NOV

Presented by Harlem JazzBoxx

Presented by Harlem JazzBoxx

The jazz world is still processing the loss of Sonny Rollins, who died last month at 95. This week at Smoke, five straight-ahead masters honor his towering legacy, with Eric Alexander in the tenor chair, Nicholas Payton on trumpet, David Kikoski on piano, Alexander Claffy on bass and Carl Allen on drums.

The jazz world is still processing the loss of Sonny Rollins, who died last month at 95. This week at Smoke, five straight-ahead masters honor his towering legacy, with Eric Alexander in the tenor chair, Nicholas Payton on trumpet, David Kikoski on piano, Alexander Claffy on bass and Carl Allen on drums.

The jazz world is still processing the loss of Sonny Rollins, who died last month at 95. This week at Smoke, five straight-ahead masters honor his towering legacy, with Eric Alexander in the tenor chair, Nicholas Payton on trumpet, David Kikoski on piano, Alexander Claffy on bass and Carl Allen on drums.

The jazz world is still processing the loss of Sonny Rollins, who died last month at 95. This week at Smoke, five straight-ahead masters honor his towering legacy, with Eric Alexander in the tenor chair, Nicholas Payton on trumpet, David Kikoski on piano, Alexander Claffy on bass and Carl Allen on drums.

The jazz world is still processing the loss of Sonny Rollins, who died last month at 95. This week at Smoke, five straight-ahead masters honor his towering legacy, with Eric Alexander in the tenor chair, Nicholas Payton on trumpet, David Kikoski on piano, Alexander Claffy on bass and Carl Allen on drums.

Presented by Kou Records

Presented by Arts for Art.

• 6:00 Ingrid Laubrock Grammy Season
• 7:00 Craig Taborn and Tomeka Reid
• 8:00 Val Jeanty and Patricia Nicholson
• 9:00 DUO : Marcelo & Lewis
  

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Minaret Records residency

Presented by Arts for Art.

• 6:00 Jen Shyu Fertile Bodies Fertile land
• 6:45 Poet Tracie Morris
• 7:00 Luke Stewart Silt Trio plus Angelica Sanchez performing Wadada Leo Smith compositions
  
• 8:00 Konjur Collective
  
• 8:50 Poet Tracie Morris
• 9:00 Kaoru Watanabe Blood Lines Interwoven
  

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New jazz rooms are opening all over the city these days, but the Pocket comes with a strong pedigree: It’s spearheaded by a team of veteran bookers and managers who spent years working at the Blue Note and the now-closed Jazz Standard. Doors have been open for a few weeks, but this week the Pocket throws itself a proper inaugural bash featuring a rare local appearance from Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra away from their Upper West Side home.

New jazz rooms are opening all over the city these days, but the Pocket comes with a strong pedigree: It’s spearheaded by a team of veteran bookers and managers who spent years working at the Blue Note and the now-closed Jazz Standard. Doors have been open for a few weeks, but this week the Pocket throws itself a proper inaugural bash featuring a rare local appearance from Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra away from their Upper West Side home.

Minaret Records residency

For the Space You Left, the new solo effort from contemporary luminary Marta Sanchez, is a bold sonic odyssey built around mind-bending prepared piano. We’re eager to see if any of those tactics make their way into this trio set, where Sanchez is backed by the superb young rhythm team of Kanoa Mendenhall on bass and Kweku Sumbry on drums.

Presented by Arts for Art.

Presented by Arts for Arts

Film screnings

6:30PM  program: 

Michael Lucio Sternbach Consecration: Charles Gayle, 2024, 25 min, digital

Echo: Dave Burrell, 2019, 25 min, digital

Flowers Grow In My Room: William Parker, 2024, 19 min, digital

Bringing On The Hallelujah: Kidd Jordan, 2020, 32 min, digital

9PM program:

Michael Lucio Sternbach films

Presented by Relative Pitch

Presented by the Jazztopad Festival

Presented by the Jazztopad Festival

Presented by Jazztopad Festival

Miles Davis Centennial Celebration

Presented by the Carnegie Hall's United in Sound: America at 250 Festival

Simon Hanes residency

Simon Hanes, bass, baritone guitar; Fred Frith, guitar; Ches Smith, drums; Nora Stanley, alto sax

Presented by the Jazztopad Festival

Presented by the Blue Note Jazz Festival

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Savannah Harris presents ... DUAL

Cleo Reed, Brandon Woody and COSMO 

Public Records

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In the JGI's first major NYC concert, voices in poetry and music unite across generations. NEA Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers; Samora Pinderhughes and the Healing Project; Courtney Bryan; Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez; and Alexis Pauline Gumbs will perform.

Tyrone Allen II performs as part of THE SOUNDOFF SESSIONS, presented every other Thursday at Erzulie by the Jazz Generations Initiative. Allen is an exceptional bass player who has played with some of the top contemporaries of his time, including Nicole Glover, Sullivan Fortner, Miki Yamanaka, Kazemde George and myriad others.

The Jazz Generations Initiative presents the Trap Music Orchestra to kick off THE SOUNDOFF SESSIONS, a new series of performances and open jams every other Thursday at Cafe Erzulie, hosted by the JGI. Synchronizing the aural lineage of Black music around the centerpiece of Trap Music, the group is equal parts time capsule, mosaic, lecture and party.

Samora Pinderhughes, Mahogany L. Browne and others will convene for an evening of poetry and conversation, in the wake of the JGI's Voices of Healing & Liberation concert.

The Nigerian-American drummer and bandleader Michael Shekwoaga Ode has played alongside many masters of the music. He brings a powerful personal style to the Soundoff Sessions for a set at 9pm, followed by an open jam at 10:30.

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Jason Clotter has become a go-to bassist to support some of the most illustrious names in jazz, including Kenny Garrett and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. At this Soundoff Session, Clotter leads a quartet in a 9 pm set, and then will open up the room for a semi-curated session at 10:30 pm.

In association with the Jazz Generations Initiative (JGI), To Save and Project (the 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation) premieres newly restored films from the late 1960s featuring the music and words of three jazz legends: Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and Archie Shepp. Introduced by Robert O’Meally, Manthia Diawara, and Henry Threadgill

Baltimore-based trumpeter Brandon Woody has taken the jazz world by storm in the past two years, releasing an acclaimed debut LP on Blue Note Records and establishing his band UPENDO as one of the prime live acts around. They play the Soundoff Sessions at 9pm, with an open jam at 10:30.

The young NYC-based tenor saxophonist Ben Sherman isn't yet 20 years old, but he's already lighting up stages around his hometown. He's torn it up twice at the Soundoff Sessions as a member of others' bands. Now he steps up as a leader. Set at 9pm, open jam at 10:30.

Pianist/vocalist/composer Amina Claudine Myers and trombonist/composer/scholar/author Dr. George Lewis will sit down for a conversation about the role of spirituals and choral music in Ms. Myers's life and artistry.