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Barb Jungr & John McDaniel: “Float Like a Butterfly – The Sting Project”
Birdland Theater
315 W 44th St
Sunday July 28

Barb Jungr is in a category all by herself – you might call it “contemporary cabaret,” if that isn’t a complete contradiction in terms. She has pioneered the art of taking popular songs from what, in cabaret or jazz terms, seems like the relatively recent past – songs from singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen, and, most famously Bob Dylan – or even hardcore rockers like Bruce Springsteen or David Byrne – and does for them what traditional cabaret singers do for Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. She opens them up and interprets them, bringing a great deal of imagination to the task, which is often necessary since, unlike the Porter and Berlin songbooks, these pieces were not meant to have any life beyond the original composer-performer. Her many shows and albums focusing on the Dylan canon are modern classics, and this new project (created with pianist and collaborator John McDaniel), which offers on the songbook of Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner – better known as Sting – promises to be a revelation as well. (For a sample, there’s a video of Miss Jungr rehearsing “Until” – rendered as an old-school waltz ballad – on YouTube.) Count on Miss Jungr, working with gifted accompanist, co-vocalist and co-sar John McDaniel, to wrap these songs around her finger and find all the messages in every bottle.

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Barb Jungr & John McDaniel: “Float Like a Butterfly – The Sting Project”
Birdland Theater
315 W 44th St
Sunday July 28

Barb Jungr is in a category all by herself – you might call it “contemporary cabaret,” if that isn’t a complete contradiction in terms. She has pioneered the art of taking popular songs from what, in cabaret or jazz terms, seems like the relatively recent past – songs from singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen, and, most famously Bob Dylan – or even hardcore rockers like Bruce Springsteen or David Byrne – and does for them what traditional cabaret singers do for Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. She opens them up and interprets them, bringing a great deal of imagination to the task, which is often necessary since, unlike the Porter and Berlin songbooks, these pieces were not meant to have any life beyond the original composer-performer. Her many shows and albums focusing on the Dylan canon are modern classics, and this new project (created with pianist and collaborator John McDaniel), which offers on the songbook of Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner – better known as Sting – promises to be a revelation as well. (For a sample, there’s a video of Miss Jungr rehearsing “Until” – rendered as an old-school waltz ballad – on YouTube.) Count on Miss Jungr, working with gifted accompanist, co-vocalist and co-sar John McDaniel, to wrap these songs around her finger and find all the messages in every bottle.

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Birdland Jazz Club
315 West 44th St
New York, NY 10036

Tickets$30

On Sunday, July 28th, the Terraza Big Band makes its debut at the world-famous Birdland Jazz Club! The band will be playing one set at 5:30pm, featuring music from the ensemble’s recent release on Outside in Music, “One Day Wonder”. As always, the band will be led by co-directors Michael Thomas and Edward Perez, and features an all-star cast of some of the finest musicians NYC has to offer:

SAXOPHONES:  Michael Thomas, Remy Le Boeuf, John Ellis, Alejandro Aviles, Andrew Gutauskas

TRUMPETS:  Sam Hoyt, Alex Norris, Matt Holman, David Smith

TROMBONES:  John Fedchock, Matthew McDonald, Mike Fahie, Jennifer Wharton

RHYTHM SECTION:  Alex Wintz (Guitar), ManuelValera (piano), Edward Perez (bass), Jimmy Macbride (drums), Samuel Torres (percussion).

Tickets are $30, available at the door or online ( https://www.birdlandjazz.com/calendar/), and seating is first come, first serve.

About the album, “One Day Wonder:”

The Terraza Big Band, whose new debut album for Outside in Music is One Day Wonder, is striking from every angle, a marvelous exploration of the possibilities of the big-band format. There’s the composing-arranging of its co-founders and co-leaders, the alto saxophonist Michael Thomas and the bassist Edward Perez, full of resolutely modern jazz-orchestral harmony, inventive forms and a gamut of rhythms, from 21st-century swing to an encyclopedia of Latin-based styles. There’s the lineup, including many of the best young jazz-trained musicians in New York City, given ample opportunity to express their signature voices throughout the leaders’ generous charts. Then there are the X factors that might be a bit harder to define but are crucial nonetheless: an elastic, adaptable feel in the arrangements and performances that somehow gives this 18-piece outfit a small-group vibe; the sense that these high-caliber musicians are utterly engaged with and trusting of the leaders’ vision; a narrative approach to concert and album programming that gives a set of music the dimensions of an excellent film.   

Of course, a project of this magnitude could only have developed in a very special place—in this case a venue special enough to give the group its moniker. Since its beginnings in the summer of 2015, Thomas and Perez’s band has held down a regular gig at Terraza 7, an extraordinary club in Queens, located between the neighborhoods of Elmhurst and Jackson Heights. Founded by Freddy Castiblanco, a Colombian-born former doctor and veteran community organizer, Terraza 7 features a wide range of global music and jazz—its schedule of various Latin-based ensembles is among the strongest in New York—and provides a place for artists and neighbors to coalesce around issues of social justice. “Terraza 7 is a mission for Freddy,” Perez says. 

On the first Thursday of every month, the members of the Terraza Big Band become a part of that community, participating in an open rehearsal and then giving a full-length concert. To hear the band on its home turf is to receive an audiophile-worthy live-music experience. Seated directly across from the musicians, who are arranged on the venue’s transparent, loftlike stage that looms over the bar, every tricky form, every precision section part, every stout Cuban-influenced bassline, every heroic horn solo feels stunningly vibrant. The crowd—locals, jazz heads and curiosity-seekers alike—responds in kind. As the New York Timeswrote in a piece on the current renaissance of New York-based large ensembles, “the [Terraza Big Band’s] audience was fully on board, but the ideas were entirely new.”

One Day Wonder, gorgeously recorded at Systems Two studio and conducted by Miho Hazama, herself a brilliant large-ensemble composer and bandleader, is essentially a virtual-reality jaunt to that great-sounding wedge-shaped room in Queens. It opens with Thomas’ “Zed,” a pointedly modern—think Kurt Rosenwinkel and Mark Turner at their most invitingly melodic—but highly playable piece. Perez’s “A New Leaf” follows, a seamless meld of buoyant Colombian-informed rhythm, graceful melody and symphonic ideas applied to jazz orchestration. “One Day Wonder,” a challenging composition crafted by the band’s tenor saxophonist Troy Roberts, is another example of Thomas’ ability as an arranger to take thrilling small-group jazz and magnify it to big-band proportions—remarkably, with no loss in urgency or expressivity. “Without Doubt” takes its title from Thomas’ experience writing it—an easygoing, almost intuitive process where everything seemed to fall into place. Here the tune provides a showcase for Thomas’ kinetic yet serene composing and some elegant solo work by Roberts, pianist Luis Perdomo and trumpeter Dave Neves. 

The next two pieces dig into Perez’s life experience. His “Pasar el Tiempo, Aunque Fugaz, Contigo,” propelled by danceable rhythms and splashed with vivid colors, is a big-band update of an older number, written to reflect the excitement and euphoria that accompanied a romance Perez traversed in his 20s. “I’m 40 now,” he says with a laugh. “I wanted to see if I could retell a story from earlier in my life, and maybe tell it with a little more nuance.” “Flights of Angels,” featuring at its core Perez’s breathtaking solo bass work, is a mediation on a surreal, out-of-body encounter in the street with some especially ghostlike fog. Thomas’ midtempo swinger “Longing” contrasts odd phrases and plenty of chord changes with wide-open harmonic space for expert blowing, including a master class of a solo from the legendary trombonist John Fedchock. Perez’s “Me Lo Dijo Mi Primo” also finds plenty of inspiration in fantastic extended blowing over simple harmony—this time it’s tenorman John Ellis out front—as well as an invaluable lesson in clave that Perez learned from his fellow bassist Alain Pérez. (It’s all about the downbeats.) “Think Tank” closes the record with Thomas’ au courantvision, a small-group postbop burner writ large. Throughout One Day Wonder, many other soloists step up, among them guitarist Alex Wintz, alto saxophonist Roman Filiú, percussionist Samuel Torres and Thomas, whose fiery composure as a player evokes everyone from beboppers like Phil Woods to such bold modernists as Miguel Zenón and David Binney. Other nonpareil players interpret the co-leaders’ charts with aplomb: Andy Gutauskas, on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet; trumpeters Sam Hoyt, Alex Norris and Josh Deutsch; trombonists Matt McDonald and Nick Vayenas and bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton and drummer Jimmy Macbride.

A graduate of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he attended on a full scholarship, Thomas also earned a master’s in jazz performance from New England Conservatory, where he received the jazz department’s sole Presidential Scholarship. While at NEC, his composition “Refract” won a DownBeatStudent Music Award. Thomas’ debut album, The Long Way, was released in April of 2011. That same year, he moved to New York City to study at Juilliard and hit the ground running. Today he’s appeared as a sideman on more than 20 recordings, including Miguel Zenón’s Grammy-nominated 2014 big-band release, Identities Are Changeable, and is a member of Dafnis Prieto’s big band. While maintaining his work as a much sought-after educator and composer, he’s performed with such luminaries as Maria Schneider, Dave Liebman, Wayne Shorter, Nicholas Payton, Ryan Truesdell, Randy Brecker, John Hollenbeck, Jason Palmer, Brian Blade, Gunther Schuller, John Patitucci and Jason Moran.

Perez garnered bandstand experience in Boston as well, while studying math at Harvard University. He later spent two years in Lima, Peru, performing with and learning from Afro-Peruvian musical royalty including Grammy-winners Eva Ayllón and Juan Medrano “Cotito.” As a bassist he’s shared stages with Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Seamus Blake, Lionel Loueke, Kenny Werner, Jason Palmer, Paquito D’Rivera, Ignacio Berroa and Arturo O’Farrill, in whose Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra he’s appeared often in recent years. His recording credits include the pianist Hector Martignon’s Grammy-nominated Latin-jazz album Second Chance, and his music has been performed by the likes of Berroa, the Silkroad Ensemble, Yo-Yo Ma, Alan Gilbert, Cristina Pato and Jorge Pardo. A respected educator as well, he’s taught privately at the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and has held ongoing teaching positions at other institutions. 

Thomas and Perez connected in Boston, where they’d returned to play a mutual friend’s gig. They ended up becoming roommates in New York for a time—the perfect incubator in which to work rapidly and fruitfully on new music and fuse Thomas’ deep modern-jazz interests with Perez’s Latin-oriented mastery. “We first talked about just getting some friends together to read through some charts, but we were having some really strong espresso,” Perez recalls, chuckling. “Then we were like, well, if we do that, we should do a gig.” 

“When the band started,” Thomas adds, “we wanted to play with our favorite players. We were living together, and we were cranking out new charts all the time. We were sharing these ideas with each other and then taking them to the monthly gig, learning from each other.” 

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Dizzy’s New York – July 23rd 2019

Fans of Jazz at the Lincoln Center will know that Adrian first came to play in New York in 2018 to celebrate 30 years of Jazz at the Lincoln Centre, with host Glenn Close telling the crowd – “He blew the roof off London!” – The London show was a celebration of Benny Goodman, hosted by Wynton Marsalis, which earned Adrian rave reviews and his invitation to play in New York.

Adrian is now delighted to be bringing his quartet (feat. Joe Webb (piano); Gethin Jones (drums); Simon Read (bass)) to New York for his own show – Profoundly Blue, the music of Edmond Hall.

Having started playing clarinet aged six, by age 15 Adrian had left home to become a professional musician, playing hundreds of shows a year ever since.

Adrian has honed his talent with a whole range of musicians, playing jazz, blues, funk and ska, but jazz has always been his defining sound.
 

2017 saw Adrian drawing on the music of his favorite jazz clarinetist – Edmond Hall, to create the show ‘Profoundly Blue.’ Telling the story of his hero’s life and work. The band have been invited to record sessions on high profile BBC Radio shows with Cerys Matthews’ and Clare Teal earning them a loyal fan base.

With this high-profile support, “Adrian Cox presents ‘Profoundly Blue’” has now completed three extensive European tours. The band have produced two albums and sold over 2000 CDs. Both albums are now also available to stream on Spotify.

Being praised by Time Out as ‘London’s most charismatic reeds man’ – Cox is a warm and welcoming front man. Now taking more time to write and perform original music, 2020 will see the release of a new album of original music and a tour for Adrian Cox to finally present ‘Adrian Cox.’

The story continues…

Notable collaborations:

2018:    Guy Barker at The Royal Albert Hall

2018:    Wynton Marsallis and Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Barbican, London; Lincoln Center, New York

2016 – 2018:      Kansas Smitty’s House Band.

2009:    Paloma Faith – for BBC Radio 1

2009 – continuing:      Bad Manners (Ska)

2004 – 2012:     TJ Johnson’s Band (Jazz and Blues)

1999 – 2004:    Richard Bennett’s New Orleans Jazz Band

Adrian on Instagram / Adrian on Facebook / https://www.adriancoxmusic.net/

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Dizzy’s New York – July 23rd 2019

Fans of Jazz at the Lincoln Center will know that Adrian first came to play in New York in 2018 to celebrate 30 years of Jazz at the Lincoln Centre, with host Glenn Close telling the crowd – “He blew the roof off London!” – The London show was a celebration of Benny Goodman, hosted by Wynton Marsalis, which earned Adrian rave reviews and his invitation to play in New York.

Adrian is now delighted to be bringing his quartet (feat. Joe Webb (piano); Gethin Jones (drums); Simon Read (bass)) to New York for his own show – Profoundly Blue, the music of Edmond Hall.

Having started playing clarinet aged six, by age 15 Adrian had left home to become a professional musician, playing hundreds of shows a year ever since.

Adrian has honed his talent with a whole range of musicians, playing jazz, blues, funk and ska, but jazz has always been his defining sound.
 

2017 saw Adrian drawing on the music of his favorite jazz clarinetist – Edmond Hall, to create the show ‘Profoundly Blue.’ Telling the story of his hero’s life and work. The band have been invited to record sessions on high profile BBC Radio shows with Cerys Matthews’ and Clare Teal earning them a loyal fan base.

With this high-profile support, “Adrian Cox presents ‘Profoundly Blue’” has now completed three extensive European tours. The band have produced two albums and sold over 2000 CDs. Both albums are now also available to stream on Spotify.

Being praised by Time Out as ‘London’s most charismatic reeds man’ – Cox is a warm and welcoming front man. Now taking more time to write and perform original music, 2020 will see the release of a new album of original music and a tour for Adrian Cox to finally present ‘Adrian Cox.’

The story continues…

Notable collaborations:

2018:    Guy Barker at The Royal Albert Hall

2018:    Wynton Marsallis and Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Barbican, London; Lincoln Center, New York

2016 – 2018:      Kansas Smitty’s House Band.

2009:    Paloma Faith – for BBC Radio 1

2009 – continuing:      Bad Manners (Ska)

2004 – 2012:     TJ Johnson’s Band (Jazz and Blues)

1999 – 2004:    Richard Bennett’s New Orleans Jazz Band

Adrian on Instagram / Adrian on Facebook / https://www.adriancoxmusic.net/

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Dizzy’s New York – July 23rd 2019

Fans of Jazz at the Lincoln Center will know that Adrian first came to play in New York in 2018 to celebrate 30 years of Jazz at the Lincoln Centre, with host Glenn Close telling the crowd – “He blew the roof off London!” – The London show was a celebration of Benny Goodman, hosted by Wynton Marsalis, which earned Adrian rave reviews and his invitation to play in New York.

Adrian is now delighted to be bringing his quartet (feat. Joe Webb (piano); Gethin Jones (drums); Simon Read (bass)) to New York for his own show – Profoundly Blue, the music of Edmond Hall.

Having started playing clarinet aged six, by age 15 Adrian had left home to become a professional musician, playing hundreds of shows a year ever since.

Adrian has honed his talent with a whole range of musicians, playing jazz, blues, funk and ska, but jazz has always been his defining sound.
 

2017 saw Adrian drawing on the music of his favorite jazz clarinetist – Edmond Hall, to create the show ‘Profoundly Blue.’ Telling the story of his hero’s life and work. The band have been invited to record sessions on high profile BBC Radio shows with Cerys Matthews’ and Clare Teal earning them a loyal fan base.

With this high-profile support, “Adrian Cox presents ‘Profoundly Blue’” has now completed three extensive European tours. The band have produced two albums and sold over 2000 CDs. Both albums are now also available to stream on Spotify.

Being praised by Time Out as ‘London’s most charismatic reeds man’ – Cox is a warm and welcoming front man. Now taking more time to write and perform original music, 2020 will see the release of a new album of original music and a tour for Adrian Cox to finally present ‘Adrian Cox.’

The story continues…

Notable collaborations:

2018:    Guy Barker at The Royal Albert Hall

2018:    Wynton Marsallis and Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Barbican, London; Lincoln Center, New York

2016 – 2018:      Kansas Smitty’s House Band.

2009:    Paloma Faith – for BBC Radio 1

2009 – continuing:      Bad Manners (Ska)

2004 – 2012:     TJ Johnson’s Band (Jazz and Blues)

1999 – 2004:    Richard Bennett’s New Orleans Jazz Band

Adrian on Instagram / Adrian on Facebook / https://www.adriancoxmusic.net/

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Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts

Saturday, July 20 – All Day
Venetian Theater, Katonah, NY

Celebrating its 5th year in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, Caramoor’s Jazz Festival returns with phenomenal talent and music throughout the stunning gardens and historical venues. Treat yourself to a whole day of jazz, activities for kids, and expanded food options all leading up to the evening headliner — ten-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri, one of the finest pianists of the past 60 years and a true American musical icon.

Presented in Collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center.

VIC JURIS Needs Our Help!

Ongoing Art Exhibit

What is Real
 

Art on display during shows.
We also offer private viewings.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Hall of Fame Inductions
Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola
Jazz at Lincoln Center 
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall
Broadway at 60th Street, 5th Floor
Tuesday July 16 & Wednesday July 17

Tuesday – 7:30 pm – Chick Webb celebration: Evan Sherman Big Band

Tuesday – 9:30 pm – Dinah Washington celebration: Evan Sherman Big Band featuring Joy Brown

Wednesday – 7:30 pm – Frank Trumbauer celebration: Ken Peplowksi Quintet featuring Aaron Johnson

Wednesday – 9:30 pm – Cannonball Adderley celebration: Bruce Williams Quintet

Every year, Jazz at Lincoln Center nominates four new members to their all-time Hall of Fame – which is not just an abstract concept, there literally is a hall of fame in JALC’s Rose Hall, christened in honor of the legendary  producer Nesuhi Ertegun.  As always, this year’s recipients are all highly worthy of the honor : Chick Webb, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley, and Frank Trumbauer. All four will be inducted with a special musical celebration, rather than a formal ceremony, at Dizzy’s Club Coca cola.  The most surprising of the inductees, hands down, however, is Frank Trumbauer, the saxophone pioneer who in recent decades has, alas, earned the undesirable mantle of being one of the Great Forgotten Men of Jazz.  Trumbauer’s reputation is largely connected to two other giants, his longtime musical partner cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and Lester Young, the tenor saxophone colossus who consistently cited Trumbauer as his primary inspiration. (It doesn’t help that Trumbauer’s instrument of choice, a hybrid horn called the c-melody saxophone, has scarcely been taken seriously as a “real” jazz instrument for about 90 years now.)  Through his work with Beiderbecke, and his influence on Young, Trumbauer was one of the founding fathers of jazz lyricism and jazz narrative, the essential idea of telling a story in an improvised solo. It was Trumbauer’s particular innovation to make those stories incredibly personal and intimate – in a way that also suggests that he was also an influence on another colleague, the young Bing Crosby, and through him the legions of popular singers that Crosby inspired.  Listening to the classic recordings of “Bix and Tram” from the late 1920s is to hear the deep roots of modernism and cool jazz, not only Lester Young, but Miles Davis, Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Stan Getz.  You don’t really understand Bix or Prez until you’ve listened to Tram, and doubtless the unique two-reed combination of veteran Ken Peplowski and feisty youngster Aaron Johnson will do justice to his considerable legacy.

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“Listening to a bassoon sing jazz is a distinctive pleasure. After hearing Bennie Maupin and Yusef Lateef tackle this instrument, I have a certain appreciation and expectation of the bassoon’s power and persuasion. Michael Rabinowitz appreciates and exploits the acoustic characteristics of the bassoon and this makes his “Uncharted Waters” CD a joy to my ears.”

– jazz journalist/Dee Dee McNeil

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Appearing at The Birdland Theater
Friday & Saturday July 19-20 7pm & 9:45pm

Tickets For Friday, July 19th 7 pm
Tickets For Friday July 19th 9:45 pm

Tickets For Saturday, July 20th 7 pm
Tickets For Saturday July 20th 9:45 pm

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Reservations recommended. Ticket link HERE 

Watch the music video of their single, “Despite the Dream” 

Watch Catharsis on NPR Tiny Desk Concert: 

The new Catharsis album, The Hope I Hold, featuring Camila Meza, Scott Robinson, Jorge Roeder and Eric Doob is now available for at Greenleaf Music!
 

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JAMIE BAUM & Short Stories

featuring

Jamie Baum- flutes

David Gilmore – guitar

Morgan Guerin – sax/ewi

Andy Milne – piano

Pablo Menares- bass

Jeff Hirshfield – drums 

performs on

Saturday, July 13th 

sets at 8pm & 9pm

at

The Cell Theatre

338 W 23rd St, NYC (between 8th & 9th Avenue)
New York, New York
www.thecelltheatre.org, (646) 861-2253