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“Jonah Smith seduces you into its world by means of sheer sonic pleasure. Only later do you come to understand the complex means of that seduction, and how masterfully they’ve been employed. And when you understand that, you know that Jonah Smith is a spellbinding talent whose time has arrived.”
–Anthony Decurtis

It may be no surprise that New York-based Jonah Smith came into his own as a singer/songwriter/pianist in the world’s biggest melting pot. Check in with Smith in a subterranean downtown jazz club, sit for a while and listen to him play—his hat cocked sideways, his manner shy, his humor dry—and you’ll see that he, like New York, is a little bit of everything: a seasoned player, he’s a little bit jazz; a heartfelt vocalist, he’s definitely soul; a talented balladeer and storyteller, he’s even a little Nashville. Yet, essentially, at its essence, it’s rock and roll.  Tonight he sings songs from his recently released self-titled CD.

With Andy Stack on guitar, Ben Rubin on bass and special guest Andrew Borger (Norah Jones, Tom Waits) on drums.