Today's must-see concerts
Catch the best live music tonight in New York City.
Amateur Night at the Apollo
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Launched in 1934 as a showcase for young black entertainers, the legendary weekly Apollo amateur night rolls on in Harlem.
- Apollo Theater 253 W 125th St, between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd (Seventh Ave) and Frederick Douglass Blvd (Eighth Ave)
- Wed May 22
Elliott Sharp: Foliage
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Few NYC performers can claim to be as versatile as guitarist, saxophonist, instrument-inventor and composer Elliott Sharp, whose range encompasses free jazz, noise rock, classical modernism and more. Here the protean creator presents Foliage, a series of 80 prints that comprise a long-form graphic
Matt Parker
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Matt Parker, a saxist whose diverse résumé includes work with Maynard Ferguson and Elizabeth & the Catapult, celebrates Worlds Put Together, a warmly swinging showcase for his breathy, Ben Webster–esque flow. Parker leads a seven-piece band, including tap dancer Jimmy Sutherland and rising drum
- Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia St, between Bleecker and W 4th Sts, 10014
- Wed May 22
Wayne Horvitz Residency
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
A pillar of the NYC downtown-music community who decamped to Seattle ages ago, Wayne Horvitz sets up shop at the Stone to show his old homies what he's been up to. He'll alternate between his Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, a Pacific Northwest all-star aggregate, and Sweeter Than the Day, an
Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Brooklyn’s avant-jazz scene is a perpetually bustling beast, piloted not only by saxophone visionaries like Darius Jones, Tim Berne and Jon Irabagon, but increasingly by a community of intrepid drummers doubling as virtuoso composers. Among recent releases, Tomas Fujiwara & the Hook Up’s The Air Is
- Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow St, between Bedford and Bleecker Sts
- Wed May 22
Bill Charlap Trio
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Although pianist Bill Charlap didn't write many of the songs in his trio's repertoire, it's not inappropriate to call him a songsmith; he reshapes the Great American Songbook until it becomes something new, if not altogether different.
- Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (at Frederick P. Rose Hall) Broadway, at 60th St, 10019
- Wed May 22 - Sun Jun 2
Jane Monheit
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Jane Monheit’s name no longer sets off controversy in the jazz world: Now confident onstage, she’s settled into the career of a singer who can please jazzers, pop fans and cabaretters alike.
Barry Harris Trio
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Barry Harris was the youngest of the genius pianists who brought a sparkling bop sense to New York from Detroit in the ’50s. He’s the most Monkish of the crew, and these days his playing breathes modern jazz essentials.
- Village Vanguard 178 Seventh Ave South, at 11th St
- Wed May 22 - Sun May 26
Lea Salonga: Back to Before
- Price band: 4/4
- Critics choice
The radiant star of Broadway’s Miss Saigon (and Disney’s Mulan and Aladdin) returns to the Carlyle in a new set that looks at her life as a New Yorker and pays tribute to inspirations including Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand.
- Café Carlyle (in the Carlyle Hotel) 35 E 76th St, at Madison Ave
- Wed May 22 - Sat Jun 8
Of Montreal + Wild Moccasins
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
For folks with some investment in what the Athens, GA, outfit has been doing for the past decade-and-a-half, Of Montreal’s disorderliness seems inseparable from its off-kilter charm, as seen on its 11th and most recent album, Paralytic Stalks, released last year. You get into it precisely because
- Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 North 6th St, between Kent and Wythe Aves
- Wed May 22
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