Parcel 5 is at 285 E Main St. Rochester, NY 14604.
Free show! No tickets are required.
All free shows go on rain or shine.
All bags are subject to search. See Policies page at
https://rochesterjazz.com/policies for what to bring and what is not allowed.
Food and beverages are available for purchase.
LETTUCE is (a) the prime ingredient in a salad, (b) a slang for cash, (c) a green herb that can be smoked, (d) a genre-busting six-member musical collective formed in 1992 by four alumni of the prestigious Berklee College Of Music, or (e) all of the above. If you answered “e,” then you’re in on the sheer magic of a band that both feeds the rich history of funk and combines it with strains of hip-hop, rock, psychedelia, jazz, soul, jam, go-go, and the avant-garde.
The GRAMMY® Award-nominated six-piece is comprised of Adam Deitch [drums, percussion, arrangement], Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff [guitar], Erick “Jesus” Coomes [bass], Ryan Zoidis [alto, baritone, tenor sax, Korg X-911], Eric “Benny” Bloom [trumpet, horns], and Nigel Hall [vocals, Hammond B-3, Rhodes, clavinet, keyboards]. To date, their discography includes Outta Here [2002], Rage! [2008], Fly [2012], Crush [2015], the EP Mt. Crushmore [2016], the live album Witches Stew [2017], Elevate [2019], Resonate [2020], Unify [2022], and now VIBE – a single 48 minute continuous session of pure, free-flowing improvisation, available digitally for the first time.
With VIBE, Lettuce cement their status as boundary-pushing innovators three decades into their lauded career, blurring lines and smashing up jazz chords, psychedelic passages, big horns, strains of soul and go-go, hip-hop elements for an uplifting, improvisational sound all their own. Ryan Zoidis explains, “we got into a vibe and hit record. 48 minutes went by like a blink of an eye. This is our first purely improvised recording. Nothing planned, nothing edited or overdubbed. This is a true spontaneous musical expression captured in its entirety.”
All together now… Lett us VIBE.
Members + Instrumentation
Adam Deitch - Drums, Percussion
Adam “Shmeaans” Smirnoff - Guitar
Erick “Jesus” Coomes - Bass Guitar
Ryan Zoidis - Alto, Baritone, & Tenor Saxophone, Korg X-911
Eric “Benny” Bloom - Trumpet
Nigel Hall - Vocals, Hammond B-3, Rhodes, Clavinet, Keyboards
You may also like the following events from CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival:
Also check out other
Music events in Rochester,
Entertainment events in Rochester,
Festivals in Rochester.
