BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB ANNOUNCES
FEBRUARY 2014 ARTIST SCHEDULE
Ron Carter Quartet, Roy Haynes With Ron Carter,
Bill Evans Soulgrass & Guests,
Les McCann With Javon Jackson,
Rachelle Ferrell, Nicole Henry,
Special Japan Benefit Concert, Among Others
New York, NY - January 31, 2014 - Blue Note Jazz Club,
one of the world's most iconic jazz and blues venues based in Greenwich
Village, is proud to announce an impressive schedule of acts for February 2014.
Highlights include: Ron Carter in two settings - with his Quartet and with Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band; Bill Evans Soulgrass with guests John Popper, John Medeski, Eric Krasno & Neal Evans, Tim Carbone, and Marco Benevento; Valentine's Week programs with vocalists Nicole Henry and Rachelle Ferrell; Les McCann with Javon Jackson; Patricia Barber; and a special all-star benefit concert for Earthquake/Tsunami Relief in Japan, among others.
8:00PM & 10:30PM shows each night, unless otherwise noted.
Doors open at 6:00pm. $5 minimum.
Saturday - Sunday, February 1 - 2
Maceo Parker
Saxophonist Maceo Parker
kicks off Blue Note's February schedule, closing out a six-night run
with his working band. Parker is best known for his collaborations with
artists such as James Brown, George Clinton and Ray Charles. As The New York Post declared, "Maceo Parker wrote the book on funk."
Saturday: $30 - Bar, $45 - Table
Sunday: $20 - Bar, $35 - Table
Monday, February 3
Roy Nathanson's Jazz Passengers & Sotto Voce Present:
"Subway Moon, A Poetic Reverie"
Featuring The Students of I.C.E.
Saxophonist/Poet Roy Nathanson's Jazz Passengers and Sotto Voce band will join his students from New York City's Institute for Collaborative Education's (I.C.E)
in a poetic, musical reverie about the subway. Over the last year,
students in this 6-12th grade New York City public school have taken
parts of poems and prose pieces and transformed them into songs about
romance, loss and angst with the backdrop of the NYC subway - providing a
generational contrast to songs from his Nathanson's 2009 Enja release, Subway Moon.
Performed together around a backdrop of Andrew Gurian's video, they
give a broad sense of the diverse magic of our underground imagination.
We are proud to present this 10th incarnation of Nathanson's Subway Moon
project featuring songs, musical improvisation as well as tight
arrangement, choral singing and video image at Blue Note.
*Show Times: 7:30PM & 9:30PM*
Tuesday - Sunday, February 4 - 9
Ron Carter Quartet
Among the most original, prolific, and influential musicians in jazz, bassist Ron Carter is scheduled to appear at Blue Note in multiple settings over the coming weeks - with Roy Haynes (2/25-26) and Donald Harrison & Billy Cobham (3/4-9). However he'll kick off this unofficial Blue Note residency with a six-day run featuring his working Quartet (comprised of pianist Renee Rosnes, drummer Payton Crossley, and percussionist Rolando Morales-Matos).
Monday, February 10
International Guitar Night
The International Guitar Night
(IGN), founded in 1995, is the world's premier touring guitar festival,
each show bringing together the world's most interesting and innovative
acoustic guitarists to exchange musical ideas in a public concert
setting. For each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a
new cast of guitar luminaries to join him for special evenings of
solos, duets, and quartets that highlight the dexterity and diversity
within the world of acoustic guitar. This year IGN's North American tour
features Pino Forastiere, Mike Dawes, Quique Sinesi and Gore.
Tuesday - Wednesday, February 11 - 12
Valentine's Week:
Nicole Henry
Vocalist Nicole Henry
will kick off Blue Note's Valentine's Week. Henry's passionate, soulful
voice and heart-felt charisma has earned her a 2013 Soul Train Award
for "Best Traditional Jazz Performance" (for her recent album, SO GOOD, SO RIGHT: NICOLE HENRY LIVE) three Top-10 U.S. Billboard and HMV Japan jazz albums, and rave reviews both domestically and internationally by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, JazzTimes, Essence and more.
Thursday - Sunday, February 13 - 16
Valentine's Week:
Rachelle Ferrell
Equally gifted as a vocalist, pianist, and songwriter, Rachelle Ferrell
returns to Blue Note to close out Valentine's Week. While Ferrell has
an established fan base in the contemporary jazz community, she has also
made her mark as a crossover artist on the pop/urban contemporary
scene, singing backup for Lou Rawls, Patti LaBelle, Vanessa Williams and
George Duke to name a few. Having released albums as a leader on both
Blue Note and Capitol record labels respectively, Ferrell's talents
transcend generic classification.
Thursday, Saturday & Sunday: $30 - Bar, $45 - Table
Friday: $30 - Bar, $55 - Table
Monday, February 17
Mino Cinelu World Jazz Ensemble
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, programmer, and producer, Mino Cinelu
has performed with world renowned artists such as Miles Davis, Sting,
Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Lou Reed, Vicente Amigo, and Stevie
Wonder, among others. At Blue Note, he leads his new quartet, the World
Jazz Ensemble, featuring keyboardist/vocalist/percussionist,
Jamshied Sharifi, bassist Mamadou Ba, tubist/percussionist Jose Davila,
and trumpeter Bria Skonberg. The ensemble offers a unique repertoire of
instrumental, percussion and vocal works, a mélange that bridges world
and jazz orchestrations.
Tuesday - Thursday, February 18 - 20
Les McCann With Javon Jackson Band
Iconic jazz/funk keyboardist-vocalist Les McCann returns to Blue Note with saxophonist Javon Jackson, following their successful collaboration on Jackson's recent release, Lucky 13.
McCann is best known for his work in the late 1960s/early 1970s with
partner/saxman Eddie Harris, whom he first encountered at the Montreux
Jazz Festival. The resulting album, Swiss Movement (1960), was a
top selling jazz record, and the single "Compared to What" sold
platinum. Known for his work with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers,
Jackson has worked with Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Betty Carter,
Donald Byrd, Ron Carter, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Bobby Hutcherson, and Ben E.
King. He released five albums as a leader on Blue Note Records in the
1990s.
OPENING ACT: Joe Alterman/James Cammack - Tuesday, February 18 Only - 6:30PM
Purchasing a ticket to Les McCann with Javon Jackson Band's February 18, 8:00PM set will allow access to the above opening act.
Friday - Sunday, February 21 - 23
Patricia Barber
"Few performers in or out of jazz are as consistently brilliant as Patricia Barber." - JazzTimes.
A savvy bandleader who has honed a tight, telegraphic style with her
quartet, vocalist/pianist Barber is known for transforming unlikely pop
tunes into sleek jazz numbers, reinventing Cole Porter, and constantly
reworking her impressive book of originals. Her latest critically
acclaimed album is titled Smash (released on Concord Jazz in 2013).
Monday, February 24
Hosted by Bob James
Featuring: Makoto Ozone + Kenny Barron (piano), John Scofield + Mike Stern (guitar),
James Genus (bass), and Clarence Penn (drums), Among Others
March 2014 will mark the three-year anniversary of The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
of March 11, 2011. To remember the tragedy and show how music has the
ability to raise up spirits in the most difficult of times, Blue Note Jazz Club, Bob James, and NHK Enterprises (Japan's national public broadcasting organization) present "Music For Tomorrow: A Benefit For Japan," a benefit concert to support Tohoku (the severely damaged area in northern Japan), with
special
guests (listed above). The concert will be recorded by NHK, broadcast
throughout Japan (including the Tohoku area) and internationally through
NHK channels. All admission proceeds will be delivered as a charity to The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami victims.
*Show Time: One Show Only - 8:00PM*
Tuesday - Wednesday, February 25 - 26
Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth with Ron Carter
Blue Note Jazz Club proudly presents eminent drummer Roy Haynes and his Fountain of Youth Band with bassist Ron Carter:
two jazz legends, two nights only. Haynes and Carter performed together
at George Wein's 2009 CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 in Newport, RI.
Pianist Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) witnessed the Newport performance
and described it on his blog, Do The Math,
as "...a rare chance to hear jazz today like they used to make it."
Haynes, 88, is a GRAMMY® Lifetime Achievement Award-winner and a NEA
Jazz Master. This marks Carter's second appearance at Blue Note in
February, appearing with his Quartet earlier in the month.
Thursday - Saturday, February 27 - March 1
Bill Evans Soulgrass with Special Guests
Described by NPR as "a supergroup of virtuoso musicians," saxophonist Bill Evans' Soulgrass returns to Blue Note for a three night residency, joined by a number of special guests: Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone, Soulive/Lettuce's Neal Evans and Eric Krasno (February 27), John Medeski (February 28), Blues Traveler's John Popper (February 28 - March 1), and Marco Benevento (March 1).
With more than 20-years under his belt as a solo artist, Evans and his
Soulgrass project are known for exploring a variety of musical settings
that go well beyond the confines of traditional jazz, including rock,
hip-hop, jam, fusion, reggae, Brazilian and funk. This run marks the
one-year anniversary since their last summit at Blue Note.
LATE NIGHT GROOVE SERIES
Blue Note Jazz Club proudly presents its Late Night Groove Series, which showcases New York's up-and-coming jazz, soul, hip-hop, R&B and funk artists. Shows are on Friday and Saturday nights. Doors open at midnight and shows begin at 12:30AM. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 day-of-show, unless otherwise noted. The upcoming schedule features:
SUNDAY BRUNCH SERIES
Sunday Brunch
at Blue Note Jazz Club is $29.50 per person and includes a live
performance, brunch and cocktail. Each performer is scheduled for two
shows, at 11:30AM and 1:30PM. The upcoming schedule features:
"Who Dat! @ Blue Note: Sunday Mardi Gras Brunch"
Three Sunday Brunches In The Spirit of New Orleans Music & Culture
ABOUT BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB
Blue
Note Jazz Club, based in the heart of Greenwich Village, is a New York
City cultural institution and one of the premier jazz clubs in the
world. Jazz is undoubtedly America's music, and while Blue Note strives
to celebrate the music's great history, the club is a place where
progression and innovation - the foundation of jazz - are encouraged and
practiced on a nightly basis. Blue Note is open for concerts 365 days a
year.
Location: 131 W. 3rd Street, between 6th Ave and MacDougal St., New York City.
For all media inquiries, please contact:
Jordy Freed, Director of Marketing & Publicity
