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Aubrey Johnson Sextet at The Jazz Loft
by Dan Bilawsky
What took place at The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook, NY, on the evening of October 30, 2026, was less a concert than a nexus-level event. Vocalist Aubrey Johnson traveled to Long Island with bandmates in tow to celebrate the release of her stunning new sextet album, The Lively Air (Greenleaf, 2026); and she was also ...
Kevin Hays Awakening Quartet at The Pocket Jazz Club
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Kevin Hays has a gift for capturing the ineffable joys of discovery, and his Awakening Quartet frames that truth as well as any ensemble he's ever put together. Teaming with three fellow explorers/catalysts--saxophonist (and recent MacArthur “genius grant" recipient) Immanuel Wilkins, bass heavy Matt Brewer, and drummer nonpareil Brian Blade--Hays found(ed) a band that dances on a ...
Jazz is Alive and Well in NY: A Jazzcultural Friday
by Dan Bilawsky
Jazz clubs and communities are two very different things, yet Spike Wilner has managed to perfect the formula to meld them into one. The noted proprietor and pianist has long been creating and maintaining hospitable environments for the music and the musicians--at Smalls, the best jazz basement in the business, and Mezzrow, its complementary piano haven ...
Ron Carter Foursight Quartet at Birdland
by Dan Bilawsky
There are hints of autumn everywhere. The leaves are turning. Temperatures are dropping, winking at sweater weather. Everything is coming up pumpkin. And for the initiated--in The City That Never Sleeps, at Birdland, “The Jazz Corner of the World"--Ron-tober has taken hold. A major sign of the season, Ron Carter's month-long run at that club has ...
2026 Tilles Jazz Fest
by Dan Bilawsky
72 hours before the 2026 Tilles Jazz Fest, the mercury hit 100 degrees on Long Island; 48 hours ahead of the event, Canadian wildfires sent orange skies and unsafe air quality; and one day before everything was set to get underway, the forecast looked seriously grim--heavy rain(s), thunderstorms, a chance of hail and even a tornado ...
Bennie Wallace Quintet at The Jazz Loft
by Dan Bilawsky
Tempus Fugit (Time Flies). In May of 2026, Dr. Tom Manuel, the President and Founder of The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook, NY, celebrated that museum/performing arts venue's 10th anniversary. And in June, saxophonist Bennie Wallace, who'll turn 80 before year's end, dropped in with an all-star quintet featuring longtime collaborators--Anthony Wilson, pianist Donald Vega, bassist Peter ...
Ron Carter & Yotam Silberstein: Duets
by Dan Bilawsky
The concept of virtuosity is often misunderstood as an outsized display of technique. In truth though, by definition and in reality, it's about mastery. Such expertise is just as likely to be shown in measured command as it is to appear as fireworks, and this absorbing duo date is a firm reminder of that fact. ...
Daniel Rotem: Solo II - Under Construction At Bluewhale
by Dan Bilawsky
This album plays as a story of second comings, both for a beloved West Coast jazz spot and a compelling artist's solitary explorations. Back in the fall of 2024, bluewhale--one of L.A.'s most welcoming clubs, permanently shuttered at its original location during the pandemic--was in the midst of starting a new lease on life in a ...
The Birdland Big Band at Birdland Jazz Club
by Dan Bilawsky
Happy hour on Friday is for unwinding, leaving the work week's burdens behind and--if you're lucky, and in the New York City area--catching The Birdland Big Band. That ensemble has long been holding court at its namesake club in a liminal space between afternoon and evening, filling the gap between life's structured nine-to-five commitments and the ...
A Wind For All Seasons
by Dan Bilawsky
There is something positively elemental in the artistry of Martin Wind. Beyond being one of the music's premier bassists, he is a creatively driven composer and leader--a seemingly bottomless font of expression in action--and his work most certainly represents the breadth, and breath, carried in his name. One minute he's conjuring a Brazilian Nordeste with buoyant ...
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