Scott Alan, Barbara Carroll and More Set for Birdland Jazz Club, Now thru 6/16

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its schedule for today, June 10-16, 2013, featuring Ravi Coltrane Quartet, Scott Alan, The Pop Show Presents...Adele! A Fundraiser Celebrating the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance's Education Program Featuring: Arturo O'Farrill Quintet, The Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats & ALJA's NYC All-Star Youth Orchestra, Barbara Carroll, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, The Birdland Big Band, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, and MANY MORE!

Birdland will kick-off their exciting week of programming with the following acts:

June 10 (Monday) at 7PM

The Pop Show Presents...Adele!

The Broadway at Birdland concert series is proud to announce the second evening of The Pop Show, Birdland's newest monthly event. Each month, incomparable Broadway, jazz and cabaret performers sing the hits and lesser-known gems from a different pop musician's catalog backed by a pulsating six-piece band. This month's concert features the songs of Adele. The Pop Show is created and executive produced by John Capo, with musical direction by Brandon Sturiale. Journey through the songbook of the reigning Queen of Pop, a singer-songwriter who aims straight for the heart. Featuring songs from both of Adele's multi-platinum-selling records, proceeds from the concert benefit VH1's Save the Music fund, dedicated to restoring music education in America's public schools. The show will star Orfeh (The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm, Legally Blonde, Love, Janis, Saturday Night Fever), American Idol Finalist Erika Van Pelt, N'Kenge (Motown: The Musical, Sondheim on Sondheim), Patti Murin(Glinda in Wicked, Lysistrata Jones), 16-year-old Vocal Powerhouse Samia Najimy Finnerty, Jarrod Spector (Jersey Boys, Les Miserables), Anika Larsen, (Avenue Q, Rent, Closer Than Ever, Xanadu), Farah Alvin (Nine, Grease!, The Marvelous Wonderettes), and more to be announced!

$30 Side Seating, $35 Center Seating, $10 minimum

June 10 (Monday) at 10PM

Jim Caruso's Cast Party

Jim Caruso's Cast Party is a wildly popular weekly soiree that brings a sprinkling of Broadway glitz and urbane wit to the legendary Birdland in New York City every Mondaynight. It's a cool cabaret night-out enlivened by a hilariously impromptu variety show. Showbiz superstars hit the stage alongside up-and-comers, serving up jaw-dropping music and general razzle-dazzle.

$20 all seats, $10 minimum

June 11-15 (Tuesday-Saturday) at 8:30 & 11PM

Ravi Coltrane Quartet

Ravi Coltrane (saxes), Adam Rogers (guitar), Dezron Douglas (bass), Johnathan Blake (drums)

He may bear the name of jazz royalty, but saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, the son of the legendary John Coltrane and pianist Alice Coltrane, "blows an original and distinctly modern strain of jazz, distilling but never seeking to imitate his family's adventurous improvising spirits." (NPR) His latest Blue Note Records CD, "Spirit Fiction," produced by label mate and fellow saxophonist Joe Lovano featured, "...an abundance of emotion and sensual detail, most of it expressed gently, with the confidence -- and authority -- of a veteran bandleader."

$30 Side Seating, $40 Center Seating, $10 minimum

June 12 (Wednesday) at 5:30-7:00PM

David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Centennial Band

"Tubaist David Ostwald's fabulous early-swing band is about as good as it gets. Known for their energetic treatment of Louis Armstrong's repertoire, these cats like to entertain as much as they like to swing." (Time Out NY)

$20 all seats, $10 minimum

June 13 (Thursday) at 5:30PM-7:30PM

A Fundraiser Celebrating the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance's Education Program

Featuring: Arturo O'Farrill Quintet, The Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats, ALJA's NYC All-Star Youth Orchestra

Grammy winner Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance invite you to an Afro Latin Jazz Descarga Benefit Performance supporting music Education for New York City Youth.

For tickets and information, please visit http://www.afrolatinjazz.org or contact Julian Weller (jweller@afrolatinjazz.org or 646.723.4276).

June 14 (Friday) at 5:15-7PM

The Birdland Big Band

Every Friday the "BBB" roars into action playing a thrilling and original mix of jazz, funk, Brazilian, Latin and world music for sold-out audiences. Featured weekly guest artists drop-in from television bands (David Letterman, Saturday Night Live) and pop music touring bands (Rob Thomas, Rod Stewart). Come see for yourself why Time Out New York called the BBB, "a completely unique experience... there isn't another band like this anywhere," and yelp.com proclaims, "if you hear one band in NYC make sure this is it... and prepare to be blown away!"

$25 all seats, $10 minimum

June 15 (Saturday) at 6PM

Pianist / Vocalist - Barbara Carroll

Her "jazz pianism is the subtlest and most intricate New York has to offer." (New Yorker) Barbara Carroll's inventive piano playing and unique vocal sound transforms any composition into something hip and urbane. In a sixty-year career she has gone from being dubbed "the first girl ever to play bebop piano" by Leonard Feather in 1947, to today being dubbed a "singer who turns song lyrics into personal dramatic monologues." (Stephen Holden, New York Times)

$30 all seats, $10 minimum

June 16 (Sunday) at 6PM

Scott Alan

Scott Alan wrote the book, music and lyrics for the musical, Detour, in Los Angeles. Since returning to New York City five years ago, many of Broadway's elite have sung his music, including Liz Callaway, Jonathan Groff, Shoshana Bean, Adriane Lenox, Stephanie J. Block, Cheyenne Jackson, Eden Espinosa and more, all of which can be found featured on his debut CD Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan now available on his website and iTunes. He has sold out concerts of his music in New York City, London, Germany, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and Australia. He will return to Birdland on June 16 after recording his fourth album, LIVE, at Birdland Jazz Club. The concert will feature Tituss Burgess, Ben Fankhauser, Jenna Leigh Green, Mykal Kilgore, Alex Newell, Katie Thompson, Donna Vivino, Grace Weber, Raena White and Michael Buckley. Scott Alan will also perform songs from his music, Home.

$30 all seats, $10 minimum

June 16 (Sunday) at 9PM & 11PM

Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Grammy Award winning pianist, composer and educator Arturo O'Farrill -- leader of the "first family of Afro-Cuban Jazz" (NY Times) -- was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. Son of the late, great composer Chico O'Farrill, Arturo was Educated at Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. He played piano in Carla Bley's Big Band from 1979 through 1983 and earned a reputation as a soloist in groups led by Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Turre, Freddy Cole, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis and Harry Belafonte. After leading his late father's orchestra for many years, Arturo formed his own groups, from trio through orchestra, in order to explore his and other compositions in the panoply of Afro Latin music.

$30 all seats, $10 minimum

Purchase tickets at: www.BirdlandJazz.com. For more information and reservations call 212-581-3080. Ticket prices will vary by performer. At the tables, there is a $10 food/drink minimum per person in addition to the music charge. At the bar, the music charge will include one complimentary drink with no additional minimum.

Named for alto saxophonist and jazz pioneer Charlie "Bird" Parker who dubbed it "The Jazz Corner of the World," Birdland opened on December 15th 1949. For 60 years it has been home to jazz legends, from Parker, John Coltrane Duke Ellington and Count Basie to Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Diana Krall and everyone in between. The original 52nd street location was a cultural barometer and meeting place, inspiring the songs "Birdland" and "Lullabye of Birdland," and serving as a regular haunt for celebrities and cultural figures. The modern incarnation is a state of the art nightclub featuring award winning Southern and Cajun cuisine, first rate sound and lighting and a who's who of contemporary musical artists, 7 nights a week.

The club is located at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues), New York, NY.

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