Matt Renzi, reeds
Jesse Levit, saxophone & EWI
Alon Nechustan, piano
Sam Bevan, bass
Isaac Schwartz, drums

$25 cover charge; byob. Students, $10.
For reservations, call 415-586-3733.

Alon Nechushtan’s music has brought him to corners of the globe from the Yokohama ‘Rejoicing Sounds’ Festival in Japan with his contemporary orchestral compositions, to the Manila Cultural Center of the Arts with his Clarinet Concerto for the Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra, to the Sao-Paolo Brazil Jewish Music Festival with his groove based Quintet TALAT, to Toronto and Montreal with his Words Beyond Trio and Tel Aviv New Music Biennale with his Compositions for Large Ensemble. And to Bird & Beckett with these compositions and this fine quintet.

Alon has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Central Park Summer Stage, The Blue Note Jazz Club with his projects as a band leader of various groups and as an in-demand sideman. The Kennedy Center, in 2015 commissioned from Alon a new piece for Billy Strayhorn Centennial Celebration, following by a Far East tour in China and Philippines, along with jazz festivals in Belo Horizonte-Brazil and Israel. The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C in 2017 commissioned a new program of Thelonious Monk’s less known compositions while Alon Nechushtan’s Big Band celebrated Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck’s music on their centennial birthdays. 

All About Jazz magazine called Alon “a fantastic pianist-composer with abundant chemistry and boundless eclecticism”, while DownBeat Magazine  recognizes “a talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and  a bold, two-fisted sense of architecture”.