The Anderson Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, and More to Play Birdland This Month

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running April 3 through April 16.

Performers appearing at Birdland Jazz Club include The Anderson Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Yoko Miwa Trio, Joey Alexander and Amy Lynn and the Honeymen.

Downstairs at Birdland Theater, catch Nick Finzer, Tatiana Eva-Marie, Marquis Hill, Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks and Dangerous Rhythm All-Stars.

Repeat engagements include David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, Birdland Big Band and Arturo O'Farrill & The Latin Jazz Orchestra.

Jazz Programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater April 3 through April 16

April 3 (Monday) 8:30 PM - Birdland Theater
Nick Finzer Album Release
Award winning composer, arranger, producer, educator and trombonist Nick Finzer is one of the most dynamic musicians of the millennial generation. Famed trombonist and mentor Wycliffe Gordon called Finzer "a new voice [in] the pantheon of upcoming trombone greats in the making." Finzer's resume boasts an impressive roster of jazz greats; recently, he appeared on the 2019 GRAMMY Nominated recording Triple Helix with Anat Cohen Tentet. Nick Finzer's last album, Cast of Characters, was released on his universally loved label Outside in Music featuring an accomplished cast of characters including tenor-saxophonist Lucas Pino, guitarist Alex Wintz, pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Dave Baron and drummer Jimmy Macbride. He celebrates his newest recording, Dreams, Visions, Illusions-due out April 14th-at this engagement at Birdland.
$30 tables / $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 4 (Tuesday) 5:30 PM - Birdland Theater
Tatiana Eva-Marie
Born into a musical family-her father the film composer Louis Crelier and her mother the violinist Anca Maria-Tatiana Eva-Marie spent her formative years in a radiant world of art: an actor, recording artist, and model from age 4, she collaborated with industry beacons like Francis Reusser, Henri Des, and Charles Joris all before attending the Sorbonne in Paris at age 15. There, she continued to write, direct, and act in plays and dance pieces with prominent artists. But Eva-Marie's love for song and call to perform led her to relocate to New York, where her fame as an interpreter of American popular song has grown quickly. Included on a recent list of jazz talent to know by Vanity Fair and praised as "one of the best young singers around" by The Wall Street Journal, she has crafted a sound that is her own, drawing audiences in with her gentle stage presence and sweet tone. Many have delighted, too, in Eva-Marie's ability to pen original lyrics to the music of Django Reinhardt. Performances at SummerStage, Winter Jazz Fest, Jazz Aspen, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub, The Iridium, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival have thrust her into the limelight-right where she belongs, and where she has always felt at home.
$20 + $20 food/drink minimum

April 4 (Tuesday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club
The Anderson Brothers play Gershwin
"Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone" (New York Times) Peter and Will Anderson present the life and music of George Gershwin, with an entertaining narrative and live sextet performance. One of the most striking geniuses of modern music, George Gershwin composed for Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, film, radio, and symphony orchestras, combining the sounds of jazz and European classical music. Selections will include "Rhapsody in Blue," "I Got Rhythm," "It Ain't Necessarily So," "Summertime," "They Can't Take That Away From Me," "Embraceable You," and "S'Wonderful."
$40 tables / $30 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 5 (Wednesday) 5:30 PM - Birdland Theater
David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band
Inspired by the noble jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and their colleagues, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band breathes life and passion into America's own great art form. Now in its 18th year of residency at Birdland, the weekly post-workday engagement is the city's best musical bargain! Tuba player David Ostwald leads a rotating lineup that features talents such as clarinetist Anat Cohen, trombonist/vocalist Wycliffe Gordon, pianist Ehud Asherie, drummer Marion Felder and more!
$30 tables; $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 5 (Wednesday) 8:30 PM - Birdland Theater
Frank Vignola's Guitar Night with special guest Paul Bollenback
It's the best jazz guitar lover's show in the world. Frank Vignola's virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Les Paul, the Boston and New York Pops, and more. Every Wednesday at 8:30pm in the Birdland Theater, Frank leads "Frank Vignola's Guitar Night at Birdland." Inspired by journeyman jazz guitarist John Pisano's now famous Los Angeles Guitar Night, the Frank Vignola Trio, featuring bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and drummer Vince Cherico, will perform tunes from the standard repertoire, inviting up a revolving rotation of special guest guitarists. This week it's Paul Bollenback.
$30 tables; $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 5 (Wednesday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club
Birdland Big Band
Catch the Birdland Big Band on a special Wednesday night performance as the band roars into action playing a thrilling and original mix of jazz, funk, Brazilian, Latin and world music. The "BBB" performs weekly at Birdland on Friday nights and for two headlining weeks per year; 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 why yelp.com proclaims, "If you hear one band in NYC make sure this is it... and prepare to be blown away!" This is a special performance not to be missed!
$30 tables / $30 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 6-8 (Thursday-Saturday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM (4/6); 8:30 & 10:30 PM (4/7-8) - Birdland Jazz Club / Livestream Event, April 7, 7:00 PM via Flymachine
Rickie Lee Jones
The phenomenon that is Rickie Lee Jones is a 2-time Grammy winner, 7-time Grammy nominee, and No. 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll in 1999. Her easygoing vocal style, iconically rendered across such songs as "Chuck E's in Love," "Easy Money," and "Saturday Afternoons in 1963," is both genre-defying and generation-defining. Her debut album went platinum and earned her Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards in 1979; she won her second Grammy, Best Jazz Vocal Performance 1990, for her duet performance with Dr. John, "Makin' Whoopee"; and in 2001 she was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for It's Like This. Jones released a memoir in 2021 entitled Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour. She performs for three nights in April, upstairs at the Jazz Club.
$30 tables / $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 6-9 (Thursday-Sunday) 8:30 PM (4/6); 7:00 & 9:30 PM (4/7-9) - Birdland Theater
Marquis Hill
Marquis Hill is one of our generation's most important trumpeters, the artistic descendant of legendary musicians that pushed forward the jazz tradition: he holds the flame of Donald Byrd's lyricism and stylistic breadth, Freddie Hubbard's raw technical determination, Lee Morgan's exuberance and wry linear craftsmanship, Louis Armstrong's swinging power, and Miles Davis's reserved mystique. Hill's band, The Blacktet, is among the vanguard of contemporary groups, with its rotating cast of characters some of new black instrumental music's most special voices: Jonathan Pinson, Braxton Cook, Joel Ross, Mike King, and others. Over the past few years, Hill has released a string of EPs centered on spiritual themes, including Meditation Tape, Love Tape, Love Tape with Voices, Soul Sign, and his new single "Black Alchemy/Hall of Mirrors." This confident, mature, and sensitive artist's four-night residency at Birdland is sure to offer audience members a thrilling, mind-expanding experience.
$30 tables / $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 9 (Sunday) 5:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club
Yoko Miwa Trio
Internationally acclaimed pianist/composer Yoko Miwa is one of the most powerful and compelling performers on the scene today. Her trio, with its remarkable telepathy and infectious energy, has brought audiences to their feet worldwide. Their latest CD, 2019's Keep Talkin', showcases Miwa's fine playing and artful compositions and the trio's uncanny musical camaraderie. DownBeat gave the recording four stars, calling it "a beautifully constructed album" and noting "the drive and lyricism of a pianist and composer at home in bebop, gospel, pop, and classical." JazzTimes also reviewed the album favorably, praising Miwa's "jaw-dropping degree of technique." The album enjoyed seven weeks in the top 10 on Jazz Week's charts, much like its predecessor, Miwa's 2017 release Pathways, which also made Jazz Week's top 10 for several weeks. In a 2017 feature article on Miwa, DownBeat noted her "impressive technique and a tuneful lyricism that combines an Oscar Peterson-ish hard swing with Bill Evans-like introspection."
$30 tables / $30 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 9 (Sunday) 8:30 & 10:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Pianist, composer and educator Arturo O'Farrill-leader of the "first family of Afro-Cuban Jazz" (The New York Times)-leads the GRAMMY award winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), who bring together the drama of big band jazz, the culture of Latin music, and the virtuosity of eighteen of the world's most accomplished solo musicians. Twelve years of critically-acclaimed performances internationally have firmly established the ALJO as the standard-bearer for creative interpretation of Latin jazz greats such as Tito Puente, Frank "Machito" Grillo, and Chico O'Farrill, as well as the driving force behind new commissions from Latin music's most talented composers and arrangers.
$30 + $20 food/drink minimum

April 11-15 (Tuesday-Saturday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM (4/11-13); 8:30 & 10:30 PM (4/14-15) - Birdland Jazz Club
Joey Alexander
3x Grammy nominee and early piano prodigy Joey Alexander recently released Origin (Mack Avenue, 2022) to critical acclaim. Featuring his heavy-hitting trio of Kendrick Scott and Larry Grenadier, as well as his collaborators Chris Potter and Gilad Hexelman, the passionate virtuoso Alexander is in the company of masters. At only 18 years old, he has already lived a musician's dream life, performing on the world's biggest stages (Obama's White House, the Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival) with its most revered names (Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis, Esperanza Spalding)-all since the age of 11. For this week at the Jazz Club, Alexander will bring the latest moment of his mature genius to your ears.
$40 tables / $30 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 11 (Tuesday) 8:30 PM - Birdland Theater
Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks
Catch Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks for their final performance in a highly successful 7-week Tuesday night residency at the Birdland Theater. Giordano, the recipient of a GRAMMY Award for his work scoring the HBO show Boardwalk Empire, is a master composer and arranger whose 11-piece band, The Nighthawks, recreate the jubilant 1920s jazz sound with amazing definition, using violins, tubas, banjos, and collector's item drum sets. The band has provided soundtracks for film and television productions including The Cotton Club, The Aviator, Finding Forrester, Revolutionary Road, Cafe Society, Boardwalk Empire, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and many more. Not to be missed!
$30 tables / $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 12 (Wednesday) 5:30 PM - Birdland Theater
David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band
Inspired by the noble jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and their colleagues, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band breathes life and passion into America's own great art form. Now in its 18th year of residency at Birdland, the weekly post-workday engagement is the city's best musical bargain! Tuba player David Ostwald leads a rotating lineup that features talents such as clarinetist Anat Cohen, trombonist/vocalist Wycliffe Gordon, pianist Ehud Asherie, drummer Marion Felder and more!
$30 tables; $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 12 (Wednesday) 8:30 PM - Birdland Theater
Frank Vignola's Guitar Night with Peter Bernstein and Catherine Russell
It's the best jazz guitar lover's show in the world. Frank Vignola's virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Les Paul, the Boston and New York Pops, and more. Every Wednesday at 8:30pm in the Birdland Theater, Frank leads "Frank Vignola's Guitar Night at Birdland." Inspired by journeyman jazz guitarist John Pisano's now famous Los Angeles Guitar Night, the Frank Vignola Trio, featuring bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and drummer Vince Cherico, will perform tunes from the standard repertoire, inviting up a rotation of special guests. This week it's Peter Bernstein and Catherine Russell.
$30 tables; $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 14 (Friday) 5:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club
The Birdland Big Band
Every Friday, and for two headlining weeks a year, 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 why yelp.com proclaims, "If you hear one band in NYC make sure this is it... and prepare to be blown away!"
$30 + $20 food/drink minimum

April 14-16 (Friday-Sunday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM - Birdland Theater
Dangerous Rhythms All-Stars
In 2022, award-winning crime writer and historian TJ English released his new book, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld, published by HarperCollins. The New York Times best-selling author assembled an all-star band for his Birdland release celebration, composed of Bobby Sanabria (drums/musical director), Santi Debriano (bass), Edsel Gomez (piano), Kali Rodriguez-Peña (trumpet), T.K. Blue (sax/flute), and Roman Diaz (congas/percussion), to bring the book to life. Now, the Dangerous Rhythms All-Stars return to Birdland Theater for a weekend of high-energy performances.
$30 tables / $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 16 (Sunday) 5:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club
Amy Lynn and the Honeymen
Amy Lynn & The Honeymen (formerly known as Amy Lynn & The Gunshow) is an eight-piece machine that blows glitter all over the traditional memphis-motown soul/rock style. In high-dramatic fashion, Lynn leads her horn section of trumpet, tenor sax, and bari sax, and her rhythm section of piano, electric bass, and drums, to powerful moments of grooving joy. The group has performed at iconic New York institutions Joe's Pub @ The Public Theatre, The Cutting Room, BB Kings, Highline Ballroom, Brooklyn Bowl, 54 Below, Mercury Lounge, The Bell House, C'mon Everybody, BB Kings, The Engeman Theatre, Hard Rock Cafe Times Square, & Brooklyn Bowl. Join them at Birdland for a fun, high-energy time.
$30 tables / $30 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 16 (Sunday) 8:30 & 10:30 PM - Birdland Jazz Club
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Pianist, composer and educator Arturo O'Farrill-leader of the "first family of Afro-Cuban Jazz" (The New York Times)-leads the GRAMMY award winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), who bring together the drama of big band jazz, the culture of Latin music, and the virtuosity of eighteen of the world's most accomplished solo musicians. Twelve years of critically-acclaimed performances internationally have firmly established the ALJO as the standard-bearer for creative interpretation of Latin jazz greats such as Tito Puente, Frank "Machito" Grillo, and Chico O'Farrill, as well as the driving force behind new commissions from Latin music's most talented composers and arrangers.
$30 + $20 food/drink minimum

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