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By George Kanzler

Fulton cover photo by D Rimbault, O’ Neal by Roberto Cifarelli.

WINNING SPINSTHE DUO FORMAT IN JAZZ HAS

been aptly described as a musical tra-peze act without a net. Without a group tofill in or cover up flaws, two musicians areutterly exposed. Most recorded duos havebeen instrumental, often a piano or guitarwith another instrument, which may beanything from a bass or horn to anotherpiano or guitar. This month we listened to apair of duo albums, each featuring a vocal-ist. One singer also plays the piano; theother is paired with just an acoustic dou-ble-bassist, in the most minimal fashion.Champian Fulton & Cory Weeds'

Dream A Little… (Cellar Live), was record-ed at a house party in Vancouver, B.C.There was little or no planning as to tunesor approach for the largely spontaneousconcert by pianist-singer Champian andalto saxophonist Cory. Six of the ten trackscontain vocals; the remaining four are par-adigms of duo jazz playing. Champian's"Lullaby for Art" is anything but: It's actu-ally an up-tempo romp with scintillatingsolo turns by each. The Doris Day pop hit,"Once I Had a Secret Love," is taken atheartbeat tempo; Cory carries the melodyand solos first, interpolating quotes from"Nature Boy," another pop hit of the sameera. During her solo, Champian picks upon the Nat King Cole reference, mining aCole-like modern piano groove. The swingera "Tangerine" finds piano in the lead,and features a spirited round of four-bartrades. Buddy Johnson's blues ballad"Save Your Love for Me," features a bluesyalto sax solo, piano choruses rangingthrough keys and registers, and piano tagsthat quote Count Basie's famous three-chord coda.Champian's vocals reveal an evolving,

idiosyncratic singing style: unpredictable,surprising and incredibly elastic. She canbe coy in the manner of Blossom Dearie'slittle-girl warbling one minute, and sexilyun-demure the next, as on "Darn ThatDream," where sighs signal mood changesfrom dreamy to sensual. The words of"Pennies from Heaven" billow in her open-ing chorus, but she toys with them, sub-merging the notes of under to the lowestrange, in the out chorus. The track also ismemorable for Champian's solo, an exu-

berant foray into stride piano, contrastingwith all her other more mainstream mod-ern piano excursions. She also brings aquirky resonance to softer but emotionallyconvincing renditions of "I Thought AboutYou" and "I'd Give a Dollar for a Dime."Cory's alto sax is a challenging and empa-thetic foil throughout.On the self-released Electric

Psychology, Acute Inflections' acousticbassist Sadiki Pierre and vocalist ElaseaDouglas present a duo turn that is asabout as spare and basic as it can get.Sadiki rarely uses the bow, playing almostexclusively pizzicato, also creating percus-sive sounds by slapping or hitting thewooden frame of his bass. On a couple ofnumbers, Elasea chants or intones noteswordlessly, but she mostly sings lyrics. Hervocal style is rooted in R&B and folk asmuch as jazz, but her range can be quitechameleon-like. For instance, when she sings Dolly

Parton's "I Will Always Love You," she nat-urally glides into the bravura melismas ofWhitney Houston's version; Elasea's "AtLast" invokes Etta James' classic soul ver-sion. But it is the choice of repertoire, andthe provocative way they put it together,that make Acute Inflections memorable.The Cure's "Lovesong," which precedes "IWill Always Love You," repeats the titleline of Parton's song as a chorus. "NewYork, New York," done as a pared-downshuffle, is followed by "(I Can't Get No)Satisfaction," and the Spinners' hit "I'll BeAround" precedes Childish Gambino's"Redbone," with the referential lyric, "Ifyou want it, you can have it." Sometimesthe juxtapositions seem contrived, and theduo's originals don't have staying power;but some tracks are indelible, and a long,slow, gorgeous "Bésame Mucho" is a reve-lation of a song that's usually dismissed asa lame cliché.

Champian Fulton's Quartet playsFox & Falcon, South Orange, Dec. 6;brunch at the Blue Note, Dec. 8;Birdland, Dec. 26, and Shanghai Jazzin Madison, Dec. 27. Acute Inflectionsplays Rockwood Music Hall, Dec. 26.

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CLUBS & HALLS

UPPER MANHATTAN(Above 70th Street)

449 LA: 449 Lenox Av (bet 132nd & 133rd Sts).212-234-3298. Sun: 4-7pm Patio Jazz; Thurs:1-3:30pm Jazz & Dessert; Fri-Sat: 8:30pm.

AMERICAN LEGION POST: 248W 132nd St(bet 7th & 8th Avs). 212-283-9701. Sun, atler-native Wed & Thurs: 6:30-10:30pm Jam.

ANNEX: Hargrave House. 111W 71st St (betColumbus & Amsterdam Avs). 212-580-0888.Fri: 7:30-10:30pm $10 adm Open Micw/Frank Owens.

BILL’S PLACE: 148W 133rd St (bet Lenox & 7thAvs). www.billsplaceharlem.com. 212-281-0777. Fri-Sat: 8&10pm $20 don Bill SaxtonBebop Band.

CAFÉ CARLYLE: At Carlyle Hotel. 35E 76th Stat Madison. www.thecarlyle.com. 212-744-1600. Sets: 8:45pm, Sat + 10:45pm. Mon:except 12/23&30 Woody Allen & Eddy DavisNew Orleans Jazz Band.

CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE: 2485 Bway (bet92nd & 93rd Sts). www.cleopatrasneedleny.com. 212-769-6969. Sets: Early (E), Late (L);Sun E 4-8pm, L 9pm-1am; Mon-Tues E 8-9pm, L 10pm-1am; Wed-Thurs E 7-11pm, L11:30pm-2:30am; Fri-Sat E 8pm-12am, L12:30-3am. Free adm/$10 min. Trios exceptMon&Thurs Duets unless otherwise noted. LJam. Residencies: Sun E Open mic w/KeithIngham, L Benno Marmur; Mon Mark Hagan;Tues Marc Devine; Wed E Open mic w/LesKurtz, L Nathan Brown; Thurs L NathanBrown; Fri L Robbie Lee; Sat L T. Kash. Dec5: Noriko Kamo; 6: Libby Richman; 7: DanFurman; 12: Joel Forrester; 13: JesseCrawford; 14: Satchmo Mannan Band; 19:Equilibrium Gp; 20: Masami Ishikawa; 21:Walter Williams; 26: Gill Schwartz; 27: MihoSosaki; 28: Denton Darien.

GIN FIZZ: 308 Malcolm X Blvd at 125th St. 2ndFl. www.ginfizzharlem.com. 347-329-0167.

GINNY’S SUPPER CLUB: At Red Rooster. 310Lenox Av (bet 125th & 126th Sts). www.ginnyssupperclub.com. 212-792-9001. Sets unlessotherwise noted: 8pm. Dec 6: Joe FarnsworthTrio feat Elew; 20: C. Anthony Bryant; 24:Rakiem Walker Project; 26: 7&9pm PedritoMartinez; 27-28: Charenée Wade.

GREATER CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH:55W 124th St (bet Malcolm X Blvd & 5th Av).212-348-6132. www.harlemjazzboxx.com.Tues 12pm $15 adm & Fri 7pm $20: HarlemJazz series. Dec 3: Tony Lewis Trio; 6: TulivuCumberbatch; 13: Jonathan Finlayson Qrt;20: T.K. Blue.

HARLEM STAGE: At Aaron Davis Hall. 150Convent Av at W135th St. 212-281-9240.www.harlemstage.org. Dec 5: 7:30-10pm TheBaylor Project; 19: 7:30-10:30pm BriannaThomas & Fa-La-La-La Funk!

LENOX SAPHIRE: 341 Lenox Av at 127th St.www.lenoxsaphireharlem.com. 212-866-9700. Thurs: 8-11pm Keyed Up series w/PhilYoung Oct.

MET: 1000 5th Av at 82nd St. 212-535-7710.www.metmuseum.org. Dec 14: 7pm $75 admUte Lemper.

MILLER THEATRE: At Columbia University. 2960

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Bway at 116th St. 212-854-7799.www.millertheatre.com. Dec 7: 8pm $25 admCyrus Chestnut Qrt.

MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE: 206W 118th St (betSt. Nicholas Av & Adam Clayton PowellBlvd). www.mintonsharlem.com. 212-243-2222. Sets: 7:30& 9:30pm. Residencies: Sunexcept 12/8 Jason Marsalis Big Band; ThursJazzmobile feat 12/5 Tia Fuller, 12/12 tba,12/19 Jeremy Pelt, 12/26 Marc Cary & HarlemSessions; Sat except 12/14 JC HopkinsBiggish Band. Dec 6: “King” Solomon Hicks;13: Jazzmobile feat Wycliffe Gordon; 20:Johnny O’Neal.

MIST HARLEM: 46W 116th St (bet Lenox & 5thAv). www.mistharlem.com. 646-738-3043. Fri:10pm-2am $10 adm Harlem Late Night Jazz.

NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM:58W 129th St at Malcolm X Blvd. 212-348-8300. www.jmih.org. Dec 3: 7pm free admMusic & our Memories w/Helen Sung; 5: 7pmMickey Bass New York Powerhouse Ens; 7:2pm $10 don First Saturday Jam Sessionw/David Durrah; 8: 2pm Jazz PowerInitiative’s Intergenerational Jazz Jam w/EliYamin; 10: 7pm free The Year in Jazz: ACritics Roundtable w/Nate Chinen featMartin Johnson, Shannon J. Effinger & WillLayman; 12: 7pm $10 David Durrah Gp; 14:3:30pm $15 Vinyasa Jazz Flow.

NEW AMSTERDAM MUSIC ASSOCIATION:107W 130th St (bet Lenox & Adam ClaytonPowel Blvds). 347-712-8568. www.namaharlem.org. Mon: 7-11pm $5/15 adm Jam.

PARIS BLUES: 2021 Adam Clayton Powell Jr.Blvd at 121st St. 347-852-2866/212-222-9878.Sets/adm: 9pm-1am, Sun + 5-9pm; free. 9:30-11pm feat Al Black. Sun: 5pm Double G & thePosse, 9pm 1st&3rd Lombro, 2nd,4th&5thDouble G; Mon: Keyed Up feat John CookseySpontaneous Combustion; Tues: AntoineDowdell Gp; Wed: Les Goodson & theIntergalactic Soul Jazz Band; Thurs: Chiemi& the Chiemistry Set; Fri: tba; Sat: 69thStreet Band

PARLOR JAZZ: jaroneames@gmail.com. 646-337-0620. Sun: 2-5pm RSVP for information.incl BBQ, wine & dessert Parlor Jazz featJaRon Eames Duo.

ROOM 623: Below B Squared Harlem. 271W119th St (bet Frederick Douglass & St NickBlvds). www.b2harlem.com/room623. www.room623.eventbrite.com. 212-280-2248. Sets/adm: Sun 3-6pm $12/$15 min; Wed 8-11pm$12/$10 min; Fri 10pm-1am $20. Residen-cies: Sun Vocal Jazz Jam by Jocelyn Medina;Wed The Harlem Jazz Session w/PeterBrainin & friends; Fri The Late Set w/MarcusGoldhaber. Dec 6: SpinKicK; 8: Jane Irving;13: Freddie Bryant Trio; 15: Brenda EarleStokes; 20: Satish Robertson; 22: TamuzNissim; 27: Billy Test Trio.

SETTEPANI: 196 Lenox Av at 120th St. 917-492-4806. www.settepani.com.

SHOWMANS: 375W 125th St at Morningside.212-864-8941.

SHRINE: 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd(bet 133rd & 134th Sts). 212-690-7807.www.shrinenyc.com. Sets unless otherwisenoted: Early (E) 6-7pm, Late (L) 7-8pm.Residencies (R): Sun E-L Jam w/AndrewKushnir; 1st Sun 8-10pm The Shrine BigBand. Dec 1: R; 3: 7-9pm Nate Sparks BigBand; 6: L Nathanael Koenig; 7: E TristanCappel, 8-9pm Bruce Mack w/NubianMessengers; 8: R; 10: E-L Colin Hinton, 9-10pm Time & Space; 12: L Joe Pino Qnt, 9-10pm Bees Deluxe; 13: E Michael Sarian, LDana Reedy; 15: R; 17: L Andy Bianco Qrt;19: 8-9pm The Varnburners; 20: E DamienPratt, 9-10pm Steve Chelliah; 21: E NY JazzForce; 22&29 R.

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244 REHEARSAL STUDIOS: 244W 54th St(bet Bway & 8th Av) 10th Fl. 212-586-9056.www.244rehearsalstudiosny.com. Dec 15:8pm Kappa Maki & Satoko Fujii.

AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: 2 LincolnSq on Columbus Av (bet 65th & 66th Sts).www.folkartmuseum.org. 212-595-9533.Wed: 2-3pm free adm Bill Wurtzel Trio w/JayLeonhart feat 12/4 Shailah Edmonds, 12/11Carolyn Leonhart, 12/18 Shirley Crabbe.

BIRDLAND: 315W 44th St (bet 8th & 9th Avs).212-581-3080. www.birdlandjazz.com. Sets:8:30&11pm; Early (E) 5:30pm except Mon7pm. Residencies: Sun (R) except 12/15Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orch;Wed E except 12/25 David Ostwald’s LouisArmstrong Eternity Band; Fri E The BirdlandBig Band; Sat E except 12/14&21 EricComstock w/Sean Smith & spec guestBarbara Fasano. Dec 1: E The City RhythmOrch + R; 3-7: Joe Lovano Nnt; 5: E TobiasMeinhart Qrt; 8: E Benny Benack III w/StevenFeifke Big Band + R; 9: E Andy Bey B’dayceleb; 10-14: Stacey Kent; 12: E MyriamPhiro; 15: E + 8:30&11pm Ken Peplowski BigBand; 17-21: Monty Alexander; 19: E SONICAw/Thana Alexa, Nicole Zuraitis & JuliaAdamy feat spec guests Dan Pugach &Antonio Sanchez; 22: R; 24-28: Freddy ColeQrt; 26: E Champian Fulton; 29: E EvanSherman Big Band + R; 31: The Birdland BigBand w/Veroncia Swift.

BIRDLAND THEATER: 315W 44th St (bet 8th& 9th Avs). www.birdlandjazz.com. 212-581-3080. Sets: Early (E) 7pm; Late (L) 9:45pmexcept Mon 8:30pm. Dec 1: L John di Martino;2: L The Anderson Brothers; 4: L Birdographyceleb Dave Brubeck w/David DeJesus & ChrisSmith; 5: Marta Sánchez Qnt; 6: E Jake FryerQrt w/spec guest Melanie Stace; 9: L HarryAllen Qrt; 12: Charles Turner & Uptown SwingHoliday Swinging Special; 13-14: GunhildCarling; 16: L Dave Pietro; 17: E Darius deHaas; 18: Bobby Sanabria & Sexteto Ibiano;19-21: Julius Rodriguez; 22: E Brynn Stanley;23: L Anaïs Reno; 24-28: Veronica Swiftw/spec guest James Tormé; 29: E JoshRichman Qnt; 30: E Tadataka Unno Trio.

CARNEGIE CLUB: 156W 56th St. 212-957-9676. www.hospitalityholdings.com. Sat:8:30&10:30pm $40/2 drink min Sinatra trib-ute feat Steve Maglio & Stan Rubin Orch.

CARNEGIE HALL: 57th St & 7th Av. 212-247-7800. www.carnegiehall.org. Zankel Hall(ZH). Dec 6: 8pm $17-80 adm TerenceBlanchard & the E-Collective w/Jon BatisteTank & The Bangas, spec guests Vieux FarkaTouré, Quiana Lynell, Joshuah Campbell,Carpenters United Choir & RAREdancework;7: 8pm $17-80 Artemis feat Anat Cohen; 13:9pm ZH $39-49 Lionel Loueke Trio; 20-21:8pm $22-145 The New York Pops feat TonyDeSare & Capathia Jenkins.

CENTER BAR: 10 Columbus Cr, 4th Fl. 212-823-9482. www.centerbarnyc.com. Tues-Sat:6-10pm Janice Friedman Solo.

CHRIST & ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH: 120W69th St (bet Bway & Columbus Av). 212-787-2755. www.chelseaopera.org. Dec 6: 7pm$40-20 adm Anne Phillips feat BendingToward the Light, a Jazz Nativity w/AdamAsarnow, Dean Johnson, Tim Horner,Candido, Charlie Caranicas, Jon Gordon,Anton Denner, Art Baron, The RoyalBopsters w/spec guests Newman Baker &The Foreman Twins.

CLUB BONAFIDE: 212E 52nd St (bet 2nd &3rd Avs). 3rd Fl. www.clubbonafide.com.646-918-6189. Dec 1: 4pm Yael & Gabriel,8pm Violette; 5: 8pm Lou Caputo & the NotSo Big Band; 6: 8pm Barbara Martinez, 10pmHarry Smith Qrt; 8: 7pm Yael & Gabriel; 11:

SILVANA: 300W 116th St at FrederickDouglass Blvd. www.silvana-nyc.com. 646-692-4935. Sets unless otherwise noted: Early(E) 6-7pm, Late (L) 7-8pm. Dec 2: E Breathe-Live, L NYU Brad Shepik Ens, 9-10pm GiladBloom Band; 3: E-L Ocelot; 4: E-L JeffMcGregor, 8-9pm The B Sharp Big Band; 5:E-L Meg Okura, 9-10pm Alyson Murray; 6: EBrandon Coleman Qrt; 7: 12-5:30pm NewYork Jazz Workshop Recital, L The SwingEasy Trio, 9-10pm Alexis Corey; 8: 12-5:30pmNew York Jazz Workshop Recital; 9: E-L CowTrio; 10: E-L The Dom Palombi Project, 9-10pm Real Stormin Norman; 11: E TristanCappel; 12: 9-11pm Scott Reeves & JayBranford Tnt; 13: L Dahna & Panas; 18: E-LCarol Morgan; 19: E-L Javier Nero; 20: E-LMichael Sarian Acoustic Qrt; 23: 7-9pmFranglais Holiday Extravaganza; 26: E-LCharley Gordon; 27: E Joe Pino Qnt; 30: ETakeshi Otani Band.

SMOKE JAZZ & SUPPER CLUB: 2751 Bway(bet 105th & 106th Sts). 212-864-6662.www.smokejazz.com. Set: Early (E), Late (L); Sun-Mon&Thurs E 7&9pm, L 10:30pm; Tues 7,9&10:30pm; Wed E 7,9&10:30pm, L11:45pm; Fri-Sat E 7,9&10:30pm, L 11:45pm&12:45am; adm/min vary. Residencies: Sun L Roxy Coss Trio except 12/2211:45pm&12:45am Johnny O’Neal; Monexcept 12/23&30 (R) E Vincent Herring Qrt, LThe New Jam Session, except 12/2311:45pm&12:45am Johnny O’Neal; Wed LEmmet Cohen B3 Trio except 12/2511:45pm&12:45am Johnny O’Neal; Thurs LMarc Cary & The Harlem Sessions except12/26 11:45pm&12:45am Johnny O’Neal; FriL Lezlie Harrison except 12/20 JohnnyO’Neal; Sat L Johnny O’Neal Trio. Dec 1:Charles Turner & Uptown Swing; 2: R; 3:Mike LeDonne & Groover Qrt; 4: FreddieBryant Standards Qrt; 5-8: Buster WilliamsSomething More Qrt; 9: R; 10: Mike LeDonne& Groover Qrt; 11: Carolyn Leonhart; 12-Jan5: Countdown 2020 Coltrane Festival feat12/12-15 Countdown Qnt I w/Billy Harper,12/16 R, 12/17 Tribute to Harold Mabern,12/18 Cynthia Scott, 12/19-22 CountdownQnt II w/George Coleman & Eric Alexander,12/23-25 Countdown Qrt III w/Al Foster &George Cables, 12/24 11:45pm&12:45amJohnny O’Neal, 12/26-28 Countdown Qnt IVw/Eddie Henderson & Eric Reed, 12/29-30Countdown Qnt V w/Eric Reed & VincentHerring, 12/31 6:30&9:45pm Countdown SxtVI w/Nicolas Bearde, Vincent Herring & EricAlexander.

SUGAR BAR: 254W 72nd St (bet Bway & WestEnd Av). 212-579-0222. www.sugarbarnyc.com.Sets/adm: 8pm/$10 unless otherwise noted.Residencies: Thurs 9pm Open Mic w/SugarBar All Star Band. Dec 6: $15 Nat AdderleyTrio; 7: 9pm Irini Res & the Jazz Mix; 20:8&9:30pm $15 Joe Bonacci; 28: RobSilverman Qrt.

SYMPHONY SPACE: 2537 Bway at 95th St.212-864-5400. www.symphonyspace.org.Bar Thalia (BT). Dec 5: 7:30pm $30-20 admStephane Wrembel w/Thor Jensen & SaraL’Abriola; 13: BT 9pm free Carlos Dias; 175&7:30pm, 18 5pm: $35/30 Peter & WillAnderson.

The TRIAD THEATER: 158W 72nd St (betBway & Columbus). www.triadnyc.com. 212-362-2590. 2 drink/min. Dec 1: 5pm NoraMcCarthy Qnt; 4: 7pm Chris Rogers Band;14: 7pm Uncommon Chord.

MID-TOWN MANHATTAN(Between 35th & 69th Street)

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6&8pm Yael & Gabriel; 12: 7pm EmilieSurtees; 14: 8:30pm The New YorkNightingales & The New Retro Orch; 15: 7pmYael & Gabriel; 18: 6pm Yael & Gabriel, 8pmEmilie Surtees; 19: 8pm Emilie Surtees; 20:5pm Chloé Perrier, 9pm Yael & Gabriel,10:30pm Carlos Dias; 21: 3pm GabrielHermida; 22: 8:30pm Violette; 23: 8:30pmYael & Gabriel; 26: 8:30pm Nina Simone; 27:5pm Chloé, 9pm Barbara Martinez, 10:30pmYael & Gabriel; 29: 1pm Yael & Gabriel.

COPINETTE: 891 1st Av (bet 50th & 52st Sts).212-903-4001. www.copinettenyc.com. Sun:6-9pm Trio.

DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM: At LincolnCenter. Bway at 62nd St. www.lincolncenter.org/atrium. 212-875-5350. Sets/adm: 7:30pm/free. Dec 5: Jokes & Jazz w/Sheila Anderson& Wali Collins feat Willerm Delisfort Trio; 12:Karuna Trio.

DIZZY’S CLUB: At Jazz @ Lincoln Center. 10Columbus Cr at 60th St. 5th Fl. www.jalc.org.212-258-9800. Sets/adm unless otherwisenoted: 7:30&9:30pm, 11:30pm Late NightSessions; Sun-Wed $35, Thurs $40, Fri-Sat$45; $10 min. Dec 1: $40 Wycliffe Gordon &friends; 2: $40 7:30pm Manhattan School ofMusic Jazz Orch; 3: $40 7:30pm New YorkYouth Symphony Jazz Band w/spec guestMatt Wilson; 4: Lioness feat Lauren Sevian &Alexa Tarantino; 5-8: Ulysses Owens, Jr.’sGeneration Y; 9: Juilliard School JazzEnsembles; 10: $30 Yuval Cohen Sxt; 11-12:12/11 $45 Steven Bernstein 12/11w/Millennial Territory Orch, 12/12 w/Sexmob;13-15: Mary Stallings; 16: Ted Rosenthal Trio;17: Etienne Charles; 18: Duchess; 19-20:Riley Mulherkar; 21-24: 12/22-23 $40, 12/247pm only $50 Barry Harris Trio; 25: no jazz;26-31: 12/28 $55, 12/29-30 $45, 12/317:30&11pm $250 Carlos Henriquez Nnt. LateNight Sessions w/Dec 3-7: tba; 10-14: GabeSchnider; 17-21: Charles Turner & UptownSwing; 26-28: tba.

DON’T TELL MAMA: 343W 46th St atRestaurant Row. 212-757-0788. www.donttellmamanyc.com. Dec 6: 7pm JohnMinnock.

EDISON BALLROOM: 240W 47th St (bet Bway& 8th Avs). www.edisonballroom.com. 212-201-7650. Dec 31: 8pm-2am $395/295 admincl four-course dinner, drinks, champagnetoast, taxes & gratuities NYE w/Joe BattagliaNew York Big Band.

FINE & RARE: 9E 37th St (bet 5th & MadisonAvs). www.fineandrare.nyc. 212-725-3866.Sun: 6-9pm Susan Tobocman Duo.

FOUR SEASONS: 57E 57th St (bet Madisonand Park Avs). www.fourseasons.com. 212-758-5700. Fri: 6-10pm Acute Inflections.

The GRADUATE CENTER OF CUNY: 365 5thAv at 35th St. www.gc.cuny.edu. 877-428-6942. Dec 13: 7pm Live@365 series featAdam Rudolph's Go Organic Orch w/theBrooklyn Raga Massive.

GUANTANAMERA: 939 8th Av. 212-262-5354.www.guantanamerany.com. Sets: Sun-Thurs8:30pm-12am, Fri-Sat 8:30pm-1am. Tues-Wed: Ariacne Trujillo Trio.

IGUANA RESTAURANT: 240W 54th St atBway. www.iguananyc.com. 212-765-5454.Mon-Tues: 8-11pm Vince Giordano & TheNighthawks.

The IRIDIUM: 1650 Bway at 51st St. 212-582-2121. www.theiridium.com. Dec 2: 8pm LevinBrothers; 9: 8:30pm Ed Palermo Big Band;16-19: 8:30pm Mike Stern/Jeff LorberFusion; 20-22: 8:30pm John Patitucci, OzNoy & Keith Carlock; 27-28: 8:30&10:30pmPharoah Sanders.

JAZZ AT KITANO: 66 Park Av at 38th St. 212-885-7119. www.kitano.com. Sets/adm: Sun12-2:30pm, Mon-Tues 8-11pm, Wed-Sat 8-9:15&10-11:15pm; Sun $45 buffet, Mon-Tuesfree/$15 min, Wed-Thurs $18/$20 min, Fri-Sat $34/$20 min. Residencies: Sun (R) JazzBrunch w/Tony Middleton; Mon (R) Jam byIris Ornig; Tues Emerging Artists series. Dec1-2: R; 3: Jenny Xu Qrt; 4: Yuka Mito Qrt; 5:Stefan Bauer & Brooklyn Vibe feat DaveSmith; 6: Alexis Cole Duo; 7: Jon GordonQrt; 8-9: R; 10: tba; 11: Ben Cassara Qnt featAdam Hutcheson; 12: Glafkos Kontemen-iotis Qrt feat Joel Frahm; 13-14: FrankKimbrough Trio; 15-16: R; 17: Dallas ViettyQrt; 18: Judimarie Canterino Qrt; 19: IrisOrnig Qnt feat Jeremy Powell; 20-21: GerryMulligan celeb feat 12/20 Gary Smulyan,12/21 Scott Robinson; 22-23: R; 24-25: nojazz; 26: Daryl Sherman Duo; 27-28: RonnyWhyte Qrt; 29-30: R; 31: $150/$40 min NYEw/Nilson Matta's Brazilian & Jazz Band featHarry Allen.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER: 10 ColumbusCr at 60th St. 5th Fl. www.jalc.org. 212-258-9800. Dec 20-21: 8pm The Jazz at LincolnCenter Orch w/Wynton Marsalis & MarcusPrintup feat Big Band Holidays w/DenzalSinclaire & Alexis Morrast.

LE RIVAGE: 340W 46th St (bet 8th & 9th Avs).www.lerivagenyc.com. 212-765-7374. Mon6:30pm & Thurs 7pm: Jam w/Kyle Colina Trio.

LOCAL 802: Associated Musicians of GreaterNew York Club Room. 322W 48th St (bet 8th& 9th Sts). www.jazzfoundation.org. 212-245-4802. Dec 2: 6:30-9pm Jazz Foundation ofAmerica Jam; 10: 5pm Jazz in the Afternoonfeat Roger Rhodes Jazz Ens; 16: JazzFoundation of America Holiday Jam.

MICHIKO STUDIOS: 149W 46th St (bet 6th &7th Avs). 3rd Fl. 212-302-4011. www.michikostudios.com. 2nd Wed: 8-10:30pm$20/15 adm Lew Tabackin Trio.

MORGAN LIBRARY: 225 Madison Av at 36thSt. www.themorgan.org. 212-685-0008. Fri:6:30-8:30pm BeBimBop Ens.

The PIERRE: 2E 61st St at 5th Av. 212-838-8000. www.thepierreny.com. Thurs-Sat: 6:30-9:30pm Antonio Ciacca.

PULSE CLUB: At Marriott Vacation. 33W 37thSt (bet 5th & 6th Avs). 212-448-1024. Sets:Tues-Thurs 5-8pm. Tues: Charlie Apicella &Iron City; Wed: Latin Sounds; Thurs: PeterManes & The Keys.

RESIDENCE INN TIMES SQUARE: 1033 6thAv at 39th St. 212-768-0007. Tues: 7:30-10:30pm free adm Daniel Bennett Gp.

ROGER SMITH HOTEL: 501 Lexington Av at47th St. www.rogersmith.com. 212-755-1400.Free adm/no min. Wed: 6-9pm PamelaKnowles Qrt.

The RUM HOUSE: At Hotel Edison. 228W 47thSt (bet Bway & 8th Av). 646-490-6924.www.edisonrumhouse.com. Dec 7&9:9:30pm-12:30am Lou Caputo & Co.

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR: 256W 52nd St (betBway & 8th Av). www.russiansamovar.com.212-757-0168. Sun: 3-7pm. Dec 1: MichikaFukumori & Yuko Ito Trio; 8: Stephanie JnoteTrio; 15: Ray Blue Qrt w/Laurie Depice.

SAINT PETER’S CHURCH: 619 Lexington Av at54th St. (Citicorp Bld). 212-935-2200.www.saintpeters.org. Sun: 6pm free admJazz Vespers; Wed: 1pm $10 don MiddayJazz Midtown; 1st Mon: 7:30pm $5 admInternational Women in Jazz Jam. Dec 1:Sara Caswell & Strings; 4: Hell’s KitchenFunk Orch; 8: Sara Caswell & Stringsw/guest Brenda Earle Stokes; 11: Yuletide

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Celeb feat Ben Cassara, Roz Corral, AlexLeonard, Josephine Sanges, Sandy Stewart,Ronny Whyte; 15: Heart Qrt w/Anna Dagmar;18: Yuletide Celeb II feat Danny Bacher,Alexis Cole, Melissa Hamilton, Erli Perez,Daryl Sherman, Ronny Whyte; 22: Heart Qrtw/Sara Caswell String Qrt; 25: no jazz; 29:Yuriy Galkin.

SECRET ROOM: 707 8th Av (bet 44th & 45thSts). www.secretroomnyc.com. 917-708-8663. Wed: 7:30-10:30pm $25 adm GlennCrytzer Orch.

SWING 46: Jazz & Supper Club. 349W 46th St(bet 8 & 9th Avs). www.swing46.com. 212-262-9554. Sets/adm: Sun-Thurs 8:30-11:30pm/$15; Fri-Sat 9:30pm-1am/$20.Residencies (R): Mon Swingadelic; TuesGeorge Gee Swing Dance Band; Wed except12/25 Stan Rubin Orch w/Joe Politi; ThursStephen Santoro Orch w/Michelle Collier.Dec 1: Felix And The Cats; 2-5: R; 6:Professor Cunningham Old School; 7: SarahHayes & Swing Society; 8: Robert EdwardsBig Band; 9-12: R; 13: George Gee SwingDance Band; 14: Ron Sunshine & Full Swing;15: From Russia With Swing; 16-19: R; 20:Ron Sunshine & Full Swing; 21: CrescentCity Maulers; 22: Sarah Hayes & SwingSociety; 23-24: R; 25: closed; 26: R; 27:George Gee Dance Band; 28: Swingadelic;29: George Gee Orch; 30-31: R.

TOMI JAZZ: 239E 53rd St (Bet 2nd & 3rd Avs).Lower level. www.tomijazz.com. 646-497-1254. Dec 1: 7pm free adm/$5 min BillStevens; 8 7pm free/$5 min & 19 7pm $10/10min: Linda Presgrave Qrt.

11TH STREET BAR: 510E 11th St (bet Av A &B). www.11thstbar.com. 212-982-3929. Mon:8pm Keyed Up feat Jam w/Murray Wall.

55 BAR: 55 Christopher St (bet 6th & 7th Avs).212-929-9883. www.55bar.com. Sets: Early(E) 7-9pm except Sun&Fri-Sat 6-9pm, Late10pm. 1st Mon: E Sean Wayland; 1st Thurs: EAmy Cervini; 1st Sat: E Ayana lowe; 2ndThurs: E Nicole Zuraitis; 2nd Fri: E TessaSouter; 3rd Sun: E Ray Anderson & PocketBrass Band; last Wed: E Paul Jost; last Fri: EKendra Shank. Dec 2: L Iris Ornig &Storyteller; 15: L Jamie Baum & ShortStories.

ARTHUR’S TAVERN: 57 Grove St. 212-675-6879. www.arthurstavernnyc.com. Sets: 7-10pm. Sun: Creole Cooking; Mon: GroveStreet Stompers feat Joe Licari; Tues: YuichiHirakawa; Wed: Eve Silber; Thurs-Sat: EriYamamoto Trio.

B FLAT: Basement 277 Church St (bet Franklin& White Sts). www.bflat.info. 212-219-2970.Sets: Mon 8-11pm, Wed 8:30-11:30pm, Sat10pm-12am. Mon&Wed: Jordan Young Trio.Dec 7: Charlie Apicella & Iron City.

BAHA’Í CENTER: 53E 11th St (bet Bway &University). www.bahainyc.org. 212-222-5159. Tues: 8&9:30pm $10/15 adm. Dec 3:Warren Smith & the Jazz ComposersWorkshop Orch; 10: Lenore Raphael.

BAR NEXT DOOR: 129 McDougal St. 212-529-5945. www.lalanternacaffe.com. Sets: Sun8&10pm, Mon-Thurs Early (E) 6:30-7:45pm,Late (L) 8:30&10:30pm, Fri-Sat 7:30,9:30&11:30pm. Adm: $12 all night + 1 drink min/setexcept Fri-Sat $12/set + 1 drink min/set, Efree. Trios unless otherwise noted. Mon-

Thurs: E Emerging Artists series; Mon: LVocal Mondays series. Residency (R): Sunexcept 12/22 Peter Mazza. Dec 1: R; 2: EAndy Bianco, L Erli Perez; 3: E Owen Chen, LVaughn Stoffey; 4: E Juan Munguia, L tba; 5:E Olin Clark, L Leandro Pellegrino; 6: JackWilkins; 7: Brandon Coleman; 8: R; 9: EPanas Athanatos, L Dorian Devins; 10: EAlec Aldred, L Andrew Kushnir; 11: EAndrew Cheng, L tba; 12: E Jake Richter, LKevin Clark; 13: Alex Wintz; 14: SherylBailey; 15: Peter Mazza Solo; 16: E JacobKohlhas, L Jocelyn Medina; 17: E JacobKohlhas, L Andrew Pereira; 18: E ArturAkhmetov, L tba; 19: E Adam Cordero, L JeffMiles; 20: Jeff Barone; 21: Jeff McLaughlin;22: Gianluca Renzi; 23: E Erich Johnson, LNora McCarthy; 24: E Lisa Hoppe, L GeneBertoncini Solo; 25: closed; 26: E AndrewPereira, L Nate Radley; 27: Michael Valeanu;28: Alex Lore; 29: R; 30: E tba, L Rose Ellis;31: NYE tba.

BITE 22: 62W 22nd St at 6th Av. 646-649-2768.Dec 31: 5-7pm $20 adm NYE for the familyand kids feat Sam Baum & Friends Jazz Ens.

The BLACK DOOR: 127W 26th St (bet 6th &7th Avs). www.blackdoornyc.com. 212-645-0215. Mon: 11pm-2am Terry Waldo & GothamCity Band.

BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB: 131W 3rd St at 6thAv. 212-475-8592. www.bluenotejazz.com.Sets: 8&10:30pm + Fri-Sat 12:30am LateNight Groove series; Sun 11:30am&1:30pmSunday Brunch. Adm varies. Dec 1: JohnScofield & Dave Holland Duo; 2-3: DizzyGillespie Afro-Latin Experience; 4-8: ArturoSandoval; 9-31: 12/31 7&10:30pm ChrisBotti. Late Night Groove w/Dec 6: JermaineHolmes; 14: Victory Boyd. Sunday Brunchw/Dec 1: Brad Shepik & his NYU Ens; 8:Champian Fulton; 15: Danny Bacher; 22:Stephane Wrembel & friends; 29: JoeyMorant & Catfish Stew.

CAFÉ BOHEMIA: 15 Barrow St (bet Bleeker &West 4th Sts). www.cafebohemianyc.com.212-691-6127. Sets: 8-11:30pm. Dec 3: 8-10:30pm Yvonnick Prene Trio; 5: Mara Kaye +Cafe Bohemia Jazz Qrt w/Jon-Erik Kellso +Hot Club; 7: Andreas Arnold’s Odisea; 13:Svetlana & New York Swing Collective; 14:Ken Kobayashi Trio feat Anthony Coleman;20: Kristina Koller; 21: Philip WeberndörferQrt.

CAFE NOCTAMBULO: At Pangea. 178 2nd Av(bet 11th & 12th Sts). 212-995-0900.www.cafenoctambulo.com. Dec 21: 7pmLauren White & Quinn Johnson Trio; 27:9:30pm Jazz Bastards.

The CELL: 338W 23rd St (bet 8th & 9th Avs).646-861-2253. www.thecelltheatre.org. Dec4&7: 7-8pm Candice Hoyes & Jorell Williams;16: 7-9pm Jay Rodriguez; 19: 8:30-10:30pmJason Yeager Qrt.

The CUPPING ROOM CAFE: 359W Bway (betBroome & Grand Sts). 212-925-2898.www.cuppingroomcafe.com. 3rd Sat: 8-11pm Gitesha’s Jazz Boogaloo.

The CUTTING ROOM: 44E 32nd St (betMadison & Park Av). 212-691-1900. www.thecuttingroomnyc.com. Dec 15: 7pm $20/25adm Rob Scheps.

The DJANGO: At Roxy Hotel. 2 Av of theAmericas at Walker St. www.roxyhotelnyc.com. 212-519-6600.

DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY: 13 MonroeSt (bet Market & Catherine Sts). 212-473-0043. www.downtownmusicgallery.com.Sun: 6pm In-Store shows. Dec 8: SamHarnet/Sana Nagano Trio, 7pm Peach &Tomato.

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PREPARATION ALWAYS HAS BEENthe name of the tune for Carmen

Lundy, who thrives on spontaneity andexploration. Between gigs and busy tourschedules, the Los Angeles-based singer,composer and bandleader uses her time athome to work out ideas for new music onher own. "When I do go into any kind ofperforming situation, I come in with a lotof confidence and a lot of preparation," shesays.Her 2019 release, Modern Ancestors,

reflects her intense preparation giving wayto of-the-moment intention. "Spontaneity,you kind of have to rely on it," saysCarmen, who describes the term as theresult of "a lot of collisions and accidents."When composing the record, she leaned into the process of finding a clear concept ortheme followed by improvising—a lot. "Ithought, What I'm gonna do is just impro-vise over what I have as a basic roadmap,"she explains, "So the improvisation—thespontaneity—becomes the composition." Carmen admits she'd been working on

the album's first track "A Time for Peace"for three years before she deployed a kindof experimental solo session. "I thought,Why don't I do something I normally don'tdo and set up the microphone in front ofmy keyboard and just improvise?", sherecalls. "Because when you're working atyour craft every day by yourself, workingout ideas, you really have to push yourselfnot to do the thing that you know alreadyworks." Embracing that brand of discomfort has

helped shape Carmen's expression sinceshe was a child growing up in Miami. In apast interview, she recalled refrainingfrom joining the soprano section of herchildren's choir because she already knewthe melodies and sought to explore newones in the alto section. That sameappetite for experimentation and fresh-ness, in part, prompted the release ofModern Ancestors. "The whole [idea] is tomake people think: Here we are now, likeit or not. But you also have to say: This ishow we got here."Citing Geri Allen, Mulgrew Miller,

Aretha Franklin and Roy Hargrove, amongother recently departed masters, Carmenlays out the elemental core of ModernAncestors. "The impressions left by allthese great people, you take that with you.Betty [Carter] was great at making itappear as though her musicians were wait-ing for permission to do everything, butthey were just attentive because shedemanded that. I learned from that. Ilearned from the way Nina Simone steppedonto the bandstand, and the way shewould look every person straight in the eyebefore she played a note." In the spirit of her music's lineage, trust

regularly emerges as a key ideal Carmenand her band members share when theyperform and record together. GuitaristAndrew Renfroe's contributions on ModernAncestors reflect his own artistry as well asan expressive rapport he and Carmen havedeveloped over the past several years. "Hissound is gritty; it's pretty; it's melodic; it'ssoulful. We've been playing together longenough for Andrew to get a sense that hehas permission to do himself." When sheconsidered performing "A Time for Peace"live with the rest of the band, Carmenimmediately knew her fellow artists wouldgraciously accept an invitation for differentoptions and new directions. "I said to Julius [Rodriguez], 'Learn that

thing I did,' because now I'm stuck with itsince it's the first thing people hear [on therecord]," she says. "So we're rehearsing itand he's learned it, and I'm thinking, Wellthat was kind of cute, but I don't want todo that every night. So I say, Let's starttogether, like it's a through-composed con-

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MARTA SÁNCHEZ BIRDLAND THEATER / DECEMBER 5Madrid-born pianist and composer Marta Sánchez cites a wealth of inspirations, fromcity life in New York to Debussy to the range of musicians she plays with across a spec-trum of styles. On the eight original compositions on her brand-new release, El Rayode Luz (Fresh Sound), she creates sinuous, subtly compelling music that invites lis-teners in and keeps them engaged. She and her quintet (alto saxophonist Roman Filiu,tenor saxophonist Chris Cheek, bassist Rick Rosato and drummer Daniel Dor) holdmusical conversations that head off in unexpected but totally engaging directions.Alex LoRe takes the alto chair at Birdland Theater this month when Marta and hercohort celebrate the launch of her fourth album as a leader. EK

THE BAYLOR PROJECTHARLEM STAGE / DECEMBER 5Jean and Marcus Baylor are storytellers. As part of the two-time Grammy-nominatedband The Baylor Project, the vocalist and drummer invite listeners to lose themselvesinside a musical narrative that stretches across generations and genres. Their 2017release, The Journey, reflects critically acclaimed original compositions that evolvemingling lineages of their musical ancestry. Both artists seem equally comfortable sit-ting in a deep groove and stretching out with their fellow artists. Jean's vocals capti-vate her collaborators, including bassist, composer Ben Williams, who once describedher singing as among the "most beautiful on the planet." Marcus' firmly rooted, inven-tive artistry has served a range of sound over the years, including that of the Grammyaward-winning quartet Yellowjackets. The Baylors' band features Freddie Hendrix,Keith Loftis, Shedrick Mitchell and Yasushi Nakamura. SJ

LAUREN SEVIANDIZZY'S CLUB / DECEMBER 4Declared the top rising star of the baritone saxophone by DownBeat this year, LaurenSevian has rightly been earning a wide array of critical accolades. It's easy to hearwhy: Lauren's massive and burly tone paired with a staggering virtuosity render heran astonishing force to be reckoned with. Most recently, Lauren has teamed up withfive similarly exceptional musicians—saxophonists Jenny Hill and Alexa Tarantino,guitarist Amanda Monaco, organist Akiko Tsuruga and drummer Allison Miller—toform Lioness. At Dizzy's, Lioness presents material from its debut album Pride andJoy, released earlier this year. For fans of baritone masters like Ronnie Cuber orPepper Adams, Lauren's music is absolutely an essential listening, and Lioness provesa formidable and thrilling ensemble in which to hear her talents. SH

JOHNATHAN BLAKEVILLAGE VANGUARD / DECEMBER 3-8Developing a sound around nuance, drummer, composer Johnathan Blake has been aglobal ambassador for spontaneity and melodicism for more than two decades. ThePhiladelphia native, who once told JazzTimes he's always searching for what's"singable," has helped shape iconic band sounds for such celebrated masters as TomHarrell and Kenny Barron, among many others. A consummate and innovative leader,Johnathan flexes his own receptivity and penchant for plunging into new ideas withequally inventive artists. His BOP Trio project, co-led alongside Linda May Han Ohand Chris Potter, captivates audiences. His band Pentad—alto saxophonist ImmanuelWilkins, vibist Joel Ross, pianists David Virelles and Kris Davis, and bassist DezronDouglas—heads into the studio following its week at Village Vanguard. SJ

NORA MCCARTHYTHE TRIAD / DECEMBER 1 Singer, poet and composer Nora McCarthy shares a hometown—Cleveland—andmuch more with the late, legendary vocalist Little Jimmy Scott. Both are known for away with heartfelt ballads, the Great American Songbook and telling stories throughtimeless tunes. Though the NEA Jazz Master passed away in 2014, his style andrepertoire continue to inspire. Nora salutes Scott at the Triad this month, performingcompositions associated with him, as well as originals such as "Faith in Time: Jimmy'sSong," which she wrote in honor of the distinctive vocalist. Admission includes a freecopy of Nora's Circle Completing CD, which features that tune. Alto saxophonist JorgeSylvester, guitarist Marvin Sewell, pianist Kuba Chichocki, bassist Gene Torres anddrummer Kenny Grohowski join Nora for this tribute concert. EK

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ROB SCHEPSCUTTING ROOM / DECEMBER 15Primarily a big-toned tenor saxophonist, Rob Scheps deserves wider recognition. Sincehe arrived in New York City in the 1980s, he has been an important contributor tomany bands, in addition to leading his own groups. He is also a nimble soprano saxo-phonist and flautist, and he’s going to play only those instruments at his CuttingRoom engagement. On Rob's recent SteepleChase CD, Comencio, he is joined by hisregular Core-tet, though with guest drummer Jesse Simpson, as he explores music byartists who inspired him. Bassist Tony Garnier, guitarist Pete McCann and drummerTony Jefferson join Rob for his Cutting Room set. Earlier in the month, the RobScheps/Tony Jefferson Quartet plays at Lydia's Cafe in Stone Ridge, Dec. 7. KD

LIONEL LOUEKEZANKEL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL / DECEMBER 13Guitarist/vocalist Lionel Loueke has a sound unlike any other. Lionel's rhythmicallysophisticated mix of broad melodic concepts and outside-the-box extended techniquesputs him in a league all his own. After attending Berklee College of Music, Lionel wenton to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, where he studied with Wayne Shorterand Herbie Hancock, and eventually joined Herbie's band. Lionel has received consis-tent praise for blending jazz and world music. In a review of his most recent release,2018's The Journey, London Jazz Weekly stated, "The Journey is Lionel Loueke's mostcompelling and satisfyingly rounded album to date." For his concert, Lionel is joinedby bassist Massico Biolcati, drummer Ferenc Nemeth, and a special guest, percus-sionist Cyro Baptista. EW

GLAFKOS KONTEMENIOTISJAZZ AT KITANO / DECEMBER 12With years of experience in following the ideals of progressive artistry, GlafkosKontemeniotis may not have the most marketable name, but his playing exudes joy.In addition to classical training, the Greece-born pianist and composer studied withHarold Danko and Mike Longo. He has worked with many jazz singers, and has writ-ten music with Anthony Branker; "Monk for President" is among the most prominentpieces. Glafkos is on the faculty of the Piano School of NYC. He stylistically crossespaths of his heritage and contemporary jazz, and his 30 years in the Big Apple haverefined his energy quotient. His dignified approach does not take a back seat tostretching ideas and being different. Saxophonist Joel Frahm, bassist MarcusMcLaurine and drummer Dave Meade join Glafkos at Kitano. MGN

BRENDA EARLE STOKESSAINT PETER'S CHURCH / DECEMBER 8; ROOM 623 / DECEMBER 15A singer with considerable depth and versatility, Brenda Earle Stokes is uniquelyqualified to claim a spot in the upper echelon of interpreters and songwriters, withroom to move upward. Her native Sarnia, Ontario, sprouted her talent. While rootedin jazz, Brenda genre-hops among music by Norma Winstone, Huey Lewis, LeroyCarr, Dave Brubeck and standards. Her originals are strikingly poetic, humorousand at times romantic. Her all-original 2014 CD, Right About Now, was a groupeffort, while her newest, Solo Sessions Vol. I, shows she's quite capable of going italone. Brenda's piano playing is quite diverse in modal, swing, Brazilian or blues con-texts. She plays a song with a string quartet at St. Peter's, and a full solo set at Room623. MGN

MONTY ALEXANDERBIRDLAND / DECEMBER 17-21Pianist Monty Alexander has been wowing crowds internationally since he startedtouring more than a half-century ago. He brings a fresh approach to each song heexplores, often infusing it with the Caribbean music that he grew up listening to in hisnative Jamaica. Primarily a bop and swing player, Monty is also well-versed in strideand boogie-woogie. His "A Swinging Jamaican Christmas" includes Christmas andseasonal favorites, along with a few songs from his new CD, Wareika Hill, which inter-prets the music of Thelonious Monk with a twist, incorporating the influence of reg-gae and ska in his arrangements of these time-tested jazz standards. Joining Montyare bassist J.J. Shakur, drummer Jason Brown, special guest guitarist GeneBertoncini, plus other surprise guests. KD

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DROM: 85 Ave A (bet 5th & 6th Sts). 212-777-1157. www.dromnyc.com. Dec 10: 8pm freeadm Silver Arrow Band; 11: 10pm $10Dezron Douglas; 21: 12am $15 GrooveCollective.

The EAR INN: 326 Spring St (bet Greenwich &Washington Sts). www.earinn.com. 212-431-9750. Sun: 8-11pm EarRegulars feat Jon-ErikKellso & friends.

FAT CAT: 75 Christopher St at 7th Av. 212-675-6056. www.fatcatmusic.org. $3 adm/no min.Sets unless otherwise noted: Early (E), Late(L), Night (N); Sun E 6pm, L 9pm, N 1am; MonE 6pm, L 9pm, N 12:30am; Tues-Wed E 7pm,L 9pm, N 12:30am; Thurs 7pm, L 10pm, N1:30am; Fri 6pm, L 9pm + 10:30pm, N1:30am; Sat E 7pm, L 10pm, N 1:30am.Residencies (R): Sun E Terry Waldo &Gotham City Band, N The Program; Mon NBilly Kaye; Tues E except 12/3&31 Saul RubinZebtet; Wed E except 12/4 Raphael D'LugoffTrio + 1, N Ned Goold; Fri L The SupremeQueens; Sat N Greg Glassman. Dec 1: E R,8:30pm Jade Synstelien's FCBB, L R; 2: EEvan Shinners, L Behn Gillece, N R; 3: EAndrew Latona, L Willie Martinez y laFamilia, N Alexi David; 4: E Ai Murakami Qnt,L Groover Trio, N R; 5: E Andrea Domenici, LSaul Rubin Zebtet, N Will Terrill; 6: E T.W.Sample, L R + Jared Gold/Dave, N KellyGreen; 7: E Ed Cherry Trio, L RaphaelD'Lugoff Qnt, N R; 8: E R, 7pm GamelanDharma, L Ark Ovrutski Qnt, N R; 9: E NedGoold Qrt, N R; 10: E R, L Peter Brainin & theLatin Jazz Workshop; 11: E R, L JoeFarnsworth Trio, N R; 12: L Greg GlassmanQnt; 13: L R + Essiet Okon Essiet's IBO; 14:N R; 15: E&N R; 16: L George Braith, N R; 17:E R; 18: E R, L The Don Hahn/Mike CamachoBand, N R; 20: L R; 21: N R; 22: E&N R; 23: NR; 27: L R; 28: N R; 29: E&N R; 30: N R; 31: LItai Kriss & Gato Gordo, N John Benitez'sLatin Bop.

GREENWICH HOUSE: 46 Barrow St (bet 7thAv S & W 4th St). www.greenwichhouse. org.212-242-4770. Sound It Out series:www.sounditoutnyc.com. Dec. 5: $15/12 admDevin Gray’s GPS Trio + Wendy Eisenberg;19: 8pm $20/15 Michael Formanek’s VeryPractical Trio.

HONEYBEE’S: 95 Av A, 2nd Fl (bet 6th & 7thSts). www.honeybeesnyc.com. 212-614-6818. Sun: 7pm Glenn Crytzer All Star Qrt.

JAZZ GALLERY: 1160 Bway at 27th St. 5th Fl.www.jazzgallery.org. 646-494-3625. Sets:7:30&9:30pm. Dec 4: Ohad Talmor Trio; 5:Mentoring series feat Kendrick Scottw/Kanoa Mendenhall; 6: tba; 7: Mike Moreno;11: Brooklyn Raga Massive & TJG; 12-14:Henry Threadgill; 18: Mentoring series featKendrick Scott w/Kanoa Mendenhall; 19: E.J.Strickland Pads N Loops Qrt; 20-21: Tributeto Roy Hargrove; 27-28: Gretchen Parlato.

JAZZ STANDARD: 116E 27th St (bet Park &Lexington Avs). www.jazzstandard.net. 212-576-2232. Sets/adm unless otherwise noted:7:30-8:30&9:30-10:30pm/$30; Sun 2-3pm/free. Residencies: Sun 2pm except 12/22&29Jazz For Kids Sunday Lunch feat JazzStandard Youth Orch; Mon (R) MingusMonday feat Mingus Big Band except 12/2Orch. Dec 1: $40 Maria Schneider Orch; 2: R;3: Pat Bianchi Qrt; 4: Jonathan KreisbergQrt; 5-8: Charles McPherson Qnt; 9: R; 10:Michael Leonhart Orch w/spec guest KeyonHarrold; 11: Harish Raghavan; 12: BillO’Connell & The Afro Caribbean Ens; 13-15:$35 Louis Hayes; 16: R; 17-18: Matt Wilson'sChristmas Tree-O w/spec guest Camila

Meza; 19-22: $35 Carmen Lundy; 23: R; 24-25: closed; 26-29: $35 Raul Midón 12/26-27Trio, 12/28-29 Solo; 30: R; 31: 7:30pm $150incl three-course dinner, 10:30pm $225 inclthree-course dinner, champagne toast NYEw/Regina Carter Qnt feat Carla Cook.

JOE’S PUB: At Public Theater. 425 Lafayette St& Astor Pl. www.joespub.com. 212-967-7555.

JUKE BAR: 196 2nd Av (bet 12th & 13th Sts)Downstairs. www.jukebarnyc.com. 212-228-7464. Sun: 6:30-10:30pm free adm Jam byAlbert Ahlf.

JULES BISTRO: 65 Saint Marks Pl (bet 1st & 2ndAvs). 212-477-5560. www.julesbistro.com.

KNICKERBOCKER BAR & GRILL: 33University Pl at 9th St. 212-228-8490.www.knickerbockerbarandgrill.com. Fri-Sat:9pm-1am. Dec 6-7: The Jazz Doctors; 13-14:Victor Lin Trio; 20-21: John Colianni & BootsMaleson; 27-28: Mark Sganga & MartinPizzarelli; 31: Valerie Capers Trio.

MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH: 1W 29thSt at 5th Av. www.marblechurch.org. 212-686-2770. Dec 18: 7:30pm The Duke EllingtonSociety.

MEZZROW: 163W 10th St (bet 7th Av &Waverly Pl). www.mezzrow.com. 646-476-4346. Sets/adm: 7:30-10pm, Late (L)10:30pm-1am except Fri-Sat 10:30pm-2am,Sun + 5-7pm (PM); adm varies. Residencies(R): Sun PM Spike Wilner Solo; Mon L except12/23 Pasquale Grasso; Thurs L SpikeWilner. Dec 1: PM R, 7:30pm MarianneSolivan Trio, L John Merrill & friends; 2:Gerry Weil, L R; 3: Fred Hersch & TonyMalaby, L Vanisha Gould; 4: Burt Eckoff, LIsaiah J. Thompson; 5: Ed Cherry Trio, L R; 6:Scott Robinson & Frank Kimbrough; 7: ScottRobinson & Frank Kimbrough, L Jon Davis;8: PM R, 7:30pm Barbara Rosene & JonDavis, L Michael Kanan; 9: BurnettThompson & Alex Blake, L R; 10: FredHersch & Ralph Alessi, L Naama Gheber; 11:Yaala Ballin & Michael Kanan, L EhudAsherie; 12: John Stetch Trio, L R; 13: DaveKikoski Trio, L Willerm Delisfort; 14: DaveKikoski Trio, L Eden Ladin; 15: PM R, 7:30pmSteven Feifke Trio, L Chris Flory; 16: RichieVitale Trio, L R; 17: Mike Lipskin Qrt featDinah Lee, Dan Levinson, L LucyYeghiazaryan; 18: James Weidman Trio, LNick Masters; 19: Nir Felder & Matt Penman,L R; 20: Rossano Sportiello & Marion Felder;21: Rossano Sportiello & Marion Felder, LJon Davis; 22: PM R, 7:30pm SullivanFortner, L Panas Athanatos; 23: tba, L MikeClark Trio; 26: Cynthia Sayer Trio, L R; 27:Michael Kanan Trio; 28: Michael Kanan Trio, LAnthony Wonsey; 29: PM R, 7:30pm Mark Elf,L Steve Ash; 30: Frank Carlberg Trio, L R; 31:Johnny O’Neal.

MILANO’S BAR: 51E Houston St (bet Mott &Mulberry Sts). 212-226-8844. Thurs: 2-5pmCarol Morgan & Co. feat Panas Athanatos.

MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: 12Eldridge St. www.eldridgestreet.org. 212-219-0888. Dec 1: 3-4:30pm $28-50 adm GregWall.

NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH: 269 Bleecker St(bet Jones & Cornelia Sts). 212-691-1770. 1stFri: 8&9:30pm free adm All Things Projectwww.allthingsproject.org. Dec 6: WilliamTatge Trio.

The NEW SCHOOL JAZZ PERFORMANCESPACE: 55W 13th St, 5th Fl. 212-229-5488.www.newschool.edu/jazz. Tues-Sat: 8:30-9:30pm The Stone at the New School. Dec 2:Ashlee Mack feat James Romig’s Still; 3-7:Mary Halvorson; 10-14: Ikue Mori.

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S CLAIMthat there are "no second acts in

American lives," clearly does not apply tothe 63-year-old Detroit-born, New YorkCity-based pianist and vocalist JohnnyO'Neal. He first came to the Big Apple in1981, with a profound pianism modeledafter Oscar Peterson's and Art Tatum'stowering techniques. His style made himan in-demand sideman with Clark Terry,Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Nancy Wilson,Milt Jackson and Kenny Burrell, as well asa member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengersfrom 1981 to 1983. A few years later,Johnny returned to Detroit for a while, andeventually relocated back to New York. It was in this second go-round that

Johnny flourished, especially as a vocalistblessed with a melodious tenor voice thatcompliments his tasteful piano stylings,which are at home in bop, and post-bopidioms, and the classics from the GreatAmerican Songbook. Johnny's encyclopedicknowledge of those time-honoredAmerican standards has made him afavorite at venues from Smalls Jazz Club,Mezzrow, Smoke Jazz & Supper Club toJazz at Lincoln Center, and allowed him tomake seven albums as a leader, includinghis 2017 release, In The Moment. "There'sno place like New York," he says, "I'm soglad I came back here."This month he extends his Manhattan

magic to the Side Door, in Old Lyme,Connecticut, with bassist MarkLewandowski and drummer Itay Morchi."It's a great jazz club," Johnny says."Everybody plays there. It's a great venue.I've been playing there, off and on, for thepast five years."Largely self-taught, the pianist "grew

up listening to all of the great records bythe great masters like Tommy Flanigan,Barry Harris and a long list of Detroitplayers. I actually started playing jazzright after high school in 1975," he says. "Istarted out playing in the church." Johnnywas also exposed to jazz and blues vocal-ists. "My father loved all of the great

singers: Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine,Joe Turner, Arthur Prysock, Joe Williams... I grew up listening to those guys." It was Joe Williams who encouraged

Johnny to follow his vocal muse. "I used tobe shy about singing," he says. "Joe heardme once at a hotel gig. He came up to meand said 'Johnny, let me tell you some-thing young man: If a jazz singer couldsing, he would. You have it naturally.Make it a part of what you do, because youhave a natural gift for singing.' And that'swhen I started."Johnny fondly recalls hooking up with

Art Blakey in March 1981 and becoming aJazz Messenger. "That was a most gratify-ing period for me," he says. "Before Iplayed with Art, I was playing more likeMilt Jackson and Ray Brown. I was play-ing in the tradition. But Art enabled me tobe more of an ensemble player, to playwith the young guys [Terence Blanchard,Billy Pierce, Donald Harrison and CharlesFambrough]. Blakey [encouraged] the guysto write. Art gave me a lot of love, and hefeatured me a lot," as evidenced by the1982 Jazz Messenger recording, Oh, By theWay.After moving back to Detroit, Johnny

stayed busy. "I worked at Baker'sKeyboard Lounge, and I worked withKenny Burrell," he remembers. "I'd comeback to New York for vacation. I decided tomove back to New York in 1986, but that'swhen the crack epidemic was bad, and Igot mugged and I got scared. So I left NewYork again."Once he permanently made his home in

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NORTH SQUARE: At Washington SquareHotel. 103 Waverly Pl at McDougal.www.northsquareny.com/about-jazz. 212-254-1200. Sun: 12:30&2pm free adm JazzBrunch Trios. Dec 1: Marilyn Kleinberg; 8:Beat Kasteli; 15: Roz Corral w/Roni Ben-Hur& Chris Berger; 22: Roz Corral w/Jim Ridl &Paul Gill; 29: Paul Jost.

NUBLU 62: 62 Av C (bet 4th & 5th Sts).www.nublu.net.

NUBLU 151: 151 Avenue C (bet 9th & 10thSts). www.nublu.net.

NUYORICAN POETS CAFÉ: 236E 3rd St (betAvs B & C). www.nuyorican.org. 212-780-9386/212-505-8183. Sets: 9:30pm. Tues: $10adm Latin Jazz feat 12/3 Chembo Corniel,12/10 Latin Jazz Big Band Night, 12/17 WillieMartinez & La Familia Sxt; 1st Wed: $13 AllThat - Hip Hop Poetry & Jazz; 1st Sat: $15Banana Puddin’ Jazz series feat Rome Neal+ Jam.

ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL: 196 Allen St at EHouston St. www.rockwoodmusichall.com.212-477-4155. Thurs: 9pm-12am EthanEubanks & Detroit Grease. Dec 26: 8:30pmAcute Inflections.

ROXY HOTEL: 2 Av of the Americas at WalkerSt. www.roxyhotelnyc.com. 212-519-6600.

RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART: 150W 17th St (bet6th & 7th Avs). www.rubinmuseum.org. 212-620-5000X344. Dec 27: 7-8:30pm $35/28 admBrooklyn Raga Massive.

RUE B: 188 Ave B (bet 11th & 12th Sts). 212-358-1700. www.rueb-nyc.com.

RUSS & DAUGHTERS CAFE: 127 Orchard St(bet Delancey & Rivington Sts). 212-475-4880. www.russanddaughterscafe.com. LastThurs: 8pm free adm The Stone at Russ &Daughters Cafe. Dec 26: Adam Rudolph.

SHEEN CENTER: 18 Bleecker St at ElizabethSt. www.sheencenter.org. 212-925-2812. Dec3 7:30pm & 4 8pm $40-75 adm: GeorgeWinston; 6: 8pm $35-60 New York Voices.

SMALLS JAZZ CLUB: 183W 10th St at 7th Av.212-252-5091. www.smallslive.com. Sets:Early (E) 7:30-10pm, Late (L) 10:30pm-1am,Night (N) 1-4am; jam following N; adm varies.Residencies: Sun N After-Hours 12/1&15w/David Gibson, 12/8,22&29 w/Hillel Salem;Mon E except 12/9&23 Ari Hoenig Trio, NAfter-Hours 12/2,23&30 w/Ben Barnett,12/9&16 w/Sean Mason; Tues N After-Hours12/3&17 w/Malik McLaurine, 12/10,24&31w/Jon Elbaz; Wed N After-Hours 12/4&18w/Neal Caine, 12/11 tba, 12/25 w/PalladiumPlays Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil; ThursN After-Hours 12/5&19 w/Malick Koly,12/12&26 w/Davis Whitfield; Fri N After-Hours 12/6&20 w/Corey Wallace DUBtet,12/13 w/Wallace Roney Jr., 12/27 w/EricWyatt; Sat N 12/7&21 Brooklyn Circle,12/14&28 Mimi Jones & The Lab Session.Dec 1: E Richie Vitale Qnt, L Sam Dillon Qrt;2: E R, L Joe Farnsworth Qrt; 3: E SteveNelson Qrt, L Abraham Burton Qrt; 4: E LageLund Qrt, L Jimmy Macbride Qrt; 5: E LageLund Qrt, L Luke Carlos O'Reilly Qnt; 6-7: EQuincy Davis Qnt, L Jeremy Dutton; 8: ETommy Campbell & Vocal-Eyes, L JCStylles/Steve Nelson Qnt; 9: E Dan PugachNnt, L JD Allen Trio; 10: E Justin RobinsonQrt, L Frank Lacy Band; 11-12: E Will VinsonQrt, L Jochen Rueckert Qrt; 13-14: E SteveKirby Gp, L Walt Weiskopf Qrt; 15: E TardoHammer Trio, L Ned Goold Qrt; 16: E R, L JoeFarnsworth Qrt; 17: E Spike Wilner Trio, LAbraham Burton Qrt; 18: E Tim Ries Qnt, LRay Blue Qnt; 19: E Ron McClure Gp, LMichael Stephans Quartette Oblique; 20-21:

E Dave Stryker Qrt, L Steve Davis Qnt; 22: ENick Hempton Band, L David Gibson Qnt; 23:E Camille Thurman Gp, L Marshall McDonaldJazz Project; 24: E Steve Nelson Qrt, L FrankLacy Band; 25: E Reggie Watkins Qnt, L PaulBollenback Trio; 26: E Vitaly Golovnev Qrt, LJon Beshay Qrt; 27-28: E Billy Mintz Band, LJack Walrath Qnt; 29: E Josh Bruneau Qnt, LTad Shull Qrt; 30: E R, L Lucas Pino Nnt; 31:E tba, L Brooklyn Circle.

ST PAUL’S GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH:315W 22nd St (bet 8th & 9th Avs).www.stpaulny.org. 212-929-1955. Dec 12: 7-8pm Jane Ira Bloom.

TOMPKINS SQUARE LIBRARY: 331E 10thSt. www.nypl.org. 212-228-4747. Dec 6: 5-6pm George Braith Qrt.

TRIBECA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER:199 Chambers St. www.tribecapac.org. 212-220-1460. Dec 8: 3pm $25 adm Adam Wade &friends; 13: 8pm $25/15 Snack Cat &Generations.

TURNMILL: 119E 27th St (bet Park &Lexington Avs). www.turnmillnyc.com. 646-524-6060. Wed: 11pm-2am Keyed Up seriesfeat Rob Duguay & Low Key Trio + specguests.

VILLAGE VANGUARD: 178 7th Av S at 11thSt. 212-255-4037. www.villagevanguard.com.Sets: 8:30&10:30pm. Adm: $35/1 drink min.Residency (R): Mon Vanguard Jazz Orch. Dec1: Jason Moran & the Bandwagon; 2: R; 3-8:Johnathan Blake & Pentab; 9: R; 10-15:Christian McBride & Inside Straight; 16: R;17-22: Kenny Barron Qnt; 23: R; 24-29: KennyBarron Trio; 30: R; 31-Jan 5: 12/31 9&11pmChris Potter Circuits Trio.

WALKER’S: 16N Moore St at Varick. 212-941-0142. www.walkerstribeca.com. Sun: 8-11pmDuos.

ZINC BAR: 82W 3rd St (bet Thompson &Sullivan). 212-477-8337. www.zincbar.com.Sets: unless otherwise noted 7:30&9pm. Dec2: Peter Bernstein & Pasquale Grasso; 4:9pm-1am free VandoJam feat The VandorenHoliday Jam; 8: 4-6:45pm $25/30 AnotherSunday Serenade www.vtyjazz.com/917-882-9539 feat Billy Harper Qnt; 9: Sean HarknessTrio; 11: 7:30&9:30pm Vocal Mania seriesw/Janis Siegel & Lauren Kinhan feat JDWalter; 13-14: Ethan Iverson Trio; 16: 6:30pmGene Perla Qnt + Vinny Valentino Trio; 23: VicJuris Trio; 28: Rachel Z Trio; 31: 9&10:30pmEthan Iverson Trio.

AN BEAL BOCHT CAFÉ: 445W 238th St. 718-884-7127. www.lindasjazznights.com. 1stWed: 8&9:30pm $30-10 adm Linda's JazzNights. Dec 4: Eric Alexander Qrt.

440 GALLERY: 440 Sixth Av. 718-499-3844.www.440gallery.com. Dec 15: 4:40pm $10don Me, Myself and Eye feat Tom Swafford.

BAR BAYEUX: 1066 Nostrand Av. 347-533-7845. ww.barbayeux.com. Sets: 8-11pm freeadm. Wed: Keyed Up series; Thurs:Grassroots Jazz Effort. Dec 4: Vic Juris Trio;11: Billy Mintz Band; 18: Noah Gershwin Triofeat Billy Hart; 25: no jazz.

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NEW JERSEY JAZZBy Don Jay Smith

Cuenca photo by Chris Drukker, Cunningham by Steven Pope, The Hot-Sardines by John Williams.

ADRIAN CUNNINGHAMSHANGHAI JAZZ / DECEMBER 5If you have not caught the award-winning musician Adrian Cunningham in person, getover to this popular Madison jazz club. Adrian moved here from Australia more than10 years ago, and quickly became one of the most popular saxophonists around. TheWall Street Journal called him "the Down Under sax star," and this magazine deemedhim "indispensable to New York's jazz scene." In 2017, he won the Hot House NYCFans Decision Award for saxophone, the same year he received the Best Band Awardfrom Europe's Harlem Festival. Deeply rooted in the hot-jazz tradition, the quick-wit-ted multi-instrumentalist has performed with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks,Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste and Wycliffe Gordon. The young virtuoso Alberto Pibirion piano and fellow Aussie Noel Mason on bass join Adrian at Shanghai Jazz.

THE HOT SARDINESSOPAC / DECEMBER 14The Hot Sardines, an eight-piece traditional-jazz band co-led by singer ElizabethBougerol and pianist Evan Palazzo, has skyrocketed from playing Brooklyn house par-ties to sold-out concert halls around the world. The Hot Sardines perform standardssuch as "Everybody Loves My Baby" and "Caravan" with a post-modern take that isirresistibly fun. A nicely honed rhythm section supports an exciting three-person hornsection, merging the party atmosphere of New Orleans and Paris jazz. The percussivetap dancer A.C. Lincoln adds to the good-time enthusiasm. Critic Nate Chinen wrotethat "not many bands have seized the postmillennial early-jazz spotlight with as muchgusto as The Hot Sardines." The band's recently released album, Welcome Home, BonVoyage, showcases live recordings of its versatile performances.

SYLVIA CUENCATAVERN ON GEORGE / DECEMBER 12When Sylvia Cuenca sits behind her drums, she's a force to be reckoned with.Influenced by Max Roach, Art Blakey, Billy Higgins and Philly Joe Jones, she devel-oped her own hard-driving, swinging style which is why she worked extensively withveteran musicians like Clark Terry and Joe Henderson. A semi-finalist in theThelonious Monk International Jazz Drum Competition, Sylvia has performed withsaxophonist Michael Brecker, pianist Marian McPartland and violinist Regina Carter.She is the only woman in the percussion ensemble The Whole Drum Truth, whichincludes Tootie Heath, Louis Hayes, Billy Hart and Kenny Washington. Although bestknown as a first-call accompanist who has toured with artists such as Billy Taylor,Kenny Barron and Randy Brecker, Sylvia is also a superb leader and educator.

FRED FISHERSCOTCH PLAINS LIBRARY / DECEMBER 8The library's holiday program, "Nat King Cole Celebrates the Holiday Season," is prob-ably one of the final tributes to the great Nat King Cole during this year's centennialcelebration of his birth. Singer Stephen Fuller joins pianist Fred Fisher for this freeprogram. A talented keyboardist, Fred studied at the Juilliard School, Mannes Collegeof Music and Boston University, then combined a career as an educator and performer.His musical versatility have found him playing trad jazz with the Summit Stompersas well as a variety of genres with Marty Eigen's Amani. He often appears with singerCarrie Jackson and has long been part of the local jazz scene.

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www.roulette.org. 917-267-0363. Sets: 8pm.Dec 9: $18 adm James Ilgenfritz’s AnagramEns; 14: $35 adm John Zorn feat StephenGosling, Sae Hashimoto, Jorge Roeder &Tyshawn Sorey; 16: $18 Brandon Lopez; 17:$18 Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows.

SHAPESHIFTER LAB: 18 Whitwell Pl.www.shapeshifterlab.com. 646-820-9452.Sets/adm unless otherwise noted: Early (E)7pm, Late (L) 8:15pm, Night (N) 9:30pm/$10.Dec 4: E Christoph Irniger Pilgrim; 5: 6-8pmBreaking The Ice; 6: 9-11:30pm ForwardFestival; 11: E Take Off Collective; 16: EWomen Composers feat Meg Okura, TracyYang, Jen Allen Jazz Orch; 22: 3-4pm SundayBrunch Improv.

SISTAS’ PLACE: 456 Nostrand Av at JeffersonAv. www.sistasplace.org. 718-398-1766. Sat:9&10:30pm $30/25 adm. Dec 7: Carl BartlettGp; 14: Eddie Allen; 21: Craig Harris’Tailgator’s Tales; 31: Kenny Gates.

SUNNY’S BAR: 253 Conover St. 718-625-8211.www.sunnysredhook.com. Dec 13: 9pm freeadm The Doggy Cats.

THREES BREWING: 333 Douglass St. 718-522-2110. www.threesbrewing.com. Dec 8: 8-11pm The Westerlies.

VELVET LOUNGE: 174 Bway. 718-302-4427.www.velvetbrooklyn.com. Tues: 9pm-12amKey Up series feat 1st Tues Sivan Arbel; lastTues Rob Duguay & Low Key Trio.

WILLIAMSBURG MUSIC CENTER: 367Bedford Av. www.wmcjazz.org. 718-384-1654. $10 adm. Residency: Sat 10pm Jamw/Gerry Eastman & friends. Dec 7: 10pmLorenzo Bisogno; 13: 8:30pm Warren GaleaTrio; 15: 9pm Andrew Licata Trio; 19: 9pmEarprint, 10:30pm Dor Herskovits.

BUTTONWOOD TREE: 605 Main St.Middletown. www.buttonwood.org. 860-347-4957. Sat: 8-10pm. Dec 7: 8-10pm SecondaryMessengers; 21: Ken Serio Jazz Trio.

FIREHOUSE 12: 47 Crown St. New Haven. 203-785-0468. www.firehouse12.com. Fri: 8:30pm$20 adm, 10pm $15. Dec 6: Lage Lund Trio;13: Aaron Novik's No Signal.

INFINITY MUSIC HALL & BISTRO: 20Greenwoods Road, Norfolk. 860-542-5531.www.infinityhall.com. Dec 5: 8pm $22-32adm Davina & The Vagabonds.

PALACE THEATER: 100 East Main St.Waterbury. www.palacetheaterct.org. 203-346-2000. Dec 13: 7&9pm Harry Allen &Gerry Beaudoin Trio.

The SIDE DOOR JAZZ CLUB: At Old LymeInn. 85 Lyme St. Old Lyme. 860-434-0886.www.thesidedoorjazz.com. Sets: 8:30-11pm.Dec 6: Bobby Broom Organi-Sation; 7: LindaMay Han Oh; 13: Noah Baerman & Jen Allen;14: Russell Malone Qrt; 19-20: ChristianSands Trio; 27: Johnny O'Neal Trio; 28: VicJuris Trio.

GRASSO’S: 134 Main St. Cold Spring Harbor.www.grassosrestaurant.com. 631-367-6060.Sets: Sun 12-3pm Brunch + 6-9pm; Mon 6-9pm; Wed&Fri-Sat 7-11pm; Thurs 6:30-10:30pm.

The JAZZ LOFT: 275 Christian Av. StonyBrook. 631-751-1895. www.thejazzloft.org.Sets: 7-9:30pm. Wed: Jam. Dec 5-6: Duke

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BAR CHORD: 1008 Cortelyou Rd. 347-240-6033. www.barchordnyc.com. Sun: 9pmCortelyou Jam.

BAR LUNÀTICO: 486 Halsey St. 718-513-0339.www.barlunatico.com. Sun: 2-5pm Keyed Upfeat Gospel Brunch.

BARBÈS: 376 9th St at 6th Av. Park Slope.www.barbesbrooklyn.com. 718-965-9177.Residencies: Sun 9pm Stephane Wrembel;Mon 7pm Brain Cloud; Tues 9pm Slavic SoulParty; Wed 10pm Mandingo Ambassadors.

BALBOA: 1655 Bedford Av. 718-467-3765.www.balboa.business.site. Dec 18: 9:15pmBilly Mintz Band.

BLUEBIRD BROOKLYN: 504 Flatbush Av.718-484-9494. www.bluebirdbrooklyn.com.Wed: 9pm-12am Keyed Up feat NoahGaribedian + Jam.

BRIC HOUSE: 647 Fulton St. 718-683-5600.www.bricartsmedia.org. Dec 5: 7:30-9:45pm$25 adm Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro LatinJazz Orch.

BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC:58 7th Av. www.bkcm.org. 718-622-3300. Dec8: 7:30pm Connection Works’s Wide OpenWorks feat Steve Cardenas, CharlieBurnham, Michel Gentile & Rob Garcia.

BROWNSTONE JAZZ: 107 Macon St atNostrand Av. 917-704-9237. https://www.ticketweb.com/events/org/203803. Fri-Sat:8pm-12am Concert, Fish Fry & Open Mic’s.

BROWNSVILLE HERITAGE HOUSE: 581Mother Gaston Blvd. www.brownsvilleheritagehouse.org. 718-385-1111. 3rd Sat:3-6pm free adm The Word on the Street Ens.

BUSHWICK PUBLIC HOUSE: 1288 Myrtle Av.www.gaucimusic.com/bushwick-series-2.Mon: $10 don Buschwick Improvised Musicseries.

The COPPER POT: 347 Van Brunt St. 929-276-3330. www.copperpotbk.com. Wed: 7:30-10:30pm Keyed Up series.

COUNTING ROOM: 44 Berry St. 718-599-1860.www.countingroom.com. Sun: 4-7pm KeyedUp feat The Cafe Society.

HALYARDS: 406 3rd Av. 718-532-8787.www.barhalyards.com. Tues: 8-10pm, Late(L) 10:30-11:30pm. $10 adm/1 drink min. Dec3: Chris Lightcap Qrt, L Ben Monder Trio; 10:Dave Ambrosio Qrt w/Joel Frahm & TimHagans, L Steve Cardenas Trio; 17: MattPavolka Gp feat Ben Monder, L Adam KolkerQrt.

IBEAM: 168 7th St. www.ibeambrooklyn.com.Sets: 8:30pm $15 don. Dec 7: MichelMaurer’s Meridian; 10: Eva Novoa Trio; 12:Emi Makabe Trio; 13: $20 Mike McGinnisRoadtrip; 14: Satoko Fujii & Kappa Maki; 18:Lena Bloch Qrt feat Russ Lossing.

IL PORTO: 37 Washington Av. 718-624-0954.www.ilportobrooklyn.com. Thurs-Sat: 7-10pm Keyed Up feat Charlie Apicella & IronCity.

JAZZ 966: 966 Fulton St. 917-593-9776.www.fortgreenecouncil.org/jazz966.

MADE IN NEW YORK: 155 5th Av. 718-640-7000. www.jazzcafe.nyc. Sets: 7&9pm $20adm; Tues 7pm. Residency: Tues Jam w/RonAffif Trio. Dec 1: Ron Jackson Trio; 5-6: JohnLee All-Star Trio; 7: Wayne Escoffery Qrt; 8:Christopher McBride & the All Proof; 12:Alex Sipiagin; 13-14: Al Foster Trio; 20-21:Duduka Da Fonseca Trio.

NATIONAL SAWDUST: 80N 6th St. 646-779-8455. www.nationalsawdust.org. Dec 26:7pm $25 adm John Zorn feat PatriciaBrennan.

ROULETTE: 509 Atlantic Av at 3rd Av.

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ANOTHER REASON TO CELEBRATEBy Elzy Kolb

Piket photo by John Abbott.

Surprise!

PIANIST, COMPOSER, ARRANGERRoberta Piket has proved beyond a

doubt that she can keep a secret. After all,she spent several months rehearsing andrecording solo piano versions of 10 tunesby her husband, drummer, composer BillyMintz, as an epic surprise gift for a mile-stone birthday.

"The idea just popped into my head oneday. It was six months or so before hisbirthday, so I had some planning time,"Roberta says. In some ways, it was likeprepping for any other recording—forexample, aiming for a good balance of bal-lads and other material from among Billy'smany compositions, and deciding whatwould work in the solo format. "I hadplayed most of them before, but not as asolo. Some fell into the solo format veryeasily. Others I had to decide how toreorchestrate—or not," Roberta recalls."It's always challenging to take tunes notwritten with solo piano in mind, to figureout what essence to get across, the mostimportant aspects. What is essential?What can—or should—I leave out?"It was unlike other recordings in that

she had to avoid talking about it withBilly, and sneak in practice time when heleft the house. She recorded while he wason the road, and finished the production byclaiming numerous shopping trips. "It wasfor a good cause," Roberta explains, "I wasable to pull it off." Billy was stunned anddelighted to hear her solo interpretationsof his music. Roberta eventually decided to release

the resulting recording, DomesticHarmony: Piket Plays Mintz (13th Note)."I'm happy with how it came out. I wantedmy friends and colleagues to hear it. ThenI thought, Why not let everyone hear it."A series of Domestic Harmony release

gigs are in the works. Roberta venturesnorth on Dec. 15, to Maureen's JazzCellar in Nyack, for duo sets with a long-

time collaborator, saxophonist VirginiaMayhew. Virginia will be in the mix foranother evening of Domestic Harmony-centric duos at Mezzrow, Jan. 16, whenRoberta will also pair up with Billy Mintzand with trombonist Mike Fahn. "They'reall old friends, they're all good friends,"muses the pianist, who goes back at least acouple of decades with each of them. Herplans for the release celebration leaveplenty of room for spontaneity: "Billy mayplay congas or drums, and maybe we'll allplay together at some point."Expect Roberta and Virginia to also

play "Roburna," a Mintz composition notincluded on Domestic Harmony. "He wroteit for me recently. It's a fast modal tune.We've played it on Billy's gigs but it's neverbeen recorded. It's a bonus track," thepianist notes with a laugh. In addition to celebrating Domestic

Harmony, in the coming weeks listenershave the opportunity to experience thetotal Roberta Piket story in music, as thepianist's versatility is on display as a col-laborator and sidewoman at numerousvenues.At Flushing Town Hall Dec. 6, she

focuses on material from her 2016 release,One for Marian: Celebrating MarianMcPartland; special guest Karrin Allysonis on hand for the tribute concert. On Dec.8, Roberta joins forces with bassist RufusReid at the Wyckoff Public Library inWyckoff, New Jersey. On Dec. 1, 15, 22, 29,she holds down keyboard responsibilitiesin the Andrea Brachfeld-led quartet at theweekly jam at Headroom Bar & Social inJersey City, along with Melissa Slocumand Sylvia Cuenca.Roberta’s schedule also includes dates

on piano and organ with the Billy MintzBand (comprising saxophonists Rich Perryand Adam Kolker, trombonist CurtisFowlkes, bassist Hilliard Greene) atBalboa (Dec. 18), Quinn's in Beacon (Dec.23), and Smalls Jazz Club (Dec. 27-28)."You can't go wrong with guys like that,they're always fun to play with. And Billy'swriting has a lot of variety: It goes fromlyrical tunes that are reminiscent of TinPan Alley to very angular pieces we allplay free over."

Chasing the dreamAlmost from the start of his life in

music, trumpeter, composer, arrangerShunzo Ohno has been prominently fea-tured in bands fronted by musicians set-ting the gold-standard of jazz. In his native

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Japan in the mid-1970s, Shunzo playedwith Art Blakey, then followed the drum-mer's suggestion and moved to the U.S.,where he soon caught the ears of othergiants. Lessons learned on the bandstandand off still impact his sound and hisworldview, both as a sideman and leader ofhis own innovative ensembles.

"My time playing with Art Blakey,Buster Williams, Roy Haynes, WayneShorter and Gil Evans enriched my lifemore than I ever expected," Shunzo says."Their mastery and wisdom continue toinfluence me today. They make me growevery day, because they never allowed meto slide on ordinary habits or responses.They all insisted on creativity and sinceri-ty, new sounds even on traditional jazztunes."Shorter and Evans had close and long-

lasting ties with Miles Davis, as did HerbieHancock, with whom Shunzo has alsoenjoyed a lengthy relationship. "They oftenshared Miles' wisdom with me," he notes.In particular, he recalls joys and chal-lenges encountered on the road withEvans' band. "One of Gil's tours was withMiles. The two bands toured Europetogether. On stage and off, these mastersmentored with a light touch. One had to bediligent, constantly open to their lightning-speed veracity as creators."The two-time Grammy-winning trum-

peter has also faced daunting obstacles.The short documentary film NeverDefeated describes a period of homeless-ness; a catastrophic car crash resulting inextensive injuries to Shunzo's lips andteeth, and a mid-1990s diagnosis of stage 4throat cancer. Surprisingly, he has beenable to keep playing the instrument heloves."In a sense, I had no other choice. My

dream since I was young was to play trum-pet. That is all I did," he explains. "Whilehomeless, I worked hard in constructionand bussing tables in restaurants. Thatgave me an opportunity to engage with anearnest, hard-working community of peo-ple, while healing my own heart. I don'tregret any of the experience. I continued toplay trumpet after work or before work inbasements of old buildings."

Shunzo cites a positive attitude and thesupport of friends as important factorsduring his cancer treatment. For a whilehe was unable to walk or perform normalactivities, but "Throughout, I knew therewas a specific purpose and value. I couldnot give up. I had to question the purposeof my life. I had to manifest hope andcourage. That is recovery. Once we canbuild hope and courage for ourselves, wecan spark that in someone else. Music wasthe vehicle for me. I had to be able toexpress the life energy."He continues, "When I was sick in the

midst of my cancer journey, Wayne visitedme in New York. He encouraged me andtold me as soon as I was better I'd playwith him at the San Francisco JazzFestival. He was instilling the confidenceand determination he knew I needed torecover. I will never forget his support forme and my family." Just as he has been supported by the

greats, Shunzo makes a practice of sharingthe lessons learned with younger players."There is a magic that happens in creatinga fresh, energetic collaboration," he says.For the past six years, the trumpeter hasbeen working with strings. The LotusChamber Collective, which draws fromclassical, jazz, folk, Latin and chambermusic, joins his ensemble at the JazzForum in Tarrytown Dec. 8. "This has been an exciting creative proj-

ect. Because they are so well-trained, I canask them to play parts that they have thecapacity and skills for, but they have neverbeen asked to work in a jazz energy. Thatmakes it authentic to a new sound. We canjump high together, while discovering newlayers of music. I believe Wayne Shorterand Gil Evans influence these freshsounds. New colors are created while hav-ing a strong solid foundation in composi-tion and imagination." Jazz players including bassist Ira

Coleman, drummer Jerome Jennings,pianist David Berkman and others are alsoexpected to be on hand at the Jazz Forum. "We have new arrangements involving

the Lotus Chamber Collective," Shunzonotes. "It's a really exciting synergistic col-laborations of sounds and textures. Theaudiences light up every night with thesenew soundscapes we created." The ensemble plans to present originals

from his most recent release, Dreamer,including "Musashi," the winner of 2017'sInternational Songwriting Competition.He's likely to share a preview of tunes froma new album set for 2020 release, fromwhich he's already issued a single, Runner.The set list also includes Shunzo'sarrangements of Dvorak's New WorldSymphony/Going Home and Beethoven'sMoonlight Sonata.

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HOT FLASHESArtists Talk Inspirations:

The Evan Sherman Big Band

ASOMEWHAT UNDERREPORTEDmusical trend—the resurgence of big

bands—has been one of the past decade'smost welcome shifts in New York's jazzscene. What's more, many of these ensem-bles are led by a younger generation ofartists, musicians in their 20s exploringthe classic repertoire of Chick Webb, DukeEllington and others. At the helm of one ofthese big bands is the exceptional drum-mer Evan Sherman, who celebrated thefifth anniversary of his band this year.

Evan Sherman

Evan, whose first introduction to bigbands was hearing "Sing, Sing, Sing" whenhe was 11, recalled the origins of his ownwork as a big band leader. "I was in collegeat the time and I started playing the latesets at Dizzy's," he explains. "Every timewe'd play a week there, we'd focus on atheme, and there were moments wherewe'd hit a groove and people would be outdancing. I wanted to experience more ofthat." Having grown up playing the hard-bop style of the 1950s, Evan soon foundhimself digging deeply into earlier eras. "Iwanted to create a big band that had theyoung talents, but also some of the mastersI had come into contact with," he says.

Recruiting legends like Lew Soloff andFrank Lacy to join the sections, Evanquickly built a band that frequently gracedDizzy's late-night sets. "I think we learneda lot from doing that," he notes. "In thefirst rehearsal, I brought in some FletcherHenderson arrangements. You had thecream of the crop of young musiciansthere, and yet they were squeaking outthese arrangements! We couldn't playthem at all, they were so different andchallenging. But after a few years, welearned more and more about playing thismusic. Now it helps inform everything elsethat we do."From the beginnings at Dizzy's with

about 15 charts, the Evan Sherman BigBand has slowly but steadily built both afollowing and an impressive songbook. Asthe band continued to grow and develop,elder musicians stepped up their support,and the band won over admirers and sup-porters like the late Roy Hargrove, whichled to further growth. "A lot of musicianswere very generous with sharing charts,and over five years we now have 146 ofthem that I carry around to each gig," hereveals. "The suitcases have gotten quiteheavy!" The band's impressive range is on dis-

play throughout December, at the NewBrunswick Performing Arts CenterDec. 20, and at Birdland Dec. 29. Trueto concept, the performances bring togeth-er rising talents like Sam Chess and JonahMoss with elders like James Zollar andFrank Lacy.The challenges of leading a big band are

numerous and obvious: Handling the eco-nomic aspect as well as the personalityquirks that arise from such a gathering isno small feat. Indeed, to lead a big bandnowadays is frequently a thankless role,and very much a labor of love. For Evanthough, it's worth the often-uphill climb."It's been gratifying and enriching to beable to call on some of my heroes to comeand play with the band, and to be able toput people together," he points out. "Ithink that's why the big band is so impor-tant; it teaches everyone to be selfless andbe a team player. I'm learning so muchevery time I do this, and I'm grateful I getto do it.” Visit www.evanshermanmusic.com to

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FRESH TAKES

Macbride photo by Yuki Tei.

DRUMMER JIMMY MACBRIDE CANfrequently be found at venues all over

the city, such as Dizzy's Club, the JazzGallery, the Blue Note and Smalls JazzClub, where this month he is presenting hisoriginal compositions. Joining him areesteemed musicians Ron Blake on saxo-phone, Shai Maestro on piano and JoshuaCrumbly on bass. "All three of them exem-plify what I value most in musicians: adeep and honest emotional connection tothe music, unique and original musical per-sonalities, and an open-mindedness andflexibility that allows them to do anything,while always staying true to who they areas artists," he says.Born in West Hartford, Connecticut,

Jimmy moved to New York to attend theJuilliard School, where he studied underCarl Allen, Billy Drummond and KennyWashington. With his virtuosic touch andincredible musical sensitivity, he has madea name for himself as one of the mostsought-after drummers on the scene, play-ing with musicians such as Lage Lund, BenStreet, Fabian Almazan, Melissa Aldana,Matt Brewer, Michael Rodriguez and

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Ellington's Nutcracker Suite; 10: SBU JazzCombos; 12-13: Duke Ellington's NutcrackerSuite; 19: The Bad Little Big Band; 20: RayAnderson’s Seasonal Solstice Party; 21:Interplay Jazz Orch.

TREME: 553 Main St. Islip. 631-277-2008.www.tremeislip.com. Sets: Sun&Wed 7-11pm; Thurs-Sat 8pm-12am. Dec 1: InterplayJazz Orch; 5: Sabori; 7: Gil Parris; 8: Jamw/Lepley/Cammack/Bellucci Trio; 15: FiveTowns College; 22: Johnny Sax.

BERGENWYCKOFF PUBLIC LIBRARY: 200 WoodlandAv. Wyckoff. www.wyckofflibrary.org. 201-891-4866. Dec 8: 2-3pm Rufus Reid Qrt.

ESSEXAHAVAS SHOLOM: 145 Bway. Newark. 973-485-2609. www.ahavassholom.org. Dec 8: 2-5pm free adm Jazz Collage Workshopw/Mansa K. Mussa.

BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH: 275W MarketSt. Newark. www.bethany-newark.org. 973-623-8161. Dec 7: 6-7:30pm Jazz Vespers featEddie Allen.

The CASSIDY BAR + KITCHEN: 160Maplewood Av. Maplewood. 973-762-5433.

New Year's Eve CelebrationsRing in 2020 at Dizzy's Club with a per-

formance by Carlos Henriquez's nonet,paired with a three-course meal and aChampagne toast. Visit www.jazz.org/dizzys to learn more. Marilyn Maye wel-comes the New Year at Birdland with aspecial 11 p.m. set; find out more atwww.birdlandjazz.com. At Jazz Standard,a dinner and Champagne toast accompanythe music of the Regina Carter Quintet.Tickets are available online at www.jazzstandard.com. The Countdown Sextet—Nicolas Bearde, Eric Alexander,Vincent Herring, Eric Reed, JohnWebber and Joe Farnsworth—welcomethe New Year at Smoke Jazz & SupperClub, with reservations available atwww.smokejazz.com. In Brooklyn, SlavicSoul Party hosts a special New Year's Eveperformance at Barbès; details are avail-able at www.barbesbrooklyn.com. Finally,at Village Vanguard, the Chris PotterCircuits Trio rings in the New Year andkicks off its residency with a special set.Visit www.villagevanguard.com to learnmore.

Dayna Stephens, among others. Thismonth, however, Jimmy has the opportuni-ty to present his own group. He says,"Leading a band is a great challenge for meand the experience has helped illuminate tome all the things that go into being a goodbandleader and crafting a good presenta-tion. It's so rewarding to play one's ownmusic and have it brought to life by musi-cians I love and trust."

Jimmy Macbride's quartet playsSmalls Jazz Club Dec. 4.

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cept, and then we'll just veer off in differ-ent directions. I'll play off you and you'llplay off me and I'll meet you at letter A.The [idea] is to challenge yourself con-stantly in a way that stays true to the formbut also is something spontaneous."

Throughout her career, and with therelease of Modern Ancestors, Carmen hashad to push back against conventionalideas about who she should be, how sheshould sound and what she should per-form: "The whole jazz vocal thing of, 'OK,you sing the song and then you scat it andthen somebody else takes a solo, and thenit's like—OK.' We are more than that, jazzvocalists. We're way more than that. Butthe audience is comfortable with just thatlittle bitty part of it. And I'm not comfort-able with that."

Carmen Lundy's quintet, featuringguitarist Andrew Renfroe, pianistMatthew Whitaker, bassist KennyDavis and drummer Kassa Overall,performs at Jazz Standard, Dec. 19-22.

Swinging, Live at Baker's KeyboardLounge, On the Montreal Scene, In GoodHands, Live at Smalls, and In the Moment.The albums include renditions of R&B andpop hits such as Earth, Wind & Fire's"After the Love Has Gone," and WhitneyHouston's "Saving All My Love For You."For Johnny, playing standards "helps youdevelop a sound and a touch, and a respectfor singers. That's where I learned how toplay, by accompanying singers." His artistry will continue to be heard in

2020, with a new recording set for releaseon the Smoke Sessions label. DuringJanuary's Winter Jazzfest, Johnny per-forms in "From Detroit to the World," aconcert that also features vocalists SheilaJordan and Joan Belgrave, drummer LouisHayes and bassist Ron Carter. "It will bethe first I've played with Ron," he says."It's long overdue!"

Johnny O'Neal performs at the SideDoor Dec. 27, at Smoke Jazz & SupperClub's late set on Saturdays and Dec.20-26, and at Mezzrow Dec. 31.

JAZZ ANECDOTE BY BILL CROWBill Crow's books "Jazz Anecdotes" and "From Birdland to Broadway" can be

found at your favorite bookstore, and at www.billcrowbass.com along with many interesting photos and links.

John Altman told a story online that he got from the late Benny Carter. Ben Websterwas playing at a club with a group led by Stuff Smith. One day Webster came to Carter andsaid, "You have to help me. You're the only person who can. Last night I got drunk at the gigand I knocked someone out. The management fired me. I need this gig back. Please talk tothe manager and tell him I'm sorry. He respects you, Benny."Carter did as he was asked, and told the club manager about Ben's remorse. The manag-

er said, "Benny, I appreciate everything you've told me, but we still have a major problem." "What's that?" "The person he knocked out cold was Stuff Smith!"

A Moment You Missed by Fran Kaufman Hot HouseContributing Photographer

The great saxophonist HoustonPerson, who turned 85 last month, hasalways encouraged and mentored youngmusicians.

At the recording session of GeorgiaSunset, a CD he produced and appearedon, Houston shares a laugh and a lessonwith pianist Joe Alterman, in this photofrom the archives.

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NEW BRUNSWICK PERFORMING ARTSCENTER: 7 Livingston Av. New Brunswick.732-729-0320. www.newbrunswickarts.org.Dec 20: $25 adm Evan Sherman Big Band.

STATE THEATRE: 15 Livingston Av. NewBrunswick. www.statetheatrenj.org. 732-246-7469. Dec 6: 8pm $39-75 adm Béla Fleck &the Flecktones.

TAVERN ON GEORGE: 361 George St. NewBrunswick. www.tavernongeorge.com. 732-545-6205. Wed-Thurs: 8-11pm free adm TheNew Brunswick Jazz Project/www.nbjp.org.Dec 4: Leonieke Scheuble Glover Trio; 5: LeeHogans Qrt; 11: Virginia Mayhew Trio; 12:Sylvia Cuenca Qrt; 18: Akiko Tsuruga Trio;19: Don Braden Qrt; 26: Winard Harper Qrt.

MORRISBICKFORD THEATRE: 6 Normandy HeightsRd. Morristown. 973-971-3706. www.morrismuseum.org/jazz-showcase. Dec 2: 7:30-9pm Don Braden.

SHANGHAI JAZZ: 24 Main St. Madison. 973-822-2899. www.shanghaijazz.com. Free adm.Sun 6-8:30pm, Tues 6:30-9pm, Wed-Thurs 7-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 6:15&8:45pm. Closed Mon.Dec 1: no jazz; 4: Dan Crisci; 5: AdrianCunningham & friends; 6: Bernard PurdieTrio; 7: Vince Guaraldi & Eric Mintel Qrt; 15:Sarah Partrige; 19: Harry Allen; 20: BrynnStanley; 22: Leoneike Scheuble; 27:Champian Fulton.

OCEANThe JAY & LINDA GRUNIN CENTER FORTHE ARTS: 1 College Dr. Toms River. 732-255-0500. www.grunincenter.org. Dec 1: 3pmSwingadelic.

PASSAICWILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY: 300Pompton Rd. Wayne. www.wpunj.edu. 973-720-2371. Dec 15: 4pm John Pizzarelli &Catherine Russell.

SOMERSETWATCHUNG ARTS CENTER: 18 Stirling Rd.Watchung. www.watchungarts.org. 908-753-0190. Dec 14: 8-10pm Amani.

UNION16 PROSPECT WINE BAR & BISTRO: 16Prospect St. Westfield. 908-232-7320.www.16prospect.com. Tues: 8-11pm freeadm. Dec 3&17: Carrie Jackson & friends;10: Arturo Band.

SCOTCH PLAINS PUBLIC LIBRARY: 1927Bartle Av. Scotch Plains. www.scotlib.org.908-322-5007. Dec 8: 2-3pm Amani.

The AVALON LOUNGE: 29 Church St.Catskill. www.theavalonlounge.com. 518-719-1640. Dec 14: 8:30-10:30pm $10 admJane Ira Bloom Trio.

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN PIZZA COMPANY:51 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock. 845-679-7969.www.catskillmountainpizza.com. Wed: 9pmJazz Night.

The FALCON: 1348 Rte 9 West. Marlboro.www.liveatthefalcon.com. 845-236-7970.Sets/adm: 8pm, Sun 11am Brunch (B); $20don suggested. Falcon Underground (FU).Dec 1: Dayna Stephens Trio; 2: FU CindyCashdollar & The Syncopators; 4: Gerry Weilw/Luis Perdomo; 8: Guitar Summit Collective feat Joel Harrison, Rolf Sturm, Steve Rust & Harvey Sorgen; 11: 7pm FU Jazz Sessions by Doug Weiss; 12: Latin Jazz Express; 15: David Amram Qnt; 21: 7pm Ed

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Sun: Jazz Brunch. Dec 1: 11:30am-2:30pmMaurício de Souza feat Bossa Brasil®.

CLEMENT’S PLACE: At Rutgers University. 15Washington St. Newark. Sets unless other-wise noted: 7:30pm. www.facebook.com/jazz973. 3rd Thurs: 7:30-9:30pm Jam byJames Austin, Jr.

The FOX & FALCON: 19 Valley St. SouthOrange. www.thefoxandfalconnj.com. 973-419-6773. Dec 6: 7-11pm Champian Fulton.

GATEWAY CENTER PLAZA 4: 100 MulberrySt. Newark. 973-624-8880. Dec 4: 12-1pmJerome Jennings & friends.

NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CEN-TER: 1 Center St. Newark. 888-466-5722.www.njpac.org. Dec 14: 4pm $20 adm Jazz &Gingerbread.

PRIORY JAZZ CLUB: 233W Market St.Newark. 973-242-8012. Dec 27: 7-11pm CarrieJackson & All Star Band.

SOPAC: 1 SOPAC Way. South Orange. 973-313-2787. www.sopacnow.org. Sets: 8pm. Dec 7:$58-78 adm Dianne Reeves; 14: $39-49 TheHot Sardines.

SUZYQUE’S BBQ & BAR: 34 S Valley Rd.West Orange. www.suzyques.com. 973-736-7899. Free adm. Sun: 2-5pm Brunchw/Curtis Lundy Ens; Mon: 8pm-12am JohnLee & friends. Dec 9&23: 8-10pm GlennFranke's BigBand.

HUDSONThe BRIGHTSIDE TAVERN: 141 Bright St.Jersey City. www.brightsidetavern.com. 201-435-1234. Mon: 8pm Keyed Up featBrightside Tavern Trio.

HEADROOM BAR & SOCIAL: 150 Bay St.Jersey City. www.headroombar.com. 201-963-4565. Sun 3-7pm except 12/29 AndreaBrachfeld Qrt.

MERCER1867 SANCTUARY AT EWING: 101 ScotchRd. Ewing. www.1867sanctuary.org/seriesjazz. 609-392-6409. Dec 1: 2pm Eric MintelQrt; 7: 8pm Wendy Zoffer Gp; 13: 8pm JayDaniels; 21: 8pm Richie Cole Alto Madness.

CANDLELIGHT LOUNGE: 24 Passaic St.Trenton. www.candlelightevents.way.to. 609-695-9612. Sat: 3:30-7:30pm free adm/$10min. www.jazztrenton.com. Dec 7: Mike Lee;14: Jerry Weldon; 21: Lynn Tiley; 29: RandySuton.

HOPEWELL VALLEY BISTRO & INN: 15East Broad St. Hopewell. 609-466-9889.www.hopewellbistro.com. Thurs: 6-9pm/$15/5 don Jazz On Broad.

McCARTER THEATRE: 91 University Pl.Princeton. 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org.Dec 13-14: 8pm John Pizzarelli & CatherineRussell.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Fine Hall. 304Washington Rd. Princeton. 609-258-4200.www.princeton.edu/music. Sets/adm:7:30pm/free. Dec 4: Rudresh Mahanthappaw/Jazz Small Groups; 10: Jay Clayton w/JazzVocal Improvisation Ens.

SALT CREEK GRILLE: At Forrestal Village. 1Rockingham Row at Rte 1. Princeton. 609-419-4200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. Fri-Sat:7-11pm. Dec 13: 8-11pm Carrie Jackson Trio.

MIDDLESEXCHAMBER 43: 427 Raritan Av. Highland Park.www.chamber43.com. 732-354-3047.

GEORGE STREET ALE HOUSE: 378 GeorgeSt. New Brunswick. www.gsalehouse.com.732-543-2408. The New Brunswick JazzProject/www.nbjp.org. Tues: 8-11pm Emer-ging Artists + Jam. Dec 3: Will Comer; 10:Gabriel Bar-Cohen; 17: Dave Mosko.

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THE WORDS OF A LYRIC INHABITthe air as Jocelyn Medina interprets

Gilberto Gil's Eu Vim da Bahia (I Camefrom Bahia). Something magical happensto that lyric. The lines of this iconic songleap and pirouette ever so gracefully. Theyspin and dance their way into the audi-ence's sensibilities as Jocelyn brings thesong to life on the darkened stage. Givingwords flight is an art that she has mas-tered. It is a kind of musical anthro-pophagy in which she devours the flesh ofthe lyric before reforming and releasing itto the wind, impelled expertly with hernose voice or throat voice, and often withher chest voice. Jocelyn was born to music and raised

amid a family of singers. Her deep love ofmusic propelled her to hone her skills evenmore, to fine-tune her ability to interprether music. So after pursuing opera work atStanford University she earned a bache-lor's degree in professional music fromBerklee and later augmented that with amaster's in vocal jazz performance fromthe Manhattan School of Music. Jocelynreturned to music full-time, performingand teaching extensively at home andabroad in Spain, Brazil, Ghana and India. However, the impulse to perfect her

craft drew her to Jeannette LoVetri."Jeanie's method of somatic voiceworkopened up a whole new world of musicalexploration for me," Jocelyn says. Sheexplains how the technique has trans-formed the expression of her art: "I learnedto dig deeper; to listen to my every senseand to let each sense be melded together insong by the heat of the emotion. I learnedto let my whole body take on the form ofthe lyrics before releasing them in song." To watch Jocelyn perform or listen to

her sing on disc is a miraculous experience.Whether she is singing straight-aheadjazz, Latin jazz, or Afro-Brazilian music;whether weaving wordless vocals into

Indian raga modes, or even operatic ariasinto song, her pacing is unerring through-out, no matter how slow or fast the tempimarkings in the music. The sense of bring-ing a narrative to life is utterly persuasive.This has been the hallmark of The JourneyBegun (2005), We Are Water (2011) andCommon Ground (2017), all of which shereleased on Running Tree Records."I live in the music and the music lives

in me," Jocelyn says, extolling the virtuesof digging deep into the wellspring of feel-ings and emotions, "So when the songsemerge, every word seems to live andbreathe; just as if the music is speaking tome in a very special way." Listening to theway in which she seductively bends thenotes, or how she sculpts the long inven-tions of the songs on Common Ground, it'sclear that there's not a semiquaver thathasn't been fastidiously considered. It's nosurprise how every song becomes a melodyof feeling.

Jocelyn Medina performs with JohnStowell and Pete McGann Dec. 16 atBar Next Door. She also runs theVocal Jazz Jam session every Sundayat Room 623.

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'TIS THE SEASON AGAIN, AND HEREare some listening recommendations,from concerts to holiday- and gift-appropri-ate reissue albums and box sets.

CELEBRATING THE SEASON* "Bending Towards the Light," Anne

Phillips' Jazz Nativity, has been an annu-al tradition in New York since the late20th century. This year it's staged Dec. 6at Christ & St. Stephen's Church on West69th Street. The Three Kings are beingplayed by tap dancer Maurice Chestnut,tenor saxophonist Houston Person andtrumpeter Joe Magnarelli. * The Jazz at Lincoln Center

Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, pres-ents "Big Band Holidays," a concert of hol-iday jazz music, at the Rose Theatre, Dec.18-22. Appearing with the big band aresingers Denzal Sinclaire and AlexisMorrast.

SPINNING HOLIDAY SOUNDSWith streaming services abounding, it's

easy to program long-time holidayfavorites for listening, but that doesn't stoplabels from releasing new music for theseason. Here are four new albums wellworth checking out.* Big Band Holidays II, Jazz at

Lincoln Center Orchestra withWynton Marsalis (Blue Engine). Here's afollow-up to 2015's I. Among the instru-mental numbers this time around are"Brazilian Sleigh Bells" and ClaudeThornhill's "Snowfall." Singers joining theJALC include Catherine Russell, VeronicaSwift and Aretha Franklin.* Eight Track Christmas, Dave

Stryker (Strikezone). The guitarist-leadercontinues his Eight Track series of soul-jazz with a program of carols and secularChristmas songs. Anchored by JaredGold's organ, with Stefon Harris on vibesand McClenty Hunter on drums and per-cussion, Dave brings the grooves to thefore in this collection, perfect for those whodon't want their Christmas music to hitthem over the head with the season.* That Time of Year, Kristen Korb

(Storyville). An American bassist-singerbased in Denmark, Kristen features herintimate Danish band of Magnus Hjorth onpiano, Snorre Kirk on drums and Mathias

Heise on harmonica. Her light, buoyantvoice is perfect for both the reverence of"Silent Night" and "Snowbound," thecoquetry of "Santa Baby" and the romanceof "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm."* Moonlight, Mistletoe & You, Keb' Mo'

(Concord). The veteran folk-blues singertakes on traditional Christmas songs aswell as blues about the season and eventhe anti-consumerism anthem "Christmasis Annoying" on this comfortable outing.

ECM AT 50ECM, the European jazz label founded

and run by Manfred Eicher, celebrates thehalf-century mark this year. The label isstill going strong, with current releasesfrom ECM stalwarts Keith Jarrett and JanGarbarek, as well as a stunning newalbum of standards, Common Practice,from Ethan Iverson Quartet with TomHarrell.To celebrate its 50th anniversary, ECM

has reissued 50 of its most iconic CDs in alower-priced Touchstones series in card-board sleeves. Among the artists repre-sented are Keith, Jan, Bill Frisell, JackDeJohnette, Gary Burton, DaveHolland, Chick Corea, Paul Motian,Charles Lloyd and a host of others.* The Art Ensemble of Chicago and

Associated Ensembles (ECM) is a 21-CDbox set celebrating the 50th anniversary ofthe AEC that ECM issued late last year onthe cusp of its 50th. It includes 18 albumsissued by the label, three of them twofers,by the AEC collectively as well as by indi-vidual members such as Lester Bowieand Roscoe Mitchell, plus membersappearing with DeJohnette and LeoSmith.

TENOR SAXOPHONISTSDESERVEDLY REMEMBEREDThe middle of the 20th century boasted

a bountiful cadre of tenor saxophonists.Three excellent albums—reissues andnewly discovered recordings—highlightfour estimable tenors who are too oftenovershadowed by the giants of that era,such as John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins andWayne Shorter.* The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note

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Palermo Big Band; 26: Circus of Wolvesw/Slick Aguilar; 29: Kevin Hays Trio.

HUDSON HALL: 327 Warren St. Hudson.www.hudsonhall.org. 518-822-1438. Dec 14:7-8:30pm $25/40 adm Dan Tepfer.

LYDIA’S CAFE: 7 Old US Hwy 209. StoneRidge. www.lydias-cafe.com. 845-687-6373.Sets: 7-10pm. Dec 7: Rob Scheps/TonyJefferson Qrt; 14: Tom DePetris Qrt.

MAUREEN’S JAZZ CELLAR: 2 N Bway.Nyack. www.maureensjazzcellar.com. 845-535-3143. Sets/adm: unless otherwise notedSun 6pm, Fri-Sat 8pm/$20. Dec 1: LisaMaxwell & Sarah Jane Cion Trio; 6: ChrisPasin, 10pm free Jam w/Freddie Jacobs &friends; 14: Martin Pizzarelli Qrt; 15: 3pm $15Rockland Youth Jazz Ens, 6pm RobertaPiket; 20: 8&9:30pm Mike Holober & MarvinStamm; 27: Adan Perez & friends; 28: PaulJost Qrt.

QUINN’S: 330 Main St. Beacon. 845-202-7447.www.quinnsbeacon.com. Mon: 8pm freeadm Monday Night Jazz Sessions. Dec 23:Billy Mintz Band.

SENATE GARAGE: 4 N Front St. Kingston.www.senategarage.com. 845-802-5900. Dec7: 7:30 $30/35 adm Jazzstock serieswww.jazzstock.com feat Fred Hersch Solo.

TURNING POINT CAFÉ: 468 Piermont Av.Piermont. www.turningpointcafe.com. 845-359-1089. Mon: 8-11:30pm $5 adm MondayJam by John Richmond.

WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE: 103 Mill Hill Rd.Woodstock. www.woodstockplayhouse.org.845-679-6900. Dec 21: 7:30-9pm $45-55 admAlexa Tarantino.

DEER HEAD INN: 5 Main St. Delaware WaterGap, PA. www.deerheadinn.com. 570-424-2000. Sets: Sun 5-8pm, Thurs 8-11pm, Fri-Sat7-11pm. Adm varies. Residency (R): ThursJam w/Bill Washer & friends. Dec 1: LuizSimas & Wesley Amorim; 5: R; 6: MatthewParrish feat Michelle Lordi; 7: Minas Qrt; 8:Jingle Jingle; 12: R; 13: Star Wonder; 14: DanPugach Nnt + 1; 15: Lynette Washington/Amina Figarova Qrt; 16: 7:30-10:30pm COTACarols; 19: R; 20: Stephanie Nakasian w/MattBaker Trio; 21: Eric Mintel Qrt; 22: ReginaSayles; 26: R; 27: Kate Baker & Vic Juris; 28:Nancy Reed & Billy Test; 29: Billy Test & JayRattman; 30: 7:30-10:30pm Matt Vashlishan& The Water Gap Jazz Orch; 31: NYE Party.

AIRTRAIN JAMAICA STATION: 93-02Sutphin Blvd. Jamaica. www.theairtrainjazzfestival.com. Thurs: 5-7pm The AirTrain JazzFestival feat 12/5 Steve Palmore, 12/12James Rohlehr, 12/19 The Amanda MonacoThree, 12/26 Alon Nechushtan Trio.

DOMINIES: 34-07 30th Av. Long Island City.718-728-1834. Sun: 9pm-12am Keyed Up featChristian Coleman’s Trample Man.

FLUSHING TOWN HALL: 137-35 NorthernBlvd. Flushing. www.flushingtownhall.org.718-463-7700. Dec 6: 8pm $16/10 adm

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Sessions 1963-1970, Hank Mobley(Mosaic, 8 CDs). Wayne Shorter isn't theonly celebrated tenor saxophonist to hailfrom Newark; Hank Mobley (1930-1986),born three years before Shorter, alsohailed from New Jersey's largest city.Hank first gained fame as the tenor saxo-phonist in the original, co-op version of theJazz Messengers, before drummer ArtBlakey assumed leadership. He was withMiles Davis in 1961, and was an importantmember of Herbie Hancock's early record-ing groups. This box set showcases the sec-ond phase of Hank's Blue Note career (hesigned with the label in 1955) and featuressessions he led, often with trumpeter LeeMorgan, that comprised his often excep-tional originals. Of special interest is ASlice of the Top, an octet date from 1966(not released until 1979) with a brass sec-tion including euphonium and tuba. * Ow! Live at The Penthouse, Johnny

Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (Reelto Real). The middle of the 20th centurywas popular for quintets with front linesfeaturing two players of the same instru-ment. There was Jay & Kai (trombonistsJ.J. Johnson and Kai Winding), Phil andQuill (alto saxophonists Phil Woods andGene Quill), and most often, ensemblespairing two tenor saxophonists. JohnnyGriffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis had oneof the most successful and popular of thosetwo-tenor bands, the former's mercurialskeins of notes contrasting with the latter'srobust sax hollering. This previously unre-leased album captures the two in fine format The Penthouse in Seattle, in mid-1962.Their quintet is rounded out by pianistHorace Parlan, bassist Buddy Catlett anddrummer Art Taylor.* Live in Tokyo '91, Barney Wilen

Quartet (Elemental, 2 CDs). French tenorsaxophonist Barney Wilen (1937-1996)was among the first widely acclaimedEuropean jazzmen of the post-WWII era.When he was just 21, he recorded thesoundtrack to Elevator to the Gallows, afamous film noir, with Miles Davis.Barney's style came out of Lester Youngand Al Cohn, rather the later bebop andhard-bop players who were roughly hiscontemporaries. On this double-discalbum, a live recording at Tokyo'sKeystone Korner, he plays tenor andsoprano saxophones and is joined by hisEuropean rhythm section of OlivierHutman on keyboards and piano, GillesNaturel on bass and Peter Gritz on drums.The program is a mix of American andFrench standards, as well as tunes bySonny Rollins, John Coltrane and DukeJordan.

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BEANRUNNER CAFÉ: 201 S Division &Esther St. Peekskill. 914-737-1701.www.beanrunnercafe.com. Fri-Sat: 8-10:30pm $15 adm. Dec 6: Chico Alvarez &Mauricio Smith; 7: Steven Guzband; 13:Conigliaro Consort; 14: Doug Munro; 21: RayBlue; 22: 4-6pm The Sunday Jazz Collective;27: Slide Attack; 28: Gerry Malkin Qnt.

EMELIN THEATRE: 153 Library Ln.Mamaroneck. www.emelin.org. 914-698-0098. Dec 7: 8-10pm $35/45 adm StanleyJordan.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: 199NColumbus Av at E Lincoln Av. Mount Vernon.www.pjsjazz.org. 914-636-4977. 2nd Sun:5:15-9pm $25 adm Second Sunday Jazzseries. Dec 8: Houston Person.

JAZZ FORUM: 1 Dixon Ln. Tarrytown. 914-631-1000. www.jazzforumarts.org. Sets/ adm:Sun 4&6pm $15/20; Fri-Sat 7&9:30pm. Dec 1:Willie Martinez Latin Jazz Qrt; 6-7: $30/35Paquito D'Rivera Qnt; 8: Shunzo Ohno Gpfeat Lotus Chamber Collective; 13-14: $25/30Renee Rosnes Qrt; 15: Ben Kono Gp; 20-21:$30/35 Bill Charlap Trio; 27-28: $20/25 JuliusRodriguez Qnt; 29: Portinho Brazilian JazzQrt; 31: NYE 6pm $100, 9:30pm $150 JanisSiegel.

Hot House is not responsible for any errorsin the listings which may have occured from

late changes or incorrect information supplied to us. Please call the venues

or check websites for up to date calendars.

Roberta Piket 6tet & Karrin Allyson; 11: 7pm$10 adm Jam w/Carol Sudhalter.

JACKSON ROOM: 192-07 Linden Blvd. StAlbans. www.jacksonroom.com. 718-525-2387. Last Sat: 8-11pm. 8&10pm $20 adm inclsnacks/beverage feat Ed Jackson Qrt.

JAMAICA CENTER OF ARTS & LEARN-ING: 161-04 Jamaica Av. Jamaica.www.jcal.org. 718-658-7400. 2nd Thurs: 8pm$10 adm Thursday Night Jazz series. Dec 12:Anna Webber Spt.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM: 34-56 107th St. Corona. 718-478-8274.www.louisarmstronghouse.org. Sun&Sat 12-5pm, Tues-Fri 10am-5pm: $10 adm GuidedTours of Louis Armstrong House.

TERRAZA 7: 40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst.www.terraza7.com. 718-803-9602. Sun:9:30pm-2am $7 adm Jam w/John BenitezTrio; 2nd&4th Wed: 9pm TR7 Jam w/John Yao& Peter Brendler. Dec 4: 9pm Ari Hoenig Trio;26: 9pm Serena Albero-Dominguez Qrt.

ALVIN & FRIENDS: 14 Memorial Hwy. NewRochelle. www.alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com. 914-654-6549. Sets/adm: Fri 7-10:30pm,Sat 7:30-11pm/free. Dec 6: Dinah Vero; 7:Rocky Middleton Trio; 13: The BrazilwoodTrio; 14: Leslie Pintchik Trio; 20: JaredPauley Qrt; 21: The Terranean Tinge; 27:Victor LaGamma Trio; 28: Leslie PintchikTrio.

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