Three Thursday Shows Trace Jazz’s Elastic Edges Across the City

The coming weekend, Thursday, October 29 through Sunday, November 1, opens with an unusually legible jazz thread on its first night. Three Thursday bills sketch a citywide argument for jazz as a practice that can absorb modular electronics, fiddle tunes, chamber-writing instincts, and the direct pressure of a club trio. The route moves from Gowanus to Park Slope to Morningside Heights, with each stop placing listening and interplay at the center.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Begin at Public Records, where International Anthem presents Jeremiah Chiu’s Edge Conditions album-release performance at 7 PM. Chiu’s catalog sits at an intersection of electronic composition, improvisation, and collaborative ensemble work: the label identifies him as a synthesist, a co-leader of the experimental quintet SML, and an artist whose work has developed through Chicago and Los Angeles creative communities. Public Records’ Sound Room is a fitting setting for that approach, given the venue’s stated investment in live sound, club programming, and exploratory cultural work.^[1][4]

At 7 PM, Barbes hosts Jenny Scheinman: All Species Parade. Scheinman’s project gives the thread its acoustic, songwriterly contour. She is a violinist and fiddler whose work has connected jazz players with song forms and roots-oriented material; All Species Parade has been presented with a band format that includes piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Barbes keeps the scale intimate and the framing direct: its calendar emphasizes door-based admissions and shows that can be paid for in advance or on the day. That makes this the early, close-range stop for listeners following the line from improvisation into folk texture.^[2][6]

A late set with chamber instincts

The evening closes uptown at Smoke Jazz Club, where the Billy Childs Trio plus special guest Michael Rodriguez plays at 6:30 PM and again at 8:30 PM. Childs brings a long-standing composer-pianist perspective to a standard club configuration: his official materials foreground interactive group improvisation, while his broader work has repeatedly joined jazz language to chamber-scale writing. Rodriguez’s billed guest role gives the two-set engagement a clear focal point without reducing the night to a repertory exercise. Smoke Jazz Club’s Broadway room provides the most traditional presentation on this route, which makes its place in the sequence useful: the thread ends by hearing how much compositional breadth can live inside a trio format.^[3][5]

For practical planning, Jeremiah Chiu is at Public Records at 7 PM Thursday, October 29; Jenny Scheinman: All Species Parade is at Barbes at 7 PM; and Billy Childs Trio plus special guest Michael Rodriguez is at Smoke Jazz Club at 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM. These rooms are spread across Brooklyn and Manhattan, so choose one anchor set or leave ample travel time between stops. Recheck each venue’s official page for door times, admission details, and any changeable information before heading out.^[1][2][3]

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Source directory

1. Public Records — official venue website and calendar. 2. Barbes Brooklyn — official events page. 3. Smoke Jazz Club — official venue website. 4. International Anthem — official Jeremiah Chiu artist page. 5. Billy Childs — official artist website. 6. Denver Performing Arts Complex — Jenny Scheinman: All Species Parade artist and project information.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Sources

1. Public Records — Public Records
2. Events — Barbès Brooklyn
3. Welcome to Smoke Jazz Club — Smoke Jazz Club
4. Jeremiah Chiu — International Anthem
5. Billy Childs — Billy Childs
6. Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade — Denver Performing Arts Complex