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Pittsburgh has one of the richest jazz legacies in the world and we are proud to celebrate that along with presenting the Steel City’s world class jazz scene happening right now
Watch Live-streamed shows, interviews and more from the Con Alma stage as well as other concerts from select authentic jazz venues around the world via global jazz on-demand platform Oh!Jazz!
Mike tomaro Quartet
Join us for a fun night of as seasoned vet of the jazz scene saxophonist/arranger Mike Tomaro takes his band through jazz fusion music classics with a nod to the Yellowjackets and more…
Mike Tomaro - sax
Mark Michelli - piano
Kurt Lorence - bass
Hugo Cruz - drums
Join us for a fun night of as seasoned vet of the jazz scene saxophonist/arranger Mike Tomaro takes his band through jazz fusion music classics with a nod to the Yellowjackets and more…
Tubby Daniels
Join Pittsburgh Vibraphonist Tubby Daniels as he takes you through jazz and all of its relations. From George Benson to Stevie Wonder tunes it’s always a great time when Tubby is on the Con Alma stage!
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Tubby Daniels - vibes
Band TBA
Mother’s Day with Etta Cox
Experience the Timeless Voice of Etta Cox on Mother’s Day!
Join legendary Pittsburgh vocalist Etta Cox as she brings the classic jazz songbook to life, gracing the Con Alma stage with her signature blend of elegance, soul, and storytelling. Her voice — rich with experience and beauty — transforms each song into an unforgettable moment.
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Etta Cox - vocals
Band TBA
CLOSED
We are now closed on Mondays!
Our Jam Session has been moved to Tuesdays
See you Tuesday and the rest of the week!
Jam Session with Tony Campbell
Jam Session now every Tuesday!
Join us for a very fun night with Pittsburgh’s own Tony Campbell and his House Band featuring all levels of musicians sitting in on the Con Alma stage..and you never know who may show up traveling through town!
If you play and know some jazz standards, bring your horn!
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Tony Campbell - sax
BAND TBA
Reggie Watkins Quartet
Join celebrated trombonist Reggie Watkins as he brings his inventive arrangements and original tunes to the Con Alma stage.
Reggie Watkins - trombone
Band TBA
Boilermaker Jazz Band
Paul Cosentino - sax, vocals, clarinet
Tom Wendt - drums
Chris McGraw - bass
Antonio Croes - piano
Jason Kush Quartet
Jason Kush - sax
Alton Merrell - piano
David Glover - drums
Jeff Grubbs - bass
Luan Sodre (Brazil)
Luan Sodre - guitar / vocals
Subha Das - percussion
Jeff Berman - percussion
John Bagnato - guitar
Here is Luan’s bio
Born in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, Luan Sodré is a musician, composer, producer, researcher and music educator. He has dedicated himself to studying the interface between music, culture and society with a focus on Afro-diasporic existences and thought. In this sense, in 2021 he released the album Afrodiaspórico with the Luan Sodré Trio and in 2024, the single Bons Ventos with percussionist Marcelo Pinho. He holds a master's and doctorate in Music from UFBA, and is also a capoeira player at ACANNE. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Arts and Literature at the State University of Feira de Santana, where he leads the Diaspora Research Group and the Research Laboratory in Music, Culture and Society. He is also a collaborating professor in the Postgraduate Program in Music at UFBA and in the Specialization Program in Music and Contemporaneity at UAB/CAPES/UEFS.
CLOSED
We are now closed on Mondays!
Our Jam Session has been moved to Tuesdays
See you Tuesday and the rest of the week!
Jam Session with Tony Campbell
Jam Session now every Tuesday!
Join us for a very fun night with Pittsburgh’s own Tony Campbell and his House Band featuring all levels of musicians sitting in on the Con Alma stage..and you never know who may show up traveling through town!
If you play and know some jazz standards, bring your horn!
Tony Campbell - sax
BAND TBA
Center of Life meets the Con Alma Jazz All Stars
Join us for our second event with the Center of Life youth jazz program!
Stay tuned for more details…
Marel Hidalgo “Sounds of the African Diaspora"
Marel Hidalgo - guitar/banjo
Pablo Del Campo - piano
Brian Stahurski - bass
Hugo Cruz - drums
Marel Hidalgo is a sixteen-year old guitarist and bandleader from New Jersey. He began playing guitar at the age of four and debuted in pubic with a solo show just a few months later. By the age of six he formed his first band, performing for years a variety of musical genres, including blues, reggae, progressive rock, Latin, funk, country, bluegrass and fusion very successfully at a local and national level.
After ten years of performing said genres, Marel began playing solo jazz guitar and shortly after he lead his first straight-ahead jazz trio. His playing quickly caught the attention of the jazz scene in the area and in the last year alone Marel has been highly active playing in jazz clubs, venues and festivals in the East Coast as well as overseas, such as the Exit Zero Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Count Basie’s Vogel Theater and the Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica as well as working alongside many talented and renowned musicians.
His playing ranges from Straight-Ahead Jazz to Jamaican, Afro-Caribbean and Latin Jazz. Currently he is leading different formations (trio, organ trio, quartet) and presenting several shows including “Sounds of the African Diaspora”, “The Jamaican Jazz Songbook” and “ The Music of Horace Silver”.
About “Sounds of the African Diaspora”:
A musical journey through African rhythms played in the Americas and the Caribbean such as blues, jazz, swing, bebop, hard bop, calypso, mento, soca, plena, bomba, reggae, ska, rocksteady, son and Brazilian music.
Don’t miss this exciting young guitar player from New Jersey making big waves across the int’l jazz scene at large!
Ellie Martin Quartet
Ellie Martin Quartet at Con Alma – Morning Glories Album Celebration
Ellie Martin - vocals
Olman Piedra - drums
Kurt Krahnke - bass
Ariel Kasler - guitar and piano
Join vocalist, composer, and storyteller Ellie Martin for an intimate evening of original music as she celebrates the release of her new album Morning Glories—a heartfelt tribute to motherhood, resilience, and creative rebirth. A jazz artist with a singer-songwriter’s soul, Ellie brings over 20 years of experience and training under the legendary Jon Hendricks and Geri Allen.
She’ll be joined by an all-star ensemble featuring Olman Piedra on drums, Kurt Krahnke on bass, and Ariel Kasler on guitar and piano. Expect an evening of lyrical depth, rhythmic fire, and emotionally rich performances in one of Pittsburgh’s premier live music venues.
Kurt Crandall and True Story
Kurt Crandall - harmonica and vox
Jimmy Adler - guitar
John Burgh - piano
Bob Insko - bass
Bert Lerini - drums
Music has taken Kurt throughout the United States with stops in Kansas City, Washington, D.C., Macon, Chicago, Seattle and most recently Richmond, Virginia. After living in Kansas City and touring throughout the Midwest, he moved back to the East Coast. While in D.C., he played regularly with Jesse James Brown (former bass player for Bo Diddley). After just one year in D.C., Kurt relocated to the Deep South, where he spent three years playing with the Macon Blues All-Stars which included several alumni from Otis Redding's band. Kurt left Georgia and moved to Chicago to immerse himself in the city's storied blues scene as well as travel nationally and internationally to promote his debut album – True Story. During his tenure in Chicago, he landed on the regular rotation at the House of Blues, Shaw's Crabhouse, Andy's Jazz Club, Wise Fools Pub and Smoke Daddy and played with blues heavyweights Dave Specter, Kenny Smith, Barrelhouse Chuck and Jimmy Sutton. He is currently promoting his 4th recording - STARTS ON THE STOPS - and looks forward to touring the country and abroad to promote the album.
PULL QUOTES FOR PRESS:
"Not only can Kurt Crandall draw on the tradition to create compelling new tunes, he can flat out blow!"
- LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE
**** - 4 STARS - "In addition to tactfully spotlighting the diatonic and chromatic harmonicas, Crandall asserts himself as a strong, personable singer."
- DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
"Kurt Crandall shines like a diamond on his latest release, mixing Windy City blues, West Coast swing, jazz and more - showing why experts consider him to be one of the most stylish chromatic players in the world today."
- CHICAGO BLUES GUIDE
"It's certainly encouraging to see folks like Crandall grow as a composer and player on his latest CD - STARTS ON THE STOPS. Find this CD is you want to hear that the blues has a well oiled future!"
- BLUES MUSIC MAGAZINE
Sunday Singer Series with Grace Elliot and Mary KaY Riley
Join us for a wonderful Sunday celebrating the voice in jazz with two incredible singers from the current thriving Pittsburgh Jazz Scene Grace Elliot and May Kay Riley. You won’t be disappointed!
Grace Elliot - vocals
Mary Kay Riley - vocals
Daniel May - piano
Benjamin May - bass
George Heid III - drums
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Set 1 ft. Mary Kay
Set 2 ft. Grace
CLOSED
We are now closed on Mondays!
Our Jam Session has been moved to Tuesdays
See you Tuesday and the rest of the week!
Jam Session with Tony Campbell
Jam Session now every Tuesday!
Join us for a very fun night with Pittsburgh’s own Tony Campbell and his House Band featuring all levels of musicians sitting in on the Con Alma stage..and you never know who may show up traveling through town!
If you play and know some jazz standards, bring your horn!
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Tony Campbell - sax
BAND TBA
Kathy Connor
Kathy Connor - vocals
Mark Strickland - guitar
Cliff Barnes - piano
Tom Wendt - drums
Roger Humphries and RH Factor
If you know you know…come experience legendary jazz drummer Roger Humphries and his band. A real Pittsburgh experience, especially at Con Alma!
Roger Humphries - drums
Lou Stellute - tenor sax
Yoko Suzuki - alot sax
Max Leake - piano
Dwayne Dolphin - bass
Eli Naragon Quartet
Eli Naragon - bass
Roger Humphries - drums
Mark Strickland - guitar
Tommy Lehman - trumpet
Eric Johnson and the A Team
Eric Johnson - guitar
Dr. James Johnson III - piano
Dan Wasson - bass
Jeff Montgomery - drums
Catch Pittsburgh Jazz Hall of Famer guitarist Eric Johnson and his incredible A Team band!
Joshua smith Quartet
The Joshua Smith Quartet
Joshua Smith - sax
Kim Cass - bass
Keigo Hirakawa - piano
Jeff Mellott - drums
Leading a quartet is a natural state of being for a modern jazz saxophonist. There is a completeness to the combination of saxophone and rhythm section, blazing a trail of swinging cohesive communication through the night air onstage. Saxophonist Joshua Smith started leading his jazz quartet around Cleveland, Ohio, as a teenager in the mid-1990’s and has continued expertly doing so through the years, often collaborating with some notable players and stalwart working jazz players as sidemen in his groups.
Last November, The Joshua Smith Quartet performed a blistering set to a packed house for the Jazz Foundation of America at the Jazz Museum of New Orleans. And they more recently played a Bay Area performance which brought down the house in Oakland California.
This upcoming tour will feature 3 longtime collaborators of Smith’s. The inimitable stylings of New York bassist Kim Cass (John Zorn, Bill McHenry, Noah Preminger), Keigo Hirakawa on piano (Robert Hearst), as well as Hamir Atwal (Tuneyards) on drums. All three of these sidemen have gigged with Smith dating back more than a decade.
This quartet will be bubbling over with musicality, versatility, and communicative jazz prowess. Smith’s original jazz compositions and reworked standards played by this group will delight all manner of jazz lovers from casual listeners to grizzled veteran listeners of the form. The group performs with a deep feeling of reverence, recognizing their responsibility to explore and push their individual limits as players of jazz.
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Joshua Smith is a jazz saxophonist whose music inhabits a space between worlds. Smith has co-lead the avant leaning trio Birth since it’s inception in 1998, but in addition to his work on the creative improvised music front, Joshua is also steeped in the Cleveland jazz culture of his youth, and has performed for years as a straight ahead jazz saxophonist. The Quartet he is leading in May 2025 will feature highlights from the cross section of these worlds.
Joshua’s music carries the pedigree and tone of a stalwart saxophone warrior, but anyone familiar with his work also knows that Joshua has also held a potent space in his musical universe for some very highly refined improvisational music, having performed with improvisers and creative jazz musicians like Joe Maneri, Chris Jonas, Nate Wooley, Cuong Vu, Dan Plonsey, Ben Goldberg, Nels Cline, and a host of other folks, in addition to his work with his trio Birth, w/ Joe Tomino and Jeremy Bleich. He’s played with jazz luminary Joe Lovano, and leads a Cleveland-based group with Trio Tapestry drummer Carmen Castaldi.
Joshua has lived several lives as a saxophonist. He grew up gigging in Cleveland, connecting with elder musicians like drummer Greg Bandy and trumpeter Kenny Davis, and subsequently spent time in New York, and on the east coast during would-be college years when he was touring heavily with his new formed trio Birth. Since that time, Joshua resided in the San Francisco Bay Area for 16 years, where he played with a who’s who of the music community there and spent several years as a member of The Scott Amendola Quartet, before relocating to New Orleans in the summer of 2020.
Joshua has played with New Orleans mainstays like Papa Mali, Peter Harris, Simon Lott, Quinn Sternberg, Johnny Vidacovich, and many others, and he currently leads several groups in addition to his quartet including an improvising trio with guitarist Chris Alford and drummer Tom Chute. He often performs with his musical cohorts throughout the midwest and in the Bay Area.
Frank Cunimondo Trio
Join Pittsburgh Jazz legend Frank Cunimondo as he continues to explore jazz music through his unique arrangements of jazz classics as well as incredible originals all with his mighty trio in tow.
Frank Cunimondo - piano
Bob Insko - bass
Lenny Rogers - drums
Jam Session with TOny Campbell
Jam Session now every Tuesday!
Join us for a very fun night with Pittsburgh’s own Tony Campbell and his House Band featuring all levels of musicians sitting in on the Con Alma stage..and you never know who may show up traveling through town!
If you play and know some jazz standards, bring your horn!
Tony Campbell - sax
BAND TBA
CLOSED
We are now closed on Mondays!
Our Jam Session has been moved to Tuesdays
See you Tuesday and the rest of the week!
Cinco De Mayo w/ George Jones' Latin Styles
Celebrate Cinco De Mayo with us! (We’re closed on the 5th so get it in early at Con Alma)
Patron Features all day!
George Jones - percussion
Tom Wendt - drums
Joe Seman - sax
Paul Thompson - bass
Max Leake - keys
Denise King
Denise King - vocals
John Shannon - guitar
Cliff Barnes - piano
John Hall - bass
James Johnson III - drums
'International vocalist Denise King brings her timeless voice and magnetic stage presence to every performance. She breathes life into classic and contemporary jazz, standards, blues and pop songs. From sultry ballads to swinging the American songbook, Denise King invites the audience into her world. Her warmth and charisma make every performance feel personal and unforgettable. Denise will be performing songs from her upcoming album release on French record label JazzBook Records produced by John Shannon and Seydou Barry featuring reimagined songs of social justice and heart centered power.
Denise King
Denise King - vocals
John Shannon - guitar
Cliff Barnes - piano
John Hall - bass
James Johnson III - drums
'International vocalist Denise King brings her timeless voice and magnetic stage presence to every performance. She breathes life into classic and contemporary jazz, standards, blues and pop songs. From sultry ballads to swinging the American songbook, Denise King invites the audience into her world. Her warmth and charisma make every performance feel personal and unforgettable. Denise will be performing songs from her upcoming album release on French record label JazzBook Records produced by John Shannon and Seydou Barry featuring reimagined songs of social justice and heart centered power.
Pairing Series: Music of Fleetwood Mac ft. Katie Simone
Join us for our 3rd installment of the 2025 Con Alma Pairing Series featuring jazz arrangements of the music of Fleetwood Mac carefully curated with wines from Con Alma Beverage Director Aimee Marshall and a special created Tinned Fish cuisine dinner from Chef Josh Ross.
Katie Simone - vocals
Mark Lucas - guitar
Denzel Chismar-Oliver - bass
Joe Sheehan - piano
Andrew Kirk - drums
Reggie Watkins Quartet - Oh!Jazz Livestream
Reggie Watkins - trombone
Michael Bernabe - piano
Eli Naragon - bass
Jason Washington Jr - drums
Celebrate International Jazz Day by checking out our partner livestream platform Oh!Jazz where tonight’s show will be airing live along with many other shows from jazz venues around the world!
Norside Trio ft. Dwayne Dolphin
Dwayne Dolphin - bass
Glenn Strother - guitar
Skip Sanders - organ
Steve Ippolito - drums
Jam Session with Tony Campbell
Check out the burgeoning Pittsburgh Jazz Scene and/or bring your horn and a standard to play!
Paul Giallorenzo Trio (Chicago)
Paul Giallorenzo - piano
Mikel Patrick Avery - drums
Jason Roebke - bass
Originally from Long Island, NY, Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, producer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, keyboards, and electronics in a diverse range of contexts with a wide array of Chicago and international musicians in improvised, avant-jazz, experimental, and electro/acoustic music, performing regularly locally and throughout North America and Europe.
Giallorenzo’s work has been praised for its “inside-out” nature – his ability to push the boundaries of “conventional” jazz toward more freedom but also, on the other side, to bring a measure of structure to more avant-garde
Check out some of Paul’s music HERE
Dennis Garner & Tempo Noir
Check out drummer Dennis Garner’s always grooving and good time band Tempo Noir!
Dennis Garner - drums
Band TBA
Roger Humphries’ RH Factor
Check out Pittsburgh Jazz Living Legend Roger Humphries with his formidable heavy swinging band “RH Factor”.
Roger Humphries - drums
Dwayne Dolphin - bass
Lou Stellute - tenor sax
Yoko Suzuki - alto sax
Max Leake - keys
Kathy Connor
Kathy Connor - vocals
Max Leake - piano
Chris McGraw - bass
George Heid III - drums
Jam Session with Tony Campbell
Check out the burgeoning Pittsburgh Jazz Scene and/or bring your horn and a standard to play!
George Jones' Latin Styles
George Jones - percussion
Tom Wendt - drums
Paul Thompson - bass
Max Leake - piano
Joseph Seman - sax
Ellen Pieroni and Encyclopedia of Soul
Ellen Pieroni - alto saxophone
Adam Bronstein - guitar
Dominic Missana - bass
Jacob Nicholson - keys
Isaiah Gethers - drums
Ellen Pieroni & the Encyclopedia of Soul, or EoS, was recently featured on NPR’s All Things Considered as one of three “jazz stand outs” for this year’s Tiny Desk Contest, where Felix Contreras said that “soul jazz is alive and well with…Ellen Pieroni & the Encyclopedia of Soul.”
“When [Ellen] takes her solo, it really warms my heart because I hear the same soulfulness of Cannonball, or any of the sax players who played with Ray Charles back in the 50s, or the more contemporary alto saxophonist David Sanborn.”
- Felix Contreras, NPR’s All Things Considered
Pieroni has released two albums with EoS: The Encyclopedia of Soul, Vol. I (2023) and Soul Vacation (2024). The band has played the GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance, the Rochester Lilac Festival, and the Erie Jazz and Blues Festival. EoS has shared the stage with Bernard Purdie, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, BoomBox, and Sophistafunk; and Ellen recently had a reel of hers shared by Vulfpeck with the caption "800 grit sandpaper... smooth.”
For fans of: Grover Washington Jr., Stuff, Freddie Hubbard, The Crusaders
Katie Simone Band (BirthDay show)
Katie Simone - vocals
Mark Lucas - Guitar
Joe Munroe - keys
Andrew Kirk - drums
Chris McGraw - bass
Heidi Beatty (Birthday Show)
Heidi Beatty - vocals
Andrew Kirk - drums
Justin Bechak - keys
Mike Gudbaur - bass
Scott Boni - sax
Peck Family
Skip Peck - piano
Donna Peck - vocals
Nathan Peck - bass
Alex Peck - drums / vocals
The Peck Fam returns to Con Alma! Don’t miss this incredibly swinging jazz family that has been an important part of the Pittsburgh Jazz Scene for many decades.
Aurora
Celebrate Tax Day with the Authentic Jazz Fusion sounds of Aurora!
Marty Ashby - guitar
Mike Tomaro - sax
Reggie Watkins - trombone
Max Leake - keys
Kurt Lorence - bass
Hugo Cruz - drums
Jam Session with Tony Campbell
Check out the burgeoning Pittsburgh Jazz Scene and/or bring your horn and a standard to play!
Etta Cox - Oh!Jazz Broadcast
Etta Cox - vocals
Daniel May - piano
Ben May - bass
John Korpiel - drums
Al Dowe Jr. - sax
This show will be broadcast on our partner platform Oh!Jazz. Check them out and dig into the Con Alma archive as well as other local jazz scenes around the world!
Hugo Cruz and Caminos
Hugo Cruz - percussion and vocals
JD Chaisson - trumpet
Colter Harper - guitar
Siheng Teng - bass
Lou Stellute Quartet
Lou Stellute - sax
Jonathan DiGiulian - guitar
Dwayne Dolphin - bass
Tom Wendt - drums
Anyah Nancy
Anyah Nancy - vocals
Owen Dougan Baccha - keys
Adam Bleil - trumpet
Lorenze Jefferson - bass
James Johnson III - drums
