MIKE LEDONNE GROOVER QUARTET
Mike LeDonne’s Groover Quartet featuring Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein & Kenny Washington.
We’re quite proud of our newest Jazz Forum addition – a Hammond organ – and even more proud to debut it with this outstanding quintet of top-notch musicians, led by keyboard great Mike LeDonne.
For many years, LeDonne has been at the B-3 to lead The Groover Quartet, a wildly popular weekly “grits and gravy” jazz gig at Smoke in Manhattan, and he’s bringing that sound, plus an additional horn, to Tarrytown. Don’t miss it!
Showtimes: 7:00pm & 9:30pm
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CHRISTIAN SANDS TRIO
Grammy-nominated piano master Christian Sands has earned raves for two decades!
At only 32, sophisticated jazz pianist/composer Christian Sands is arguably the leading jazz pianist of his generation. This former child prodigy – who began lessons a four years old and gigging at seven – has more than lived up to his early promise.
He has appeared on over 30 recordings, including nine as a leader, garnered Grammy nominations and rave performance reviews, amassing a body of work that rivals established veterans twice his age.
Showtimes: 7:00pm & 9:30pm
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NOAH JACKSON
A Detroit original, Noah Jackson is a bassist, cellist, and composer specializing in black american music and classical music. Aimed with a curiosity to where sound could touch audiences from within, he has both written and performed music for large international audiences since 2010. A graduate of Michigan State University (B.M.), and Manhattan School of Music (M.M.), Noah has performed with world renowned artists such as NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim, Branford Marsails, Jason Marsalis, The Marsalis Family, Hugh Masekela, Nnenna Freelon, Kenny Garrett, Wizard Harper, George Burton, Jazzmeia Horn, and Christian Sands. Additionally, he’s performed in many prominent venues and jazz festivals including Radio City Music Hall, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Blue Note Jazz Club (New York City and Milan), Royal Albert Hall, Victoria Hall (Geneva), Jazz in Marciac (Marciac, France), The Library of Congress, The Kennedy Center, SFJAZZ, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, London Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, and North Sea Jazz Festival. Noah Jackson also performed as part of the ceremony for the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 2019. He also recorded bass and cello on The Balance with Abdullah Ibrahim which reached #3 on the Billboard Jazz Charts (June 2019).
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RAVI COLTRANE
In the course of his three decade career, critically acclaimed, GRAMMY® nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer Ravi Coltrane has performed and recorded with jazz legends Elvin Jones, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Barron, Steve Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, and many more. Born in Long Island, Ravi is the second son of jazz icons John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. Alice Coltrane, was a significant influence on Ravi’s spiritually-tinged style of jazz and it was Ravi who encouraged Alice, after a long hiatus, to return to performing and recording with “Translinear Light” (Impulse!, 2004), before her passing in 2007. Ravi has released six albums as a leader. His latest, Spirit Fiction, is on the Blue Note Record label.
Showtimes: 7:00pm | 8:30pm | 10:30pm
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MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA
Maria Schneider’s music has been hailed by critics as “evocative, majestic, magical, heart-stoppingly gorgeous, imaginative, revelatory, riveting, daring, and beyond categorization.” Blurring the lines between genres, her varied commissioners stretch from Jazz at Lincoln Center to The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra to the American Dance Festival, and include collaboration with David Bowie. She is among a small few to receive Grammys in multiple genres, having received the award in jazz and classical, as well as for her work with David Bowie.
Schneider’s many honors also include: 14 Grammy-nominations, 7 Grammy Awards, numerous Jazz Journalists Association awards, DownBeat and Jazztimes Critics and Readers Polls awards, an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, the University of Minnesota, ASCAP’s esteemed Concert Music Award (2014), the nation’s highest honor in jazz, “NEA Jazz Master” (2019), and election into the 2020 American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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