Unilever Starrlight Jazz Club

OCT. 10 — Nace Brothers Acoustic NOV. 16 — Martha Redbone

JAN. 16 — An Acoustic Set with Amy Ray, featuring Jeff Fielder & Kerry Brooks

FEB. 6 — Tab Benoit

MARCH 21 — Bonnie Bishop MAY 14 — Jayme Stone’s “Folklife”

“A big story this year, which kind of relates to the fact that jazz is coming of age — it’s not that much older than 100 years that this music has been around — is there are now these centennial celebrations of great artists,” reveals jazz curator Robert Ginsburg. “We decided to celebrate that this year because there are two iconic groups and/or individuals that would be celebrating a centennial. The first would be Nat ‘King’ Cole, who passed away some time ago, but lesser known to Nat is his younger brother. Freddy Cole is a consummate jazz pianist and vocalist, and he’s going to be doing a tribute to Nat with his quartet, which will be very cool.

“The next one is an iconic bandleader and drummer named Art Blakey,” Ginsburg goes on. “His group was sort of a finishing school for a ‘Who’s Who’ list of jazz greats. The list of people that came through his band that went on to be jazz stars is remarkable. Art Blakey would have been 100 years old this year. So there’s a group of musicians who are all alumni of his band that have put together this group to celebrate his legacy, and a lot of these people have been here before. So it’s a quintet of all-stars who all came out of the Blakey band.”

OCT. 12 — Freddy Cole Quartet “Tribute to Nat ‘King’ Cole Centennial”

NOV. 15 — Jason Marsalis Quartet DEC. 6 — Catherine Russell

JAN. 31 — Fred Hersch Trio

MARCH 20 — The Messenger Legacy Band “Art Blakey Centennial”

APRIL 24 — Arun Luthra’s “Konnakol Jazz Project” with Selvaganesh

Photo courtesy Ronald Davis of Davis Digital Design Representing a new generation of young African women singers who celebrate and preserve their culture, beauty and heritage through art, Nobuntu is an all-female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe and part of the 10x10 Arts Series, performing Oct. 11.