There’s no more elegant or jazzy way to swing in the New Year than a night at Jazz Standard with violinist Regina Carter!

NPR's annual Toast of the Nation New Year's Eve jazz party will broadcast a live recording of Michael Leonhart Orchestra's December 10th Jazz Standard concert. Join us for the live recording December 10th or tune in to NPR on New Year's Eve!

Bassist Harish Raghavan is best known for his years–long affiliation with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire as well as his collabora­tions, on stage and on disc, with Kurt Elling, Vijay Iyer, and Charles Lloyd. His new album Calls For Action features an entirely new program of music penned by Raghavan.

His latest CD, Wind Off The Hudson (Savant), is the disc debut of Bill O’Connell’s Afro Caribbean Ensemble (ACE) and features outstanding contributions from trombonist Conrad Herwig and saxophonists Ralph Bowen & Craig Handy.

One of the finest singer/songwriters in jazz makes a much–anticipated return to our stage while riding high on her splendid new Afrasia Productions album, Modern Ancestors.