POISSON ROUGE / JAN 12 / 7PM Acclaimed French musicians, accordionist Vincent Peirani and saxophonist Emile Parisien perform music from their respective new albums Jokers and Louise in a special combined showcase. They are joined by trumpeter Avishai Cohen and his quartet. GET TICKETS HERE CONTACT: michele@francerocks.com ABOUT FRANCE ROCKS
La Suspendida is an opera in jazz and heavy metal. In telling its story of a relationship that extends beyond death, it extends what we mean by opera, jazz, and metal, even while honoring and reveling in those traditions. The drama is based on a notorious incident in history: a doctor whose obsession with a […]
This one-of-a-kind collaboration explores the unlikely common ground between two leading pianists from opposite ends of the jazz spectrum. Aaron Diehl is an aficionado of the early tradition of jazz piano, while Dan Tepfer is inspired by the avant garde. This New York City premiere presentation was first performed for the Catskill Jazz Factory at […]
A superior pianist, Franck Amsallem has also had a parallel and sometimes overlapping career as an arranger/composer and singer. With nine CDs under his name, as well as a major collaboration on Blue Note USA, “New York Stories”, he has been on the scene in the USA and in France for over 35 years. While […]
Praised by New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR and others, the festival continues to grow as a dynamic rate, from its original one-day single-location program, to a 2017 itinerary that will take to 14 stages over five nights, in Downtown Manhattan and beyond, featuring over 600 artists, and more than 150 groups. In 2015, […]
Master jazz vocalist and songwriter Gregory Porter has returned with an intimate performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk series, as the singer prepares to perform at BRIC’s Celebrate Brooklyn! Concert Series on July 28th, along with additional dates set for the Newport Jazz Fest and Jazz on the Vineyard in Martha’s Vineyard in August. Here are […]
Emile Parisien Quartet Monday, June 27 at 7:30PM Club Bonafide – 212 East 52nd St – New York, NY Described by Billboard as, “perfectly in-sync and totally transfixing”, the Emile Parisien Quartet has amazed critics and the public alike with their spirit and maturity at clubs and major festivals in Europe and North America since 2004. Critics […]
Described by the New York Times as a “post-bop pianist of exemplary taste and range,” Aaron Goldberg has made his name as one of jazz’s most compelling pianists, both as a bandleader and frequent collaborator with Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Guillermo Klein, among others. In their debut performance at National Sawdust percussionist phenom […]
