María Grand Quartet // Nite Bjuti (Album Release)

Tuesday, April 14, 20268:00 pm
$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)doors 7pm
Buy Tickets

A double bill of two ensembles: María Grand Quartet and Nite Bjuti.

With this new ensemble, María Grand Quartet, Grand focuses on drums & rhythm and goes back to her New York roots. A focused intention of collective ritual meets with the great continuum of Black music, honoring the tradition that Grand stands firmly in, and bringing an almost folkloric impulse: functional music, tangible music, music as a user’s manual—music that is designed to help live and thrive in strange, modern times.

The music is, in its essence, a meditation that travels gently and spontaneously between screeching sounds of creation and sparse emptiness. This is Grand’s most intense project, promising to deliver extremely high energetics and expressive introspection for both listeners and players. A communion of sorts, a ritual, an offering to the complicated gods of our time.

María Grand Quartet
Ryoma Takenaga upright bass
Miguel Russell drums
Shakoor Hakeem percussion
Jasmine Wilson voice
María Grand tenor and soprano saxophone, vocals

“The tenor searches for his high notes to blend with the vocal range with a certainaffection for acrobatic intervals. (…) There is such grace in the approach of María Grand(…) that everything comes together with great naturalness and a touch of poetry.” – Citizen Jazz

“On Magdalena, Ms. Grand unspools a constant flow of ideas, serene and deftly paced…” – The New York Times

Also on the bill is a set by Nite Bjuti (pronounced “Night Beauty”), a woman-led improvisatory trio of vocalist Candice Hoyes, Grammy-winning sound chemist Val Jeanty, and bassist Mimi Jones. Their new album MINWI is set to release on May 16, 2026 via Intakt Records. Their improvised electro-acoustic performances move through grooves into freedom.

Candice Hoyes Voice Electronics
Val Jeanty Soundchemist
Mimi Jones Bassist

“Spirit, conjure, necromancy, and memory seem to be some of the grounding ideas behind Nite Bjuti’s stunning, fully improvised sound.” – The New York Times

“Electropercussionist Val Jeanty, vocalist/sampler controller Candice Hoyes, and double bassist Mimi Jones were the biggest revelation of WJF (so far), creating dense sound vistas and pure improvisations.” JazzTimes

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

María Grand is a saxophonist, composer, educator, and vocalist. She has performed with her ensembles throughout Europe and North America, and has also played and/or recorded with creative music luminaries such as Joel Ross, Mary Halvorson, Aaron Parks, Nicole Mitchell, and others. Her debut EP, TetraWind, was selected as “one of 2017’s best debuts” by The NYC Jazz Record, and her full-length albums Magdalena and Reciprocity were praised by major publications including The New York Times, DownBeat, JazzTimes, Billboard, and Jazziz. The New York Times calls her “an engrossing young tenor saxophonist with a zesty attack and a solid tonal range,” while Vijay Iyer describes her as “a fantastic young saxophonist—virtuosic, conceptually daring, with a lush tone, a powerful vision, and a deepening emotional resonance.”
Nite Bjuti is Candice Hoyes, Val Jeanty and Mimi Jones, an evocative improvised trio of Afro Caribbean artists using electronics, vocalism, bass, Haitian drum rhythms, sampling and spoken word to cultivate their narrative journey. They are UMEZ Arts Engagement Grant recipients for their 2022 mixed media installation commissioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and 2020 recipients of the NYC Women’s Fund in Jazz Music to fully fund their forthcoming debut album.
As inspiration, Nite Bjuti draws from a centuries old Haitian folklore called “Night Beauty,” about a girl whose bones begin to sing in her afterlife, her spirit seeking justice. Nite Bjuti has recently played Nublu Jazz Fest, NYC Winter JazzFest, WBGO live broadcast performance, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Internationally, they envision their music from concerts at electronic and jazz music venues, museums, cinema and dance and visual art installations.   Nite Bjuti plays to rediscover the buried Diasporic beauty in the world, transcendent across generations. Intentionally, they improvise to build layers of intimate community both inside the band and with its audiences.  Nite Bjuti debuted at Jazz at Lincoln Center as part of celebrating 2018 International Women’s Day.

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María Grand Quartet // Nite Bjuti (Album Release)

Tuesday, April 14, 20268:00 pm
$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)doors 7pm
Buy Tickets

A double bill of two ensembles: María Grand Quartet and Nite Bjuti.

With this new ensemble, María Grand Quartet, Grand focuses on drums & rhythm and goes back to her New York roots. A focused intention of collective ritual meets with the great continuum of Black music, honoring the tradition that Grand stands firmly in, and bringing an almost folkloric impulse: functional music, tangible music, music as a user’s manual—music that is designed to help live and thrive in strange, modern times.

The music is, in its essence, a meditation that travels gently and spontaneously between screeching sounds of creation and sparse emptiness. This is Grand’s most intense project, promising to deliver extremely high energetics and expressive introspection for both listeners and players. A communion of sorts, a ritual, an offering to the complicated gods of our time.

María Grand Quartet
Ryoma Takenaga upright bass
Miguel Russell drums
Shakoor Hakeem percussion
Jasmine Wilson voice
María Grand tenor and soprano saxophone, vocals

“The tenor searches for his high notes to blend with the vocal range with a certainaffection for acrobatic intervals. (…) There is such grace in the approach of María Grand(…) that everything comes together with great naturalness and a touch of poetry.” – Citizen Jazz

“On Magdalena, Ms. Grand unspools a constant flow of ideas, serene and deftly paced…” – The New York Times

Also on the bill is a set by Nite Bjuti (pronounced “Night Beauty”), a woman-led improvisatory trio of vocalist Candice Hoyes, Grammy-winning sound chemist Val Jeanty, and bassist Mimi Jones. Their new album MINWI is set to release on May 16, 2026 via Intakt Records. Their improvised electro-acoustic performances move through grooves into freedom.

Candice Hoyes Voice Electronics
Val Jeanty Soundchemist
Mimi Jones Bassist

“Spirit, conjure, necromancy, and memory seem to be some of the grounding ideas behind Nite Bjuti’s stunning, fully improvised sound.” – The New York Times

“Electropercussionist Val Jeanty, vocalist/sampler controller Candice Hoyes, and double bassist Mimi Jones were the biggest revelation of WJF (so far), creating dense sound vistas and pure improvisations.” JazzTimes

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

María Grand is a saxophonist, composer, educator, and vocalist. She has performed with her ensembles throughout Europe and North America, and has also played and/or recorded with creative music luminaries such as Joel Ross, Mary Halvorson, Aaron Parks, Nicole Mitchell, and others. Her debut EP, TetraWind, was selected as “one of 2017’s best debuts” by The NYC Jazz Record, and her full-length albums Magdalena and Reciprocity were praised by major publications including The New York Times, DownBeat, JazzTimes, Billboard, and Jazziz. The New York Times calls her “an engrossing young tenor saxophonist with a zesty attack and a solid tonal range,” while Vijay Iyer describes her as “a fantastic young saxophonist—virtuosic, conceptually daring, with a lush tone, a powerful vision, and a deepening emotional resonance.”
Nite Bjuti is Candice Hoyes, Val Jeanty and Mimi Jones, an evocative improvised trio of Afro Caribbean artists using electronics, vocalism, bass, Haitian drum rhythms, sampling and spoken word to cultivate their narrative journey. They are UMEZ Arts Engagement Grant recipients for their 2022 mixed media installation commissioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and 2020 recipients of the NYC Women’s Fund in Jazz Music to fully fund their forthcoming debut album.
As inspiration, Nite Bjuti draws from a centuries old Haitian folklore called “Night Beauty,” about a girl whose bones begin to sing in her afterlife, her spirit seeking justice. Nite Bjuti has recently played Nublu Jazz Fest, NYC Winter JazzFest, WBGO live broadcast performance, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Internationally, they envision their music from concerts at electronic and jazz music venues, museums, cinema and dance and visual art installations.   Nite Bjuti plays to rediscover the buried Diasporic beauty in the world, transcendent across generations. Intentionally, they improvise to build layers of intimate community both inside the band and with its audiences.  Nite Bjuti debuted at Jazz at Lincoln Center as part of celebrating 2018 International Women’s Day.

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