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Featuring Music from Copland House Siwoo Kim and Suliman Tekalli, violins Kathryn Lockwood, viola Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello Michael Boriskin, piano PROGRAM Gabriela Lena Frank: Four Folk Songs John Musto: Piano Quintet (World Premiere) Leonard Bernstein: Piano Trio Ticket holders are invited to a post-performance ‘OFFBEAT/ONSTAGE’ talk with the artists. Three vibrant works trace personal journeys of three generations of important composers, and their connections to inner selves, outer worlds, and the relationships between them. The iconic Leonard Bernstein’s early Piano Trio, written as a teenager in the 1930s, mirrors the creative tensions, evolution, and emergence of an extravagantly-gifted young artist discovering his artistic voice. Gabriela Lena Frank’s Four Folk Songs for Piano Trio is centered around identity, roots, and the composer’s engagement with the traditions of her Peruvian-Chinese-Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry. Highlighting the program is the World Premiere of Emmy Award-winner John Musto’s Piano Quintet, a new chamber version adapting his orchestral Sinfonietta celebrating life and commemorating the loss of a close friend.

Guitar virtuosos Martin Taylor, Frank Vignola, and John Jorgenson create musical magic with “one night, three award-winning guitarists, eighteen strings”. The Great Guitars™ traces its colorful heritage back to the 1970s when the legendary jazz guitarists of that era toured the world and recorded together. Award-winning guitarist Martin Taylor, who replaced Herb Ellis to become part of the original group in the 1980s with the legendary Barney Kessel and Charlie Byrd, has revised the format for the 21st century-enlisting two of today’s top jazz guitars players to co-create a brilliant program displaying guitar mastery, emotion, humor and musical fireworks. Combining Taylor’s award-winning virtuosic fingerstyle with Vignola’s jaw-dropping technique, and Jorgenson’s incredible musical versatility, the concert features solo, duet, and trio performances by these three acknowledged masters of fingerstyle, jazz and gypsy guitar. Between them, these three guitar greats have worked with artists ranging from Tommy Emmanuel to David Grisman, Donald Fagen to Wynton Marsalis, and Bonnie Raitt to Bob Dylan. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Pat Metheny calls Martin Taylor “one of the most awesome solo guitar players in the history of the instrument”, while Jeff Beck says, “he out-shreds all of us – I’ve never seen anything like it”. Taylor is widely recognized as the world’s foremost exponent of solo fingerstyle jazz guitar playing, with a record 15 British Jazz Awards, Top 10 albums in the USA and Europe and an MBE from the Queen of Great Britain. His innovative online guitar school now teaches guitarists in over 60 countries. Frank Vignola is highly regarded as one of the most accomplished, multi-dimensional players in the world today. Les Paul added him to his “Five Most Admired Guitar List” for the Wall Street Journal while The New York Times deemed Vignola as “one the brightest guitar stars.” John Jorgenson, known for his blistering guitar licks and mastery of a broad musical palette, has earned a reputation as a world-class musician, as evidenced by his collaborations with Earl Scruggs, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti, Bob Dylan and many others.

In March 2021, we enjoyed a wonderful variety of performers and look forward to the same in 2022. Come see and hear local actors, singers, dancers, musicians, and poets as they showcase their talents at our second annual March Medley.

Jazz Jam Sessions are hosted by Winard Harper & Friends every Friday from 8 pm and Sunday from 7 pm with special guests. https://www.facebook.com/MooresLounge/photos/4560695590658429

John Pizzarelli, the world-renowned guitarist and singer, has established himself as a prime contemporary interpreter of the Great American Songbook and beyond, with a repertoire that includes Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and The Beatles. He has been hailed by The Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” The Toronto Star pegged him as “the genial genius of the guitar.” And The Seattle Times saluted him as “a rare entertainer of the old school.” In addition to the music of Nat King Cole, he has celebrated the work of composer Richard Rodgers with his GRAMMY Award-nominated With a Song in My Heart, toured the globe performing shows centered on Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mercer and John McCartney, bringing his unique style to a broad range of music and styles. His recordings range from torch ballads to classic swing, from bold originals to holiday fare, and the Fab Four. His two-disc set, Live at Birdland, seamlessly blends James Taylor folk with Gershwin and Van Heusen standards, in addition to his own original compositions. John has been a special guest on recordings for major pop names such as James Taylor, Natalie Cole, Kristin Chenoweth, Tom Wopat, Rickie Lee Jones and Dave Van Ronk, as well as leading jazz artists such as Rosemary Clooney, Ruby Braff, Johnny Frigo, Buddy DeFranco, Harry Allen and, of course, Bucky Pizzarelli. In 1997, Pizzarelli made his Broadway debut in the musical Dream, a revue of Johnny Mercer songs. He led a 40-member live orchestra at Radio City Music Hall in Sinatra: His Voice, His World, His Way in 2003. Pizzarelli received the 2009 Ella Fitzgerald Award from the Montreal International Jazz Festival, joining a select group of past winners including Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett and Harry Connick Jr. John has performed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Conan,” and “Great Performances” as well as “Leno” and “Letterman.” His themed shows, often performed with his wife Jessica Molaskey, suggest there is no limit to Pizzarelli’s imagination or talent. The New York Times called their recent “My Generation” show “brilliant.”

Featuring Music from Copland House: Carol Wincenc, flute Benjamin Fingland, clarinet Curtis Macomber and Suliman Tekalli, violins Melissa Reardon, viola Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello Michael Boriskin, piano Program Joan Tower: Petroushskates Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Poem Pierre Jalbert: Crossings Samuel Barber: Canzone Percy Grainger: Three British Folk Songs [arr. Paul Dunkel] Aaron Copland: Sextet Ticket holders are invited to a post-performance ‘OFFBEAT/ONSTAGE’ talk with the artists. Westchester has been home to one of the richest musical legacies in America, as generations of composers found inspiration and solace here. As Aaron Copland said, ”I moved to this county to avoid the interruptions of the city; the woods, the quiet and the privacy, were essential for my creative work.” Music from Copland House’s eclectic, entertaining program journeys across 100 years of music by Westchester natives or transplants, ranging widely from Gilded Age Romanticism to mid-century Modernist and neo-Stravinskian romps, and embracing the sounds of vibrant folk songs, British fifes, and languid ballads. The concert features a trio of Pulitzer Prize winners (Aaron Copland, Joan Tower, and Samuel Barber), Old and New World masters (Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Pierre Jalbert) and one genuine, undefinable maverick (Percy Grainger). You won’t “hear” Westchester again in quite the same way again!

For more information, please visit — https://www.soapboxgallery.org/events/james-carney-quartet2-25-22

Stan Killian Trio with Stan Killian tenor sax, Joseph Lepore, bass and Russell Carter, drums.

Stan Killian's debut performance at Chelsea Table + Stage, New York's newest hotspot for intimate dining and music, will feature his working Quartet of the past decade with Paul Bollenback, guitar; Corcoran Holt, bass; McClenty Hunter, drums, performing tunes from his critically acclaimed Sunnyside Records releases, "Unified", "Evoke" and the forthcoming "Brooklyn Calling". Regarding his dynamic quartet, The NYC Jazz Record states that “Killian’s familiarity with the members of his working band allows him to compose within their collective and individual strengths; the band, in turn, know exactly what Killian wants and the simpatico results in top notch music”.

Jazz performance featuring drummer/leader Wayne Henderson. Jerry Weldon on sax, Tony Gorruso on trumpet, John Colianni on piano, Will Lyle on bass and Wayne Goodman on trombone.