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Vocalists Toni Morgan and Michael Matison share the stage for an evening of jazz standards billed as a his-and-hers conversation between two voices. Outpost is one of the few rooms on Central where the acoustics actually serve acoustic music, so the intimacy here is earned rather than accidental. This is the thirtieth year of the...
Noen Nite plays Gaia's Kava Root, the kava bar tucked into the Central corridor near UNM that runs quieter and stranger than most rooms its size. The sourcing here is...
Tori Amos brings her piano-centered performance to Popejoy Hall, one of the few rooms in Albuquerque with acoustics that actually reward that kind of intimacy. Popejoy is a proper concert hall, assigned seating, no bar rail to lean on, which suits her catalog better than a club would anyway. Tickets through Ticketmaster, and this one...
This is the closing session of a ten-week jazz development series led by Rodney Bowe and Dimi DiSanti, two musicians who have put in serious time on the Albuquerque scene....
César Bauvallet leads a recurring Tuesday night Latin music class at Outpost, one of the more acoustically honest rooms on the corridor. Outpost draws serious musicians as students, so expect a mixed room of beginners and people who already know what a clave is. The listing date reflects the series end on August 25, so...
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the California swing band that never really went away after the late-90s revival, plays the KiMo Theatre in a pairing that actually makes sense: the band's horns-out, big-room energy fits the KiMo's 700-seat Pueblo Deco interior better than most clubs could manage. The KiMo has limited flat floor space, so if...
This is a late-night set from Afters with the Cave at Luna Kava Root, a kava bar on Central that runs a tighter, quieter room than most venues its size....
William Parker is one of the most consequential bassists in free jazz, and this trio with Hamid Drake on drums and Cooper Moore on homemade instruments is about as serious as this music gets. Outpost is a small, acoustically honest room, which means nowhere to hide and nothing lost, a genuine advantage for a set...
The Django Festival Allstars bring their hot jazz and gypsy swing tradition to Outpost Performance Space, one of the better-programmed rooms on the Central corridor, as part of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival. Outpost keeps sight lines good and sound dialed in, so this style of acoustic string-driven jazz lands the way it...
Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an unscripted hour of live comedy, the kind where nothing is planned and the room decides how good it gets. The Box is a small, focused space that rewards audience participation and punishes phone distraction, so come ready to be present. Ticket link is live through...