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Mark your calendar for Argentinian musician Gustavo Lorenzatti’s solo bass turn on Friday 1/24 (at 8:30pm), after the 230 Jones Street band plays from 6pm to 8pm. Also, surf jazzistas Jazz the Glass on Saturday 1/25 (7:30-9:30pm), and the monthly jam session on Sunday the 26th from 5-7pm.

Italian poet Elena Pinnen reads from her collection, On the Breaking Wave Thursday 1/30 at 7pm.

And we have a pair of birthday dates for Jon and Noah Frank on the last Friday of the month, January 31st. Drummer Jon Frank brings his trio (Jeremy Leber, piano, and Richard Saunders, bass) to celebrate his 70th birthday from 6-8pm with his son and daughter-in-law, trumpeter Noah Frank and singer Stephane Woodford, sitting in. Then from 8:30-10pm, Noah Frank celebrates his 35th birthday, bringing his quartet with Greg Jacobs, piano; Dexter Williams, bass; and James Gallagher, drums. Stephanie will sit in on that date as well.

In February, MUCH MORE FUN will play from 3pm to 4pm on Saturday the 1st, followed that same day at 7:30pm by the Ian Carey Quintet. On Sunday at 4pm, it’s time for the first-Sunday-of-the-Month student combo and jam session, this time out featuring the Urban School Bebop Combo. And at 7:30pm Saturday, we’re overjoyed to present Noel Jewkes with his quartet and vocalist Kay Kostopoulis on Feb 2.

Poet Michelle Matz reads Feb 5, and Susan Dombroff + Chris Kammler’s Spoken Duets happen Feb 6 before the monthly poets’ open mic…

Songwriter Maurice Tani plays from the Americana side on Super Bowl Sunday at 5pm, unspooling a typically dark take on the American dream mixed with the right dose of romanticism; Hindustani music happens the night before on the 8th… Jazz on the 7th, two shows along the riverrun from serve of shore to bend of bay…

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