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 artists for August 2014. Highlights
include: Dee Dee Bridgewater featuring Theo Croker, Conrad Herwig's "Latin
Side of Horace Silver" project (which will be recorded live for future
release on Half Note Records), Tom Harrell's "Colors of a Dream"
(with Esperanza Spalding), Arturo Sandoval, Earl Klugh, and "Quincy Jones
Presents: Nikki Yanofsky & Andreas Varady Album Releases + Special
Guests," among others.
AUGUST 2014 ARTIST SCHEDULE
8:00PM
& 10:30PM shows each night, unless otherwise noted.
Doors
open at 6:00pm. $5 minimum.
The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra
Thursday
- Sunday, July 31 - August 3
William
"Count" Basie, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time whose
talent with the keyboard elevated jazz to a new art form, started the Count
Basie Orchestra in 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri. Dedicated to continuing the Basie legacy, the
Orchestra is still going strong today and will celebrate its 80th anniversary
in 2015. The group is in constant demand for television and films and has won
17 GRAMMY® Awards and 20 DownBeat and JazzTimes polls, more than any other big
band in jazz.
Music
Charge: $20 - Bar, $35 - Table
Quincy
Jones Presents: Nikki Yanofsky & Andreas Varady Album Releases + Special
Guests
Monday, August 4
Blue
Note Jazz Club (in association with Quincy Jones Productions) is proud to
present album release performances showcasing two of jazz's most talked about
new artists: 20-year-old vocalist Nikki Yanofsky and 17-year-old guitarist
Andreas Varady (both of whom are managed by Jones). At just 20 years old,
Yanofsky has topped both jazz and pop charts, performed with orchestras and big
bands, and sold out festivals and major theaters around the world; in 2010, she
sang to 3.2 billion people - half the world's population - at the Vancouver
Olympic and Paralympic Games. She has worked with luminaries such as Herbie
Hancock, Phil Ramone, Will.i.am, Wyclef Jean, and Elton John. She performs in
support of her new album, Little Secret, released in May 2014. Varady is
"one of the most talented people on this planet, who takes the music back
to where it belongs," says Jones. A child prodigy, Varady has performed
with a collection of world class musicians including: Lee Ritenour, Alfredo
Rodriguez, Frank Vignola, Casey Benjamin, and many more. He performs in support
of his new debut self-titled album, scheduled for August 5, 2014 release on
Verve Music Group. Varady will only perform as an opener for the first show at
7:00PM (with special guests, to be announced).
*Show
Times: 7:00PM & 10:30PM*
Music
Charge: $15 - Bar, $25 - Table
Arturo
Sandoval
Tuesday - Sunday, August 5-10
A
protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, renowned trumpeter Arturo
Sandoval is proud to return to Blue Note Jazz Club. His latest Concord Records
release, Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You), won the 2013 GRAMMY® Award for
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, and pays tribute to his mentor, Gillespie,
showcasing the legend's greatest compositions. Sandoval is noted as one of the
most dynamic and vivacious live performers of our time, having performed with
Celine Dion at the Oscars, with Justin Timberlake at the GRAMMY® Awards, and
with Alicia Keys at the Billboard Music Awards.
Music
Charge:
Tuesday
- Thursday: $20 - Bar, $35 - Table
Friday -
Sunday: $30 - Bar, $45 - Table
Earl
Klugh
Tuesday - Sunday, August 12-17
Following
six-night appearances in August 2012 and 2013 respectively, GRAMMY®-winning
master guitarist Earl Klugh's return to Blue Note Jazz Club for another six
nights this August (2014) marks the third iteration of what has become an
annual summer residency. Recording over 30 albums in his multi-million-selling
career including 23 Top 10 charting records - five of them No. 1 - on
Billboard's Jazz Album chart, Klugh performs in support of his latest Concord
Records album, HandPicked (2013) - a solo guitar album featuring a handful of
collaborative string duets (featuring the likes of country legend Vince Gill,
contemporary jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro).
Klugh's credit appears on recordings by Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Al
Jarreau, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Foxx and many others.
Music
Charge: $20 - Bar, $35 - Table
The Latin Side of Horace Silver: Conrad Herwig & The Latin Side All-Stars
W/ Special Guest Michel Camilo (8/19-21)
Live Half Note Records Album Recording
Tuesday
- Sunday, August 19-24
Trombonist
Conrad Herwig returns to Blue Note with "The Latin Side of Horace
Silver" program, spotlighting the music of jazz legend Horace Silver (who
recently passed away in June 2014). This marks Herwig's seventh project in the
"Latin Side" franchise. The engagement will be recorded live (to be
released on Half Note Records in 2015). GRAMMY®, Emmy®, and Latin GRAMMY® Award
winning pianist and composer Michel Camilo will guest for three nights. Since
1998, Herwig's "Latin Side" franchise has focused on reimagining
seminal jazz musicians' compositions by showcasing those compositions within
the framework of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean rhythms. Past projects have paid
homage to John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, among others, receiving
several GRAMMY® Award nominations for Half Note Records. Herwig's latest
"Latin Side" album, The Latin Side of Joe Henderson featuring Joe
Lovano, is scheduled for September 16, 2014 release on Half Note.
Music
Charge: $20 - Bar, $35 - Table
Tom Harrell "Colors of a Dream"
Tuesday
- Thursday, August 26-28
The
latest project from the prolific trumpeter and composer Newsweek praised for
his "pure melodic genius," Tom Harrell's "Colors of a
Dream" is a captivating piano-less sextet with two bassists -- one of them
the stellar Esperanza Spalding - and invigorating music by one of jazz's most
admired artists. The lineup also features bassist Ugonna Okegwo, tenor
saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, and drummer Jonathan
Blake. A veteran of bandleaders such as Horace Silver and Phil Woods and a
frequent winner of the DownBeat and JazzTimes magazines' critics and readers
polls, Harrell is known for the burnished warmth and melodic grace and freedom
of his trumpet and flugelhorn playing.
Music
Charge: $20 - Bar, $35 - Table
Dee Dee Bridgewater Featuring Theo Croker
Friday -
Sunday, August 29-31
Over the
course of a multifaceted career spanning four decades, GRAMMY® and Tony
Award-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater has been a torchbearer for female
vocalists in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. With three
GRAMMY® Awards to her credit, Bridgewater is seemingly getting better with age,
winning a 2010 GRAMMY® Award for her latest album Listen Now! Eleanora Fagan
(1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee, where she performed the timeless
songs of Billie Holiday. She appears at Blue Note with a band featuring her
latest protégé, 29-year-old trumpeter Theo Croker (the grandson of legendary
trumpeter Doc Cheatham), who recently released his debut album via OKeh/Sony
Masterworks in May 2014 to critical acclaim.
Music
Charge: $20 - Bar, $35 - Table
ADDITIONAL
PERFORMANCES
August
11 - Angela Johnson CD Release Show (8:00PM) / Bradd Marquis (10:30PM) *One Show Only For Both Artists Above At
Respective Show Times*
August
18 - Julie Eigenberg & Yaron Gershovsky
August
25 - Jeremy Pelt
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 Blue Note Jazz Festival
Late
Night schedule features:
Friday,
August 1 - Linda Oh "Sun Pictures" Feat.
Saturday,
August 2 - String 'N Skins
Friday,
August 8 - Christian Galvez Trio
Saturday,
August 9 - Chris Turner
Friday,
August 15 - Emergency Service
Saturday,
August 16 - Sharif In Burgundy
Friday,
August 22 - Robert Mwamba
Saturday,
August 23 - Mad Satta
Friday,
August 29 - Roswitha
Saturday,
August 30 - r'kardo st.Von
SUNDAY
BRUNCH SERIES
Sunday
Brunch at Blue Note Jazz Club is $29.50 per person and includes a live
performance, brunch entree and cocktail. Each performer is scheduled for two
shows, at 11:30AM and 1:30PM.
The upcoming schedule features:
August 3
- Louis Armstrong Birthday Tribute Feat. "Hot Lips" Joey Morant &
Catfish Stew
August
10 - "Portrait of Oscar Peterson" feat. Peter Beets Trio
August
17 - Jake Hertzog Trio
August
24 - Nanny Assis
August
31 - Zach Brock Quartet feat. Mike Moreno, Yaushi Nakamura & Rudy Royston
Blue
Note Jazz Club, based in the heart of Greenwich Village, is a New York City
cultural institution and one of the premier jazz clubs in the world. Jazz is
undoubtedly America's music, and while Blue Note strives to celebrate the
music's great history, the club is a place where progression and innovation -
the foundation of jazz - are encouraged and practiced on a nightly basis. Blue
Note is open for concerts 365 days a year.
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