Blue Note Jazz Club, one of the world's most
iconic jazz and blues venues based in Greenwich Village, is proud to announce
an impressive schedule of acts for February 2014. Highlights
include: Ron Carter in two settings - with his Quartet and with Roy Haynes
Fountain of Youth Band; Bill Evans Soulgrass with guests John Popper, John
Medeski, Eric Krasno & Neal Evans, Tim Carbone, and Marco Benevento;
Valentine's Week programs with vocalists Nicole Henry and Rachelle Ferrell; Les
McCann with Javon Jackson; Patricia Barber; and a special all-star benefit
concert for Earthquake/Tsunami Relief in Japan, among others.
Saturday
- Sunday, February 1 - 2
Saxophonist
Maceo Parker kicks off Blue Note's February schedule, closing out a six-night
run with his working band. Parker is best known for his collaborations with
artists such as James Brown, George Clinton and Ray Charles. As The New York
Post declared, "Maceo Parker wrote the book on funk."
Roy Nathanson's Jazz Passengers & Sotto Voce Present:
"Subway Moon, A Poetic Reverie" Featuring The Students of I.C.E.
Monday,
February 3
Saxophonist/Poet
Roy Nathanson's Jazz Passengers and Sotto Voce band will join his students from
New York City's Institute for Collaborative Education's (I.C.E) in a poetic,
musical reverie about the subway. Over the last year, students in this 6-12th
grade New York City public school have taken parts of poems and prose pieces
and transformed them into songs about romance, loss and angst with the backdrop
of the NYC subway - providing a generational contrast to songs from his
Nathanson's 2009 Enja release, Subway Moon. Performed together around a
backdrop of Andrew Gurian's video, they give a broad sense of the diverse magic
of our underground imagination. We are proud to present this 10th incarnation
of Nathanson's Subway Moon project featuring songs, musical improvisation as
well as tight arrangement, choral singing and video image at Blue Note.
Ron Carter Quartet
Tuesday
- Sunday, February 4 - 9
Among
the most original, prolific, and influential musicians in jazz, bassist Ron
Carter is scheduled to appear at Blue Note in multiple settings over the coming
weeks - with Roy Haynes (2/25-26) and Donald Harrison & Billy Cobham
(3/4-9). However he'll kick off this unofficial Blue Note residency with a
six-day run featuring his working Quartet (comprised of pianist Renee Rosnes,
drummer Payton Crossley, and percussionist Rolando Morales-Matos).
International Guitar Night
Monday,
February 10
The
International Guitar Night (IGN), founded in 1995, is the world's premier
touring guitar festival, each show bringing together the world's most
interesting and innovative acoustic guitarists to exchange musical ideas in a public
concert setting. For each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of
guitar luminaries to join him for special evenings of solos, duets, and
quartets that highlight the dexterity and diversity within the world of
acoustic guitar. This year IGN's North American tour features Pino Forastiere,
Mike Dawes, Quique Sinesi and Gore.
Nicole Henry
Tuesday
- Wednesday, February 11 - 12
Vocalist
Nicole Henry will kick off Blue Note's Valentine's Week. Henry's passionate,
soulful voice and heart-felt charisma has earned her a 2013 Soul Train Award
for "Best Traditional Jazz Performance" (for her recent album, SO
GOOD, SO RIGHT: NICOLE HENRY LIVE) three Top-10 U.S. Billboard and HMV Japan
jazz albums, and rave reviews both domestically and internationally by The New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, JazzTimes, Essence and more.
Rachelle Ferrell
Thursday
- Sunday, February 13 - 16
Equally
gifted as a vocalist, pianist, and songwriter, Rachelle Ferrell returns to Blue
Note to close out Valentine's Week. While Ferrell has an established fan base
in the contemporary jazz community, she has also made her mark as a crossover
artist on the pop/urban contemporary scene, singing backup for Lou Rawls, Patti
LaBelle, Vanessa Williams and George Duke to name a few. Having released albums
as a leader on both Blue Note and Capitol record labels respectively, Ferrell's
talents transcend generic classification.
Mino Cinelu World Jazz Ensemble
Monday,
February 17
Composer,
multi-instrumentalist, programmer, and producer, Mino Cinelu has performed with
world renowned artists such as Miles Davis, Sting, Weather Report, Herbie
Hancock, Lou Reed, Vicente Amigo, and Stevie Wonder, among others. At Blue
Note, he leads his new quartet, the World Jazz Ensemble, featuring
keyboardist/vocalist/percussionist, Jamshied Sharifi, bassist Mamadou Ba,
tubist/percussionist Jose Davila, and trumpeter Bria Skonberg. The ensemble
offers a unique repertoire of instrumental, percussion and vocal works, a
mélange that bridges world and jazz orchestrations.
Les McCann With Javon Jackson Band
Tuesday
- Thursday, February 18 - 20
Iconic
jazz/funk keyboardist-vocalist Les McCann returns to Blue Note with saxophonist
Javon Jackson, following their successful collaboration on Jackson's recent
release, Lucky 13. McCann is best known for his work in the late 1960s/early
1970s with partner/saxman Eddie Harris, whom he first encountered at the
Montreux Jazz Festival. The resulting album, Swiss Movement (1960), was a top
selling jazz record, and the single "Compared to What" sold platinum.
Known for his work with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Jackson has worked
with Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Betty Carter, Donald Byrd, Ron Carter, Dr.
Lonnie Smith, Bobby Hutcherson, and Ben E. King. He released five albums as a
leader on Blue Note Records in the 1990s.
Patricia Barber
Friday -
Sunday, February 21 - 23
"Few
performers in or out of jazz are as consistently brilliant as Patricia
Barber." - JazzTimes. A savvy bandleader who has honed a tight,
telegraphic style with her quartet, vocalist/pianist Barber is known for
transforming unlikely pop tunes into sleek jazz numbers, reinventing Cole
Porter, and constantly reworking her impressive book of originals. Her latest
critically acclaimed album is titled Smash (released on Concord Jazz in 2013).
"Music For Tomorrow: A Benefit For Japan" Hosted by Bob James
Monday,
February 24
Featuring:
Makoto Ozone + Kenny Barron (piano), John Scofield + Mike Stern (guitar),
James
Genus (bass), and Clarence Penn (drums), Among Others
March
2014 will mark the three-year anniversary of The Great East Japan Earthquake
and Tsunami of March 11, 2011. To remember the tragedy and show how music has
the ability to raise up spirits in the most difficult of times, Blue Note Jazz
Club, Bob James, and NHK Enterprises (Japan's national public broadcasting
organization) present "Music For Tomorrow: A Benefit For Japan," a
benefit concert to support Tohoku (the severely damaged area in northern
Japan), with
special
guests (listed above). The concert will be recorded by NHK, broadcast
throughout Japan (including the Tohoku area) and internationally through NHK
channels. All admission proceeds will be delivered as a charity to The Great
East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami victims.
Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth with Ron Carter
Tuesday
- Wednesday, February 25 - 26
Blue
Note Jazz Club proudly presents eminent drummer Roy Haynes and his Fountain of
Youth Band with bassist Ron Carter: two jazz legends, two nights only. Haynes
and Carter performed together at George Wein's 2009 CareFusion Jazz Festival 55
in Newport, RI. Pianist Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) witnessed the Newport
performance and described it on his blog, Do The Math, as "...a rare
chance to hear jazz today like they used to make it." Haynes, 88, is a
GRAMMY® Lifetime Achievement Award-winner and a NEA Jazz Master. This marks
Carter's second appearance at Blue Note in February, appearing with his Quartet
earlier in the month.
Bill Evans Soulgrass with Special Guests
Thursday
- Saturday, February 27 - March 1
Described
by NPR as "a supergroup of virtuoso musicians," saxophonist Bill
Evans' Soulgrass returns to Blue Note for a three night residency, joined by a
number of special guests: Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone, Soulive/Lettuce's Neal
Evans and Eric Krasno (February 27), John Medeski (February 28), Blues
Traveler's John Popper (February 28 - March 1), and Marco Benevento (March 1).
With more than 20-years under his belt as a solo artist, Evans and his
Soulgrass project are known for exploring a variety of musical settings that go
well beyond the confines of traditional jazz, including rock, hip-hop, jam,
fusion, reggae, Brazilian and funk. This run marks the one-year anniversary
since their last summit at Blue Note.
LATE
NIGHT GROOVE SERIES
Blue
Note Jazz Club proudly presents its Late Night Groove Series, which showcases
New York's up-and-coming jazz, soul, hip-hop, R&B and funk artists. Shows
are on Friday and Saturday nights. Doors
open at midnight and shows begin at 12:30AM. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15
day-of-show, unless otherwise noted. The upcoming schedule features:
February
1 - Chris Rob
February
7 - Sean Schulich, Peter Levin, Aaron Maxwell, David Diamond, w/ Maritri
February
8 - Thiefs
February
14 - Kelli Sae (All tickets $15)
February
15 - iLLspokinn
February
21 - Akim Funk Buddha
February
22 - Ty Stephens (All tickets $20)
February
28 - Farah Siraj
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