SOMETHING ELSE! featuring VINCENT HERRING and All-star Soul Jazz with Jeremy Pelt, James Carter, Dave Kikoski, Paul Bollenback, Essiet Okon Essiet & Jerome Gillespie. The Faena Jazz Series is proud to close its seventh season, on the eve of Juneteenth, with Something Else! featuring Vincent Herring, a true celebration of the genre known as ‘soul jazz.’ This energetic style fuses the funk and swing of R&B with classic bebop, offering new arrangements of classics by masters such as Horace Silver, Les McCann, and Freddie Hubbard, along with original compositions arranged in the same swinging style. This all-star band features seven players, all masters of their instruments and renowned interpreters of hard bop with strong soul influences.

As their leader Vincent Herring says, “the best musicians playing great music and enjoying it thoroughly, becomes infectious.” Something Else! has appeared at New Orleans JazzFest, North Sea Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, and Vienna Jazz Festival. The group’s first album, Soul Jazz, released on June 14, 2024, reached the top of the Jazz Week chart and has received universal critical acclaim. Tickets are $65-$225 here: https://faenatheater.com/concerts. Valet parking is available for 0-4 hours at $52, and 4+ hours at $65. We like masks if you do. (Miami Beach)