The GRAMMY-winning Catalyst Quartet, known for their masterful, comprehensive recordings of music by Black composers throughout history, bring their signature polish and style back to GatherNYC for the second time. GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2025-2026 season includes 31 concerts that run from October 2025 through May 2026, with concerts held every Sunday at 11am in The Theater at MAD. Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music performed by New York’s immensely talented artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome. Coffee and pastries are served before each performance at 10:30am.
After a sold out engagement last year, internationally celebrated crooner and song stylist Richard Cortez returns to the Birdland for one night only to celebrate the music of beloved Frank Sinatra with an all-star band. More about Richard: His debut jazz album Mood Swings (la reserve) hit 1 million streams just three months after its release and has now passed 2 million. With Amazon Music listing his recording of You Dont Know What Love Is as one of the top jazz recordings of 2024 and his music showcased on streaming playlists across all popular platforms, Richard Cortez has quickly become a leader in the new crop of vocal talents emerging from the contemporary straight ahead jazz scene. Known for his ambition and extensive knowledge of The Great American Songbook, Richard Cortez has shared the bandstand with some of the worlds most celebrated and respected jazz musicians: Sullivan Fortner, Peter Bernstein, Kyle Poole, Yasushi Nakamura, Paul Sikivie, Adam Birnbaum, Paul Gill, Grant Stewart, Joe Farnsworth, Jerry Weldon, Nicole Glover, Russell Hall, and Emmet Cohen, to name a few. Richard is currently on tour internationally promoting the two albums he released in 2025 Nightbird and Standards in Orbit. The tour spans from singing with an orchestra in Oslo performing the works of Nat King Cole to playing celebrated jazz venues across America and Canada like Cafe Vivace (Cincinnati), The Black Cat (San Francisco), Yardbird Suite (Edmonton, Alberta), Libretto (Paso Robles) and The Catalina Club (Los Angeles) where he headlined his own show as well as opened for 97-year-old jazz legend Marilyn Maye. Richard also recently partnered with luxury mens clothing brand Todd Snyder, where he performed in-store at Rockefeller Center and his songs currently play in all their stores nationwide.When not on the road, Richard splits his time between a number of monthly residencies at iconic venues across the city focusing and refining his artistry while growing his wide fan-base. Recent performances in distinguished productions such as Live at Emmets Place with the Emmet Cohen Trio, or Jazz at Lincoln Centers Jazz at Pride with Tony/2x Grammy Award winner Bryan Carter, have marked the vocalists career for success. Richard Cortezs renderings of timeless compositions written between 1928-1960 by composers like Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin and so many others deliver sweetness, self-assuredness and disarming vulnerability with a well-timed wit. Richard breathes exciting new life into this beloved material, forever reminding us that as we progress as a society, so do our stories told within these sacred songs.
Price displayed includes the admission + service fees. NOTE All seating is community seating, so you may be sat with other guests if they purchase tickets at your table. NOTE Tickets are taken off sale on the day of the event, but admission may still be purchased at the door.The Levin Brothers was founded by Pete and Tony Levin in 2013, After 5 decades of glorious career playing with virtually who is who in all genres of music jazz, fusion, rock, pop and world music, and after guesting on each others projects, two brothers finally decided to have their own jazz band. Levin Brothers released 2 albums: the self-titled first album in 2014, and the follow up live album Special Delivery in 2017. The band has toured all over the USA, and has performed also internationally in Mexico, El Salvador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Japan.Doors @ 6pm | $35 advance / $40 day of showShow @ 7-9pm