The Iridium Jazz Club Announces New "Late Nite" Series Beginning November 10th

The Iridium Jazz Club is pleased to announce their new “Late Nite" Series presenting the next generation of cutting edge, rising jazz stars in a series of special midnight performances every Friday and Saturday night.

New York City is, without question, the jazz capital of the world-- a place where veterans and newcomers alike come to establish their jazz credentials. And just like the nearby famed 52nd Street, “The Street That Never Slept," where every imaginable style of jazz was played into the wee hours of the morning the Iridium is pleased to continue this 'Late Nite' tradition with their new series, curated by trumpeter David Weis. The series begins November 10th at Midnight and will go until 1:30AM. There will be a $15 music charge and $10 minimum. So if you're out and about, be sure to add the Iridium “Late Nite" hang to your schedule. There'll be lots of great music and many musical surprises.

Iridium Jazz Club “Late Nite" Series Schedule

November 10: Marc Cary and Abstrakt Blak featuring Shon Chance Miller
Dynamic pianist, multi-keyboardist, and composer Marc Cary has emerged on the cutting-edge NY scene as one of the most exciting and innovative players around. The Washington, DC, native moved to New York after graduating from the Duke Ellington school at a promising age of 21. Soon thereafter, Cary found himself in-demand for his agile playing, both in stylistic mastery and personal expression. A highly versatile musician, Cary has been compared to the likes of Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, and Randy Weston. Alternately percussive and suave, animated and introspective, Cary balances energy and lyricism with a depth of expression unmatched by his peers. His extensive credits include jazz legends Art Taylor, Betty Carter, and Abbey Lincoln, with whom he has received Grammy nominations. He has recently been working with Stephon Harris' Blackout.

Cary has an uncompromising drive for cross-cultural expression, especially evident on his fourth album as a leader, Indigenous Peoples Live in Brazil (Jazzateria). As The New York Times writes, Cary is “going his own way and ready to lead."
http://www.marccary.com/

November 11: Ben Monder Trio
Chris Lightcap: bass and Ted Poor: drums
A musician in the New York area for over 20 years, Ben Monder has performed with a variety of artists, including Jack McDuff, Marc Johnson, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian, George Garzone and Tim Berne. He has also appeared with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the Kenny Wheeler Large Ensemble, Guillermo Klein's Los Guachos, and is a regular member of the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band. He has conducted clinics and workshops around the world, and served on the faculty of the New England Conservatory for the last three years. Ben continues to perform original music internationally with his own quartet and trio. He has appeared on over 90 CDs as a sideman, and has released 4 as a leader, including last year's acclaimed Oceana (Sunnyside, 2005).
http://www.benmonder.com/

November: 17 Mike Moreno Quartet
Mike Moreno first picked up a guitar at age 10 after deciding to switch from his first instrument of choice, the bass. At the age of 16, he began studying music formally at the Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a school that is renowned for it's musical alumni.

After graduating High School, Mike quickly moved to New York City to attend the New School University with the highest scholarship the school had ever given to a guitar player. He soon began playing gigs, working his way into the New York Jazz scene. After several years of paying dues in several bands around town, Mike gained the recognition needed to be called to perform and tour with some of the biggest names in the jazz world. The Joshua Redman Elastic Band, Lizz Wright, Nicholas Payton Quartet, Greg Osby 4, Jeff “Tain" Watts Quintet, Ravi Coltrane, and Kenny Garrett, and also has toured and performed in New York with the rising stars of today including Jeremy Pelt, John Ellis, Yosvany Terry, Jon Gordon, Louise Setara and Gretchen Parlato.
http://www.mikemoreno.com/

November 18 The Donny McCaslin Group
Donny McCaslin- Saxophone, George Colligan - Piano, Hans Glawischnig - Bass, Gene Jackson- Drums
2005 Grammy nominee Donny McCaslin was raised in Santa Cruz, California. The son of a high school English teacher turned Jazz musician, Donny performed with his father's band in his teenage years and then attended Berklee college of Music where he studied with Herb Pomeroy, Gary Burton, Joe Viola, George Garzone and Billy Pierce. While at Berklee Donny began a four year tenure in Gary Burton's band. Since moving to New York in 1991, McCaslin has performed and toured with a wide variety of groups including Steps Ahead, Danilo Perez and the Motherland Project, Tom Harrell, Brian Blade, The Mingus Big Band, John Pattitucci, Lan Xang, David Binney, Luciana Souza, The Vanguard Orchestra, Eddie Gomez, Flora Pruim and Airto, Billy Hart, and many others. 2006 has seen the release of two critically acclaimed new solo efforts: Soar on Sunnyside Records and Give and Go on Criss Cross Jazz. In August, Donny premiered a new work “In Pursuit," commissioned by Chamber Music America's New Works program. Donny is currently touring extensively with the Dave Douglas Quintet, the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, and his own group.
http://www.donnymccaslin.com/

November 19 (2nd Set): Marta Topferova
Marta Topferova-Vocals, Cuatro, Pedro Giraudo- Bass
Marta started singing at age eight in her native Prague, Czech Republic with the Mld choir. Upon moving to the US in 1987, she continued her vocal and music studies with The Seattle Girls' Choir. At an early age, she sang in many different languages including Latin, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Finnish and Czech, as well as a wide range of works by Brahms, Hayden, Poulanc and Pergolesi to name a few. Her love and dedication to Latin American music as well as the folklore of Czechoslovakia, makes her a unique artist who sings in and is fluent in both Czech and Spanish. http://www.martatopferova.com/

November 24: David Weiss and the Point of Departure Quintet
David Weiss- Trumpet, J.D. Allen-Tenor Sax, Nir Felder- Guitar, Lucques Curtis- Bass, Justin Brown- Drums
The late 1960s were a turbulent but exciting time for jazz. The music seemed to simultaneously get more complex and simpler at the same time as a variety of influences infused the music. Some were experimenting with soul, rock and exotic rhythms from the India and the Far East. Others were carrying on the innovations of the second great Miles Davis quintet, using the groups ever shifting rhythms and harmonic complexities as a springboard to new compositional ideas. Some somehow combined both to create some new, exciting music. The Point of Departure Quintet is re-examining some of the most innovative music of the period, some of it neglected, some, perhaps, never quite as developed as it could have been as things seemed to move at a pace during that period that left some music from being fully realized as they quickly moved on to the next new thing. Among the composers being re-examined and re-imagined are Andrew Hill, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson and music from the unsung Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet (who recorded two seminal but under appreciated records for Blue Note in the late 1960's). Known for introducing many of the finest young musicians to the jazz world for the past 10 years through his sextet (Marcus and E.J. Strickland), the New Jazz Composers Octet (Myron Walden, Jimmy Greene, Greg Tardy, Xavier Davis and Nasheet Waits) and as a producer (first CD?s by Robert Glasper, Jeremy Pelt and Marcus Strickland), Weiss introduces some of the finest young musicians on the scene today, Bassists Ameen Saleem and Luques Curtis, Guitarist Nir Felder and Drummers Jamire Williams, Justin Brown and Darrell Green.
http://www.davidweissmusic.com/

November 25 The David Gilmore Group
David Gilmore- Guitar, Brad Jones- Bass. EJ Strickland- Drums, special guest- tba
Over the past decade guitarist and composer David Gilmore has recorded and performed with some of the most highly influential and innovative artists in modern music today including Wayne Shorter, Dave Douglas, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sam Rivers, Steve Coleman, Don Byron, Cassandra Wilson, Uri Caine, Randy Brecker and David Sanborn. He has appeared on over 50 recordings and been a major presence on the international touring scene. In the Spring of 2001 he released his first recording as a leader, Ritualism, which received major international critical appraise and was nominated for Debut CD of the Year in 2001 by the Jazz Journalists Association. Mr. Gilmore was recently voted into the Rising Stars category in DownBeat Magazine's Critic's Poll.

Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gilmore sought out music at a young age experimenting with piano, drums and percussion before discovering the guitar at the age of 15. After a few years of private study with Boston local guitar gurus John Baboian and Randy Roos, Gilmore moved to New York to attend New York University, where he studied under the tutelage of sax titan Joe Lovano and pianist Jim McNeely. Shortly after his graduation in 1987, Gilmore began touring and recording in earnest with many of the members of the fledging M- Base Collective, and soon after began to find himself in many other diverse musical situations, recording and/ or touring with Ronald Shannon Jackson, Trilok Gurtu, Graham Haynes, Robin Eubanks, and Lonnie Plaxico. In the early 1990's he became an active member of the popular jazz/fusion group Lost Tribe, co-producing their first two recordings for the Windham Hill Label. Over the years he has also lent his skills to a variety of pop/commercial acts, including Japan's Monday Michiru, Me'shell N'Degeocello, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Osbourne, Mavis Staples, Issac Hayes, Boz Scaggs, Tommy Lang of Austria, Rise Robots Rise, and toured extensively with multi-platinum selling artist Joss Stone. He can be found most recently on recordings by Christian McBride, Carolyn Leonhart, Don Byron, Ron Blake and Uri Caine.

As a composer, improviser and guitarist, Gilmore is committed to pushing the boundaries of improvisational music, at the same time without alienating the uninitiated listener. His music reflects the diverse musical influences and experiences he has assimilated throughout his career. The exploration of rhythm is a major component of his music, utilizing many non-Western approaches and integrating them into a modern framework. Gilmore was a recipient of the Chamber Music America New Works Composer Grant, enabling him to compose a commisioned work entitled “African Continuum" which was performed in public in the Spring and Fall of 2003. His playing has been compared to guitarists with styles as diverse as George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix and Leo Nocentelli.
www.davidgilmore.net

December 1: Omer Avital
“"[Avital's] idea of jazz includes old and new definitions of swing and temperament, as if the stylistic and generational divisions never existed. Ornette Coleman's country hymns get in there, as do Woody Herman's close-harmony writing for saxophones, Charles Mingus' tetchiness and ensemble friction, Lennie Tristano's rambling counterpoint and the mesmerizing wail of Pharoah Sanders" - The New York Times
http://www.omeravital.com

December 2 Dave Binney Quartet
Dave Binney- Alto Sax, Adam Rogers- Guitar, Tim Lefebvre- Bass and Dan Weiss- Drums
Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist Dave Binney is one of the most prolific young jazz musicians on the scene today. Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, Dave was recently singled out by JazzTimes as one of a handful of “young players who have created an alternative jazz scene ... all of whom are playing adventurous, original music."

Known for his performances with such prestigious groups as the big bands of Gil Evans and Maria Schneider, as well as with Jim Hall, Bobby Previte and the Cecil McBee quintet. Dave was also a co- founder of the hard-edged quintet Lost Tribe and the open-form collective quartet Lan Xang. With these groups and on his own, he has recorded a dozen albums as leader or co-leader.

Since then, Dave's distinctive saxophone sound and innovative compositions have been heard from basement clubs in New York to jazz festivals in Europe. In addition to Dave's extensive work as a leader, he has been sought after as a sideman, appearing on record with Medeski Martin & Wood and Uri Caine's Mahler Project. Dave has also appeared on stage with Aretha Franklin, at Carnegie Hall, and with Maceo Parker, to name a few. He has produced all of his own albums, in addition to two of the Lost Tribe releases. Dave started his record label, Mythology Records, in 1998.
http://www.davidbinney.com/

December 8: Jason Lindner Exploration
Pianist Jason Lindner has been a fixture in the New York jazz scene since the mid-90s when the venerated Greenwich Village club, Smalls, became the home for a new generation of forward-thinking jazz musicians. Lindner's large ensemble performances quickly became the focal point for critics who frequently wrote about the club, and record label representatives eagerly tried to capitalize on the buzz. Lindner regularly drew sold out crowds on Monday nights at Smalls, something more established musicians could only accomplish on weekends. Even though Smalls closed its doors in 2003 and the artists have been transplanted one block over to Fat Cat Billiards, Jason's performances still remain an event that should not be missed, even ten years after they began.

A native of New York City, his dynamic live performances have led Jason to a well-received recording on Chick Corea's Stretch label entitled Premonition, and appearances in the studio and on stage with artists such as Roy Haynes, Dave Holland, James Moody, Paquito D'Rivera, Jon Hendricks, Roy Hargrove, Avishai Cohen, Dafnis Prieto, Christian McBride, Yosvany Terry, The Brother Jacques Project, Pharaoh's Daughter, Stephanie McKay, Amel Larrieux, Lauryn Hill, Maya Azucena, Graciella, Dana Leong's Criminal Justice and World Tribe, and the Lincoln Center/Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, who also commisioned an arrangement by Lindner.
http://www.jasonlindner.net/

December 9: Josh Roseman: New Constellations
Josh Roseman- trombone and electronics, Jonathan Finlayson- trumpet, Peter Apfelbaum- saxophone, Barney McAll- keyboards, David Phelps- guitar, Patrice Blanchard-bass, Justin Brown- drums

Josh Roseman is an original improvising trombonist, composer, producer and project organizer. He is the leader of several ensembles exploring the line between jazz , progressive dance music, and electronica, including the very electric JRU, the mostly acoustic Execution Quintet and the ska-infused Constellations. Roseman is also well known to international audiences for his work with Dave Douglas, Steve Coleman, Dave Holland, Don Byron, John Zorn, the SFJAZZ Collective with Joshua Redman and Nicholas Payton, the late Lester Bowie, Joey Baron, and Funk artists such as the Groove Collective, Me'Shell, Charlie Hunter, MMW and the Roots.

Josh Roseman's Constellations draw from the roots of ska- early- 1960's Kingston, Jamaica where ska first developed under the guidance of visionary late trombonist Don Drummond. Roseman was inspired to form the Constellations after touring Jamaica with the Skatalites, a total immersion in the sound of Don Drummond. Drummond is a Jamaican folk icon, comparable to few trombonists here in the US, possibly Tommy Dorsey, Fred Wesley, JJ Johnson and La Perfecta trombonist Barry Rogers. His open, eccentric phrasing, anthematic melodies and intuitive approach resonated with Roseman, an aggressively progressive NY jazz and funk trombonist, giving him a grounding connection to his Jamaican roots.
http://joshroseman.com/

December 22: Jeremy Pelt Quartet
Jeremy Pelt- Trumpet, Frank LoCrasto- Piano, tba-Bass, Eric McPherson- Drums
Jeremy Pelt arrived in New York in 1998 after graduating from Berklee College of Music. Once he got there, it wasn't long before he started being noticed by a lot of top musicians in the city. His first professional Jazz gig was playing with the Mingus Big Band. That gig lead to many long lasting associations with many of the talent in the band, and a great opportunity for growth. Since his arrival, he has been fortunate enough to play with many of today's and yesterday's Jazz luminaries, such as Jimmy Heath, Frank Wess, Charli Persip, Keter Betts, Frank Foster, Ravi Coltrane, Winard Harper, Vincent Herring, Ralph Peterson, Lonnie Plaxico, Cliff Barbaro, Nancy Wilson, Bobby Short, Bobby “Blue" Bland, The Skatalites, Cedar Walton, and many, many more. Pelt's major focus is on writing music for each of his three bands: Creation, Noise, and the Jeremy Pelt Quartet. His work earned him a huge write-up in the Wall Street Journal by legendary jazz writer and producer Nat Hentoff. His performances have received rave reviews from publications around the world.
http://www.peltjazz.com/