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Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Red Hot Holiday Stomp. Trombone master Wycliffe Gordon leads an array of top New Orleans jazz musicians in Crescent City-style renditions of beloved Christmas tunes. Learn more...

High-end cabaret and jazz club the Metropolitan Room brings the best in live music to New York City. Fabulous performers take the stage in an atmosphere reminiscent of the golden age of cabaret. See event details for each night's line-up. Learn more...

Ashford and Simpson's Sugar Bar is one of New York's top live music venues, providing both established and emerging artists a consistent outlet with which they can expand their fan base and share their music. The Sugar Bar showcases local and international talent playing R&B, soul, jazz and rock, as well as traditional Caribbean and African rhythms. Learn more...

After working in R&B bands as a young man, Pharoah Sanders settled in New York in the early-'60s, where he became a frequent musical associate of Don Cherry, Albert Ayler and others active in the "free jazz" movement, and worked for a while in the Sun Ra Arkestra. In the late-'80s, he reverted to a more purely instrumental jazz and became a familiar figure at international festivals. Learn more...

B.B. King Blues Club presents Howlin' For Hubert, a concert featuring legendary bluesman Hubert Sumlin. The pioneering electric guitarist wrote such blues classics as "The Red Rooster", "Killing Floor", and "Smokestack Lightnin'", inspiring legions of blues and rock superstars, including the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. He takes the stage alongside an array of special guests. Learn more...

B.B. King's welcomes The Mighty Sparrow. The "Calypso King", a native of Trinidad, has been performing for over fifty years, gaining worldwide fame for his blend of catchy rhythms, often-ribald humor, and commitment to social justice. Don't miss this consummate showman live in concert. Learn more...

The Ramsey Lewis Trio performs at B.B. King's. Three-time Grammy-winning pianist Lewis has gone from the composer of such '60s crossover hits as "The In Crowd" and "Wade in the Water" to a revered elder statesman of jazz. His latest album, Songs from the Heart: Ramsey Plays Ramsey, features twelve refined yet joyful original compositions. Learn more...

The music of legendary Cuban composer, arranger and trumpeter Chico O'Farrill lives on in his 18-piece Afro-Cuban jazz band directed by Chico's son, pianist Arturo O'Farrill. This month marks the band's ninth anniversary in residence at Birdland. Learn more...

Jimmy Scott, a former Lionel Hampton vocalist, snared a couple of R&B hits in the 50s, but spent much of his time in obscurity, until rediscovered in the early 80s where he became a mainstay on the New York club scene. His comeback -- which included being hired by David Lynch to croon "Under The Sycamore Tree" in the final episode of Twin Peaks -- led to a major recording contract with Sire/Warner Bros. Records and three critically acclaimed albums. Learn more...

Saxophonist Ted Nash leads a four-piece jazz band in a concert at Iridium Jazz. Nash's most recent album, The Mancini Project, pays tribute to legendary film composer Henry Mancini, whose jazz-inspired scores graced films from Breakfast at Tiffany's to the Pink Panther movies. Nash will perform some of Mancini's best known songs, including "Baby Elephant Walk." Learn more...

Two of Southern music's greatest institutions share the stage in Down By The Riverside at Tarrytown Music Hall. The Blind Boys of Alabama are one of the world's greatest gospel singing ensembles, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band carry on the musical legacy of New Orleans jazz. Learn more...

Stephanie Mills first came to fame as "the little girl with the big voice" in Broadway's The Wiz, and later had many R&B hits, including "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love," "I Feel Good All Over," "Something in the Way (You Make Me Feel)" and "Never Knew Love Like This Before." R&B star Freddie Jackson is known for hits like "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)," "Jam Tonight," "Do Me Again," and "You Are My Lady." Learn more...

Art Blakey considered his best album to be the little known gem Golden Boy. This neglected masterpiece was painstakingly transcribed from the original recordings by trumpeter/arranger David Weiss and was never performed live until its premiere at the Iridium Jazz Club in 2008. For this special encore performance, an all-star group featuring Curtis Fuller, who performed on the original recording and contributed an arrangement, and many other prominent ex-Jazz Messengers bring this great music back to life. Learn more...

Acclaimed young jazz composer Darcy James Argue leads his 18-piece band Secret Society in a performance at Iridium Jazz. On their debut recording Infernal Machines, and in concert, Secret Society offers an imaginative, contemporary take on the classic big band sound, filtering Swing Era-style music through a steampunk-inspired attitude and cutting-edge sensibilities. Learn more...

Mark Murphy is one of the world's greatest and hippest jazz vocalists. He has had a prolific 40 year career and is most noted for his definitive and unique vocal improvisations with both melody and lyrics. He's also the recipient of the 1996, 1997, 2000, and 2001 Downbeat Magazine Readers Jazz Poll for Best Male Vocalist of the Year. Murphy is backed by Misha Piatagorsky on piano, David Rokeach on drums, Hans Glavisim on bass and Gilad Dobrecky on percussion. Learn more...

New York Voices are the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble renowned for their excellence in jazz and the art of group singing. In the tradition of great groups such as Manhattan Transfer and Take 6, they have learned from the best and taken the art form to new levels. Their interests are rooted in jazz, but often Brazilian, R&B, classical and pop influences are included with equal creativity and authenticity. Learn more...

A quickly rising star in the big-band jazz and cabaret worlds, Terese Genecco appears on the last Tuesday of every month at The Iridium Jazz Club with her 8-piece *little big band*. Known for her high-energy, Vegas-style shows, San Francisco's "Entertainer of the Year" has been hailed by critics as "the love child of Dean Martin and Judy Garland." Genecco is the 2009 MAC Award Winner for Outstanding Female Vocalist. Learn more...

B.B. King Blues Club welcomes the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Formed by the seven sons of renowned Chicago trumpeter Phil Cohran, a former member of the Sun Ra Arkestra, they've been blazing new trails in brass-based jazz for over a decade. Bajah & The Dry Eye Crew open the show. Learn more...

The Les Paul Trio welcomes guitarist Mike Stern. The backing band for the late, great guitar innovator has been performing at Iridium with a rotating cast of renowned guitarists. A three-time Grammy nominee, Stern is one of the most revered jazz and jazz fusion guitarists and composers working today. Learn more...

The Les Paul Trio, known for backing up late guiat legend Les Paul, performs at Iridium Jazz Club. Their guests for this concert include Pat Martino and Eldar. Martino has been one of New York's top guitaists for over 40 years, and once overcame a severe brain aneurysm which forced him to completely re-learn his instrument. Born in Kyrgyzstan, Eldar's formidable piano technique has made him a rising star. Learn more...

Laurie Krauz and the Daryl Kojak Octet bring their acclaimed Tapestry Rewoven, a jazz re-imagining of the Carole King classic, to Iridium. Known for her powerful voice and fluid improvisation, Laurie is the 2007 and 2008 MAC Award winner for Best Female Jazz Vocalist. Learn more...

The Anderson Twins Quintet plays at Iridium. Peter and Will Anderson are two of the brightest rising stars in jazz. Maryland natives and Juilliard graduates, they've played at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Chicago's Ravinia Festival, Birdland and more. When they're not leading their quintet, they perform with the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Jimmy Heath Big Band. Learn more...