Lydia's Cafe

New Years Eve - Teri Roiger 4tet
2022-12-31 19:00 - 2023-01-01 00:00 (America/New_York)
Dinner Set 7-10pm
Teri Roiger – vocals
Bill Ware – vibes
John Menegon – bass
Matt Garrity – drums

Dance Set – 10pm – midnight
DJ Mark

Jimmy Madison & Friends
2022-12-17 19:00 - 22:00
Jimmy Madison – drums
Tim Regusis – keys
Tarik Shaw – bass
Drummer Jimmy Madison has performed with the greats of Jazz and Funk for over six decades, from Lionel Hampton, Roland Kirk, Chet Baker and Quincy Jones to James Brown, Maceo Parker and George Benson, among many others. But this trio format allows he and his compatriots to do what they do best, improvising on themes both familiar and new. It’s pure Jazz at its best.
Tim Regusis is a Hudson Valley-based pianist who has been active in the jazz scene of the NYC region, as well as in the fields of R&B, Latin and various world musics for many years.
He has played and/or recorded with Patti Austin, Ruben Blades, David Byrne, Celia Cruz, Chuck Mangione, Johnny Pacheco, Daniel Ponce, Rick Margitza, Cindy Blackman, Jeff Williams, Akira Ohmori, Najee, Donna Summer, Chaka Khan, Jonathan Butler, Ofra Haza and others.
Tarik Shah is an African American Muslim with a career as a professional jazz musician. As the sole student of Slam Stewart, Shah began playing the upright bass at age 12 and went on to play with Betty Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Abbey Lincoln and Art Taylor among others. He is a composer, a jazz educator, and lyricis

Redshift Trio
2022-12-10 19:00 - 22:00
Trumpeter Josh Deutsch and guitarist Nico Soffiato have been playing together as a duo since 2006, when they met in Boston. Over the years, the musical relationship born through this collaboration resulted in a set of music composed specifically for this ensemble, including several co-written works.
Josh and Nico have created a book of original music borrowing from some of their favorite classical, jazz and pop ideals. The music ranges from electronic loops to entirely acoustic pieces, balancing carefully crafted compositions with space for exciting improvisations and interaction.
Their third album Redshift came out in 2020, on the label nusica.org and presents an augmented version of the duo project with the addition of two great drummers of the New York scene: Allison Miller and Dan Weiss. They perform regularly in the New York City area and have toured the West Coast and Italy. For this new trio configuration, they feature different drummers: Allison Miller and Dan Weiss, Bram Kincheloe, Deric Dickens, D’Vonne Lewis, Scott Bishop, and Ken Mastrogiovanni. They have also given master classes in music schools and universities in the US and Italy.
http://nicosoffiato.com/josh-deutschnico-soffiato-duo
Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer Josh Deutsch is a unique voice on New York City’s contemporary music scene, where he performs regularly as a leader and sideman. He is also known nationally and internationally through performances around the United States and in Europe, Canada, and Asia.
Deutsch plays regularly and has recorded with Argentinian singer/composer Sofia Rei, Grammy-winning Mexican singer Lila Downs, the Grammy-winning Dafnis Prieto Big Band, Pedro Giraudo’s Expansions Big Band, Venezuelan guitarist/singer Juancho Herrera, Hungarian singer Nikolett Pankovits, Israeli singer/pianist Noa Fort, Australian soul/funk band The Hipstones, and Colombian folkloric band Grupo Rebolu. He has performed with Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the Duke Ellington Big Band directed by Victor Goines.
He has presented his own projects at Dave Douglas’s Festival of New Trumpet Music, as well as at the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle and the Outpost Summer Music Festival in Albuquerque and appeared at such leading venues in the U.S. as Carnegie Hall, The Jazz Standard, Birdland, Dizzy’s Club
Coca Cola, The Blue Note, The Jazz Gallery and The Stone in New York City and SF Jazz and Yoshi’s in California.
Nico Soffiato is an Italian guitarist, composer and educator. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2007, he made his home in Brooklyn. A versatile player, Nico finds himself playing in various jazz and experimental groups such as his duo with Grammy-winning trumpet player Josh Deutsch,
Paradigm Refrain with Anti Label recording artist Marco Buccelli, and Dogwood. As a member of the New York music scene for over a decade, Nico has been part of the collective Out Of your Head Brooklyn, whose members included Gerald Cleaver, Michael Attias, Tony Malaby, Kirk Knuffke, and
many others. He also plays in Innocent When You Dream, Aaron Schragge’s ensemble that reimagines the music of Tom Waits.
He had played nationally and internationally, presenting his music at renowned festivals like Dave Douglas’s FONT Festival, Sile Jazz Festival, Padova Jazz Festival and more.
Nico is also music for media composer and producer. He’s a staff composer for the international music house Overcoast and has worked on movies and commercials.
Bram Kincheloe is a professional musician, writer, and small business owner. He attended Laguardia School of Performing Arts for one year before being accepted into Manhattan School of Music. Through the years playing jazz, he has been honored to play with Lee Konitz, Branford Marsalis, Ambrose
Akinmusire, Wynton Marsalis, Ben Street, Steve Cardenas and many others. In 2008, he helped form the soul-rock band Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds with two of his cousins. The band subsequently landed a much sought-after residency at Rockwood Music Hall, building a large, devoted following. In 2011, they signed with New Frontier Touring, and began playing upwards of 175 shows a year, across the USA, Canada, and beyond. Bram played many of the largest festivals in the world, including Bonnaroo, Voodoo Fest, Cotai Jazz and Blues Festival (Macau, China) and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. They
also opened for such acts as The Avett Brothers, Dr. John, and The Black Keys. While with the band, he recorded three albums, the last of which was produced by the famed bassist and producer Randy Jackson, of American Idol and Journey fame. He is the owner/operator of Semperviren Studios, a full-
service professional production studio with 26 channels of inputs, a full backline of world class instruments, and more

Donica, Dziuba, Meyer
2022-12-03 19:00 - 22:00
Jim Donica – bass, Mark Dziuba – guitar, Bob Meyer – drums
Original music and a few standards by some of the best players in the area. What might be described as guitar driven Americana jazz.
Mark Dziuba has been a guitarist, improviser and composer for most of his life. He has performed with a who’s who of Jazz, Blues, Rock and Bluegrass musicians and has performed and taught at workshops and festivals internationally for over 40 years.
Mark is a tenured professor of music at the State University of New York at New Paltz where he directs the Jazz Studies program. He was a part of the internationally acclaimed National Guitar Workshop for 25 years and has been a part of the Crown of the Continent International Guitar Festival since its birth.
Mark is a published author and a featured soloist and composer on numerous recordings. He continues to explore the world of improvised live and virtual music and can be found performing often in the area and abroad. (dziubam@newpaltz.edu)
Jim Donica is a bassist, composer, teacher, sideman, and bandleader who has performed and recorded with some of the finest artists in the world.
Donica can be heard on landmark recordings such as Maynard Ferguson’s, “Big Bop Nouveau”, the soundtrack recording of “Permanent Record” and “Trash City”, with Punk Rocker Joe Strummer and with MCA recording artists The David Becker Tribune, on “Long Peter Madsen” and “Siberian Express”. His long standing and ongoing gig as bassist for the legendary, Chita Rivera has taken him around the world playing for audiences who just can’t get enough of Broadway royalty.
Donica completed a Jazz Studies degree and received the coveted Performance Certificate from the Jacobs School of Music at IU, Bloomington in 1995. While there, he played in the 20th Century Be Bop Band for Jazz Legend, David Baker. Afterwards, Donica set out for New York where he continued his professional pursuit of Jazz and improvisation creating his own groups and collaborations such as, Urban Survival that produced two recordings and toured nationally as well as the Jim Donica Group (Apria Records), featuring, Peter Erskine, Randy Brecker, Bruce Barth, Frank Kimbrough, and Tim Armacost and the group, Quantum Mechanics.

Drummer Bob Meyer has performed on Joe Lovano’s Blue Note release and group, Viva Caruso. Also, his Symbiosis, Sinatra and More, trios and quartets. Currently leading The Bob Meyer Project, with Steven Frieder, Luke Franco and Peter Brendler. Recently released our CD Scabiosa; available on iTunes and CD Baby.
Among other people he has played or is currently playing with are; Joe Lovano, John Abercrombie, Ed Schuller, Ken Werner, Nina Sheldon, Judi Silvano, Perry Robinson, Glenn Moore, Cameron Brown, Andy Statman, Sheila Jordan, Ray Nance, Art Davis, Jaki Byard, Paul McCanless, Julian Priester, Gary Peacock, Peggy Stern, Bert Wilson, Diane Schurr, Stanley Cowell, Mal Waldron, David Friesen, Jim Pepper, Red Rodney, Itzhak Perlman, Arnie Lawrence, James Moody, Kirk Leitsey, Avishai Cohen, Wayne Horvitz, Drew Gress, Rob Scheps, Mike Bisio, Don Friedman, James Emery, Tony Malaby, Essiet Essiet, Santi Debriano, Vic Juris, Harvey Wainapel, Peter Barshay and Mel Martin, Eric Person, Travis Sullivan among many others.

Broken Heartstrings - Gypsy Jazz Trio
2022-11-26 19:00 - 22:00

Soul City
2022-11-19 19:00 - 22:00
Top-notched R&B, Soul, Motown dance band

Matt Finck Trio
2022-11-12 19:00 - 22:00
Matt Finck – guitar
Jay Anderson – bass
Tony Jefferson – drums
Matt Finck has performed and recorded with such fine artists as Steve Wilson, Dennis Mackrel, Randy Brecker, John Medeski, Heather Masse and Roswell Rudd, Hudson Valley Philharmonic with Ronan Tynan and Chris Barron (of the Spindoctors), as well as backing up such popular singers as Nell Carter and Tony Martin. He also freelances in a variety of settings including blues, rock and funk, leading his own funk band Fat Mink since 2005, and composes and performs music for video games.
Bassist/composer Jay Anderson is among the most versatile and respected jazz artists performing today. He has performed/recorded with a wide range of jazz artists including Woody Herman, Carmen McRae, Michael Brecker, Paul Bley, Bob Mintzer, John Abercrombie, Dave Liebman, Joe Sample, Maria Schneider, Stanley Cowell, John Scofield, Lee Konitz, Vic Juris, Red Rodney, Ira Sullivan, Mike Stern, Anat Cohen, Toots Thielemans, Kenny Wheeler, Jay Clayton and non-jazz artists like Oswaldo Golijov, Dawn Upshaw, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Robert Spano (Atlanta Symphony), Michael Franks, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Terre Roche, Chaka Khan, Michel Legrand, Allen Ginsberg, and Celine Dion. He has been featured on over 400 recordings, seven of which have received the Grammy Award. His original recordings “NEXT EXIT” (DMP), “LOCAL COLOR” (DMP), and “DEEPSCAPE” (Steeplechase) have received critical acclaim both in the U.S. and abroad. Jay has conducted clinics around the world and is a Professor of Jazz Bass Studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and New Jersey City University.
Tony Jefferson, a New York native, attended the Berklee College of Music on scholarship in 1984 and placed third in the Thelonious Monk International Drum Competition in 1992. Tony has performed and recorded with many jazz artists including: Kenny Drew Jr., Lonnie Smith, Lou Donaldson, Frank Wess, Eddie Harris, Don Friedman, Cyrus Chestnut, Mark Whitfield, Jerry Bergonzi, Joey Calderazzo, Freddy Cole, Hank Jones, Benny Golson, Cedar Walton,
Nancy King, Ernestine Anderson, Annie Ross and the Westchester Jazz Orchestra.
After 20 years as a world class drummer on the jazz scene, Tony Jefferson has segued into the world of singing. His diverse experience as a drummer and his passion for woodwinds led him to explore musical realms that inform his approach to singing.
Some of Tony’s recent vocal performances have been: The Kitano Hotel in New York City, The Princeton Jazz Festival in New Jersey, Storm King Art Center, NY, The Dobbs Ferry SummerMusic Festival, NY and the Hopper House in Nyack, NY. Tony has stepped out from behind the drums to sing as a guest vocalist at the Iridium and the Blue Note Jazz clubs in Manhattan.

Vinnie Martucci Trio featuring vocalist Laurel Massé
2022-11-05 19:00 - 22:00
Manhattan Transfer co-founder Laurel Massé joins SUNY music professors performing jazz and original works. Good eats.
Vinnie Martucci – keys, Rich Syracuse – bass, Jeff Siegel – drums
www.laurelmasse.com

Laurel Massé is co-founder of the award-winning vocal group, Manhattan Transfer, toured internationally with the Transfer, recording four albums (certified gold and platinum) and the Just a Gigolo movie soundtrack, and making numerous television appearances (including Mary Tyler Moore’s 1974 television special Mary’s Incredible Dream, and The Manhattan Transfer Show on CBS TV in 1975). With her expressive voice, clear diction, and ready wit, the tall redhead left an indelible mark on the group.

Nancy Donnelly & Friends
2022-10-29 19:00 - 22:00
Nancy Donnelly – vocals, Peter Tomlinson – keys, Mark Usvolk – bass, Matt Garrity – drums
Nancy Donnelly is an exciting singer whose voice is nestled nicely somewhere in between jazz and soul• a rich, warm and powerful sound” Peter Eldridge (New York Voices).
Nancy has performed in many NYC famous jazz clubs, such as the Blue Note, The Village Gate, Iridium, and Birdland numerous jazz festivals including the Rochester International Jazz Festival and the Wall St. Jazz Festival. Nancy’s critically acclaimed debut CD features Peggy Stern Jay Anderson and Matt Wilson.

the Professors
2022-10-22 19:00 - 22:00
Vinnie Martucci – keys, Mark Dziuba – guitar, Rich Syracuse – bass, Jeff Siegel – drums
Music professors at SUNY college and all-round nice guys come together to perform original, jazz and world music.
