{"title": "Surprise Chef with support from Ben Hackett (EARLY SET)", "start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Sawdust", "address": "North 6th Street 80, 11249", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/funk"], "description": "An early evening live music show at National Sawdust, opening with Ben Hackett and headlined by Surprise Chef. Surprise Chef, a four-piece band from just outside Melbourne, make instrumental music that evokes mood, drawing on 70s film scores, the funkier side of jazz and hip hop samples to build cinematic, soulful soundscapes. The band released their fourth album, Superb, in 2025, and have been championed by Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music, KEXP and KCRW, with their music heard in a Pepsi Super Bowl campaign, the NBA 2K24 soundtrack and beyond. Support act Ben Hackett is a multi-instrumentalist from Athens, GA whose first solo record, Songs For Sleeping Dogs, blends woodwinds, acoustic instruments and electronics, and who also produces and records for artists like Rich Ruth and Will Johnson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/surprise-chef-with-support-from-ben-hackett-early-set-71482/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalsawdust.org/event/surprise-chef-early-set", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Sawdust", "address": "North 6th Street 80, 11249", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Surprise Chef with support from Ben Hackett (LATE SET)", "start": "2026-11-13T22:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Sawdust", "address": "North 6th Street 80, 11249", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/soul-funk/funk"], "description": "An evening of instrumental music at National Sawdust, headlined by Surprise Chef with a late set, with support from multi-instrumentalist Ben Hackett. Surprise Chef, a quartet from just outside Melbourne, build mood-driven soundscapes that pull from 70s film scores, the funkier side of jazz, and the samples that form the foundation of hip hop. Their fourth album Superb earned widespread international acclaim, and they have since toured across Australia, Asia, North America, the UK and Europe, also premiering a live score for the Australian classic Wake in Fright. Ben Hackett, based in Athens, Georgia, makes softly layered music on woodwinds, acoustic instruments and electronics, and also produces and plays for artists like Rich Ruth and Will Johnson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/surprise-chef-with-support-from-ben-hackett-late-set-71483/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalsawdust.org/event/surprise-chef-late-set", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4f88f61281204fd2826a325d9655915da841ac21369eda973f0c9561b77ec3b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "J. Walter Hawkes & Friends Play Bennie Green", "start": "2026-11-05T21:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bar LunAtico", "address": "Halsey Street 486, 11233 Brooklyn", "price": "$10 (CASH) SUGGESTED DONATION", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A live jazz sextet evening at LunÀticô devoted to the music of trombonist Bennie Green. Trombonist, composer, and four-time Emmy winner J. Walter Hawkes leads the band — Stacy Dillard on tenor, Sharp Radway on piano, Melissa Slocum on bass, Alvester Garnett on drums, and Renato Thoms on percussion — through a curated selection of Green's exuberant, swinging catalogue from recordings on Blue Note, Decca, and Prestige. Two sets are played, and the venue serves a full dinner and cocktail menu.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/j-walter-hawkes-friends-play-bennie-green-51234/", "official_url": "https://www.barlunatico.com/calendar/2026/11/5/j-walter-hawkes-amp-friends-play-bennie-green", "image": "https://noky.io/images/992de9af0cd634052e0f57e9a093135a5a68a10f17f2c5d73494f2590f52061e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Reginald Chapman's Chaphouse", "start": "2026-11-06T21:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bar LunAtico", "address": "Halsey Street 486, 11233 Brooklyn", "price": "$10 (CASH) SUGGESTED DONATION", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Reginald Chapman's Chaphouse is a live music night at LunÀtico, a bar with a full dinner and cocktail menu where guests are invited to come early to eat. The evening offers two sets, led by Reginald Chapman Jr., a Brooklyn-based musician originally from Richmond, Virginia and Champaign, Illinois who holds a Doctorate in Jazz. Chaphouse is the Brooklyn-based incarnation of his musical journey, in which he blends his classical and jazz training with a love of Hip-Hop beat tapes and experimental Electronic music to forge a signature sound. He is joined by Sophia Byrd and Yah Yah El on vocals, Ryan Easter on trumpet, Julia Chen on piano, Kevin Raczca on drums, and Maxx Spinelli on bass, while Chapman himself plays trombone, bass and trumpet.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/reginald-chapmans-chaphouse-51235/", "official_url": "https://www.barlunatico.com/calendar/2023/7/1/reginald-chapmans-chaphouse-dx6he-xbmld-kx8e2-8lt9j-fgyy3-ln44x-2tx6a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07d87f771c8117301e6a0a670cfa495f9e9724a998bded008f9cc9c607faed08-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Greg Humphreys & Friends", "start": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "11th Street Bar", "address": "East 11th Street 510, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/rock/singer-songwriter"], "description": "Greg Humphreys & Friends is a live music night at 11th Street Bar, part of Greg Humphreys's first-Wednesday-of-the-month residency there. Humphreys has spent 30 years as a bandleader, guitarist, songwriter and singer, touring the U.S., Canada and Europe with the North Carolina bands Dillon Fence and Hobex and his NYC-based Electric Trio. His songs have appeared in the Netflix series OBX and the film \"Rounders,\" and he has released albums on Atlantic Records, London Records and his own Phrex Records. For this residency he plays with some of NYC's finest musicians.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/greg-humphreys-friends-50708/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0210f00da3a335dff0095ea0dfba4d73d5a14ee88383fbe7d4a967cdc833ee3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest & Friends with Live Band", "start": "2026-11-17T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Blue Note Jazz Club", "address": "West 3rd Street 131, 10012", "price": "$20 Minimum Per Person", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/hip-hop"], "description": "Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest & Friends with Live Band performs at Blue Note Jazz Club. Jarobi White, a founding member of A Tribe Called Quest, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the album Beats, Rhymes & Life with special guests and a live band. Born in St. Albans, Queens, he helped form the group with Phife Dawg, Q Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, later becoming a chef before returning to music. The evening offers a full bar and dinner menu, with a $20 minimum per person.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jarobi-of-a-tribe-called-quest-friends-with-live-band-51381/", "official_url": "https://www.bluenotejazz.com/nyc/tm-event/jarobi-of-a-tribe-called-quest-friends-with-live-band/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a1ce51f5608369ddb8a7e27e0e9453b61b028ce2aee7aa8cc6917cc6e1a52e7-1200.webp"}]}