In addition to the listings, I thought I'd let you know that the folks over at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival tickets for the 9th Annual Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, June 11 to 19, go on sale on Friday (yes, it's that time of year again) for the holiday pricing of $115 (it will go up to $135 and then $150 by showtime). While you're contemplating your ticket purchases, check out the jazz around Rochester for the next seven days:
Thursday, October 29, 2009
- Todd East @ Brio Wine Bar & Grill, 6:00 pm
- Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 7:00 pm
- Dawn Thomson & Friends @ Max at Eastman Place, 7:00 pm
- Trio East @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm
- Canada Day (led by Harris Eisenstadt) presented by Bop Arts @ Bop Shop Atrium, 8:00 pm
- Dave Rivello Ensemble @ Village Rock Cafe, 8:00 9:00 pm
- Filthy Funk All Star Jam @ Lovin' Cup, 9:30 pm
Friday, October 30, 2009
- Mike Allen, AKOS @ Starship Night Club, 6:00 pm
- "Jazz Day" at SUNY Brockport with The Dave Rivello Ensemble and Symposium @ Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage, 7:30 pm (Event on Facebook)
- Bobby DiBaudo Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm
- Gap Mangione New Blues Band @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 7:30 pm
- Paradigm Shift with special guest Harold Pannell @ Zaz's (Webster), 8:00 pm
- Bob Sneider Quartet @ The Grill at Strathallan, 8:30 pm
- Deborah Magone @ Little Theatre Cafe, 8:30 pm
- Todd East Trio @ Bistro 135, 9:00 pm
Saturday, October 31, 2009
- Ted Nicolosi & Shared Genes @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm
- Gap Mangione New Blues Band @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 7:30 pm
- Mike Kaupa Quartet @ The Grill at Strathallan, 8:30 pm
- Fred Stone Progressive Trio @ Little Theatre Cafe, 8:30 pm
- East End Jazz Boys @ Havana Moes, 9:30 pm
Sunday, November 1, 2009
- Bill Slater @ The Lodge at Woodcliff, 11:30 am
- The Westview Project @ Lovin' Cup, 7:00 pm
Monday, November 2, 2009
- The White Hots @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm
- Quinn Lawrence & Anna Reguero (Swing dance to live jazz) @ Flat Iron Cafe, 9:00 pm
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
- Jim Nugent Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm
- Joe Santora & Emily Kirchoff @ PaRe Bar and Grill, 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
- Eastman Jazz Forum (Harold Danko) @ ESM, Room 120, 11:30 am
- The Meta Accord @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm
- Jimmie Highsmith Jr. & Funkbox @ Live on the radio on Jazz90.1 Live Studio Concert Series, 7:00 pm
- Amp @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm
- Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra @ Bailey Hall, Cornell University, 8:00 pm
- Todd East @ Pub 511, 8:00 pm
- Eastman Jazz Ensemble @ Eastman Theatre-Kodak Hall, 8:00 pm
- Open Jazz Jam Session with Cinnamon Jones @ Clarissa's, 9:00 pm
Heads Up ... Look for these Jazz Gigs in the Future
- Ted Perry @ Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Ave, November 5th, 8:00 pm
- Cabo Frio 30th Anniversary Celebration @ Clarissa's, November 6th, 8:00 pm (On Facebook)
- Exodus to Jazz presents Paradigm Shift with Bobby Militello, November 19th, 8:00 and 10:00 pm
- Steve Davis @ Strathallan Hotel, November 21, 8:30 pm
- Exodus to Jazz presents Monk—The Play by Laurence Holder, featuring Rome Neal, Artistic Director of the Nuyorican Poets' Theatre Cafe, December 11th & 12th, 8:00 pm
We've compiled these listings from information obtained from the performing artists themselves and other sources. The aim is to give you a one stop place to find all your jazz in Rochester. Please forgive me for any discrepancies with reality and feel free to let me know what the problem is, and I'll get the corrections up on the site as soon as possible (click on the "Send an email to Jazz@Rochester" link). If you go out to hear a performance listed here, feel free to drop a comment to this post about how it went. I want to hear from you!
As we slide into the winter months, try to keep the heat up with some live jazz music at the restaurants and clubs in and around Rochester. It's kind of interesting. The "wordle" on the right is from last year, same week, and the words are not too dissimilar from what they would be if I had created it tonight!
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Getting this in just under the wire on Wednesday a I just got back in the house from the event at the Kodak Theater at Eastman honoring saxman Gerry Niewood and his music. It was a full house (for jazz...that's right) and a lot of great arrangements of Niewood's music, including some that had never been performed before, played by his friends, family (son and jazz reedman Adam and Adam's wife), fellow musicians, all backed up by the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble and the Eastman Jazz Ensemble. Great night of music and the sound of jazz in the newly renovated hall didn't suck! 
Gerry Niewood—saxophonist and flutist, band leader and long-time sideman to Chuck Magione, died in the February 12, 2009, crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 near Buffalo. Niewood was also Rochester native, Eastman alumnus, and the original lead alto sax of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble under its first director, Chuck Mangione. If you haven't heard of it yet, Niewood's family, friends and admirers from Eastman have put together a great 
Here are jazz listings for the next seven days. Good week for jazz in Rochester with much on tap over the next seven days, including Lee Konitz with Harold Danko at Eastman's Kilbourn Hall, the celebration of Gerry Niewood's music in the New Kodak Hall at Eastman, and Cuong Vu 4-Tet at Bop Shop Atrium. Get out there and listen if you can! 
During his long career, Lee Konitz has played with musicians from a wide variety of jazz styles, including being associated with the Cool Jazz movement of the 40s and 50s, participating in Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions and working with Lennie Tristano. Pianist Danko worked with Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, and Woody Herman. Konitz and Danko have been musical partners for more than 30 years and have toured and recorded together a number of times in that time. Sessions that they recorded together included the duo albums Wild as Springtime (Candid 1984) and Once Upon A Line (Musidisc 1990), RichLee! (SteepleChase 2000), Dearly Beloved (SteepleChase 1997), Ideal Scene (Soul Note 1986), The New York Album (Soul Note 1987), Dovetail (Sunnyside 1983), and Yes, Yes, Nonet (SteepleChase 1979). Here's 
