Live Student Concerts

Social Events at the New York Jazz Workshop – Starting JANUARY 2020
MONTHLY JAM SESSION – STUDENT CONCERTS – FACULTY CONCERTS – PRESENTATIONS
More than a workshop or a music school, the New York Jazz Workshop is a community. Let’s celebrate this connection by meeting weekly to support one another and have a good time.

Live student concerts are a fundamental activity at the New York Jazz Workshop, we offer our students the ability to play in a NYC venue twice a year plus we have a concert series in our own beautiful space for Faculty and Students. Our students have played at 55 bar, Smalls, The Lexington Hotel, Public broadcast TV shows, and much more. We are always looking for new opportunities for our students to show off their skills. Are you looking to host a concert? Reach out to us and we will get into action.

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JANUARY 2020

Friday, JANUARY 24 at 8pm
House Warming Party + Faculty Concert
Come share a toast at our new location, enjoy a faculty concert by Marc Mommaas/Kenny Wessel/Jay Anderson, and meet and mingle with other musicians.

Friday, JANUARY 31st at 8pm
Italian Workshop Presentation + Jam Session
If you have already booked, or are thinking about booking your trip to the Jazz Improvisation Workshop in Italy on June 7-13, come and see a special presentation of the program at 8pm.
Jam Sessions will be held every last FRIDAY of the month. Start time is 9pm conducted by
Dave Ambrosio.
Bring your instrument and be ready to get into the music!

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FEBRUARY 2020
Saturday FEBRUARY 15th at 8pm
Student Concert – Eric Cheng Trio
A special performance by NYJW alumni Eric Cheng and his all star band, featuring Dave Ambrosio, Dave Scott and Satoshi Takeishi.

Friday February 21th at 8pm
Presentation on Music Production + Saxophone Quartet Concert!
A presentation by Marc Mommaas on music production and ‘What It Takes To Make A Record’ followed by a performance by NYJW’s own Saxophone Quartet.

Friday, FEBRUARY 28th, at 9pm
Jam Session
Led by Dave Ambrosio. Bring your instrument and be ready to get into the music!

Friday March 20th at 7pm
Saxophone Quartet Concert!
NYJW’s own Saxophone Quartet at COMMUNITEA in LIC, Queens: Marc Mommaas (soprano sax), Eli Hershiser (tenor sax), Sunyun Yoo (alto sax), Matthew Mayers (baritone sax)

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December 2018, June and December 2019:
20 workshops performing for a whole weekend at the Silvana
in Harlem.

December 2017 , April and June 2018:
20 workshops performing for a whole weekend at the Silvana
in Harlem.

Special Live VIDEO concert series 2017-2018
Workshops will be performing live. See the events calendar for more information.

December 2016 , June 2017:
20 workshops performing for a whole weekend at the Silvana
in Harlem.

December 2015 , May and December 2016:
Big Band and several workshops performed at Bonafide Jazz Club

bonafide

December 13 2015:
Several workshops will perform at Smalls from 12 to 6pm

June 7, 2015: Big Band and Woodwind Ensemble performance.
12pm: Sarefina, NYC

JUNE 14, 2015: Performance of 12 of our workshops.
12-6pm: Smalls Jazz Club, NYC

DECEMBER 7 2014: Big Band and Woodwind Ensemble performance.
10:30am: Somethin’ Jazz Club, NYC
DECEMBER 14 2014: Performance of 8 of our workshops.
12-6pm: Smalls Jazz Club, NYC

Jazz at “Somethin'” Jazz Club
The New York Jazz Workshop BIG BAND , like most of our workshops preforms regularly in clubs around town. The Next Big Band concert is scheduled for December 7 2014 also at Somethin’ Jazz. Check out his hard swinging band under the expert guidance of RON HORTON. For more information about the New York Jazz Workshop Big Band see here

Smalls, NYC:
The students of the New York Jazz Workshop will participate in this semiannual event and perform the tunes that they have been working on with their respective workshops. The Next Performance at Smalls for our student’s is scheduled for December 14, 2014

Jazz at the Lexington

Every Tuesday , Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 6 to 8pm in the lobby of the Lexington Hotel, live student’s and faculty concerts.

The students of the New York Jazz Workshop have been selected to play in a series of events and live concerts at the newly renovated “Lexington.” Join us for drinks and great music every day from Mon day to Saturday from 6:00pm to 8:00pm 511 Lexington Avenue @ 48th Street.

The themes for the various evenings include:
The Great American Songbook revisited
A little Cole Porter with your martini? NYJW faculty members and seasoned students will perform the classic repertoire of the American song book, with a twist. Re-harmonization and new treatments of classic tunes will bring a whole new perspective to the tunes that made jazz famous around the word.

Bebop and Beyond Happy Hour
Add a bit of sparkle to your after work routine with a drink at the Lexington Bebop and Beyond Happy Hour. If Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk tunes are not enough to lift your spirits, NYJW faculty members and students will surprise you with more.

Modern Jazz Night
From the late ‘60s to the ‘80s, musicians such as Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny dominated the jazz world with their innovative styles and musical ideas.

A NYJW faculty member and his or her students will entertain the guests of the Lexington Hotel with their spunk and expertise

BBC Interview

The students of our two Vocal workshops led by Fay Victor and Olivia Foschi have been taped for a BBC show about songs of freedom and will take a close look at Billy Taylor’s “I wish I knew how it would feel to be free” made famous by Nina Simone.

BBC World has an audience of 250 million around the globe on tv, online, on the radio. The show was heard on a host of NPR affiliated radio stations across America. For a copy of the show click here our students start talking 17 minutes into the show.

Previous Student’s Performances

December 14, 2014: Smalls Jazz Club, NYC

December 7, 2014: at Somethin’ Jazz, NYC

June 29, 2014: at Somethin’ Jazz, NYC

May 17, 2014: Somethin’ Jazz, NYC

April 6, 2013: Smalls Jazz Club, student festival

October 27, 2013: Smalls Jazz Club, NYC

December 5th, 2013: 55bar, NYC

June 26, 2013: Broadcast for Live Television Broadcast. June Middleton’s minding your business.
Manhattan – Time Warner Cable on Ch 56, RCN Ch 83 Verizon FIOS Ch 34. Live Stream on the Internet Worldwide www.mnn.org Ch 2.

May 30, 2013: 55bar, NYC

May 19, 2013: Smalls, NYC

December 16, 2012: Smalls, NYC

February 1, 2012: Smalls, NYC

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