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FRED HERSCH

January 16 ‑ January 21

Fred Hersch – Piano

Thomas Morgan – Bass

Marcus Gilmore – Drums


 

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In the quest to describe the music of Fred Hersch in a word — a preposterous task, but not a pointless one — you could do a lot worse than “refinement.” Mr. Hersch is a pianist of cultivated taste and erudition; he’s also the sort of jazz musician who brings a lissome elegance to his playing, disinclined to accentuate the effort behind it all. But there’s another definition of refinement that has to do with painstaking progress, the incremental stretch toward an elusive ideal.  
— The New York Times
Monday Jazz Room

VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Every Monday Night

SAXOPHONES: Dick Oatts (lead alto) Billy Drewes (alto) Rich Perry (tenor) Ralph Lalama (tenor) Gary Smulyan (bari)

TRUMPETS:

John Chudoba (lead trumpet), Brian Pareschi, Terell Stafford, Scott Wendholt

TROMBONES: Dion Tucker (lead trombone) Jason Jackson, Robert Edwards, Douglas Purviance (bass trombone)

RHYTHM SECTION: Adam Birnbaum (piano) David Wong (bass) John Riley (drums)


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The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra began its life as the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1966.The world-famous Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City booked the newly formed band for three Monday nights that February. Those performances were wildly successful and the engagement was extended indefinitely. The Village Vanguard’s owner, Max Gordon, told Mel Lewis, “We’ll keep it going until it tapers off.” Over half a century and more than 2700 Monday nights later, it still hasn’t. The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra stands apart from all other modern ensembles of its kind and is still as strong and vital as ever.

Ethan Iverson

January 23 - January 28

Ethan Iverson - Piano

Thomas Morgan - Bass

Kush Abadey - Drums

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Iverson avoids technical excess; his improvisations unfold sparely in his right hand, usually with very little or no emphasis on his left hand. He plays deliberately, nurturing his ideas sometimes in unhurried quarter notes or eighth notes...Iverson stretches tonality through single lines, which grow more adventurous the longer they unfold.
— Downbeat

VIJAY IYER

January 30 - February 3

Vijay Iyer - Piano

Linda May Han Oh - Bass

Tyshawn Sorey - Drums

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[one of] today’s most important pianists… extravagantly gifted… brilliantly eclectic.
— The New Yorker

COMING SOON!

February 4 CLOSED

February 6-11 Vanguard Jazz Orchestra   

Celebrating 58 years of Monday nights!

February 13-18 Kurt Rosenwinkel

with Alex Claffy, Joe Farnsworth

February 20-25 Joe Lovano's Paramount Quartet

with Julian Lage, Santi Debriano, Will Calhoun

February 27 - March 3 Wycliffe Gordon Quintet

with Adrian Cunningham, Ehud Asherie, Yasushi Nakamura, Alvin Atkinson Jr.  
 
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Changes come and go in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood, but the basement club occupying 178 Seventh Avenue South since 1935 remains a stable and revered New York City landmark.
— Steinway.com