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Tenor saxophonist Ben Solomon returns 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 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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

Saxophonist and composer Tim Ries has had a whirlwind musical career which began in 1983 with trumpet great Maynard Ferguson. He moved to New York City in 1985 and since then he's performed with a "who’s who" of jazz, rock, pop and world music icons, including his current employer the Rolling Stones. Ries has also […]

Eric Alexander is one of the most sought-after saxophonists on the modern jazz scene. "The people I listened to in college are still the cats that are influencing me today," says Alexander. "Monk, Dizzy, Sonny Stitt, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson - the legacy left by Bird and all the bebop pioneers, […]

"Donald Harrison is one of the most confident and convincing improvisers in jazz today. The boundary leaping New Orleans alto saxophonist's distinctive broad toned sound is immediately recognizable as his own, regardless of the environment in which it is being heard, be it bebop, hardbop, New Orleans R & B or funk." - Jazz Times NEA […]

Award-winning saxophonist-composers Lauren Sevian and Alexa Tarantino return to Dizzy’s Club to co-lead their acclaimed quintet LSAT, engaging a swinging rhythm section primed for interaction and improvisation. Their sets transmit a shared vocabulary across original material as well as fresh interpretations of enduring favorites. In addition to appearing throughout the city and across the country, […]