TIM JAGO

Australian guitarist/composer Tim Jago currently resides in New York City and maintains a busy schedule worldwide as a leader and sideman. His recent album ‘Time Shift’ (2025) was released to wide acclaim with glowing reviews in publications such as DownBeat, Paris Move, Jazz Life (Japan), All About Jazz and many more. With a deep foundation in the jazz language, Jago presents fresh interpretations of the classic repertoire jazz listeners know and love, always playing with a tasteful sense of melody, swinging phrasing and rhythmic excitement.

The Quartet
Tim Jago – guitar
Angelo Versace – piano
Colin McIlrath – bass
Arthur Vint – drums

Cover: $41.00~$45.00

1/2 Price Student tickets are available in the Tables & Banquettes sections. Use code “student” at checkout, (25 & Under w/ valid ID)

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Daily Dose Of Jazz…

Laurindo Almeida was born Laurindo Jose de Araujo Almeida Nobrega Neto was born in the village of Prainha, Brazil on September 2, 1917. A self-taught guitarist, during his teenage years, he moved to São Paulo, worked as a radio artist, staff arranger and nightclub performer. At 19, he worked his way to Europe playing guitar in a cruise ship orchestra. While in Paris, he attended a performance at the Hot Club by Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, who became a lifelong artistic inspiration.

Returning to Brazil, Laurindo composed, performed and became known for playing classical Spanish and popular guitar. He moved to the United States in 1947 when one of his songs “Johnny Peddler” became a hit record by the Andrews Sisters. Once in Los Angeles, Almeida immediately went to work in film studio orchestras.

Almeida was first introduced to the jazz public as a featured guitarist with the  Stan Kenton band in the late 1940s during the height of its success. His recording career enjoyed auspicious early success with the 1953 recordings now called Brazilliance No. 1 and No. 2 that was widely regarded as “landmark” recordings. Almeida and Shank’s combination of Brazilian and jazz rhythms in which Almeida coined the term “samba-jazz” and he recorded Sammy Davis Jr. Sings and Laurindo Almeida Plays in 1966. He would go on to have a classical solo recording career with Capitol Records beginning in 1954, winning a Grammy at the first awards ceremony.

Almeida won five career Grammys, toured, recorded and performed with the  Modern Jazz Quartet, Charlie Byrd,  Baden Powell, Stan Getz, Herbie Mann, Larry Coryell, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne and Jeff Hamilton to name a few. In addition he performed on more than 800 motion picture and television soundtracks such as The High Chaparral, Peter Gunn, Funny Girl, The Godfather and Unforgiven. He has been inducted into Fanfare’s Classical Recording Hall of Fame, received the Latin American & Caribbean Cultural Society Award and was awarded the “Comendador da Ordem do Rio Branco” by the Brazilian government.

Guitarist, composer and educator Laurindo Almeida was taught, recorded and performed until the week before passing away from leukemia on July 26, 1995 at age 77 in Van Nuys, California.

 

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CHRIS STANDRING

Chris Standring is a British jazz guitarist known for his heavy use of 1970s-style musical nuances. In an illustrious career that stretches back over the last 25 years, Chris has earned a reputation as one of the world’s most virtuosic guitarists, with considerable radio and chart success. With a catalog of fourteen solo albums, including the critically acclaimed Blue Bolero from 2010 (which spawned the single and #1 Billboard Contemporary Jazz Track of the Year, “Bossa Blue”), Standring continues to push the boundaries of the format with every new album he releases.

He has enjoyed ten number-one radio singles in total (seven of his own and three with other artists he has worked with). His 2024 release, As We Think, is an upbeat, eleven-song, super soulful workout with exotic arrangements and dazzling solos, all wrapped up in Chris’ inimitable contemporary jazz style, earning him another set of singles in the top 10 Smooth Jazz charts.

Standring continues to tour the USA and Europe annually, and we are thrilled to have him back for another night of his signature contemporary urban jazz, to showcase his latest 2026 album “Time of Change”!

Tickets
General Admission: $66.15
Baby Grand Member: $54.15

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SAMARA JOY, CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE, MEI SEMONES & FRIENDS

Samara Joy and Christian McBride Celebrate Verve’s 70th Anniversary & Mei Semones & Friends play the music of Getz/Gilberto | Sparklmami delivers a DJ set. Presented by the Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment.

Performers for this celebration of the label’s 70th anniversary include Samara Joy, a six-time GRAMMY winner and Bronx native, and Christian McBride, a world-class bassist and bandleader, a Juilliard graduate and 11-time GRAMMY winner who has recorded with legends of both the jazz (McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Palmieri, and more) and pop (Sting, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion) spheres. Also, Mei Semones, an American indie rock musician who writes jazz-influenced songs in both English and Japanese, has invited her own crew of friends including aron!, Liana Flores, and John Roseboro to perform music from Getz/Gilberto, the classic collaborative album by João Gilberto and Stan Getz released on Verve in 1964. Sparklmami will begin the show with a DJ set.

Tickets: Free

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CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE’S URSA MAJOR

Bassist and composer Christian McBride’s most recent project is a quintet showcasing several of the most exciting young players on the scene. Returning to the Miner Auditorium stage for two nights, the cast features tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, who has toured with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, performed with veteran masters such as drummer Al Foster, vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater, and bassist Reggie Workman, and recorded with pianist Aaron Diehl’s Grammy-nominated 2023 Mary Lou Williams project Zodiac Suite.

Ely Perlman is an exciting young guitarist who has collaborated with Terreon Gully and Braxton Cook, and Chicago pianist Mike King has been touring with Dee Dee Bridgewater, and trumpeters Marquis Hill, Theo Croker, and Marcus Printup. Powering the band is Oakland native Savannah Harris, a remarkably poised young drummer who has made a major impact with the likes of vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kenny Barron, and Immanuel Wilkins.

Tickets: $40.00 ~ $125.00

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