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“A beacon of hard-won virtuosity and open-eared creativity.” —The New Yorker

Acclaimed Tenor Saxophonist George Garzone brings his formidable quartet to the Zinc on Saturday, September 24. He's supported by guitarist Peter Bernstein, bassist Peter Slavov, and drummer Ari Hoenig.

Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972 that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti, that performs regularly in the Boston area and has toured Portugal. The group has released three albums. A veteran jazzman, Garzone has appeared on over 20 recordings. He began on the tenor when he was six, played in a family band, and attended music school in Boston. In addition, Garzone has guested in many situations, touring Europe with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and performing with Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Rachel Z, and John Patitucci, among others.

Garzone is well-known as a sought-after jazz educator, teaching at the Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, New York University and the New School University Jazz and Contemporary Program. He has pioneered the triadic chromatic approach and students of his have included Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, Teodross Avery, Luciana Souza, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Doug Yates, and Danilo Pérez, to name a few.

Showtimes are at 7:00 pm & 8:30 pm. Tickets: $30 in advance / $35 at the door. For more info, visit https://www.zincjazz.com.

Ponomarev is a Russian-born jazz trumpeter who worked with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, performing at major concert halls, clubs and and festivals all over the world. He recorded eleven record albums with the Messengers, made numerous television appearances. He performed at the Clifford Brown Memorial Concert in Wilmington, Delaware, 1991, which featured the music of the legendary Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet; he was a member of the memorial "Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers" band led by Mr. Golson; and he was featured as a European superstar at the Charlie Parker in Paris Festival.

Guitarist Brian Conigliaro is a song stylist with a unique approach and includes his originals and harmonica playing.

The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) welcomes world-renowned jazz artist Randy Brecker for an intimate acoustic performance on September 9, 2022 at 8 P.M. Joining him onstage will be his wife, saxophonist extraordinaire Ada Rovatti. Rounding out the performance are Bill O'Connell on piano, Marco Panascia on bass, and Steve Johns on drums. Tickets for this special event are priced at $40 and $50 and are available at www.nbpac.org.

Jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker has helped shape the sound of jazz, R&B and rock for over five decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament/Funkadelic to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa.

Ultimate JAM Session

FEATURING LIVE
PERFORMANCES BY GRAMMY
AWARD WINNERS AND
NOMINEES:
Marcus Miller
Lenny White
Members of Snarky Puppy
Yarbrough And Peoples
Nona Hendryx
Doug E. Fresh
LaForrest
"LALA"
Cope
Fred
"BUGSY" Buggs (WBLS)
Alex Bugnon
Dennis Chambers
Charley Drayton
Buddy Williams
The Jamaica Boys
Warren McRae (MD)

Halsey Festival is back for another year of fun and festivities!

On Thursday, September 15 from 3 pm - 8 pm, we’ll be taking over Halsey Street between Central Ave & Linden Streets including Bleeker and New Streets. The festival will feature DJs, Bands, performances, a fashion show, art activities, interactive games, and much more! For more information and to sign up to volunteer, visit http://halseyfestival.com.

The innovative and acclaimed early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists’ launches its 2022-23 season with a celebratory performance of J.S. Bach’s beloved, triumphant motets, featuring one voice on a part with strings and winds doubling the voices. These works for choir and continuo were likely written for special occasions, such as weddings, feasts, and funerals, and remain challenging pieces to sing due to the many key changes and length of time the choir is engaged.

Motets to be presented include Singet dem Herrn; Komm, Jesu, komm; Jesu, meine Freude; O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht; and Der Geist hilft. Rounding out the program are selections from Georg Philipp Telemann’s Ouverture Suite in G minor.

The concert is led from the chamber organ by Music Director Jeffrey Grossman, and features ensemble members sopranos Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, countertenors Clifton Massey and Timothy Parsons, tenors James Reese and Aaron Sheehan, and basses Charles Wesley Evans and Jonathan Woody. Musicians include violinists Nicholas di Eugenio and Beth Wenstrom, violist Jessica Troy, cellist Ana Kim, oboists David Dickey, Priscilla Herreid, and Margaret Owens, bassoonist Stephanie Corwin, and bassist Nathaniel Chase.

The Mini-Global Mashups continue through December 2022! Curated by acclaimed trumpeter and composer Frank London (The Klezmatics), the Mini-Global Mashup series is bringing together two amazing global music artists along with accompanists for an afternoon of music, conversation and exploration. Post-show Q&A.

Mini-Global Mashup: Jazz Piano Meets Venezuela presents American jazz artist Amina Claudine Myers and Venezuelan bandola llanera performing artist María Fernanda González.

Amina Claudine Myers is a multi-faceted artist, composer and educator who performs original works of jazz, blues, gospel, spirituals and improvisations for the pipe organ. In 2010, Myers was commissioned by the Chicago Jazz Institute to compose and direct a composition for a 17 piece jazz orchestra in honor of the late and great composer, arranger and pianist Miss Mary Lou Williams’ 100th birthday. Myers has received multiple grants and awards, including National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, and The New York Foundation for the Arts. She was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame 2001 and the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame 2010.

María Fernanda González (Mafer Bandola) is a bandola llanera player, educator, self-taught composer, and journalist from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She is one of the few women in the world performing the bandola professionally as a solo artist and has competed in and won renown music festivals of Joropo in Venezuela and Colombia. She is also a pioneer, experimenting with genres, sounds, and cross-cultural collaboration in her compositions, becoming the first woman to play the electric version of this instrument in 2016. She is both known as an innovator for her solo work and for her performances with LADAMA, a multinational band of four women from four countries, of which she is a co-founder and current member.

Hattie Simon leads a cool quartet at FlemingtonDIY. Join us in our new space. All ages

Red Baraat is a pioneering band from Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by dhol player Sunny Jain, the group has drawn worldwide praise for its singular sound, a merging of hard driving North Indian bhangra with elements of hip-hop, jazz and raw punk energy. Created with no less a purposeful agenda than manifesting joy and unity in all people, Red Baraat’s spirit is worn brightly on its sweaty and hard-worked sleeve. But even as it’s clear that Red Baraat has built a startling history of performances in iconic settings, the band’s bread and butter remains the sweaty clubs, festivals, packed performing arts centers, and college auditoriums that keeps the band on the road all over the world the last several years. It’s here where Red Baraat does what it does best – communing with their audience in a joyful, near hedonistic celebration of music and dance, which tellingly, draws a crowd even more diverse than the players on stage. The universality of what Red Baraat does is undeniable. And this is no happy accident. It is the product of intention and design. Says Jain, “The band…our songs…are addressing the multiplicity of viewpoints,” says Jain. “There’s ‘Zindabad,’ which means ‘Long Live’ in Hindi. In that song, we’re saying that we celebrate life, we celebrate devotion — but we also celebrate agitation and revolution. If we can unite people of all backgrounds and ethnicities to partake in the exuberance of life through the universal language of music, then life is that much sweeter.”