Welcome to live Jazz in Rochester for 2022! For what its worth as we all recalculate our risks, below are the limited number of live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus those I know about through the rest of December, January and into February. I suggest you call venues before heading out (the websites for some of them are available in the right panel of the blog... for those of you reading the email you have to come to the site to find the "right panel").  Please let me know about anything I may have missed or that you know have been cancelled.

Just so you know that I didn't miss it entirely, I must have had too much to drink before doing last week's post (or perhaps just exhausted from my vacation exertions... ha!) as I totally messed up the dates on the listings after January 1. Not a good sign that no one else noticed and let me know of my error....

Thursday, January 6, 2022

• Julie Ketchum and Seth Sealfon @ JoJo (Webster), 6:00 pm
• Ted Perry @ Faircraft Brauhaus, 7:00 pm
• Paradigm Shift @ Via Girasole Wine Bar (Pittsford), 7:00 pm

Friday, January 7, 2022

• Jon Seiger and Gordon Webster @ Veneto's (Buffalo Road), 6:00 pm

Saturday, January 8, 2022

• Jon Seiger and Oliver Gomez @ Veneto's (Buffalo Road), 6:00 pm
• Laura Dubin Trio @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 6:30 pm

Sunday, January 9, 2021

• Jazz Brunch with the Simon Fletcher Trio @ Strange Design Public House (Geneseo), 11:00 am
• Mel Henderson & Greg Wachala @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 6:30 pm

Monday, January 10, 2021

• Monday Jazz at the UUU hosted by Jordan Lerner @ UUU Art Collective, 153 State St. (Downtown), 8:30 pm, jam starts @ 10:00 pm

Tuesday, January 11, 2021

• No jazz for you?

Wednesday, January 12, 2021

• CMD @ Faircraft Brauhaus, 7:00 pm

Looking ahead to jazz in January and into February ...

January

• 13th: Very Hairy January (Tyler Westcott Residency) with the Banjo Juice Jazz Band @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 6:30 pm
• 13th: Jazz 90.1 presents Mike Kaupa Trio @ Greece Baptist Church, 7:00 pm [Cancelled]
• 13th: Dean Keller Soul Jazz Joint @ Faircraft Brauhaus, 7:00 pm
• 14th: Jon Seiger and Gordon Webster @ Veneto's (Buffalo Road), 6:00 pm
• 14th: The White Hots @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 6:30 pm
• 15th: Jon Seiger and Oliver Gomez @ Veneto's (Buffalo Road), 6:00 pm
• 15th: Craig Snyder Trio @ Lovin Cup Bistro & Brews, 7:00 pm
• 19th: Bob Sneider Trio @ Faircraft Brauhaus, 7:00 pm
• 20th: Big Blue House @ Faircraft Brauhaus, 7:00 pm
• 20th: Roger Eckert Quartet @ Via Girasole Wine Bar (Pittsford), 7:00 pm
• 21st: Jon Seiger and Gordon Webster @ Veneto's (Buffalo Road), 6:00 pm
• 22nd: Jon Seiger and Oliver Gomez @ Veneto's (Buffalo Road), 6:00 pm
• 23rd: Jazz Brunch with the Simon Fletcher Trio @ Strange Design Public House (Geneseo), 11:00 am
• 26th: Jazz90.1 Mardi Gras Party with Steve Grills and the Roadmasters @ Barnard Restaurant & Party House, 360 Maiden Ln. (Greece), 6:00 pm
• 26th: Hanna PK Trio featuring Ed Croft & Tony Hiler  @ Faircraft Brauhaus, 7:00 pm
• 27th: Mike Kaupa/Gordon Webster Jazz Duo @ Prosecco Italian Restaurant & Jazz Bar (Farmington), 5:30 pm
• 27th: Eric Heveron Smith Trio @ Faircraft Brauhaus, 7:00 pm
• 28th: Jon Seiger and Gordon Webster @ Veneto's (Buffalo Road), 6:00 pm
• 28th: Smooth Jazz Winter Warmup with Jimmie Highsmith Jr. @ The Theatre at Innovation Square, 7:00 pm  (tickets)
• 29th: Jon Seiger and Oliver Gomez @ Veneto's (Buffalo Road), 6:00 pm
• 29th: Hanna and the Blue Heart @ The Little Theatre Cafe, 6:30 pm

February

• 4th: Slight Pandemonium Productions presents Zahyia in "DivaZ", an evening of music featuring Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Tina Turner @ 75 Stutson Street, 6:30 pm (tickets)
• 4th: The Rita Collective @ Nazareth College of Rochester, Wilmott Hall, 7:30 pm
• 6th: Art of Jazz with The Campbell Brothers Present John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme @ Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle (Buffalo), 3:00 pm (more info and tickets)
• 10th: Riverside Soul @ Via Girasole Wine Bar (Pittsford), 7:00 pm
• 23rd: Jazz 90.1 presents Bob Sneider Trio @ Greece Baptist Church, 7:00 pm

We've compiled these gig and event listings from information obtained from our own knowledge of the jazz scene in and around Rochester, the performing artists themselves and other sources. The aim is to give you a one-stop place to find all your live jazz in and around Rochester. Click on the links where available in the post for more information on the gig or tickets where needed. Only music start times are listed, so visit or call the venue for more details about when the doors open, etc. (the websites for many of the venues are in the right panel).