Saturday May 30th, 2026. 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM Jazz at The Lodge - 118 Croton Ave, Ossining, NY 10562 Pat Metheny's "Bright Size Life" was Pat's first album as a leader featuring Jaco Pastorius and Bob Moses. It was unique and a first of it's kind in many ways. Guitarists and bassists in particular, consider this album to be a watershed moment in jazz guitar trio - offering a door for future musicians to walk through in pursuit of originality of voice and sound. Jazz at The Lodge presents the Bright Size Life Project on Saturday January 21st starting at 7:30 pm. This project is a reimagining of this iconic album through the scope of the Hammond B3 organ, electric bass, and drums. Paul Connors - Hammond B3 organ, Marshall Toppo - fretless bass, Jon Doty - drums. The program will be a performance of the entire album in its original song order for the first set. The second set will have additional Metheny and Pastorius compositions with additional musicians.
TWO SETS: 9PM & 10:15PM\*\*\* \*\*\*$10 \(CASH\) SUGGESTED DONATION\*\*\* \*\*\*LUNÀTICO HAS A FULL DINNER AND COCKTAIL MENU SO COME EARLY TO EAT!\*\*\* Organist Greg Lewis with his Hammond A1 and Leslie cabinet has been a staple on the LunÀtico bandstand for a decade now. Guitarist Kevin McNeal puts the icing on the cake. You know what to do. Greg Lewis ~ Hammond Organ Taru Alexander ~ Drums Kevin McNeal ~ Guitar Bar LunÀtico wholeheartedly agrees with this rave review from Ben Ratliff in the New York Times: "Thelonious Monk's sense of harmony was so fresh and savory that it would be nice to have individual moments of it frozen, expanded and prolonged, just to let the sounds get deeper in the ear, to let those mixed colors intensify and explode. One could do it digitally, feeding Monk's music through the right tools, but an organ player can do it in real time by keeping the keys pressed down. The New York-area organist Greg Lewis has made a recent project out of transferring Thelonious Monk's repertory to the Hammond C3 organ. He plays in a quartet with tenor saxophone, guitar and drums. Two years ago he released "Organ Monk" on his own label, with Cindy Blackman on drums. Part 2 of the idea, called "Organ Monk: Uwo in the Black," with Nasheet Waits on drums instead, has just come out. It's a feast. This has been done before. Mr. Lewis likes Larry Young, the organist who pushed against the standard clichés of jazz organ playing in the 1960s and '70s, and the spirit of both these albums might have come out of a version of "Monk's Dream" from Young's 1965 album "Unity." But it hasn't been done a lot, and Mr. Lewis floods the music with swing and volume-pedal ministrations. The best are the Monk ballads "Ugly Beauty" and "Crepuscule With Nellie": slow and distorted, filthy and graceful."
