Performance

Jazz Standards

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At Barbès, reed player Oscar Noriega brings the Crooked Quartet back into view, shifting the center of gravity to alto saxophone and clarinets. The set moves through jazz standards alongside newer material, treating familiar themes as working documents rather than museum pieces. In New York, this repertoire has long served as a shared language across generations and boroughs, tested nightly in small rooms like this one. Noriega’s approach favors looseness and clear interplay over display.