Among the brightest young talents in jazz, 21-year-old White Plains native Julius Rodriguez is truly unique – having developed marvelous expertise on both piano and drums and getting regular work in the U.S. and overseas on both instruments. From studying at Julliard to winning numerous awards to sharing the stage with Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Carmen Lundy and Jazzmeia Horn, “Orange Julius” is a fast- rising star you can catch at the Jazz Forum!

Julius Rodriguez Quintet feat. Alonzo Demetrius, Trumpet, Morgan Guerin, Tenor Sax, Daniel Winshall, Bass and Brian Richburg Jr. on Drums.

Among the top Brazilian jazz musicians in modern times, Portinho is a master drummer, and a lover of not only the samba, but contemporary jazz. A go-to sideman, he’s worked with Gato Barbieri, Charlie Rouse, Michel Legrand, Michael Brecker, Louis Hayes, Tania Maria and Ron Carter over a stellar four-decade career. He comes to Tarrytown with his regular collaborators: Klaus Mueller, piano, Lincoln Goines, bass, and Ofer Assaf, sax.

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From his groundbreaking, influential 1970 Harlem River Drive LP through today, master pianist Eddie Palmieri has expertly blended diverse influences — the rhythm of his Puerto Rican heritage with the complexity of his jazz inspirations Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner — to earn 10 Grammys, Smithsonian National Icon honors, the Eubie Blake Award, the NEA Jazz Master Award and a lifetime Latin Grammy Award. Don’t miss his trio in Tarrytown.

Vanessa Falabella’s passionately expressive voice captures the wonders, woes and mysteries of love in two languages – Portuguese from her homeland, and English. Voted Best Brazilian Singer in the US by Brazil’s press, her articulate creamy mezzo was called “the perfect vehicle” for the music on her critically acclaimed 2018 album Loving Whisper, for which she wrote half the songs. The World Music Report raved she “has always been an artist of the first order.”

Next Session: Sunday, Jan 5

8-10 PM

Come and play with professional, avocational and student musicians. If you just want to hear who’s coming up on the scene, come swing by!

$10 to Listen or $5 to Play

Tickets Only Available at the Door

Vanity Fair calls her “The new voice of jazz” and you haven’t heard anything until you’ve heard Camille Bertault. Perhaps jazz’s first internet sensation, Camille’s videos of her uncanny scatting her own French lyrics to standards like John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” went viral five years ago.  Since then, she’s cut two albums, incorporating her early training in classical and opera plus pop influences with a creative purity that demands to be heard.

Camille Bertault Duo (1/10) featuring Leo Genovese, piano; (1/11) Diego Figueiredo, guitar.

Born in Brasilia where he began his musical studies, Mauricio de Souza began studying under legendary drummer Joe Morello as a teenager and, after graduating college, moved to New Jersey to continue that relationship. Today, de Souza is an in-demand sideman and a leader of both straight-ahead jazz Brazilian combos. His latest recording, the album Five Roads, has garnered wide acclaim for his ability to, as one critic wrote, “keep the sauces simmering.”