Jazz Listings
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24
SUPER GROUP
John Abercrombie, Don Byron, Eddie Gomez and Lenny White. All things considered, the band name's actually kind of humble.
Through May 27. Birdland, 315 W. 44th St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.), 212-581-3080; 9 & 11, $30 + $10 min.
Cabaret darlings in the hyper-adorable young-adult lounge. Beware: If owner Jimmy Fallon attends, the bar might collapse into some infinitely cute singularity from which not even knowing smirks or manufactured glee can escape.
Mo Pitkins' House of Satisfaction, 34 Ave. A (betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts.), 212-777-5660; 9:30, $12.
With Reuben Wilson. A tribute to Jimmy Smith and the long-gone Village haunt, Café Bohemia; part of the "Lost Jazz Shrines" series.
Tribeca PAC, 199 Chambers St. (betw. Greenwich St. & the West Side H'way), 212-220-1460; 8, $25.
SALSA GROOVE
Featuring Caridad Cruz. Relative of the great Celia Cruz, the Havana-groomed diva shows the weekend warriors how it's done.
S.O.B.'s, 204 Varick St. (at W. Houston St.), 212-243-4940; 8, $5-$15.
With Gary Wang and Roland Schneider. She packs opera houses in her native Israel; in Brooklyn, her music accompanies your appetizer.
Night and Day, 230 5th Ave. (at President St.), B'klyn, 718-399-2162; 9, $10 + $7 min.
ONAJE ALLAN GUMBS
Treads the line between smooth jazz and Miles Davis, trying to bring about world peace in the process.
Lenox Lounge, 288 Lenox Ave./Malcolm X Blvd. (betw. 124th & 125th Sts.), 212-427-0253; 8:30, 10 & 11:30, $20 + 1 drink min.
A concert in a record store, but if you buy anybody else's album, you'll hurt the performers' feelings.
Downtown Music Gallery, 342 Bowery (betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts.), 212-473-0043; 6, free.
Vocalist whose talents earned her time with Elvin Jones, Kenny Barron and a spot in the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame, which apparently exists somewhere-maybe Arkansas.
Blue Note, 131 W. 3rd St. (betw. 6th Ave. & MacDougal St.) 212-475-8592; 8 & 10:30, $5-$10.
A string of adjectives cannot disguise the world's second fully improvisational acid-funk band.
Zebulon, 258 Wythe Ave. (at Metropolitan Ave.), B'klyn, 718-218-6934; 10, free.