After a great first year, the 2013 Rochester Fringe Festival, presented by First Niagara Bank, is hitting the streets and venues across Rochester from September 19-28 and in addition to a wide variety of music, dance, performance art, and circus acts, there will be jazz.

Now some of my choices may stretch your definition of jazz (that wouldn't be the first time), but I've tried to assemble the jazz that will be presented during the Fringe below. I hope you join me while I get out and stretch my ears a bit:

Thursday, September 19, 2013

• 23 Psaegz @ Bernunzio Uptown Music, 9:00 pm

Friday, September 20, 2013

• Al Biles and Gen Jam @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 6:30 pm
• 23 Psaegz @ Bernunzio Uptown Music, 9:00 pm

Saturday, September 21, 2013

• Not Wallace Stevens (Five Just Poets members present a fast-moving hour of original performance poetry backed by Paradigm Shift guitarist Mel Henderson) @ Writers & Books, 2:00 pm
• Al Biles and Gen Jam @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 4:30 pm
• Grr! @ Bernunzio's Uptown Music, 7:30 pm
• The Peter Torpey Trio @ Java's Cafe, 7:30 pm
• Dupre on Krol @ Java's Cafe, 8:30 pm

Monday, September 23, 2013

• Eastman Jazz Band @ Sproull Atrium, Eastman School of Music, 10:00 pm

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

• Rhythm Tap Rochester with Tap Master Bill Evans and Cheryl Johnson and live jazz by Richard DeLaney @ RAPA's East End Theatre, 5:00 pm
• The Peter Torpey Trio @ Java's Cafe, 7:30 pm

Thursday, September 26, 2013

• Hiroya Tsukamoto @ Bernunzio Uptown Music, 8:00 pm

Friday, September 27, 2013

• Dupre on Krol @ Java's Cafe, 5:15 pm
• Not Wallace Stevens ( five Just Poets members present a fast-moving hour of original performance poetry backed by Paradigm Shift guitarist Mel Henderson) @ Writers & Books, 2:00 pm
• Al Biles and Gen Jam @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 6:30 pm
• Michael Burritt & Friends @ Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, 7:00 pm
• Bending and Breaking: A collaboration of local composers, musicians and dancers @ Sproull Auditorium, Eastman School of Music, 10:00 pm

Saturday, September 28, 2013

• Al Biles and Gen Jam @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 12:30 pm
• Elektri Fusion Band @ The Little Theatre 1, 9:00 pm 

Now of course there is much, much more, so check out their site or the Fringe Festival Guide put out by City Newspaper, which you'll find in its recent edition Let me know if I missed anything.  I'll add these to the appropriate dates on the usual Wednesday post as well.