GateHouseMusic

04/04/2026

FRIDAY APRIL 10th - The Saint James Trio - 11pm. Don’t miss the second-to-last Yale Cabaret production of the season! Join us for a three-night symphony of story, sound, and spontaneity. The New Rhythm Festival will feature two staged readings of bold new works and a night of live jazz that lets the music take the lead. No two nights are the same! Come listen. Come witness. Come feel the rhythm.

The New Rhythm Festival

Performance Dates and Times:
Thursday, April 9 @ 8 PM | Shy Redemption
Friday, April 10 @ 8pm | Shy Redemption
Friday, April 10 @ 11pm | Live Jazz by the Saint James Trio
Saturday, April 11 @ 4pm | Back to Bangalore
Saturday, April 11 @ 8pm |Back to Bangalore

Tickets are live at: https://cabaret-tickets.yale.edu/

www.yalecabaret.org

The Saint James Trio features members of The Saint James Jazz Band, a collective of professional New Haven area Jazz musicians brought together in collaboration with veteran saloon-singer Kevin Saint James. The trio revisits, re-interprets and recreates true-to-form selections of classic jazz favorites and popular standards in a variety of artistic styles with a rare balance of musically "scientific" re-invention and profound reverence for historic significance and tradition. Ageless favorites from Cole Porter, Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Rogers & Hart, Billy Strayhorn, Jerome Kern and many others - long ago immortalized by legendary artists like Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Etta James, Bobby Darin, Louis Prima and Ray Charles are heard again in resounding chorus as the trio reworks and relives the classics. Benefitting from their many years of shared collaboration and familiarity with their chosen material, the group has a genuinely unique capacity for working spontaneous experimentation into their respectful reinterpretations of familiar popular standards that transport more mature audiences back in time to the sounds of days long ago, while recreating, re-introducing and perhaps even endearing these precious melodies to younger listeners at the same time.

04/01/2026

TONIGHT @ Owl Shop Cigar Lounge & Tobacconist in NEW HAVEN...9PM.

03/18/2026

TONIGHT and EVERY WEDNESDAY in NEW HAVEN...The Saint James Jazz Band @ Owl Shop Cigar Lounge & Tobacconist ...9PM.

03/13/2026

TONIGHT - The Saint James Jazz Band @ TATE'S in Middletown, 6-9PM

Tate's is family friendly restaurant within Harbor Park, overlooking the Connecticut River, that focuses on approachable, comfort food & seafood, with vibrant innovative cocktails to compliment. Home of Tate's Restaurant & Events, Eli Cannon's Brewing Collective and Tate's Coffee & Creamery! www.tatesmiddletown.com

The Saint James Jazz Band, an All-Star New Haven Jazz band, re-visits, re-interprets, and recreates true-to-form selections of classic jazz favorites and popular standards from the Great American Songbook. The group has a genuinely unique capacity for working spontaneous experimentation into their respectful reinterpretations of familiar popular standards that transport more mature audiences back in time to the sounds of days long ago, while recreating, re-introducing and perhaps even endearing these precious melodies to younger listeners at the same time.

03/06/2026

SUNDAY MARCH 15TH - Get down to Christopher Martins Restaurant & Pub for Parade Day shenanigans. Doors open at 10am for breakfast and the party goes all day 'til close. Live Music featuring Songs for Parade Day and Irish favorites with Kevin Saint James & Steve Donovan. Music 3-7PM.

Come have some festive fun with us on parade day! Breakfast 10-1! Music 3-7 ! Come join the fun

12/31/2025

LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT in NEW HAVEN... The Saint James Jazz Band @ Owl Shop!

Live music with
The ST. James Jazz Band!
Usher in the new year with friends you know and some you haven't met yet!
21+ only. Proper ID required. Photos of ID on mobile devices are NOT accepted.

12/30/2025

Ring in the new year with fine ci**rs, spirits, cocktails, coffee, great friends (some of which you haven't met yet) and LIVE JAZZ! Show starts at 9:30pm. No cover. 21+ only. Proper ID required. Photos of ID on mobile devices are not accepted.

12/27/2025

CELEBRATE NYE in NEW HAVEN with The Saint James Jazz Band @ Owl Shop!!
9:30PM-12:30AM. 21+
268 College Street.

12/24/2025

We had so much fun at the Sunday Show at cafe nine that we're still talkin' about it. Thank you to everyone who came out to support live music—what an incredible crowd. It was great to see everyone. Special thanks to Jesse and Sara for keeping things flowing and all their behind-the-bar magic. A big thank you to Paddy for booking the show that was the grand finale of our series of downtown recordings...and last but not least, thanks to the dream team of the one and only, Warren running the sound board and Pat Dalton with Sans Serif Recordings, once again capturing The Saint James Trio "in the wild".
We love you all - thanks for all that you do!

12/20/2025

SUNDAY DECEMBER 21st @ 8PM - The Saint James Trio returns again to Cafe Nine for a special Sunday-After-Supper session of classic Jazz standards from the old saloon-singer songbook that's guaranteed to put a song in your world-weary hearts and soothe your pre-holiday jitters. Joe McWilliams - Keys, Lou Bocciarelli - Upright Bass & saloon-singer Kevin Saint James.

12/14/2025

NEXT SUNDAY - DECEMBER 21st - The Saint James Trio @ cafe nine - 8PM.
$10 cover.
The Saint James Trio returns again to Cafe Nine for a special Sunday-After-Supper session of classic Jazz standards from the old saloon-singer songbook that's guaranteed to put a song in your world-weary hearts and soothe your pre-holiday jitters. Long recognized as the Elm City's premier lounge-lizard-type balladeer, Kevin Saint James re-creates, reworks and re-imagines well known favorites from that bygone era (when Jazz music still had actual songs in it) in his own straight-ahead meat-and-potatoes performance style of versatile voicings that croon, croak and crow with equal ease. The musical engine of this particularly spartan trio will be the unrivaled piano/organ Jazzmaster Joe McWilliams, who accompanied Kevin on his very first-ever cabaret-style Jazz gig over 30 years ago at - you guessed it - Cafe Nine (back in its hallowed Mike Reichbart era). Holding down them rock-bottom beats on his downright upright upright will be Jazz bass virtuoso and fervent lover of old songs Lou Bocciarelli, the perfect complement to round out this serendipitous celebration of moldy melodic masterworks.
Working in this bare-bones stripped-down format, as opposed to the high-energy crash-banging racket of the full Saint James Jazz Band, not only allows an opportunity to break out some of the quieter, more intimate tunes that are rarely touched upon when playing for the usual general audiences - it also gives the markedly un-usual, far-from-generic Cafe Nine crowd a rare chance to really hear every note and nuance applied to these tasty time-tested traditional tunes that often get drowned out in noisier rooms where the loud voices of oblivious onlookers can overpower the use of subtler dynamics. That's one of the main reasons why the 9's the perfect setting for this show - and also why the band's arranged for the night's performance to be recorded live and produced by their good friends Pat Dalton and Sam Carlson at Sans Serif Recording.