Events for Friday, July 12 - Thursday, August 1

“It’s been quite a while since the release of the last album, and in that time an awful lot has happened.” is the opening line from Greg Carmichael’s notes for Acoustic Alchemy’s brand new album, 33 1/3, and never a truer word has been written. The last studio album from the band, Roseland, was released […]

Born in Miami, during World War II, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother’s ukulele. “Uncle Howard,” Smither says, “showed me that if you knew three chords, you […]

Peter Erskine has played drums since the age of four and is known for his versatility and love of working in different musical contexts. He appears on 700 albums and film scores, has won two Grammy awards and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Berklee School of Music. Fifty albums have been released under […]

Gary Meek is a lifelong multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and recording artist with seven  solo CDs, appearing on over 200 records, including: Herb Alpert, Dave Weckl, Airto  Moreira and Flora Purim, Jeff Lorber, Green Day, Oscar Castro-Neves to name just a  few. He has performed both as a sideman, and a leader all over the planet, […]

A top tier night of world jazz with the Emaginario Trio! Guitarist, Ethan Margolis (aka Emaginario), performs with drummer, Scott Amendola, and bassist, Paul Bryan to celebrate the release of Margolis's newest album 'INTERLUDE OF THE DUENDE' on the Ropeadope Record Label. Margolis's playing is steeped in blues, jazz and Romaní influenced stylings coming from […]

Ivan Lins reigns as the preeminent Brazilian composer of his generation, on par with icons including Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. His hotly-anticipated new album, My Heart Speaks, is his first in six years. Though Lins didn’t release an album in the United States until 1986, his tunes had already […]

Michael Wolff is a renowned jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his virtuoso performances and innovative style. After leaving music school early to join the Latin jazz great Cal Tjader’s band in the early 1970s, he spent the next two decades gigging and recording extensively. Wolff can be heard on over twenty-one recordings with […]

“A Brazilian-born genius with a blistering voice" (JazzTimes), Rio-born Claudia Villela has developed a reputation as a singularly unique singer, pianist and composer, lending her five-octave voice to work with jazz luminaries including Kenny Werner, Michael Brecker and Toots Thielemans. Villela began singing professionally as a teen and eventually moved to the Bay Area. A […]

Grammy winning drummer John ‘JR’ Robinson is celebrating 50 years of music making. Robinson’s world-renowned versatility and groove have made him one of the most prolific and sought-after drummers in the industry whose musicianship has helped define the pop, R&B, and jazz era for the last half century. No one will forget Robinson’s landmark fill […]

Grammy winning drummer John ‘JR’ Robinson is celebrating 50 years of music making. Robinson’s world-renowned versatility and groove have made him one of the most prolific and sought-after drummers in the industry whose musicianship has helped define the pop, R&B, and jazz era for the last half century. No one will forget Robinson’s landmark fill […]