TUES 8-11pm Jam Session. House Band Set - Adam Birnbaum, Ugonna Okegwo, Diego Voglino
About This Event
House-band set and jam session at Bar Bayeux with pianist Adam Birnbaum, bassist Ugonna Okegwo and improviser Diego Voglino. The trio’s approach—rooted in Birnbaum’s composer-arranger background (winner of the 2004 American Piano Awards Cole Porter Fellowship), Okegwo’s steady time and harmonic clarity, and Voglino’s emphasis on responsiveness in free-improv—moves between standards, open forms and spontaneous structures.
About the Artists
Diego Voglino
Diego Voglino is a jazz and free-improvisation musician heard around New York City late-night sets, including appearances at Bar Bayeux. In the venue’s jam-session orbit, he has worked alongside pianist Ethan Iverson and bassist Matt Penman in house-band lineups that move between standards, open forms, and spontaneous structures.
Adam Birnbaum
Adam Birnbaum is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger whose work reflects a strong grounding in composition and bandcraft. He received the Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz from the American Piano Awards in 2004, a credential that continues to inform his writing and leadership at the piano.
Ugonna Okegwo
Ugonna Okegwo is a German-Nigerian bassist and composer working in New York City’s jazz and free-improvisation circles. At Bar Bayeux, he appears regularly with house-band lineups that have included Victor Gould, Diego Voglino, Ed Cherry, Bill McHenry, and Adam Birnbaum, moving between standards and open forms as the room shifts into a jam session.