Welcome everyone to our monthly calendar of concerts and events held at Measure Lounge at Langham Place, Fifth Avenue.
Performances can be seen nightly from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. No cover, no drink minimum.
400 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10018
(Corner of Fifth Avenue and 36th Street)
Phone: 212.695.4005
One of the best jazz guitarists of the Belpaese will delight the audience with his swinging soulful playing.
Antonio Ciacca trio/quartet
SEPTEMBER 8-13, 15-18
Ciacca has been a creative, passionate personality on the New York jazz scene since his 2007 arrival in the States. His tenure as Artist in Residence at Langham Place has proven successful since its April 2011 inception.
Ciacca served as Director of Programming at Jazz at Lincoln Center and he was a professor at Juilliard.
SEPTEMBER 29-30
ANTONIO CIACCA TRIO “With a Song in My Heart”
CD Release
Measure’ s artist in Residence Antonio Ciacca celebrate his 9th release as leader. With Paul Gill on bass and Pete Van Nostrand on drums, the trio is approaching its 10th year together swinging the classics and few originals.
John Coltrane Festival
SEPTEMBER 19, 20, 22,23
Four days celebration of the giant of modern Jazz John Coltrane. Four different soloists will cover Coltrane’s music form the Prestige years to the Impulse historical Masterworks.
Rodney Whitaker trio
SEPTEMBER 24 – 27
“…an inexhaustibly swinging bassist with a mammoth-sized
sound and an infectious personality as radiant as his
walking lines and solos.” – Detroit Free Press
Whitaker, a father of seven children, has devoted much attention to building a world-class Jazz Studies Department at Michigan State University (which in 2013 conferred on him the honor of Distinguished Professor of Jazz Bass). In addition to a first-class faculty ensemble, the MSU Professors of Jazz, Whitaker formed a co-led project with drummer Carl Allen that generated the critically acclaimed, pocket-heavy Mack Avenue recordings Get Ready (2007) and Work To Do (2011). More recently, Whitaker has also served as bassist and music director for the Mack Avenue SuperBand, a group of label all-stars convened for the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Detroit Jazz Festival, and documented on Live! From The 33rd Annual Detroit Jazz Festival.
VICTOR GOULD
SEPTEMBER 7, 14 Pianist Victor Gould is quickly establishing himself as a musical force to be reckoned with, making waves in New York’s renowned jazz scene and across the globe.
JOSHUA RICHMAN
SEPTEMBER 21, 28
Pianist and composer, Joshua Richman received his BA from William Paterson University in 2008. In 2010, he completed his master’s degree studying jazz piano performance at The Juilliard School. Joshua has performed both nationally and internationally as a member of the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble.
