All these concerts are free of restrictions. Lots of listings being added, almost daily, like the good old days before March 2020! New calendar for July and August coming 7/1, too.
Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar.
Mondays at the Django it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.
Thursdays in June at 10:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django with special guest powerhouse trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now, $25
Sundays at around 1 PM trumpeter Jon Kellso and (frequently) guitarist Matt Munisteri lead the Ear-Regulars in NYC’s only remaining hot jazz jam session at the Ear Inn
6/12, 6/19 and 6/26 various subsets of the NY Scandia Symphony play a program of Nordic composers TBA on the lawn downhill from the southern exit at Ft. Tryon Park. Music tba, but prior to the 2020 lockdown they always put on good, imaginative programs featuring a lot of undeservedly obscure composers.
7/13, 7/20 and 7/27, 7 PM the Attacca Quartet play music by 21sst century composers at Madison Square Park
6/1-3, half past noon energetic, inventive, gospel-inspired jazz pianist Pete Malinverni at the electric piano at Bryant Park
6/1, 1 PM purist oldschool jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel resumes his long-running stand at the American Folk Art Museum. He’s back on 6/22.
6/1, 7:30 PM latin jazz piano legend Eddie Palmieri and his salsa orchestra on the plaza at Lincoln Center
6/2, 7 PM imaginative jazz trumpeter Jonathan Saraga and band at Culture Lab in Long Island City
6/2, 7:30 PM Danny Jonokuchi & The Revisionists play 1930s style swing jazz on the plaza at Lincoln Center
6/2, 8 PM, repeating 6/3-5 8 PM hard-hitting alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett and band at the Blue Note $20 standing room avail
6/2, 8:30 PM brilliantly twangy surf/instrumental C&W band the Bakersfield Breakers at 11th St Bar
6/2, 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads a quartet at Smalls, $25 cash at the door.
6/3, 7 PM entertaining cumbia jazz accordionist/crooner Gregorio Uribe and his large ensemble at Drom $20 adv tix avail
6/3, 7 PM soul-infused brass band the Extra Syrup Horns at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park – take W 10th St to the river/
6/3. 7:30 PM the Dave Stryker Organ Quartet play their low-down grooves at the Django. Followed by luminous latin-inspired jazz chanteuse Marianne Solivan leading her quartet at 10:30
6/3, 7:30/9:30 PM adventurous trumpeter John Bailey leads his quartet at Smalls, $25 cash at the door
6/3, 9 PM surfed-up tv themes from Commercial Interruption, at Otto’s
6/3, 10 PM Metalachi – the world’s only metal mariachi band – at the Sovereign, $16
6/4, 8 PM ageless, jangly, purist NY surf rock originals the Supertones, at 9:30 surf punks Duke Galaxy & the Pipeliners and at 11 the swirly, hard-hitting, reverb-iced Strange but Surf at Otto’s
6/4, 9 PM slinky Greek/Middle Eastern-influenced surf rock band the Byzan-tones followed by Pickups (Tim Reedy and Joe Desserreau of the late great American Ambulance) at Espresso 77, 35-57 77th Street (just off of 37th Ave), Jackson Heights
6/4, 10:30 PM feral tenor saxophonist Eric Wyatt and band and then the midnight jam session at Smalls, $25 cash at the door. He’s back on 6/18
6/5, half past noon/2:30 PM thorny, kinetic Spanish jazz pianist Abe Rabade at the Blue Note, $15
6/5, 2 PM the NY Scandia Brass Quintet play modern works by Sjoberg, Forstrom, Borg, Panula, Melartin and others on the lawn down the hill from the southern entrance to Ft Tryon Park
6/5. 6 PM a wildly eclectic sorta-jazz-adjacent extravaganza in reverse order at Drom: trumpeter Frank London’s Bagels & Bongos latin klezmer project; the 80s goth-tinged Arthur Kill + Xi Feng; Momento Rumbero; members of Groove Collective and bass goddess/soul singer Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove band Faith at Drom, $10
6/5, 7 PM eclectic, slashing latin jazz guitarist Juancho Herrera at the downstairs room at the Rockwood, $10
6/7, 7:30 PM a promising improvisational bill: guitarist Max Kutner with saxophonist Michael Eaton and drummer Kevin Shea at Downtown Music Gallery
6/7, 8 PM funk-jazz crew the Silver Arrow Band at Drom, free. They’re also here on 6/21 at 7
6/8. 7 PM MasterVoices and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Shereen Pimentel, soprano and Tariq Al-Sabir, tenor perform works by Mendelssohn, Josquin, Barber and others at Waterline Square Park on Riverside Dr (60/61)
6/8, 7:30 PM thoughtful Americana rock songwriter Heather Maloney at City Winery, $20
6/8, 7:30 PM drummer Jordan Young leads his trio with Brian Charette on organ at Mezzrow, $25
6/8, 10:30 PM expansive, expressive jazz pianist Miki Yamanaka leads her trio at Smalls, $25 cash at the door. She’s back here on 6/20
6/9, 6 PM the American Symphony Orchestra string quartet play Italian composers :Isabella Leonarda, a 17th century Ursuline Nun; Niccolò Castiglioni and Gaetano Donizetti at the pier 3 terrace in Brookyn Bridge Park
6/9, 8:30 PM intense janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy project the Bastards of Fine Arts at 11th St. Bar
6/9, 9 PM hazily jangly, psychedelic slowcore/free jazz/avant instrumentalists Sunwatchers at Union Pool, $16
6/9, 10:30 PM trombonist Steve Davis leads a quartet with Abena Koomson on vocals at the Django, $25
6/11, 1 PM sharply lyrical southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner at LIC Bar
6/11, 1-3 PM Burning Man with ambient improvisations at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, $18/under 12 free. “Larger-than-life bird stilt walkers by Mortal Beasts & Deities and lifelike bird puppets from Processional Arts Workshop dance to processional music from Metropolis Ensemble. Musical textures created by Paula Matthusen, Matthew Evan Taylor, and John Wesley Dankwa and performed by 12 improvisers weave and play in dialogue with the dancing puppets. Performers begin at Lily Pool Terrace, the Osborne Garden, and the Water Garden, then parade to the Plant Family Collection for a giant dance party.”
6/11, 4 PM adventurous wind ensemble Quintet of the Americas play lush versions of latin jazz, klezmer and swing tunes at Culture Lab in Long Island City
6/11, 4 PM Kriye Bode play Haitian shamanic music followed by the Marcus Steel and Friends Steel Pan Ensemble at Amesrfort Park, E 38th St off Ave. U, Marine Park
6/11, 5 PM cutting-edge big band salsa jazz with drummer Bobby Sanabria’s Big Band at Soundview Park in the Bronx, 6 to Elder Ave
6/11, 8ish legendary octogenarian jazz pianist Herbie Hancock at Central Park Summerstage
6/11, 7:30 PM the Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra followed by ancient first-wave roots reggae hitmakers Third World (who are still surprisingly good) at Prospect Park Bandshell
6/11, 9 PM garage rock guitar maven Palmyra Delran & the Doppel Gang and classic 70s style powerpop/janglerock band the Cynz at Gold Sounds, $12, The Cynz are at Otto’s on 6/17 at 6.
6/11, 10:30 PM tenor saxophonist Stacy Dillard at Smalls $25 cash at the door. He’s back on 6/25
6/11, 10:30 PM lyrical pianist David Kikoski leads a trioi at Mezzrow, $25 cash at the door. He’s back on 6/25
6/12, noon Trio Arrebol play forro and vocal jazz at Libre Gardens 2, 408 Rogers Ave at Sterling St, in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, 2 to Sterling St
6/12, 3 PM ish jagged-edged postpunks Savak and the buzzy 3rd-gen post-Velvets/no wave-ish Messthetics in the courtyard at Union Pool, free
6/12, 3:30 PM live hip-hop with JahPan at the Citadel, 1207 Nostrand Ave at Hawrhotne in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, 2 to Winthrop St.
6/12, 5 PM trombonist John Yao & Triceratops play the album release show for their colorful new one outdoors at Culture Lab in Long Island City
6/12, 7:30/9 PM colorful, lyrical pianist Danny Fox leads his trio at Mezzrow, $25 cash at the door
6/13. 7:30/9:30 PM adventurous trombonist Ed Neumeister leads a quartet with Gary Versace on piano at Smalls, $25 cash at the door
6/14, 6:30 PM a cool improvisational jazz twinbill: Canilla Nebbia on sax with guitarist Jessica Ackerley, flutist Camilo Angeles and drummer Lesley Mok followed by the mysteriously theatrical Juju Lia at Downtown Music Gallery
6/14, 7 PM loopy art-rock instrumentalists Thee Reps followed by the goofy, synthy Turbo World, whose lyrics are taken from interviews with mobsters of the 70s, at Mama Tried, 787 3rd Ave, at 27th St, Sunset Park,
6/14, 7:30 PM night one of this year’s Momenta Festival with the reliably adventurous Momenta Quartet playing the world premiere of David Glaser’s String Quartet No. 5 (2022), in memory of Mario Davidovsky, alongside Davidovsky’s intricate Synchronisms No. 9 (1988) for violin and recorded electronics. Also on the bill: the late great Ursula Mamlok’s elegant “Two Bagatelles” (1961), rediscovered toward the end of the composer’s life in a hidden sketchbook; Mexican microtonal trailblazer Julián Carrillo’s final String Quartet No. 13 (yessssss!); and Beethoven’s groundbreaking “Serioso” quartet no. 11 at Broadway Presbyterian Church (601 W 114th St, free cancelled – somebody in the group has a cold
6/14, 7:30 PM edgy orchestra the Knights play a historically brilliant program: new orchestral arrangements of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 9, “Kreutzer Sonata” and Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”, at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park
6/14. 7:30 PM kinetic Cuban jazz pianist Elio Villafranca at the Django, $25
6/14, 7:30/9 PM drummer Dan Weiss leads a trio with Immanuel Wilkins on tenor sax and Thomas Morgan on bass at Smalls, $25 cash at the door
6/14. 8 PM the NY Philharmonic plays Wagner’s Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Bomsori Kim as soloist, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7, and works by young composers in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The program repeats on the Great Lawn in Central Park on 6/15, in Cunningham Park, Queens on 6/16 and Prospect Park on 6/17
6/14, 8 PM the Festival Orchestra play works by Gliere, Haydn and Strauss at Washington Square Park
6/15, noon eclectic jazz/tropical/psychedelic violinist Skye Steele at the pedestrian plaza at Willoughby and Pearl in downtown Brooklyn
6/15, half past noon fearlessly relevant latin rock songwriter and protest song connoisseur Ani Cordero at Zuccoti Park, 165 Broadway at Liberty
6/15, 7 PM trumpeter Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars + powerhouse violinist Jake Shulmen-Ment’s Fidl Kapelye with special guest singers Zhenya Lopatnik, Sarah Gordon, Margot Leverett + Lorin Sklamberg at Drom, $20 adv tix avail
6/15, 7:30 PM night two of this year’s Momenta Festival with the reliably adventurous Momenta Quartet plus David Byrd-Marrow, horn and Nana Shi, piano playing Hirofumi Mogi’s In Memory of Perky Pat, the Brahms Horn Trio, and Grażyna Bacewicz’s awesomely edgy Piano Quintet No. 2 at Broadway Presbyterian Church (601 W 114th St, free cancelled – somebody in the group has a cold
6/15, 7:30/9:30 PM ambitious, smart, noir-inclined tenor saxophonist Patrick Cornelius leads his octet at Smalls, $25 cash at the door
6/15, 7:30/9 PM Gary Versace (on piano) leads a trio with Jay Anderson on bass and Rudy Royston on drums at Mezzrow, $25 cash at the door
6/16, 5 PM rustic traditional Haitian songs with Obed Jean-Louis at Albee Square, corner of Fulton and Bond in downtown Brooklyn
6/16, 7:30 PM night three of this year’s Momenta Festival with the reliably adventurous Momenta Quartet playing vocal-inspired works by Valentin Silvestrov, Elizabeth Brown and Shawn Jaeger at Broadway Presbyterian Church (601 W 114th St, free cancelled – somebody in the group has a cold
6/16, 7:30 PM Tipico Urbano play merengue on the plaza at Lincoln Center
6/16, 10:30 PM tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson at Smalls, $25 cash at the door. He’s back on 6/30
6/17, 3 PM purist postbop jazz guitarist Ed Cherry and his trio at the Williamsbridge Oval off Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, D to Norwood-205
6/17, 7 PM psychedelic funk/Afrobeat jammers the People’s Champs at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park – take W 10th St to the river
6/17, 7:30 PM closing night of this year’s Momenta Festival with the reliably adventurous Momenta Quartet plus bassist/composer Hilliard Greene playing a Juneteenth celebration with music by the bassist in the band plus Alvin Singleton and Yusef Lateef at Broadway Presbyterian Church (601 W 114th St. free
6/17, 7:30/9:30 PM pianist Mike LeDonne leads a quartet with Eric Alexander on tenor sax at Smalls, $25 cash at the door
6/17-18, 7:30/9 PM lyrical pianist Geoffrey Keezer with Ron Carter on bass (6/17) and Antonio Sanchez on drums (6/18) at Mezzrow, $25 cash at the door
6/17, 8 PM retro swing band Rachael and Vilray (fronted by Lake Street Dive’s Rachael Price) on the plaza at Lincoln Center
6/18, half past noon/2:30 PM jazz nonet Small Kingdom with powerhouse singer Melanie Scholtz at the Blue Note, $15′
6/18, 4 PM the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy on the front porch at 492 Marlborough Rd (Ditmas/Dorchester), Ditmas Park, Q to Newkirk Ave.
6/18, 7:30 PM evocative alto saxophonist Dmitri Baevsky leads his quartet at the Django, $25. Followed at 10:30 by New Orleans reedman Craig Handy & Second Line Smith. Baevsky is at Smalls on 6/24-25 at 7:30/9:30 PM for the same cover.
6/19, 7:30/9 PM legendary David Bowie pianist Mike Garson plays his own jazz with Don Falzone on bass and Billy Mintz on drums at Mezzrow, $25 at the door. The rhythm section return here the following night 6/20, same time with pianist Alan Broadbent
6/20, 7 PM a French rap triplebill at Central Park Summerstage: Hyphen Hyphen, Bon Entendeur and MC Solaar
6/21, 2 PM paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel followed by klezmer violinist Eleonore Biezunski outside Castle Clinton in Battery Park
6/21, 2:30 PM fearlessly smart, eclectic, avant garde-inclined Toot Sweet accordionist Mary Spencer Knapp plays solo on accordion followed at 4:30 by wildly diverse busker legend Melissa Elledge doing the same on the water out behind Battery Park
6/21, 7 PM purposeful, incisive Red Molly dobro player/songstress Abbie Gardner at the downstairs room at the Rockwood, $15
6/21, 7:30 PM not a music event but important: community and medical freedom fighters including investigative journalist James Roguski, pediatric specialist Dr. Max Bulmash, Rabbi Jonathan Rietti, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Ryan Cole strategize how to defend our children from the lethal Covid shots. Free, at Anshe Sfard Hall, 1370 45 St off the corner of 14th Ave, Boro Park, D to 50th St., also livestreaming,
6/21, 7:30 PM otherworldly French-Algerian singer Ourida with her combo at Atlantic Brooklyn, 333 Atlantic Ave (Smith/Hoyt), $15, F to Bergen St.
6/21, 8 PM hilarious, smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes at Freddy’s outdoors
6/21-26, 8:30/10:30 PM the purist tuneful Dave Holland/Kenny Barron/Johnathan Blake trio at the Blue Note, $30 standing room avail
6/22, noon entertaining cumbia jazz accordionist/crooner Gregorio Uribe at the pedestrian plaza at Willoughby and Pearl in downtown Brooklyn
6/22, half past noon lyrical Red Baraat trumpeter Sonny Singh plays bhangra and carnatic themes at Zuccoti Park, 165 Broadway at Liberty
6/22, 6 PM mighty, sweeping ensemble Mariachi Real de Mexico at Highland Park in East New York, J to Crescent St
6/22, 7 PM a rare intimate show with the catchy, purist, Beatlesque Bubble at the small room at the Rockwood
6/22, 7:30 PM irrepressible pianist/singer Champian Fulton – as entertaining a postbop improviser as torch singer – at the Django, $25
6/22, 7:30/9:30 PM innovative, individualistic jazz organist Jared Gold leads his trio at Smalls, $25 cash at the door
6/22, 8:30 PM guitarslinger Phil Gammage plays his dark Americana and blues at 11th St Bar
6/22, 10ish colorful, Bowie-esque female-fronted glamrockers the Manimals at Our Wicked Lady, $14
6/23, 7:30/9 PM sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece leads a trio with Bob DeVos on guitar and Steve Laspina on bass at Mezzrow, $25 cash at the door
6/23, 8ish guitarist Alyse Lamb’s fiery, subtly witty, tightly psychedelic jazz-inspired postpunk band Parlor Walls at Our Wicked Lady,$14
6/24, 7 PM the all-female Resistance Revival Chorus sing epic, inspiring original populist gospel tunes and political broadsides at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park – take W 10th St to the river
6/24, 7 PM quirky chamber pop chanteuse Daneshevskaya at Bryant Park
6/24, 7:30 PM oldschool Colombian gangsta sounds with La Cumbiamba eNeYé followed by Colombian vallenato crooner Fonseca at Prospect Park Bandshell
6/24, 8 PM slinky, impressionistic postbop jazz with saxophonist Alison Shearer and her quartet at the downstairs room at the Rockwood, $15
6/24, 10 PM the Carvels NYC – a female-fronted mashup of the Ramones and the Dickies – at Freddy’s
6/25, 4 PM NYC psychedelic supergroup the Eljin Marbles with Dann Baker from Erica Smith’s band and Love Camp 7 at the community garden at 68 Java St. in Greenpoint, G to Greenpoint Ave
6/25, 4 PM firebrand Guinean feminist rocker Natu Camara followed by Guinean acrobatic troupe Cirque Kalabanté at Prospect Park Bandshell
6/25, 4 PM trombonist Craig Harris leads a large improvisational ensemble playing his immersive, incredibly aptly titled new piece Breathe at Rockefeller Park
6/25, 7:30 PM Rajrupa Chowdhury plays the sarod at Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $25
6/25. 9 PM a veteran surf band triplebill: the Supertones, cover crew Band of Others and Link Wray cover band the WrayCyclers at Freddy’s
6/25, 10 PM the slinky, fiery Macedonian-flavorted Sedi Donka Balkan Band at St. Mazie’s
6/25, 10 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads leads a quartet at the Django, $25
6/26, noon shapeshifting klezmer trumpeter Frank London‘s Klezmer Brass All Stars, the Klezmographers featuring violinist Eleonore Biezunski and tsimbl player Pete Rushefsky, and flutist Chen Tao and his Melody of the Dragon Chinese traditional ensemble outside the Eldridge Street Synagogue just north of Canal
6/26, 2 PM latin soul singer Gina D’Soto and her excellent band on the plaza outside the Prospect Park Q station
6/26, 7 PM not a music event but a good cause if you can afford it: a comedy benefit for RFK Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense with Alex Stein, Ross Bennett, Alex Lasarev, Robbie Rose, Andy Rose, Janet McLean at the Stand, 116 E 16th St., $50, res rec.
6/26, 7 PM undulating, brass-fueled Brazilian street band Monobloco at Flushing Meadows/Crotona Park, 7 train to Shea Stadium
6/27. 8 PM intense, wickedly tuneful jazz oudist/guitarist Gordon Grdina‘s Nomad trio at Drom, $15 adv tix avail
6/28, 6:30 PM T.J. Borden on cello, Brandon Lopez on bass, James McKain on sax and Joey Sullivan on drums improvise at Downtown Music Gallery
6/28. 7 PM oud virtuoso Ara Dinkjian with pyrotechnic clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski’s ferociously kinetic NY Gypsy All-Stars play the great oudist’s originals at Drom, $20 adv tix avail
6/28, 7 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $15
6/28, 7:30 PM the Handel and Haydn Society, led by violinist Aisslinn Nosky play works by Corelli, Vivaldi, Geminiani, Handel and Charles Avison at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park
6/28, 8 PM rising star saxophonist Tivon Pennicott with a string section at Washington Square Park
6/29, noon brilliant chamber pop/Americana violinist Sarah Alden with percussionist Samuel Torres at the pedestrian plaza at Willoughby and Pearl in downtown Brooklyn
6/29, half past noon tapdancer Michela Marino Lerman and bassist Russell Hall at Zuccoti Park
6/29, 7 PM broodingly eclectic songwriter Natalie Mack – who veers from pensively catchy dronepop to dreampop to more theatrical sounds – followed at 9 PM by charmingly inscrutable Parisienne jazz chanteuse Chloe & the French Heart Jazz Band at the downstairs room at the Rockwood, $15
6/29, 9 PM a long night of Spanish-language styles in reverse order: Flamenco Trio Bryan Cid y Guillen, boisterously amusing acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho; Cumbia LaMar and Colombian trance-dance folk band Joan Camilo Durango at Drom, $20 adv tix avail
6/30, 6 PM eclectic pan-latin and Middle Eastern-inflected acoustic songwriter Miriam Elhajli under the Dumbo archway, F to York St
6/30, 7 PM Jennah Vox – who does a decent Amy Winehouse impression – at Culture Lab in Long Island City
6/30, 8 PM Afro-Cuban percussion legend Pedrito Martinez leads his rumbling, jazz-tinged salsa project at Drom $25 adv tix rec
6/30, 8:30 PM deviously theatrical oldschool C&W/rockabilly parodists Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co.at Otto’s
6/30, 9 PM blazing all-female street band the Brass Queens at the Gutter in Williamsburg, $10
6/30, 9 PM first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall and his killer band at Skinny Dennis
7/1, 7 PM sizzling, politically fearless latin jazz pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Bryant Park
7/1, 7:30 PM purist postbop jazz guitarist Ed Cherry leads a two-guitar quartet with fellow axeman Mike Moreno at the Django, $25
7/1-2, 7:30/9 PM saxophonist John Ellis – as adept at postbop jazz as he is with haunting, theatrical noir art-song – leads a quartet at Smalls, $25. 7/2 feral tenor saxophonist Eric Wyatt and band follow at 10:30 and returns on 7/9, same time
7/2, 4 PM oldschool-style high plains C&W singer Hope Debates & North 40 at Skinny Dennis
7/2, 7:30 PM tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson at the Django, $25
7/2, 8 PM the monthly surf rock show has resumed with the eclectic Weisstronauts, surfed-out tv themes from Commercial Interruption sand the majestic, darkly cinematic TarantinosNYC. at Otto’s
7/3, half past noon/2:30 PM drummer Christian Finger leads his moody European jazz trio with the haunting Vadim Neselovskyi on piano at the Blue Note, $15
7/3, 3 PM ish the ageless godfather of boogaloo, Joe Bataan in the courtyard at Union Pool, free
7/3, 5:30 PM art-rock chanteuse Andromeda Anarchia followed by Queens of the Stone Age soundalikes the Velvicks – at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/3, 7:30/9 PM baritone saxophonist Frank Basile leads a two-baritone quintet with Gary Smulyan at Smalls, $25
7/3, 9 PM first-class bluegrass bandleader/bassist Allison Kelly at Skinny Dennis
7/4, 9 PM one of the alltime most thrilling guitarists in Americana, Rosie Flores at Skinny Dennis. Note that there is a $5 cover
7/4, 10:30 PM expansive, expressive jazz pianist Miki Yamanaka at Smalls, $25. She’s back on 7/11
7/5, 6:30 PM Cuban saxophonist Hery Paz improvises with trumpeter Nate Wooley and drummer Tom Rainey followed at 7:30 by bassist Henry Fraser and violinist Cleek Schrey at Downtown Music Gallery
7/5, 10:30 PM fiery electric Cuban hill country music with Los Hacheros at the Django, $25
7/7, 6 PM Brain Cloud western swing mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman and band under the Dumbo archway, F to York St
7/7, 7 PM pensive, eclectic, tuneful jazz/art-rock songwriter Becca Stevens with intense, rapturous Balkan/Middle Eastern ensemble the Secret Trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $20. It’s a good night there. She’s followed at 8:30 by steamboat soul crooner/pianist Nat Osborn. Downstairs irrepressibly sardonic janglerock/folk-punk songwriter, New Yorker illustrator and White Hassle alum Marcellus Hall plays at 7 for $10
7/7, 7:30/9 PM trombonist Alan Ferber leads his immersively innovative, sometimes symphonic nonet at Smalls, $25
7/8, 7 PM brilliant, fearlessly political B3 organist Greg Lewis in the park on the Hudson at 125th St.
7/8, 7:30 PM the NYChillharmonic – who play lushly intricate art-rock with big band jazz orchestration – at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/8, 7:30 PM catchy oldschool roots reggae with a fearlessly populist Senegalese feel from Meta & the Cornerstones at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec
7/8, 10:30 PM an absurdly cheap triplebill of latin artists from Canada and Chile: Mexican folk guitarist Quique Escamilla, psychedelic latin rockers Battle of Santiago – the missing link between Willie Colon and Pink Floyd – and cumbia songwriter Ramon Chiccarron at Drom, $10
7/10, 5 PM Red Baraat trumpeter Sonny Singh plays funky bhangra psychedelia at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/10, 7 PM jaunty female-fronted original retro rocksteady band the Big Takeover at Pier 1 at 70th St. and the Hudson
7/8, 7 PM every kind of swing jazz you could imagine with the Baylor Project at Bryant Park
7/10, 7 PM oldschool salsa triplebill: Lower East Salsa, Domingo Quinones and Puerto Rican Power at the Coney Island Amphitheatre. free
7/11-14, half past noon eclectic, often haunting Armenian jazz pianist Armen Donelian at Bryant Park
7/12, 6:30 PM tuneful, state-of-the-art postbop jazz guitarist Will Bernard in a rare solo show at Downtown Music Gallery
7/12. 7 PM blazing all-female street band the Brass Queens at Gantry State Park in Long Island City. They’re at Radegast Hall on 7/30 at 1 PM
7/12, 7:30 PM A Far Cry play an innovative program of string arrangements of Bartok miniatures plus works by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Dvorak, Beethoven and Karl Doty at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park
7/12, 7:30 PM kinetic Cuban jazz pianist Elio Villafranca at the Django, $25
7/12, 7:30/9 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads a quartet at Smalls, $25 cash at the door.
7/12-17, 8/10:30 PM constantly shapeshifting hip-hop icon Talib Kweli & the Whiskey Boys at the Blue Note, $30 standing room avail
7/12. 9 PM noir Americana siren Eilen Jewell sings Loretta Lynn at Skinny Dennis, there is a cover charge $tba
7/13, noon trumpeter Wayne Tucker – who veers between sunny postbop jazz, Afrobeat and goofy vocal shtick – at the pedestrian plaza at Willoughby and Pearl in downtown Brooklyn
7/13, 7:30 PM purist postbop tenor saxophonist Stacy Dillard with his band at the Django, $25, He’s also at Smalls on 7/16 and 7/23 at 10:30
7/14, noon thunderous all-female Colombian coastal trance-dance ensemble La Manga at the pedestrian plaza at Willoughby and Pearl in downtown Brooklyn
7/14, 7:30 PM imaginative indie classical choir Roomful of Teeth followed by a live interview with avant garde legends the Kronos Quartet at Prospect Park Bandshell
7/15, 7 PM the oldtimey band that started the whole revival back in the 90s, the Squirrel Nut Zippers at Bryant Park
7/15 7 PM psychedelic Afrobeat jammers the Brighton Beat at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/15, 7 PM powerful, lyrical classical piainist Mimoza Keka plays works by contemporary Macedonian composers Tomislav Zografski and Dimitrije Buzarovski .at Gallery MC
7/15, 7:30 PM lyrical pianist Rich Germanson leads a quartet at the Django, $25. Followd at 10:30 by New Orleans reedman Craig Handy & Second Line Smith
7/16, 5 PM slinky new wave bassist/bandleader Yula Beeri at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/16, 7:30 PM innovative, captivating carnatic singer Emmanuelle Martin with violinist Siddharth Ashokkumar and mridangam player Bala Skandan at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $25
7/16, 8:30 PM slinky soul-influenced psychedelic band Chicano Batman at Prospect Park Bandshell
7/17, 7 PM smoldering female-fronted Colombian psychedelic band Yotoco at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/17, 7 PM Danny Jonokuchi & The Revisionists play 1930s style swing jazz at Pier 1 at 70th St. and the Hudson
7/18-22, half past noon lyrical jazz pianist Deanna Witkowski plays solo at Bryant Park
7/19, 7 PM mighty, sweeping ensemble Mariachi Real de Mexico at Gantry State Park in Long Island City
7/19, 7:30 PM lyrical, thoughtful tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander leads a quintet at Smalls, $25 cash at the door.
7/19, 8:30 PM wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers at 11th St Bar
7/20, noon saxophonist John Ellis – as adept at postbop jazz as he is with haunting, theatrical noir art-song – at the pedestrian plaza at Willoughby and Pearl in downtown Brooklyn
7/20, 7:30 PM the best singing pianist (and the best piano-playing singer) in jazz, Champian Fulton at the Django, $25
7/20, 8 PM wild Danish klezmer band Mames Babagenush at Drom $20 adv tix rec
7/20, 9ish organ groovemeister Cory Henry at Central Park Summerstage
7/21, half past noon sizzling, politically fearless latin jazz pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill’ leads a sextet at St. Marks Park, 2nd Ave/10th St
7/21, 7 PM bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton’s Bonegasm at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/21, 7:30 PM erudite tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery leads his quartet at the Django, $25
7/21, 7 PM charming oldtimey swing band Fleur Seule at Astoria Park, Shore Boulevard between the Hell Gate Bridge and the pool
7/22, 7:30 PM colorful, eclectic, paradigm-shifting B3 jazz organist Brian Charette plays the album release show for his new one at the Django, $25
7/22-23, 7:30/9 PM innovative alto saxophonist Caroline Davis leads a quartet with Matt Mitchell on piano at Smalls, $25
7/22, 110 PM the slinky, fiery Macedonian-flavorted Sedi Donka Balkan Band at St. Mazie’s
7/22, 11:30 PM pyrotechnic clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski’s ferociously kinetic NY Gypsy All-Stars with haunting Middle Eastern trumpeter Ibraham Maalouf at Drom, $30 adv tix rec
7/23, 11 AM the all-female Egalitarian Brass play new classical works to wake the neighborhood up at Washington Square Park
7/23, 4ish bad segue, good twinbill: smart female-fronted gutter blues jamband Jane Lee Hooker followed at 5 by lyrical, thoughtful jazz pianist Eugenia Choe at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/23, 7 PM cutting-edge big band salsa jazz with drummer Bobby Sanabria’s Big Band at Bryant Park
7/23, 7:30 PM santoor virtuoso Vinay Desai with tabla player Mir Naquibul Islam at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $25
7/24, 3 PM ish 80s reggae star Sister Nancy in the courtyard at Union Pool, free
7/24, 7 PM saxophonist Joseph Herbst’s Ghost in the Mirror large ensemble jazz project with adventurous string ensemble Quartet Davis at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/24, 7 PM brasy second-wave Ethio-jazz band Molly Tigre at 70th St. and the Hudson
7/24, 7 PM slinky piano-fueled soul band the Claudettes at the big room at the Rockwood $15
7/25-29, half past noon sly, cinematic, tuneful Microscopic Septet pianist Joel Forrester at Bryant Park
7/25, 7:30 PM purist, purposeful jazz guitarist Russell Malone with pianist Rick Germanson and bassist Luke Sellick at Mezzrow, $25
7/25, 8 PM busy surf rock cover group Band of Others at Cowgirl Seahorse
7/26. 7 PM Zikrayat play slinky, cinematic classics from the golden age of Arabic song at Gantry State Park in Long Island City
7/26, 7:30 PM edgy orchestra the Knights & Lara St. John, violin soloist play Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony plus works by Avner Dorman at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park
7/26, 7 PM soul/gospel belter (and Lenny Molotov collaborator) Queen Esther, Americana banjo songwriter Hilary Hawke and bassist Mali Obomsawin and her band at the basement room at the Rockwood, $15,
7/26, 8 PM gritty downtown rocker Diane Gentile, dark blues/folk noir/oldschool soul songwriter Kelley Swindall and well-liked, fearlessly political LES soul-rock songwriter/chanteuse Dina Regine at 11th St Bar
7/27, noon irrepressible, ebullient Brain Cloud jazz chanteuse Tamar Korn at the pedestrian plaza at Willoughby and Pearl in downtown Brooklyn
7/27, 7 PM Los Cumpleanos – with Nestor Gomez – vox/percussion; Lautaro Burgos – drums; Eric Lane – keyboards; Alex Asher – trombone and others playing trippy, dubwise tropical psychedelia aat Pier 45 in Hudson River Park – take W 10th St to the river
7/27, 8 PM a Lee Konitz tribute with saxophonist Ohad Talmor, pianist Dan Tepfer, bassist Jeremy Stratton and drummer George Schuller at Seeds
7/28, half past noon the self=explanatory Gipsy Jazz Caravan at St. Marks Park, 2nd Ave/10th St
7/28, 6 PM Cuban tres player Junniel Jiminez and band under the Dumbo archway, F to York St.
7/28, 7 PM the Horne Electric Band play brassy funk at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/29, 7 PM one of the most haunting songwriters in folk noir, Emily Jane White opens for minimalist/darkwave chanteuse Eivor at the Poisson Rouge, $30 adv tix rec
7/29, 7 PM cosmopolitan retro Euro-swing band the Hot Sardines with Nellie McKay on vocals at Bryant Park
7/29, 7 PM the Hudson Horns play brass music from the Balkans to New Orleans at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/30, 4:30 PM Heart of Afghanistan, with Afghani TV star Ahmad Fanoos on vocals and harmonium, his sons Elham Fanoos on piano and Mehran Fanoos on violin, and Hamid Habibzada on tablā, followed eventually at around 9 by feral female-fronted psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub allstars Combo Chimbita on the plaza at Lincoln Center
7/30, 7 PM Afro-Peruvian funk singer/bandleader Araceli Poma at Culture Lab in Long Island City
7/30.,7:30 PM electrifying vibraphonist Simon Moullier and band at the Django, $25 at the Django, $25
7/30, 5 PM pensive Turkish chanteuse Aynur, ferociously powerful, politically fearless southern gothic guitar/banjo player Amythyst Kiah and thunderous Ukrainian folk-punk stompers Dakhabrakha at Damrosch Park
7/30, 10:30 PM mighty Brazilian drumline street band BatalaNYC at Drom, $20 adv tix rec
8/2, noon feral tenor saxophonist Eric Wyatt and band at Columbus Park, Cadman Plaza East and Johnson St. in downtown Brooklyn
8/2, 7 PM clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Gantry State Park in Long Island City
8/2, 7:30 PM lush, majestic string ensemble the East Coast Chamber Orchestra play works by Adolphus Hailstork, Maureen Nelson and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810, ‘Death and the Maiden’ at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park
8/4, 7 PM darkly psychedelic Afrobeat groove group Budos Band at Corporal Thompson Park in Staten Island
8/5, 3 PM a bunch of Red Baraat-adjacent artists and then the hypnotically explosive live bhangra dance band itself at Central Park Summerstage
8/6, 6 PM psychedelic tropicalia band the Meridian Brothers and psychedelic cumbia/reggaeton bandleader Ana Tijoux at Corporal Thompson Park in Staten Island
8/7, 3 PM a Dominican triplebill with merengue tipica band Grupo d’Ahora, El Gran Alcover and merengue star El Rey Supremo Luis Vargas at Central Park Summerstage
8/11, 6 PM psychedelic funk/Afrobeat jammers the People’s Champs under the Dumbo archway, F to York St.
8/11, 7 PM Video Music Box legend Ralph McDaniels hosts a mostly nostalgic hip-hop multiple-bill with Sweet Tee, Girl Codee, Black Sheep, Smif n Wessun, Special Ed at at the Coney Island Amphitheatre. free, get here early or else
8/12, 7 PM ferocious, female-fronted Afrobeat band Underground System at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park – take W 10th St to the river
8/13, 7 PM Video Music Box’s Ralph McDaniels hosts a 90s dancehall reggae bill with Wayne Wonder and others at Central Park Summerstage
8/16, noon iconic latin percussionist Willie Martinez leads his classic salsa/mambo group at Columbus Park, Cadman Plaza East and Johnson St. in downtown Brooklyn
8/16 7 PM playful avant garde cancion singer Sofia Rei at Gantry State Park in Long Island City
8/19, 7 PM atmospheric jazz guitarist Rafiq Bhatia at Bryant Park
8/20, 7 ish the all-female Resistance Revival Chorus sing epic, inspiring original populist gospel tunes and political broadsides, and Burnt Sugar celebrating 20+ years of lush Braxton-ish largescale improvisation, hard funk, James Brown and Bowie covers at Marcus Garvey Park
8/26, 7 PM a “habibi festival” that transcends the style: North African dancer Esraa Warda & the Châab Lab, kanun virtuoso Firas Zreik, and haunting French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares’ Ajoyo project at Bryant Park
8/26, 7 PM jaunty female-fronted original retro rocksteady band the Big Takeover at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park – take W 10th St to the river
8/27, 4 PM ish socially conscious jazz chanteuse Nikara’s Black Wall Street project, bassist Buster Willliams and his band and trumpeter Terence Blanchard with the Turtle Island Quartet at Marcus Garvey Park
8/28, 2 PM the Sun Ra Arkestra make their yearly appearance at the free outdoor concert series at Union Pool
8/28, 3 PM purist jazz guitarist Pasquale Grasso, swing trumpeter/singer Bria Skonberg, intense tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana and Archie Shepp and Jason Moran with Cecile Mclorin Salvant at Tompkins Square Park
9/8, 7 PM two very different, very distinctive jazz pianists: Aaron Diehl and Orrin Evans at Bryant Park
9/11, 6 PM Gaijin A Go Go – the satirical J-pop equivalent of Les Sans Culottes under the Dumbo archway
9/15-18, 7:30 PM this year’s Momenta Festival with the reliably adventurous Momenta Quartet resumes, rescheduled from July with a program tba at Broadway Presbyterian Church (601 W 114th St. free
9/16, 7 PM the annual accordion festival returns: Heart of Afghanistan, with Afghani TV star Ahmad Fanoos on vocals and harmonium, his sons Elham Fanoos on piano and Mehran Fanoos on violin, and Hamid Habibzada on tablā. and others at Bryant Park
9/17, 7 PM the American Symphony Orchestra play a program tba at Bryant Park
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