Black Cat's Upcoming Shows

Tickets: $20 , $30 , $40 , $50

(price includes $5.50 processing and ticketing fee)

7:00 show: Doors @ 6:00

Playing “Groove Trio” a kaleidoscope of groove influences from straight-ahead to blues, New Orleans to Brazilian, Latin and world rhythms. Music from Bryant’s ten albums as a leader including Live Grooves... Epic Tales, Boogaloo Brasileiro, Live at Smoke, Dreamscape and Upper West Side Love Story. 

About Live Grooves... Epic Tales noted jazz journalist, Bill Milkowski wrote, “A multi-directional musician...shifts easily from straight ahead jazz to Indian ragas, acoustic world music, bossa novas and

grooving sambas... guitarist Freddie Bryant and the Kaleidoscope Trio expand his ever-widening musical palette on Live Grooves...Epic Tales.”

“His project, Upper West Side Love Story speaks to joys and tribulations common to us all…over more than 90 minutes (it) delivers blues, hip-hop, Afro-Cuban, Afrobeat, reggae and spoken word. His passionate lyrics and colorful music suffuse his reflections on a neighborhood so gentrified he had to leave.” Carlo Wolff – Downbeat. 

DOWNBEAT included it on its “Best CDs of 2023” list and was featured in a two-page spread in the Daily News.

“Guitarist Freddie Bryant is a rhythmic and melodic sponge. Put him in any musical situation, be it classical, jazz, funk, Senegalese, etc., and he’ll tend to become one with the music.” — Jason Koransky, www.downbeatjazz.com

Bryant received a master’s degree in classical guitar from Yale School of Music and is in demand in the New York jazz and Brazilian scenes where he has worked with Eliane Elias, Tom Harrell and many others. He was a member of Ben Riley’s Monk Legacy Septet and has played with the Mingus Orchestra for two decades. His impressive array of guitar styles have been featured on numerous CDs showcasing his work on acoustic and electric guitars.

His touring has brought him to 55 countries where he collaborated with musicians from a variety of backgrounds, including Indian classical musicians, African singers, oud players, traditional Arab groups, klezmer bands and Cuban musicians in Havana.

Band Lineup:

Freddie Bryant, guitar/voice

Sylvia Cuenca, drums

Doug Miller, bass

Tickets: $20 , $30 , $40 , $50

(price includes $5.50 processing and ticketing fee)

7:00 show: Doors @ 6:00

9:15 show: Bar @ 6:00, Doors @ 8:30

June Cavlan is an award-winning vocalist, arranger, and educator based in New York. June is a rising star in New York’s lot of straight-ahead jazz singers. Her unique and charismatic interpretations of works from the Great American Songbook and rich vocal quality make June a dynamic singer. She has made big strides in her career since moving to Manhattan in 2023. She recently released her debut album, “A Portrait of June’ with the New York label, La Reserve Records. She has had the opportunity to collaborate with revered New York musicians like Jon Faddis, Toninho Horta, Emmet Cohen, Bryan Carter, and more. June is a member of the vocal trio, The Sunhouse Singers with Kate Kortum and Joie Bianco. She has also built quite the audience on social media for her music content with over 150,000 followers on platforms.

Not long after starting at The University of Miami, Frost School of Music with a full scholarship to study Jazz voice, June began to accrue awards for her performing. In 2022, June was honored to receive the Downbeat Magazine Award for Best Undergraduate Jazz Vocalist. In 2023, her success at the University of Miami was rewarded with a generous scholarship offer from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. She graduated with her Masters in Music in 2025.

Whether she is singing with The Sunhouse Singers or leading a band, June loves arranging her favorite music in new ways and telling stories through songs. With her second album coming out in 2027, the future appears to be very bright indeed for this rising young star on the scene.

Band Lineup:

June Cavlan, voice

Caelan Cardello, piano

Eytan Schillinger-Hyman, bass

James Gallagher, drums

Tickets: $20 , $40 , $50 , $60

(price includes $5.50 processing and ticketing fee)

7:00 show: Doors @ 6:00

9:30 show: Bar @ 6:00, Doors @ 8:45

June Cavlan is an award-winning vocalist, arranger, and educator based in New York. June is a rising star in New York’s lot of straight-ahead jazz singers. Her unique and charismatic interpretations of works from the Great American Songbook and rich vocal quality make June a dynamic singer. She has made big strides in her career since moving to Manhattan in 2023. She recently released her debut album, “A Portrait of June’ with the New York label, La Reserve Records. She has had the opportunity to collaborate with revered New York musicians like Jon Faddis, Toninho Horta, Emmet Cohen, Bryan Carter, and more. June is a member of the vocal trio, The Sunhouse Singers with Kate Kortum and Joie Bianco. She has also built quite the audience on social media for her music content with over 150,000 followers on platforms.

Not long after starting at The University of Miami, Frost School of Music with a full scholarship to study Jazz voice, June began to accrue awards for her performing. In 2022, June was honored to receive the Downbeat Magazine Award for Best Undergraduate Jazz Vocalist. In 2023, her success at the University of Miami was rewarded with a generous scholarship offer from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. She graduated with her Masters in Music in 2025.

Whether she is singing with The Sunhouse Singers or leading a band, June loves arranging her favorite music in new ways and telling stories through songs. With her second album coming out in 2027, the future appears to be very bright indeed for this rising young star on the scene.

Band Lineup:

June Cavlan, voice

Caelan Cardello, piano

Eytan Schillinger-Hyman, bass

James Gallagher, drums

Tickets: $20 , $40 , $50 , $60

(price includes $5.50 processing and ticketing fee)

7:00 show: Doors @ 6:00

9:30 show: Bar @ 6:00, Doors @ 8:45

June Cavlan is an award-winning vocalist, arranger, and educator based in New York. June is a rising star in New York’s lot of straight-ahead jazz singers. Her unique and charismatic interpretations of works from the Great American Songbook and rich vocal quality make June a dynamic singer. She has made big strides in her career since moving to Manhattan in 2023. She recently released her debut album, “A Portrait of June’ with the New York label, La Reserve Records. She has had the opportunity to collaborate with revered New York musicians like Jon Faddis, Toninho Horta, Emmet Cohen, Bryan Carter, and more. June is a member of the vocal trio, The Sunhouse Singers with Kate Kortum and Joie Bianco. She has also built quite the audience on social media for her music content with over 150,000 followers on platforms.

Not long after starting at The University of Miami, Frost School of Music with a full scholarship to study Jazz voice, June began to accrue awards for her performing. In 2022, June was honored to receive the Downbeat Magazine Award for Best Undergraduate Jazz Vocalist. In 2023, her success at the University of Miami was rewarded with a generous scholarship offer from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. She graduated with her Masters in Music in 2025.

Whether she is singing with The Sunhouse Singers or leading a band, June loves arranging her favorite music in new ways and telling stories through songs. With her second album coming out in 2027, the future appears to be very bright indeed for this rising young star on the scene.

Band Lineup:

June Cavlan, voice

Caelan Cardello, piano

Eytan Schillinger-Hyman, bass

James Gallagher, drums

Tickets: $20 , $30 , $40 , $50

(price includes $5.50 processing and ticketing fee)

7:00 show: Doors @ 6:00

9:15 show: Bar @ 6:00, Doors @ 8:30

Morgan Harrison is a composer and pianist from Sacramento, California, and a specialist in “Stuff Music.” A term coined by Harrison himself, it is used to describe the wide swath of style and genre he employs in his music including Jazz, Rock, Eastern European Folk Music, Funk, Gamelan Ensemble Music, Classical, Hip Hop, and more.

Fresh from a recent hiatus from music, Harrison realized that many of the songs composed in the solitude shared a similar theme: learning, and lessons (whether desired or not). Through much change and upheaval, Harrison learned that to remain with one’s eyes closed is to disservice oneself greatly. And that through adversity, sorrow, and change, the only consistency is learning. Harrison seeks now to share the music that has saved him so that others may hear their struggles reflected and validated, that they might find a shoulder to cry on, and a friend to lift them into joy.

Morgan Harrison is proud to present these lessons made manifest in: Son of the Suit of Swords.

The Trio Focus

The Trio Focus is a burgeoning jazz/fusion trio comprised of three Bay Area powerhouses; Alan Jones (Bass), Sheldon Alexander (Drums), and Morgan Harrison (Piano). From the very first gig, The trio recognized their shared musical conceptions, idiomatic interests, synergistic playing styles, and found as much joy in the music as they found in their off-bandstand interactions.

“I feel like the trio in Jazz specifically is a really special circumstance; it allows for the individual to be extremely expressive and play off of their improvisational skills and really is vulnerable for [them] to show [who] they are.” - Sheldon Alexander, Drums

Naming the group “The Trio Focus” deliberately highlights the possibilities of this arrangement. Embracing exploration and newness with a deep reverence for the jazz lineage and tradition, The Trio Focus seeks to impart wonder, sorrow, love, tumult, and peace to any listener willing to take the ride.

Band lineup:

Morgan Harrison, piano

Alan Jones, bass

Sheldon Alexander, drums

Special Guest Tri Pham, guitar (1st set)