Neal Caine Quartet

The Neal Caine Quartet is a New York City–based jazz group heard in rooms where the music is close and the audience is part of the sound. At Smalls Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, the quartet works the late sets with the kind of pacing that suits the venue’s listening culture and its after-hours jam-session lineage.

The Neal Caine Trio is a New York City jazz group heard at Smalls Jazz Club, where its sets are built for close listening. Led by bassist Neal Caine, the trio also appears in related projects including the Neal Caine Quartet, a sign of an active, working-band ecology.

Neal Caine is a jazz bassist whose work moves between straight-ahead playing and groove-based projects. In New York City, he appears at venues such as The Django, often under the banner of the Neal Caine Funk Unit.