pm | Thurs, Sun~$65.00, Fri, Sat~$75.00
$15 food/beverage minimum per person not included in ticket price.

FRANK LACY QUARTET
2022-10-26 19:30 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Smalls, 183 West 10th Street - Basement, New York City, NY, 10014, United States
Trombonist Frank Lacy, born August 9, 1958 in Houston, Texas has spent many years as a member of the Mingus Big Band, and returns once more to Smalls
Sets: 7:30pm & 9:00pm
Walk-in music charge is $25 | Reserve tickets are $35 Sunday through Thursdays and $40 on Friday and Saturday.

RAVI COLTRANE 3+3
2022-10-25 20:00 - 2022-10-30 23:30 (America/New_York) | Village Vanguard, 178 7th Avenue S, New York City, NY, 10014, United States
Ravi Coltrane is the son of saxophonist John Coltrane and jazz harpist Alice Coltrane and is a jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has produced pianist Luis Perdomo, guitarist David Gilmore, and trumpeter Ralph Alessi.
Dezron Douglas & Johnathan Blake ~ Oct 25-27
Gadi Lehavi & Éle Howell ~ Oct 28-30

CLIFTON ANDERSON QUINTET
2022-10-22 20:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | The Side Door, Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, 06371, United States
Clifton Anderson is considered one of the leading trombonists and composers performing in Jazz today. His performances embody the fertile and varied history of musical experiences he’s enjoyed working with a who’s-who of musical giants, from Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Gillespie, Slide Hampton, Lester Bowie, Frank Foster, Charlie Haden and Dee Dee Bridgewater to Stevie Wonder, Keith Richards, Paul Simon, The Mighty Sparrow and Merv Griffin among others. He is not only noted for his rich personal sound on the horn but for his abilities as a composer and musical interpreter. His identifiable sound and memorable compositions have drawn an ever-expanding audience to his recordings and performances.
Clifton Anderson ~ Trombone
Antoine Roney ~ Saxophone
Edsel Gomez~ Piano
Belden Bullock ~ Bass
Steve Johns ~ Drums

NEGRONI'S TRIO
2022-10-22 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Aventura Arts and Cultural Center, 3385 NE 188th Street, Aventura, FL, 33180, United States
The Aventura Jazz Festival presented by Lion Tribe Group presents three-time Latin GRAMMY®-nominated group Negroni’s Trio as part of a two day celebration of outstanding music performances. The Jazz takes place in Aventura!
Negroni’s Trio possesses enough musical experience to captivate listeners of any musical genre and is seducing and entertaining audiences across all continents. Negroni’s Trio is comprised of a “father and son team”, José Negroni, on piano and keyboards, Nomar Negroni, on drums and percussions, completing the trio is bassist Rafael Valencia. The Negroni team have worked together since 2002 as Co-Founders and Co-Producers to form an ensemble of master musicians who create their own unique voice in traditionally known jazz classics, Latin jazz and jazz fusion. Taking musical risks with performance and repertoire, the result is an array of classic lyricism mixed with innovative and sincere improvisations that quenches the audience’s thirst for world class jazz.

JAZZ MUSIC AWARDS
2022-10-22 19:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Atlanta, GA, 30339, United States
Celebrating the Spirit of Jazz

The Jazz Music Awards (JMA) is the first global awards show in North America that is completely dedicated to showcasing the art form of jazz. It is a dynamic presentation that recognizes the iconic spirit of jazz music by shining a spotlight on mainstream and contemporary jazz musicians who continue to make a mark on the music and the industry. The Jazz Music Awards will consist of an entire weekend in Atlanta, Georgia to include: sightseeing; jazz masterclasses and workshops; and, jazz jams at partner jazz locations and venues across Greater Atlanta. The week culminates into a premier main event of electrifying and mesmerizing showcases of the best that jazz offers. The celebration takes place over a star-studded weekend October 21-22, 2022. The events will take place at Clark Atlanta University and Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
Awards Of Distinction:

~ Wayne Shorter | Lifetime Achievement Award
~ McCoy Tyner | Jazz Legend Award
~ James H. Patterson | Jazz Impact Award
~ Henry Threadgill | Jazz Composer Award
~ Ambrose Akinmusire | Jazz Innovator Award
~ Dr. Lenora Z Helm Hammonds | Jazz Educator Award
2022 Nominees
~ Best Mainstream Artist | Joey DeFrancesco, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Brandee Younger
~ Best Contemporary Artist | Brian Bromberg, Ben Tankard, Lindsey Webster, Ragan Whiteside
~ Best Duo, Group or Band | The Baylor Project, Jazzmeia Horn & Her Noble Force, Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Count Basie Orchestra, Kevin Eubanks & Orrin Evans
~ Best New Jazz Artist | Simon Moullier, Julieta Engenio, Kazemde George, Samara Joy
~ Best Vocal Performance | The Baylor Project, Somi, Stacey Kent, Shawnn Monteiro
~ Best Mainstream Album | Generation – The Baylor Project, The Magic Of Now – Orrin Evans, Sounds From The Ancestors – Kenny Garrett, Somewhere Different – Brandee Younger
~ Best Contemporary Album | The Stay At Home Series – Bob Baldwin & Friends, The Trilogy Red – Brian Culbertson, Soul Ascension – Sonny Emory, Tongue & Groove – Gabriel Mark Hasselbach
~ Song Of The Year | Back At Ya – Norman Brown, Feel The Love – Brian Culbertson, Gruv Kid – Justin~Lee Schultz, Up From Here – James “PJ” Spraggins
Performers
~ Terri Lyne Carrington – Music Director, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ledisi, The Baylor Project, Jazzmeia Horn, Lizz Wright
