NEW! Fridays in June: After Hours Tea Lounge

This is the music for the inaugural After Hours Tea Lounge at The Jazzschool, Friday June 5, 2026.

I’m treating it less like a DJ set and more like a couple hours of listening to music intentionally with friends. I made a possible sequence, but it isn't a guarantee. The order may shift, some things may get skipped and something may need more time.

The souvenir program is built like a cassette recording log; some selections are played from cassettes that I dubbed exactly like this. Below is the working tracklist, but it’s always good to plan to improvise.

Bilal — “Intro”
Jim Hall & Ron Carter — “Embraceable You”
Bill Evans — “Peace Piece”
Pat Metheny Group — “Distance”
Herbie Mann / João Gilberto / Antônio Carlos Jobim — “Consolation (Consolação)”
Count Basie — “Afrique”
Jimmy Smith — “Fungii Mama”
John Coltrane & Don Cherry — “The Invisible”
Sonny Rollins — “Sister”
Bill Evans Trio — “You and the Night and the Music”
Jackie McLean — “Wrong Handle”
Jimmy Smith — “Maybe September”
Carmen McRae — “Who Gave You Permission”
Brad Mehldau — “Buddha Realm”
Chick Corea — “The Law of Falling and Catching Up”
Andrew Hill — “Invitation”
Thad Jones–Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra / Joe Williams — “Come Sunday”
Yusef Lateef — “In the Evening”
Bilal — “Outro”