Culture Clash includes Howard Potter on vibes, Jeff Smith on bass, & drummer J. Alan Jackson. It's not all lecture, but great Monk music (tonight) & some learnin...
Last Friday if the month... at the Baobab Cultural Center Check it out!
The folks over at XRIJF have announced some of the headliners for the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, which will be running from June 22-30th this year. The fourt announced yesterday include a returning for Norah Jones, who appeared at the first Jazz Fest before she was "discovered" and will appear on June 29th, as well as Diana Krall on Friday, June 22nd, Dweezil Zappa playing Zappa the father on Tuesday, June 26th, Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin, but on banjo) & The Steep Canyon Rangers on Wednesday on June 27th. Tickets go on sale Friday and can be purchased on the XRIJF website. In addition to that, XRIJF and the Eastman School of Music have teamed up to present Bonnie Raitt on May 27th (tickets for that also go on sale on Friday). While that's a ways off, here's the stuff going on over the next seven days... enjoy!
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 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 "Contact Us" button above). If you go out to hear a performance listed here, feel free to drop a comment to this post to let us know how it went. I want to hear from you!
While you're watching the playoffs and other pursuits, these two fantastic jazz pianists came into town to play duets (mostly) in the Exodus to Jazz series in a benefit for the Museum of Kids Art.
Unfortunately, the day selected for protesting the effects that two bills pending in Congress (the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act,, which are two bills pending in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively) will have on the Internet is today, a day that I post this listings post for you (one of the few things you come to this site for). Wikipedia is dark until midnight as are a number of other major Internet sites.
While I'm not going "black" today, I wanted to join them and others in protesting these bills. SOPA and PIPA are efforts, backed by Hollywood interests and others, to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites. However, the poorly drafted language of the two bills (we can only hope the bad drafting was unintentional, but I'm not sure I'd go that far....) tries to accomplish this in a way that will actually infringe on free expression and innovation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the public interest in the digital realm, has summarized why these bills are unacceptable if you value an open, secure, and free Internet. I share the concern about the future of the Internet after passage of these bills and hope you'll check out the EFF's information and the resources at Stop American Censorship and contact your representatives in the House and Senate. Online piracy by foreign websites is a real problem, but these bills are not the only or right tool for the job.
OK off the soapbox (hey, it's my site and I can protest if I want to!) and on to the jazz over the next seven days:
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 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 "Contact Us" button above). If you go out to hear a performance listed here, feel free to drop a comment to this post to let us know how it went. I want to hear from you!
Jazz pianists Gerald Clayton and Tamir Hendelman will be in Rochester for the first benefit concert for Rochester's Museum of Kids Art—A Duet for MoKA, next Sunday, January 22, at 5:00 pm. The concert will be at Hochstein Performance Hall at 50 N. Plymouth Ave., in Rochester. Presented by Exodus to Jazz, proceeds from this event will help fund a new jazz education program at MoKA that begins this month. There will also be a special opening performance by Madrigalia Chamber Choir under the leadership of Music Director Lee Wright with a sampling of their diverse choral repertoire.
Gerald Clayton, a 2010 Downbeat Magazine’s Critic’s Poll Rising Star returns to Rochester riding the crest of a very recent Grammy nomination for his acclaimed new CD, Bond: The Paris Sessions. Award-winning jazz pianist Tamir Hendelman has performed with the Jeff Hamilton Trio, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Harry Allen, Teddy Edwards, Warren Vache, Houston Person, Jeff Clayton, Nick Brignola, Phil Upchurch, Rickey Woodard, John Clayton and Barbara Morrison. 
His Destinations CD is described in Downbeat as an "innately impressive new album" showing Hendelman's "undeniable depth and technical mastery of his approach to his instrument." Both Hendelman and Clayton have been to Rochester recently to appear in the Exodus to Jazz series
Here's how the evening will shape up:
Tickets are available on-site and at all Wegmans That's the Ticket outlets and online through Brown Paper Tickets and are available at the following levels: Patron tickets ($45) (includes reception with artists) Premium seating tickets ($25) General Admission tickets ($20) Student general admission with valid student ID ($15) For more information visit ExodusToJazz.com or call (585)733-7685.
One of the tireless supporters of great music and that jazz with that twist around Rochester has always been Tom Kohn and The Bop Shop. As you may already know, The Bop Shop has moved out of the Village Gate, where it has been located for years (and where we've gone often for jazz and other music). It's a long story, but suffice to say that the Village Gate owner wanted restaurants, not records, so after Tom looked around other locations in the city, they settled on a storefront just into Brighton at 1460 Monroe Avenue. I encourage you to head over past Cobbs Hill and check out his new gigs (and perhaps catch some live music or at least get a CD).
So, here are your live jazz listings for the next seven days. Enjoy!
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 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 "Contact Us" button above). If you go out to hear a performance listed here, feel free to drop a comment to this post to let us know how it went. I want to hear from you!
So we begin a new year and I've thought about what kinds of resolutions I should make about this blog. Nope...not making any promises, but I will try to get some more content out this year. I know that the most important thing to many of you is this here kind of post, not my mental meanderings about jazz and the scene here in Rochester. I will try.... that's all I can muster now. I will be getting out to hear more this year, though. Must ... get... outta... the house.
I've tried to winnow out the gigs that are still being listed elsewhere but are no longer going on, but may have missed some, so if you are dead set on seeing a particular one, best contact the venue to confirm.
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 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 "Contact Us" button above). If you go out to hear a performance listed here, feel free to drop a comment to this post to let us know how it went. I want to hear from you!