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The New Jersey Jazz Society holds its 50th annual Pee Wee Russell Memorial Stomp concert on Sunday, April 7.The event, which features a great jazz lineup,…

Every Saturday, we’re inviting NYC’s top musicians & magicians to perform in our art deco cocktail lounge, from local legends to Grammy award-winners. This week’s musical act is the Sam Dillon Trio, who is a saxophonist, woodwind player, composer and teacher based in New York. In 2013 Sam was selected as a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. As a semifinalist, Sam performed at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. for Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, Bobby Watson and Jane Ira Bloom. Most notably, Sam has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincolin Center, Symphony Space Birdland, The Iridium, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz Club, The 55 Bar, The Zinc Bar, The Kitano Hotel, Cornelia Street Cafe and live on WBGO 88.3 FM. In 2009 Sam received his Masters in Jazz Performance from SUNY Purchase College.

Every Saturday, we’re inviting NYC’s top musicians & magicians to perform in our art deco cocktail lounge, from local legends to Grammy award-winners. This week’s musical act is the Sam Dillon Trio, who is a saxophonist, woodwind player, composer and teacher based in New York. In 2013 Sam was selected as a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. As a semifinalist, Sam performed at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. for Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, Bobby Watson and Jane Ira Bloom. Most notably, Sam has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincolin Center, Symphony Space Birdland, The Iridium, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz Club, The 55 Bar, The Zinc Bar, The Kitano Hotel, Cornelia Street Cafe and live on WBGO 88.3 FM. In 2009 Sam received his Masters in Jazz Performance from SUNY Purchase College.

Film critic Harlan Jacobson reviews Top Gun: Maverick

In this episode of The Art of the Story, Doug Doyle talks about WBGO's partnership with StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative

Trinity has been offering free performances in downtown Manhattan for nearly a century and continues this tradition with the weekday Concerts at One series, deemed “the top of musical life in New York” (The New York Times). This season, Trinity is expanding its offerings to four days a week with wide-ranging programming that speaks to the diversity of New York City. A wide-ranging mix of talented jazz artists will headline Mondays for the Jazz at One series, presented in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE @ Trinity. Join us on March 27 for an hour of sublime music from Melvis Santa’s Jazz Orishas Quintet! Featuring:
Melvis Santa – compositions, vocals, piano and bata drums

Ricky Rodriguez – bass
E. J. Strickland – drums
Vinicius Gomes – electric guitar
Josh Evans – trumpet
Jazz at One: Melvis Santa’s Jazz Orishas Quintet

St. Paul’s Chapel and online • Free, no reservations required

🎥 Not in NYC? To watch live, go to Trinity’s homepage at the time of the concert. To watch on-demand, visit our music video portal: trinitywallstreet.org/music

Every Saturday, we’re inviting NYC’s top musicians to perform in our art deco cocktail lounge, from local legends to Grammy award-winners. This week’s musical act is Ben Allison & Steve Cardenas.

Bassist/Composer/Producer Ben Allison has garnered an international reputation as aperformer and band leader. Known for his inspired arrangements, inventive groovesand hummable melodies, Ben has an instantly identifiable sound. He draws from thejazz tradition and a range of influences — from rock and folk to 20th century classicaland other music traditions — and seamlessly blends them into a cinematic, cohesivewhole.

With his groups The Ben Allison Quartet, Think Free, The Ben Allison Band, TheTrio, Peace Pipe, and Medicine Wheel, Ben has toured extensively throughout theworld, winning over his audiences with an adventurous yet accessible sound and a flairfor the unexpected.

Ben will be joined by Steve Cardenas on guitar, who began his musical career in Kansas City and has been an integral part of the New York City jazz community since 1995.

Live on YouTube, Bob Boilen and Gina Chavez watched their favorites entries to the 2020 Contest and discussed what made them stand out from the thousands we saw this year.

What defined the conversation around jazz this year? There’s no simple answer to that question, but trying is always a worthwhile struggle — especially in…