MUSIC

Kanoa Mendenhall

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM

The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan

$22.50-$33 in person; $22 live stream
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Rising bassist Kanoa Mendenhall has played with some really good people. So it should come as no surprise that for this, her first gig as a leader, she’s assembled some really good people to play with her. Such as, by way of example, Kalia Vandever, whom I’ve come to think of as potentially being to trombone what Mendenhall’s sometime boss Joel Ross has become to vibes, and pianist Micah Thomas, one of the clearest thinkers of the upcoming generation.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andrés Mediterranean at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a Bamboo: pour 1-1/2 oz. Sherry (your choice of the style: I use Fino usually) and dry Vermouth, with two dashes each of orange bitters and Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Express a lemon twist into the drink and discard (the twist, not the drink). Garnish with an olive.