Are you a musician who has performed at Smalls or Mezzrow in the past and doesn’t have an artist account then please contact us directly at musician@smallslive.com.
The SmallsLIVE Foundation for Jazz Art & Education is a not-for-profit arts organization.
Our mission is to subsidize the operation of our venues, recording projects, tours and educational initiatives.
During this Covid-19 pandemic our mission is to keep the clubs floating until business can be restored.
We will also sponsor live-streamed concerts from the club that will keep the musicians working during this period.
We will also be offering emergency aid for Jazz musicians in need due to this calamity.
Archive
The SmallsLIVE Archive is an audio/video library of all the shows at Smalls & Mezzrow.
Royalties are paid directly to the musicians by The SmallsLIVE Foundation.
Members sponsor their favorite musicians by listening to their music.
Live Stream
Smalls Jazz Club has been a pioneer in live streaming and began streaming shows live from the venue in 2007.
There is no cost to watch our live streams. During normal operating times the entire evening is streamed.
During this Covid-19 pandemic period there will be special live concerts scheduled in advance.
SmallsLIVE Catalog
The SmallsLIVE Catalog is a collection of individually produced artist projects.
SmallsLIVE Members may sponsor artists of their choice and receive their music as downloads or CDs.
Sponsorships directly support the artist.
Jonathan Powell
Trumpet
Recently Added
09/27/2017
Smalls
Itai Kriss & TELAVANA
08/02/2009
Smalls
The Spencer Murphy Quartet
Upcoming Shows
Jonathan Powell; originally from Largo, Florida; was born into an extremely musical family and was thus motivated to pick up the trumpet at the age of eleven. Inspired by the great jazz trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, Jonathan dedicated himself to music with an improvisational and creative goal. Though Jazz was his first love, he soon began shifting his musical tastes to North Indian Classical music, Drum'n'Bass, Hip Hop, Death Metal and 20th Century Classical Music. These new musical discoveries led Jonathan to take up the tablas, a pair of North Indian Drums, and electronic instruments including Samplers, Drum Machines and eventually Electronic Valve Instrument (EVI). At 19 Jonathan made his exodus to New York City to find the musical oppurtunities he had been searching for. It wasn't long after he arrived that he began playing and recording with world reknown musicians such as JT Taylor, Sam Rivers, Q-Tip, Andy Milne, Kenny Werner, Dave Douglas, Gary Thomas, Lenny White, Reggie Workman, Just Blaze, CL Smooth, Slick Rick and Snoop Dogg to name a few. Such collaborations earned him praise with top critics including Jazz Critic Nat Hentoff who wrote "Powell's crackling range and the electricity of his imagination reminded me of the first time I heard Lee Morgan and Clifford Brown. His voice is his own..." -JazzTimes (April 2003). Jonathan has since been working with up and coming artists and groups such as The Element, Saadiq, Blitz the Ambassador, PPP, The Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra, La Bola, MK Groove Orchestra, Rogue State, Yayoi Ikawa, Beetroot and La Excelencia.