Caffe Vivace's Upcoming Shows

Patsy Meyer - vocals/percussion

Wayne Yeager - piano

Greg Chako - guitar

Evan Gidley - tenor saxophone

David Lloyd - bass

Alex Merk - drums

Come celebrate the release of Changes with Emmy-nominated vocalist, percussionist, songwriter, and recording artist Patsy Meyer as she brings her music to the stage at Café Vivace for a special live performance. Blending jazz, smooth jazz, soulful vocals, and Latin rhythms, Patsy will perform music from Changes along with favorites from her earlier recordings.

A dynamic performer with a career spanning four decades, Meyer has toured and shared the stage with Patti Austin, Peabo Bryson, Norman Brown, Jeff Lorber, Chuck Mangione, and Spyro Gyra among others. More than 80 of her original compositions have been featured in film and television, earning her three Emmy nominations for Best Original Song.

Recently inducted into the Cincinnati Jazz Hall of Fame, Patsy continues to create and perform locally, regionally, and internationally. Come be part of this special Cincinnati celebration and experience Changes live on stage!

Ticket price is $18 per person.

A $15 drink/food minimum is charged per person in the party, per set, if the total for beverages purchased by the party does not meet the minimum.

Important Notices:

If you do not check in by 15 minutes into the start of the set, we reserve the right to resale your seats with no refund.

Tickets for this performance are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, a one-time transfer to a future show of equal value will be accepted. The transfer must be requested 24 hours before the start of the performance.

Janes Monheit - vocalist

Max Haymer - piano

Luca Alemanno - bass

Rick Montalbano - drums

An unforgettable night of elegance, swing, and pure vocal magic unfolds as

Jane Monheit — one of the most celebrated voices in jazz today — honors Great

American Songbook icon Cole Porter with a long-awaited tribute.

With her lush tone, emotional depth, and impeccable phrasing, Monheit brings

new life to Porter’s timeless classics: “Easy To Love”, “From This Moment On”,

“Night And Day”, and more. Backed by a stellar ensemble of world class

players, and featuring exciting, stylish new arrangements, she reimagines these

golden-era standards with passion, charm, and modern sophistication.

A must-see for jazz lovers, romantics, and fans of the Great American

Songbook, Monheit and Porter combine to create a glamorous celebration of

wit, melody, and swing.

Jane Monheit is a jazz and adult contemporary vocalist with a deep passion for the Great American Songbook. With numerous acclaimed albums, awards, and more than two decades of international touring, she has established herself as one of the leading voices in jazz while collaborating with many of the genre’s most celebrated musicians, arrangers, and producers.

Growing up on Long Island, Jane studied woodwinds and piano, performed in award-winning choirs, and participated in community theater. Her focus, however, always remained on jazz and the interpretation of the Songbook. At age 20, while attending the Manhattan School of Music, she placed second in the prestigious Thelonious Monk Competition (now the Hancock Competition), launching a remarkable career.

By 22, she was performing and recording with jazz legends including Tommy Flanagan, Ron Carter, and Kenny Barron. Those early successes led to collaborations with artists such as Terence Blanchard, Ivan Lins, Tom Harrell, John Pizzarelli, Christian McBride, Vince Mendoza, and Jorge Calandrelli. Jane has also appeared on major television programs including David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, and The View. Her recordings have been featured in films including Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Never Let Me Go.

More than twenty years into her career, Jane has released twelve studio albums, made countless guest appearances, and performed at iconic venues including Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Birdland, and the Village Vanguard. In addition to touring, she writes English lyrics for Ivan Lins and shares her experience through educational work with students around the world. Jane lives in Los Angeles with her husband, drummer Rick Montalbano, and their son.

If the total amount of beverages purchased by the party does not meet the minimum, a $20 drink/food minimum is charged per person in the party, per set.

Important Notices:

If you do not check in by 15 minutes into the start of the set, we reserve the right to resale your seats with no refund.

Tickets for this performance are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, a one-time transfer to a future show of equal value will be accepted. The transfer must be requested 24 hours before the start of the performance.

Janes Monheit - vocalist

Max Haymer - piano

Luca Alemanno - bass

Rick Montalbano - drums

An unforgettable night of elegance, swing, and pure vocal magic unfolds as

Jane Monheit — one of the most celebrated voices in jazz today — honors Great

American Songbook icon Cole Porter with a long-awaited tribute.

With her lush tone, emotional depth, and impeccable phrasing, Monheit brings

new life to Porter’s timeless classics: “Easy To Love”, “From This Moment On”,

“Night And Day”, and more. Backed by a stellar ensemble of world class

players, and featuring exciting, stylish new arrangements, she reimagines these

golden-era standards with passion, charm, and modern sophistication.

A must-see for jazz lovers, romantics, and fans of the Great American

Songbook, Monheit and Porter combine to create a glamorous celebration of

wit, melody, and swing.

Jane Monheit is a jazz and adult contemporary vocalist with a deep passion for the Great American Songbook. With numerous acclaimed albums, awards, and more than two decades of international touring, she has established herself as one of the leading voices in jazz while collaborating with many of the genre’s most celebrated musicians, arrangers, and producers.

Growing up on Long Island, Jane studied woodwinds and piano, performed in award-winning choirs, and participated in community theater. Her focus, however, always remained on jazz and the interpretation of the Songbook. At age 20, while attending the Manhattan School of Music, she placed second in the prestigious Thelonious Monk Competition (now the Hancock Competition), launching a remarkable career.

By 22, she was performing and recording with jazz legends including Tommy Flanagan, Ron Carter, and Kenny Barron. Those early successes led to collaborations with artists such as Terence Blanchard, Ivan Lins, Tom Harrell, John Pizzarelli, Christian McBride, Vince Mendoza, and Jorge Calandrelli. Jane has also appeared on major television programs including David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, and The View. Her recordings have been featured in films including Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Never Let Me Go.

More than twenty years into her career, Jane has released twelve studio albums, made countless guest appearances, and performed at iconic venues including Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Birdland, and the Village Vanguard. In addition to touring, she writes English lyrics for Ivan Lins and shares her experience through educational work with students around the world. Jane lives in Los Angeles with her husband, drummer Rick Montalbano, and their son.

If the total amount of beverages purchased by the party does not meet the minimum, a $20 drink/food minimum is charged per person in the party, per set.

Important Notices:

If you do not check in by 15 minutes into the start of the set, we reserve the right to resale your seats with no refund.

Tickets for this performance are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, a one-time transfer to a future show of equal value will be accepted. The transfer must be requested 24 hours before the start of the performance.

Two big bands. One stage. All original music. Come bear witness to an intergenerational big band battle royale between two of Cincinnati's most exciting ensembles! In one corner, the Original Farm League Big Band - a band formed in 2016 to feature original music by local composers and boasting dozens of world premiers by 20+ writers. In the other, Alec Davis's "After the Break," the newest addition to the rich tradition of big band Jazz in Cincinnati, featuring many of the smokingest young writers and players in the tristate area. The winners will surely be the audience members in attendance for this celebration of Cincinnati's thriving Jazz scene!

A $15 drink/food minimum is charged per person in the party, per set, if the total for beverages purchased by the party does not meet the minimum.

Important Notices:

If you do not check in by 15 minutes into the start of the set, we reserve the right to resale your seats with no refund.

Tickets for this performance are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, a one-time transfer to a future show of equal value will be accepted. The transfer must be requested 24 hours before the start of the performance.

Joshua Redman — tenor saxophone

Paul Cornish — piano

Philip Norris — bass

Nazir Ebo — drums

Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and respected jazz artists to have emerged in our generation. With a career of over thirty years, it is hard to imagine a year of firsts for a musician as prolific as Redman. And yet, 2023 proved to be exactly that: launching his debut album, Where Are We, on the venerable Blue Note Records label, this album was planned largely by phone and text – a direct result of the difficulties of the pandemic - and finds Redman recording with a vocalist and writing lyrics for the first time.

Through the lens of geographic location, Redman and his band march across the United States, asking us to examine what we find critically. Of this particular assemblage, hand-picked for this album, Redman says, “The magic of this particular gathering of musicians was that we were able to come together from points afar, to converge (physically and creatively) in a particular place at a particular time; and to embrace, with fullest imagination and without the slightest reservation, the ethic of ‘serving the songs.’ In this sense, where are we is perhaps above all a meditation on the power and importance of place — the unique human beauty created when we locate ourselves in shared physical spaces together with others; the loss, anomie, and angst suffered when we divide ourselves unnaturally and unjustly apart.”

But he wasn’t supposed to be a musician. In 1991 Redman graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and had already been accepted by Yale Law School, having deferred entrance for what was only supposed to be one year. Instead, he moved to New York City and immediately immersed himself in the jazz scene. Five months later, Redman won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition and began touring and recording with jazz masters such as Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Elvin Jones, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman, and Clark Terry.

As renowned for his musicianship as he is for his visionary ability to assemble talent, one of Redman’s earliest bands, heard on his 1994 album MoodSwing, includes musicians who would later become some of the most influential artists of their generation: pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Brian Blade. They reunited nearly 30 years later, releasing RoundAgain (2020) and LongGone (2022) to resounding critical acclaim and sold-out performances worldwide.

He has recorded nearly two dozen albums, but Redman’s prodigious talent has taken him beyond the bandstand as well: helming the creation of the SFJAZZ Collective, an ensemble distinguished by a unique emphasis on composition; expanding jazz departments via his appointments as a Visiting Artist at Stanford University and as the Artistic Director of the Roots, Jazz, and American Music program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and writing music for film. He wrote and performed the music for Louis Malle’s final film, “Vanya on 42nd Street,” and is both seen and heard in the Robert Altman film Kansas City.

He has recorded and performed with a vast array of luminaries, both in jazz and beyond: Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, The Dave Matthews Band, Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones, Quincy Jones, Big Daddy Kane, B.B. King, Yo Yo Ma, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, McCoy Tyner, and Stevie Wonder, to name a few.

Born in Berkeley, California, he is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff.

A $20 drink/food minimum is charged per person in the party, per set, if the total for beverages purchased by the party does not meet the minimum.

Important Notices:

Tickets for this performance are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, a one-time transfer to a future show of equal value will be accepted. The transfer must be requested 24 hours before the start of the performance.