Night at the Movies

Svetlana and her award-winning New York Collective will take listeners on a dynamic musical journey with innovative jazz arrangements of soundtracks from the American Movie classics and French New Wave, to modern day Academy Award-winners and Animated films. This concert reflect moments of joy, passion, sharp humor, reflection, and most of all, fantasy, and will transport the audience to the carnival of sound, seamlessly moving from sophisticated retrospection to a rowdy “exuberant, foot-stomping music combining swing and pop-singer/songwriter sensibilities" (WPIX11TV, NYC). Be ready to sing along or do some swing dancing!

Randy Porter and his trio (piano, bass, drums) return to the piano store and will share their collective musical powers to some Jazz Standards, some originals, and some in-the-moment improvisation fueled by the inspiring audience Piedmont Piano Company always brings.

TWO SHOWS 6pm & 8pm

Dayna Stephens is globally recognized as a saxophonist, composer and arranger, and was the first-place recipient of the 2019 and 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll in the category of Rising Star—Tenor Saxophone. NPR’s Kevin Whitehead had this to say about the saxophonist’s unique style, “Dayna Stephens can cry and rip it up on tenor, but at heart, he’s a streamlined melodic player. His handsome down-the-middle tone is not too heavy or light, though he can lean either way. His sound is sleek, with very light vibrato. And the lines he improvises are uncluttered and well-organized. His horn sings.”

Legendary trumpet master Eddie Henderson has been a prolific performer and recording artist for more than five decades, since his years as a member of Herbie Hancock’s group, and continuing through multitudes of recordings and appearances as both sideman and headliner. Here he leads a New York-based quartet, featuring his current band members, pianist Peter Zak, bassist Marcos Varela, and frequent collaborator, drummer Sylvia Cuenca.

David Franklin performs music from his new album Passings. This instrumental collection is David’s 10th album and features the great bassist Michael Manring and David’s son, Alex (Owl Licks) Franklin. A free CD will be given to all attendees.

Pianist Marie-Luise Hinrichs of Cologne, Germany will play her very own solo piano arrangement of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's famous masterpiece, "Stabat Mater" composed in 1736 during the last weeks of his short life at the age of 26. In the second half of the program, Marie-Luise will play keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783) and Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), and her own piano arrangements of Gregorian chant-style pieces by Medieval German abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179).

Join NYC-based pianist-composer Mathis Picard in celebrating Live at the Museum, his celebrated sophomore release and debut solo album recorded in January 2019 at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Through Picard's own refined curatorial lens, the music of this album honors the works of the great classical and jazz composers that were influential to Picard's personal musical journey with daring and evocative interpretations of classic pieces, and an impressive array of original compositions.

TWO SHOWS 5:30 (SOLD OUT) & 7:30

Vocalist Christelle Durandy fuses Afro-Caribbean, jazz and other polyrhythmic sounds in a provocative exploration of the African diaspora’s diffuse and powerful musical energy - a multicultural complexity Christelle herself embodies. Backed by her band Sanktet (a play on the French “cinq têtes,” or “five heads''), Christelle draws upon her polyglot background to celebrate and expand the diaspora’s vibrant musical conversation. With Isaac Schwartz (drums), Steve Hogan (Electric bass), Nathan Bickart (piano), Mena Ramos (percussion).

Whatever musical action you take, do it with conviction. ACT, don't just act. Other players must also take action with the same level of conviction. Thus, they reACT, not simply perform a reaction. With Art Lande (piano), Carl Schultz (saxophones), and Tim Wendel (guitar), the interplay of this dynamic is on full display, and from this conviction comes cohesive, melodic, intricate, expressive and compelling music.