Event:
01/06/09 - 01/10/09
Tuesdays-Thursdays: 7:30 & 9:30pm; Fridays & Saturdays: 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
New York, NY
Brazilian native pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias brings her Trio to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola for five nights. Featuring Eliane Elias, piano/vocals; Marc Johnson, bass; Rafael Barata, drums. Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which [...]

Sonny Fortune, the great post bop alto saxophonist, flutist and composer, appears at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago for four nights from Thursday, January 8th through Saturday, January 11th. Fortune is a riveting improvisor who can play inside or out with a logic and passion that never loses the listener. In his monthly Jazz [...]

Event:
Feb. 5th-7th, 2009
(7:30 nightly)
Wilmington, North Carolina

Since its inception in 1980, the North Carolina Jazz Festival continues a tradition of bringing world-class jazz musicians to Wilmington, North Carolina. During the weekend of February 5th through 7th, 2009, the 29th Annual North Carolina Jazz Festival will present concerts by more than a dozen traditional jazz artists who [...]

Legendary Jazz Pianist & Composer Fahir Atakoglu Live At Nighttown. Legendary Jazz composer Fahir Atakoglu will be performing live on January 22nd at 8:00 pm at Nighttown in support of his latest CD, Istanbul in Blue, which has reached #1 on the JazzWeek World Music Charts, at NightTown in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Event:
Jan. 2nd - 4th
(Fri-Sat: 8:00 pm & 10:00 pm; Sun: 7:00 pm)
Yoshi’s Jazz Club
Oakland, CA
Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders descends on the Bay area to play Yoshi’s in Oakland on Friday, January 2nd through Sunday, January 4th. He will also make his way to Santa Cruz for one night at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center [...]

We have compiled a list of some of the best jazz performances taking place on New Years Eve. Please check below to find a venue in your area.
(1) Chicago
Andy’s Jazz Club

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DeFrancesco Trio
11 E. Hubbard St.
Chicago, IL 60611
312-642-6805
http://www.andysjazzclub.com
Ring in the new year with one of the greatest organists around [...]

Event:
New Years Eve
(call for show times)
Smoke Jazz & Supper Club
New York, NY
New York’s world-renowned sextet One For All, taking its inspiration from the legendary groups of Miles Davis and Art Blakey, is an invigorating, high octane sextet that features original compositions and exceptional soloists. The band will close out 2008 with a special New Year’s [...]

Event:
New Years Eve
(8:30 pm & 10:30 pm): $100 each / Entire Evening: $140
Jazz Bakery
Culver City, CA

You can feel good about feeling good as the Jazz Bakery hosts a stellar quintet featuring James Moody, Kenny Burrell and Benny Green in a New Year’s Eve benefit concert. One of the surviving champions of Dizzy Gillespie’s music, NEA [...]

Ring in the new year with one of the greatest organists around as The Joey DeFrancesco Trio returns to the B3-loving Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago. Joey DeFrancesco is the undisputed king of the B3, the best jazz organist in the world. If you dig Joey, you’re not alone and you’re in pretty good company. [...]

Event:
Dec. 26th-31st
(8:00 pm and 10:00 pm)
Yoshi’s
San Francisco, CA
Eight-time Grammy winner Eddie Palmieri is an explosive, unpredictable lion of the keyboard. His gift for broken meters and chromatic passages led him to be dubbed “the Latin Monk” by timbalero Willie Bobo. Since the 1960s he has refreshed Latin dance music by introducing rock licks, urban poetry [...]