SETS NIGHTLY AT 7:30 & 9:30
FRI & SAT, THIRD SET AT 11:30
SETS NIGHTLY AT 7:30 & 9:30
FRI & SAT, THIRD SET AT 11:30
Thursday - Sunday, June 30 - July 3
GERALD CLAYTON TRIO
A rising star of post–bop piano and an impressive composer, 26–year–old Gerald Clayton made a thrilling debut with his 2009 album two–shade (Decca/Emarcy). He later earned two Grammy Award nomina¬tions, for his original song “Battle Circle” as Best Instrumental Composition; and for the Clayton Brothers’ New Song and Dance as Best Jazz Instrumental Album. Gerald Clayton’s second Decca/Emarcy CD, bond — the paris sessions, is a perfectly–balanced blend of inven¬tive originals (“Snake Bite,” “Sun Glimpse”) and classics from the Great American Songbook (“If I Were A Bell,” “All The Things You Are”). “For the best young jazz musicians…the music's long history isn't a stumbling block to expression,” wrote critic Richard Scheinin in a Mercury News review of a 2010 per¬formance by the Gerald Clayton Trio. “It's just a reality, a source of connections…Stealthily, a groove emerged, a through–line, pulsing out of that big, heady mix of information: three dimensions had been focused down to one.”
Tickets: $25/$30 Friday & Saturday - PURCHASE NOW
Monday July 4
JAZZ STANDARD CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY
Tuesday July 5
DARIO BOENTE & PROYECTO SUR
The term “crossover artist” can mean many things. In the case of Argentine pianist and composer Dario Boente, it means a musician whose career has taken him from Berklee in Boston to the tango clubs of Buenos Aires to the “rave” scenes of London and Ibiza. Since relocating to New York in 1999, Dario has released four CDs – including his latest, Sur – featuring such well–known players as drummer Antonio Sanchez, guitarist Ronny Jordan, and saxophonist Miguel Zenon. “Proyecto Sur” is Boente's acoustic project, with a repertoire of original compositions and Jazz and Argentine standards strongly influenced by Brazilian, Jazz and Argentine music. “Dario’s performances are full of lyricism, rich harmonies, impeccable technique, rhythm and Jazz vocabulary, all wrap up with exquisite romanticism.” (The Village Voice)
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Wednesday July 6
OSMANY PAREDES QUARTET
Osmany Paredes’ stunning debut at our “New Dimensions in Latin Jazz” series in 2007 established the young Cuban pianist/composer as one of the leading participants in New York’s new wave of Afro–Cuban jazz. Osmany’s lyrical compositions and virtuoso technique draw on the training in Afro–Cuban rhythms that began in childhood with his percussionist father, as well as his rigorous classical studies at Havana's National School of Music and the practical experience as the pianist with the quintessentially Cuban charanga group of Enrique Jorrin (Ruben Gonzales, later the pianist of Buena Vista Social Club, played for years with the Jorrin group). Osmany’s most recent release is Ciclos (Cycles), an exquisite solo piano album recorded at the New Orleans studio of Grammy Award–winning producer John Fischbach. “Steeped in the European classical tradition, enamored of jazz, and fully conversant with Cuban popular music dating back to the 1920s, Osmany Paredes is a thrilling player who combines percussive attack with a vivid harmonic imagination.” (Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe)
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Thursday - Sunday July 7 - 10
RENE MARIE
Rene Marie has been a perennially popular attraction on our stage for years: In 2010, the Denver–based vocalist played two rapturously received engagements, in February and September, and now she’s back again. Similarly, Rene plans to release two new albums (through Motema Music) in 2011. The first, Voice of My Beautiful Country, released back in March, is an ambitious celebration of Americana which glorifies the cultural diversity of the United States through Marie's beautiful and emotionally charged interpretations of nationally loved anthems, from Motown and Tin Pan Alley classics to “America the Beautiful.” The second CD, Black Lace Freudian Slip, will hit the streets in October 2011. It’s an all–original set that captures this much–loved singer's most personal recording and writing statements to date.
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Monday July 11
MINGUS ORCHESTRA
Our acclaimed “Mingus Monday” series continues tonight the return of the Mingus Orchestra. This sin¬gular aggregation will bring its singular blend of jazz and “non–jazz” instruments (oboe, French horn) to bear on some of the most classically–influenced compositions by legendary jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922–1979).
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Tuesday July 12
Stacy Dillard Quintet
Stacy Dillard is a fresh and exciting voice on that most potent of jazz instruments, the tenor saxophone. Hes performed and record with artists as diverse as played with Roy Hargrove, Stephon Harris, Ernestine Anderson, Shirley Ceasar, and Stevie Wonder. In the New York Times, Ben Ratliff hailed Stacy as a young saxophonist of serious promise. His cohort Eric Reed says: Stacys concept is original and inspiring. He is completely unpredictable and doesnt bore you with stock licksHes a true improviser! Jazz Standard is proud to present Stacy Dillard in his first appearance as a leader on our stage come tonight and catch one of tomorrows brightest new jazz stars!
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Wednesday July 13
JANE BUNNETT & HILARIO DURAN Plus Special Guest CANDIDO*
Two countries, two cultures, two master musicians: Together, Hilario Duran and Jane Bunnett created one spectacular album with Cuban Rhapsody, released 6/7/2011. Both are virtuoso players, arrangers, com¬posers, and bandleaders whose shared musical history and close personal friendship now spans 21 years. The album is best described as an exploration of Cuban classical music – a style little known in North America and Europe, but brought to vivid life here thanks to Hilario’s dazzlingly accomplished pianism and Jane’s gorgeously melodic playing on soprano saxophone and flute. The repertoire of Cuban Rhapsody can perhaps be viewed as the Cuban equivalent of the Great American Songbook, both timeless and resoundingly relevant. Album producer Peter Cardinalli calls Cuban Rhapsody “full of passion and melody – and that’s the essence of Cuban music.”
* The legendary 90 year old percussionist Candido will join Jane and Hilario as a very special guest for this one night only engagement - don't miss it!
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Thursday - Sunday July 14 - 17
HOUSTON PERSON QUARTET
With his rich tone and masterful control, Houston Person is a true living legend of the tenor sax. He’s appeared on our stage many times: with vocalist Ernestine Anderson, paying tribute to the late Johnny Griffin with the “Big Soul Band,” but perhaps most expressively with the top–shelf quartet of that will accompany him for this return engagement. Now in his seventh decade of jazz, Houston Person has seen and played it all from hard bop to organ groups, from lush “with strings” ballad albums to funky fusion experiments. “An unfailingly warm and gallant tenor saxophonist.” (Nate Chinen, The New York Times)
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Monday July 18
MINGUS BIG BAND
The Grammy Award–winning Mingus Big Band is back and blazing at Jazz Standard! “Genius. How else to explain all this huge sonic crazy quilt that is Charles Mingus’ art, and why it could, and still does, touch a lot of listeners?” (Gene Santoro, Myself When I Am Real: The Life And Music Of Charles Mingus, Oxford University Press)
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Tuesday - Wednesday July 19 - 20
ANIMATION featuring BOB BELDEN & TIM HAGANS
Animation might be the best, most creative me´lange of rock & jazz you’ve never heard of. For more than a decade, listeners have been left slack–jawed by the startling freshness and flat–out nerve that characterize Animation’s unclassifiable blend of jazz improvisation, hip-hop, drum 'n' bass, and more. In 2006, composer/saxophonist Bob Belden led Animation in a live “re–imagining” of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. These transformations form the core of Animation’s latest album, Asiento (RareNoiseRecords), and the group’s live sets invariably include soaring, startling versions of “Miles Runs The Voodoo Down” and “Spanish Key,” among other classic cuts. Did we mention that the musicians’ collective credits range from Joe Zawinul and Jack DeJohnette to Joni Mitchell and Medeski Martin & Wood?
"Miles Runs The Voodoo Down"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9MySADn8g
"Bitches Brew"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grNKgqhSNVo
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Thursday - Sunday July 21 - 24
PAT MARTINO QUARTET (7:30 & 9:30 Only)
Jazz Standard is honored to present the great Pat Martino and his organ trio in their debut appearance on our stage. With this fine group, the Philadelphia–born guitarist updates and personalizes the style of the organ bands in which he played during the Sixties and Seventies, including those of Charles Earland, Brother Jack McDuff, and Don Patterson. Pat made his Prestige Records debut as a leader at age 20; in 2006, he released the critically acclaimed Blue Note CD Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery. About a performance at Yoshi’s in San Francisco, Don Heckman wrote for The Los Angeles Times: “For the guitarists in the crowd (with veterans John Pisano and Lee Ritenour showing up to check out the action), the set was a stunning display of expertise by one of the instrument's finest technicians.”
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Monday July 25
MINGUS ORCHESTRA
“Most people are forced to do things they don’t want to for most of the time, and so they get to the point where they feel they no longer have any choices about anything important – including who they are. We create our own slavery. But I’m going to keep on getting through, and finding out the kind of man I am, through my music. That’s the one place I can be free.” (Charles Mingus, from a conversation with critic/author Nat Hentoff)
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Tuesday July 26
ROB DUGUAY’S SONGEVITY featuring ABRAHAM BURTON, NOAH PREMINGER & YVONNE SIMONE
Countless Jazz Standard patrons have been greeted nightly by our skilled and friendly maitre’d, Rob Duguay – but do they know that Rob is also an in–demand bassist, inventive composer, and first–rate bandleader? Tonight, Jazz Standard is proud to present Rob Duguay’s Songevity in its first appearance on our stage. Beginning in his student days at the University of Vermont, Rob has played with Clark Terry, Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo O’Farrill, among others. Rob later spent significant periods of musical development in Paris and pre–Katrina New Orleans before arriving in the NYC area in 2007. He’s gigged extensively with both his Low Key Trio and the Rob Duguay Quartet, but Songevity is his most expansive and unique experiment to date – don’t miss it!
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Wednesday July 27
JOHN BEASLEYPOSITOOTLY!QUINTET featuring JEFF TAIN WATTS, JAMES GENUS, ANTONIO HART, RASHAWN ROSS
John Beasley gained invaluable bandstand experience on the road with jazz icons Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard. As a solo artist and bandleader, Beasley brings his rhythm section Jeff Tain Watts and James Genus from his 2010 Grammy-nominated Positootly! album (Best Jazz Instrumental Album) to the Jazz Standard to showcase the original, propulsive, multi-layered compositions from funk and soul to bop. Beasleys music career spans nearly three decades with a credit list that reads like a virtual Whos Who of music: as Music Director for Steely Dan, Queen Latifah and A.R. Rahman and pianist with Dianne Reeves, Christian McBride, Chaka Khan, John Patitituci, Thad Jones, even James Brown. Los Angeles Times described his talent as reflecting a variety of generational influences, incorporating the emphatic chordal clusters of Herbie Hancock, the rhythmic quirkiness of Monk and the lush intelligence of Art Tatum into a highly refined personal voice. Jazz Times praises Positootly! as a good example of what happens when master instrumentalists get together one of the first Jazz classic albums of the 21st century. John is truly an amazing pianist, imaginative composer, creative improviser and arranger.
www.johnbeasleymusic.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1h8LWQReiE
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Thursday - Sunday July 28 - 31
FREDDY COLE QUARTET plus Special Guest HARRY ALLEN
Jon Hendricks calls him “a real Prince of Song, upholding a noble tradition as only he can.” Abbey Lincoln declared that he “bears a standard and is an inspiration to those of us who love the music.” Now in the sixth decade of his performing career and “back home” at Jazz Standard, Lionel Frederick “Freddy” Cole is a nonpareil vocal interpreter of The Great American Songbook and a superbly swinging pianist. Freddy’s special guest for this Jazz Standard engagement will be the masterful tenor saxophonist Harry Allen, whose discography as both leader and sideman includes the 2008 release Stompin' The Blues (with Joe Cohn) and the 2009 release New York State of Mind. “Harry’s playing,” says John Pizzarelli, “is nothing less than perfect!”
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