About 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 isnt 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!
About 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 isnt 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!
Award-winning pianist and composer Brandon Goldberg impresses audiences with his unassailable technique, advanced harmonic understanding, deep sense of swing anda clarity and plethora of ideas executed to near-perfection. Downbeat Magazine Goldberg has released three critically acclaimed albums - Brandon Goldberg Trio: Live at Dizzys (2024), In Good Time (2021), and LETS PLAY! (2019). Hes performed at leading jazz festivals worldwide, including Newport Jazz, SFJazz, PDX Jazz, Twin Cities, Caramoor, Litchfield, NCPA Mumbai, Santander, and Ystad. Hes played to standing-room only crowds in New Yorks most notable jazz clubs including Dizzys Club, Smoke Jazz Club, Mezzrow, and Birdland Theater. One of the musics youngest practitioners, Goldberg has achieved notoriety from Jazz Times, Downbeat Magazine, The New York Sun, London Jazz News, and jazzwise. Goldberg was the youngest semifinalist in the 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition and the youngest recipient of the 2022 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award. Goldberg often collaborates with David Foster, recently playing at the iconic Hollywood Bowl alongside Chris Botti and making memorable appearances with Katharine McPhee on Good Morning America and Live with Kelly and Mark. Goldberg has also composed music for television (1923 and Lawmen: Bass Reeves) and has written two extended-length piano and orchestra works that were commissioned and performed by the Miami Symphony Orchestra. At a young age, Goldberg appeared on national television in Seasons 1 and 2 of NBCs Little Big Shots, The Steve Harvey Show, and the Harry Connick, Jr. Show. Goldberg consistently delivers a captivating performance combining be loved standards with his original compositions. His stunning technique and remarkable musicality breathe new life into timeless classics from the Great American Songbook. With every note and improvisation, Goldberg transforms each piece into something fresh and unforgettable.
Join Duchess for the launch of their fourth full-length album, A Marvelous Party! With their signature harmonies and humor, the trio traces the arc of an unforgettable celebration, from giddy anticipation to exuberant revelry to the poignancy of the morning after the night before. Backed by five horns and a swinging rhythm section, and with custom arrangements by GRAMMY-nominated Oded Lev-Ari, A Marvelous Party more than lives up to its title, featuring songs like This Could Be the Start of Something Big, Aint That a Kick in the Head, Its All Right With Me, Danke Schoen, and Is That All There Is.
Ravi Coltrane is a critically acclaimed Grammy nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. In the course of a twenty plus year career, Mr. Coltrane has worked as a sideman to many, recorded noteworthy albums for himself and others and founded a prominent independent record label, RKM.Born in Long Island, the second son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Ravi was named after Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar. He was raised in Los Angeles where his family moved after his fathers death in 1967. His mother, Alice Coltrane, was a significant influence on Ravi and it was he who encouraged Alice to return to performance and the recording studio after a long absence. Subsequently, Ravi produced and played on Alice Coltranes powerful, Translinear Light, which was released in 2004.Additional credits include performances as well as recordings with Elvin Jones, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Baron, Steve Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, Matt Garrison, Jeff Tain Watts, Geri Allen, Joanne Brackeem, The Blue Note 7, among others. He is a co-leader of the Saxophone Summit with Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman.Ravi lives in Brooklyn, NY and maintains a fast paced touring, recording, composing and performance schedule. He leads the effort to restore the John Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, Long Island thecoltranehome.org and presides over important reissues of his parents recordings.The Ravi Coltrane Quartet features:David Virelles, pianoVicente Archer, bassJohnathan Blake, drums (Ele Howell, drums on June 26th)
Ravi Coltrane is a critically acclaimed Grammy nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. In the course of a twenty plus year career, Mr. Coltrane has worked as a sideman to many, recorded noteworthy albums for himself and others and founded a prominent independent record label, RKM.Born in Long Island, the second son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Ravi was named after Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar. He was raised in Los Angeles where his family moved after his fathers death in 1967. His mother, Alice Coltrane, was a significant influence on Ravi and it was he who encouraged Alice to return to performance and the recording studio after a long absence. Subsequently, Ravi produced and played on Alice Coltranes powerful, Translinear Light, which was released in 2004.Additional credits include performances as well as recordings with Elvin Jones, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Baron, Steve Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, Matt Garrison, Jeff Tain Watts, Geri Allen, Joanne Brackeem, The Blue Note 7, among others. He is a co-leader of the Saxophone Summit with Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman.Ravi lives in Brooklyn, NY and maintains a fast paced touring, recording, composing and performance schedule. He leads the effort to restore the John Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, Long Island thecoltranehome.org and presides over important reissues of his parents recordings.The Ravi Coltrane Quartet features:David Virelles, pianoVicente Archer, bassJohnathan Blake, drums (Ele Howell, drums on June 26th)
