If you've picked up this week's edition of Rochester City Newspaper, check out the short profile of me and this blog, and other local bloggers, in the Annual Manual. You'll get the reference in the title if you read it.

So, there's a lot of jazz happening over the next seven days, so let's get right to it ....

Thursday, March 17, 2011

• Live Jazz Jam with ESM Students @ Triple Deuces Bar & Grill, 6:00 pm
• Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm
• Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm
• The Djangoners @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm

Friday, March 18, 2011

• Live Jazz Jam with ESM Students @ Triple Deuces Bar & Grill, 5:00 pm
• Johnny Matt Band with Jon Seiger @ Wegmans-Eastway, 5:30 pm
• Bobby Dibaudo Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm
• Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes @ The Pultneyville Grill, Williamson, 6:30 pm
• Gap Mangione @ Pier 45, 6:30 pm
• Jimmie Highsmith Trio with comedy of Jimmy Hightower, Jr. @ Trinities Restaurant, 7:00 pm
• Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm
• Ryan T Carey & El Rojo Jazz Band @ Thali of India, 7:00 pm
• Smooth Groove @ Cornerstone Coffee House, 202 East Commercial Street, East Rochester, 8:00 pm
• The Westview Project @ Little Theatre Cafe, 8:30 pm
• Soul Express @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 8:30 pm
• Katie Ernst Group @ UR Swing Club Dance (check UofR site for location), 9:00 pm

Saturday, March 19, 2011

• Bourbon Street Jazz @ Legacy, Clover & Blossom, 3:00 pm
• John Britton, Chris Ziemba & Ben Thomas @ Tala Vera Cantina, 6:00 pm
• Jazz Cafe @ Monty's Korner, 7:30 pm
• Hard Logic @ Bistro 135, 7:00 pm
• Robert Chevrier @ Brio Wine Bar & Grill, 7:00 pm
• Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm
• Stringplicity @ Little Theatre Cafe, 8:30 pm
• Gap Mangione New Blues Band @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 8:30 pm
• Westview Project with Doug Stone @ The Grill at Strathallan, 8:30 pm
• Po'Boys Brass Band CD Release Party with Kristen Maxfield @ Lovin Cup, 9:00 pm
• East End Jazz Boys @ Havana Moes, 9:30 pm

Sunday, March 20, 2011

• Bill Slater @ The Lodge at Woodcliff, 11:30 am
• Robert Glasper Trio @ Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 3:00 pm
• The Moho Collective @ Lovin' Cup, 7:00 pm
• Troup Street Jazz Jam Session @ Beale Street Cafe, 6:30 pm

Monday, March 21, 2011

• Simon Fletcher Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm
• Dixieland: Barroom Buzzards Plus Two @ Green Lantern Inn, 6:30 pm
• Victor Wooten Band and Stanley Clarke Trio @ Water Street Music Hall, Monday, 7:00 pm
• Brad Batz Band @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm
• Robert Glasper Trio @ Interfaith Chapel, University of Rochester, 8:00 pm

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

• The lineup for the 10th Annual Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival will be announced in a press conference during the morning. I'll try to get something up about it soon thereafter, but you can find it on the XRIJF site
• Karl Stabnau @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm
• Thomas Gravino @ Lemoncello, 6:00 pm
• Audioinflux @ Tala Vera Cantina, 7:00 pm

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

• Katie Ernst Duo with Tony Caramia @ Eastman School of Music, Miller Center Atrium, Noon
• Jim Nugent Trio @ Bistro 135, 6:00 pm
• Robert Chevrier @ Brio Wine Bar & Grill, 6:30 pm
• Deborah Branch @ Legacy-Clover & Blossom, 7:00 pm
• Rick Holland Quartet @ Tala Vera Cantina, 8:00 pm
• Paradigm Shift @ Pomodoro's Grill & Wine Bar, 8:00 pm
• Margaret Explosion @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm

Heads Up ... Look for these Jazz Gigs and Events in the Future

• The Roberto Occhipinti Quartet (with Hilario Duran & Dafnis Prieto) @ Jazz Day at SUNY Brockport, March 25th, 7:30 pm (also free Master Class at 4:30 pm)
• Al Di Meola New World Sinfonia @ Buffalo State Performing Arts Center, Saturday, March 26th
• Bop Arts presents Eugene Chadbourne & Tatsuy Nakatani @ Bop Shop Atrium, Village Gate Square, Monday, March 28th, 8:00 pm
• Foundation of the Monroe County Bar 1st Jazz For Justice fundraiser @ Harro East, Friday, April 1st, 6:00 to 10:00 pm.
• Cuong Vu Trio @ Kilbourn Hall, Friday, April 1st, 8:00 pm
• Anat Cohen Quartet @ Cornell University’s Bailey Hall, April 1st, 8:00 pm
• Take 6 @ Roberts Wesleyan College, Saturday, April 2nd, 7:30 p.m
• Bop Arts presents The ICP Orchestra @ Bop Shop Atrium, Village Gate Square, Tuesday, April 5th, 8:00 pm
• Charles Pillow guests with Eastman Lab Band @ Kilbourn Hall, ESM, April 5th, 8:00 pm
• Antonio Ciacca @ Casa Italiana at Nazareth College, Saturday, April 9th, 4:00 pm
• Exodus to Jazz presents Lynne Arriale Trio with J.D. Allen, Omer Avitel and Johnathan Blake @ Reformation Lutheran Church, Saturday, April 9th, 8:00 pm
• Mostly Other People Do the Killing @ Bug Jar, April 21st, 7:00 pm
• Nancy Kelly @ Tala Vera Cantina, April 23d, 9:00 pm
• The Tom Rainey Trio with Mary Halvorson and Ingrid Laubrock @ Bop Shop Atrium, Village Gate Square, Tuesday, May 3rd, 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.The aim is to give you a one stop place to find all your jazz in Rochester. Only start times are listed, visit or call the venue for more details (the sites for many are in the right panel). 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!