Category: Concerts

Sets at 8:00 & 10:00pm MATTHEW STEVENS – Guitar Josh Johnson – Saxophone Kyle Miles – Bass Eric Doob – Drums With his self-titled new album on Candid Records, guitarist, producer, and songwriter **Matthew Stevens** delivers a definitive mid-career mission statement. Long recognized as one of the most thrilling and thoughtful guitarists of his generation, Stevens has built an elite reputation in music, touring and recording with a “who’s who” of modern icons, including Esperanza Spalding, Chief A…

Sets at 8:00, 10:00 and 11:30pm HENRY FRASER – Bass Brandon Seabrook – Guitar Randy Peterson – Drums All three sets will be a **LIVE RECORDING** for the Close Up Label. Born in Boston, MA in 1991, Henry Fraser moved to NYC in 2014, and has been actively working on a diverse array of projects since. Collaborating with such artists as Ka Baird, John Zorn, Uniform, Mary Halvorson, Randall Dunn and Joey Arias, he has toured throughout the US and abroad, playing venues including the Moers Festival, U…

Sets at 7:30 & 9:00PM DEVIN DANIELS – Saxophone Alto saxophonist **Devin Daniels** stands out as one of the most unique and versatile voices to emerge from LA’s rapidly evolving creative music landscape. The Inglewood (CA) native has the unique ability to fit into any musical situation without sacrificing the integrity of his individual voice. That, combined with his warm and thoughtful personality, is why Daniels has been invited to perform with bands led by **Gerald Clayton**, **Miguel Atwood-…

Sets at 7:30 & 9:00PM** **NOAH GARABEDIAN – Bass Jonathan Finlayson – Trumpet David Leon – Saxophone Carmen Staaf – Piano Jimmy Macbride – Drums Bass player and composer Noah Garabedian seeks the human connection in the collaborative aspects of art, and is informed by folkloric traditions and stories. He is a 2025 New Jazz Works Grant recipient from Chamber Music America; 2022 Calouste Gulbenkian In View Grant recipient; 2021 Fellow for Creative Armenia; 2022 and 2016 Fulbright Specialist Grant …

Sets at 7:30 & 9:00PM PARTISAN SHIP PHILLIP GOLUB – Microtonal Midi Keyboard Yuma Uesaka – EWI & Soprano Saxophone Elias Stemeseder – Synthesizer Jon Starks – Drums Partisan Ship is a futuristic microtonal jazz-rock ensemble led by composer-keyboardist **Phillip Golub**. **Phillip Golub**, “a musician in fast ascent” (Wall Street Journal) and “[a] brilliant improviser” (JazzTimes), is a pianist, improviser, and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Los Angeles, he creates highly origin…

Sets at 7:30 & 9:00PM **Peter Evans** is a composer, trumpet player, improvisor and bandleader based in New York City since 2003. Evans is part of a broad, hybridized scene of musical experimentation, and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions. He leads and composes for several ensembles including Being & Becoming (with Joel Ross, Nick Jozwiak & Tyshawn Sorey) his trio Extra (with Petter Eldh and Jim Black), Symphony, the collaborative trio Pulverize the Sou…

Sets at 8:00 & 10:00PM PETER EVANS – TrumpetsAlice Teyssier – FlutesMazz Swift – ViolinNick Joz – Bass & SynthGervis Myles – Electric BassKayvon Gordon – Drums Peter Evans is a composer, trumpet player, improvisor and bandleader based in New York City since 2003. Evans is part of a broad, hybridized scene of musical experimentation, and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions. He leads and composes for several ensembles including Being & Becoming (with Joel R…

Sets at 8:00 & 10:00PM PETER EVANS – TrumpetsAlice Teyssier – FlutesMazz Swift – ViolinNick Joz – Bass & SynthGervis Myles – Electric BassKayvon Gordon – Drums Peter Evans is a composer, trumpet player, improvisor and bandleader based in New York City since 2003. Evans is part of a broad, hybridized scene of musical experimentation, and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions. He leads and composes for several ensembles including Being & Becoming (with Joel R…

Sets at 7:30 & 9:00PM SOLOMON GOTTFRIED – Bass JACOB SACKS – Piano CONNOR PARKS – Drums Native New Yorker Solomon Gottfried began playing the Double Bass at age 12 after a childhood of going to clubs, listening to records, and admiring bassists such as Ron Carter, Paul Chambers and Scott LaFaro. An Alumni of the Interlochen Arts Academy, NPR’s “From the Top”, Vail Jazz Workshop, Manhattan School of Music Pre-College and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he studied extensively …

Sets at 7:30PM & 9:00PM SYLVIE COURVOISIER – Piano Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier, a Brooklyn-based native of Switzerland and winner of the Swiss Grand Prix and The American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Award in 2025, has earned renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the deep, richly detailed chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the avant-jazz scene in New York City, her home for more than two decades. Few artists feel truly at ease in both conc…