Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass at Kodak Center | May 12, 2026
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass performs at Kodak Center on May 12, 2026. You hear it and you understand, immediately, why this man has millions of albums sold. Tickets are moving.
Pharoah Sanders at SUNY Albany — April 24, 1971
Stone Temple Pilots in the spring of 1997 were a band caught between creative ambition and personal chaos — which, for STP, was always where the best music lived. Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop had pushed the band’s sound in unexpected directions: Beatles-influenced pop melodies, bossa nova rhythms, psychedelic textures that proved […]
Frank Sinatra at Rochester War Memorial — April 20, 1993
Frank Sinatra was 77 years old and deep into his final touring years, performing an astonishing 93 concerts in 1993 alone. The Rochester War Memorial setlist featured standards including “Come Fly With Me,” “Strangers in the Night,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” and “My Way.” The Duets album would arrive later that year, giving him […]
Al Di Meola at Landmark Theatre — April 5, 1978
Fats Waller and His Orchestra at Proctor’s Theatre — April 1, 1937
By 1937, Fats Waller was one of the most prolific recording artists in jazz, cutting dozens of sides for Victor Records with his trademark comedic asides and virtuoso stride piano. His fame was built on standards like “Ain’t Misbehavin’” and “Honeysuckle Rose,” and a grand vaudeville palace like Proctor’s in Schenectady was exactly the kind […]
Fats Waller and His Orchestra at Proctor’s Theatre — April 2, 1937
Fats Waller and His Orchestra at Proctor’s Theatre — April 3, 1937
Tony Bennett at Proctor’s Theatre — March 30, 1995
Tony Bennett at Proctor’s Theatre — the crooner’s career was in full resurgence in the mid-’90s thanks to MTV Unplugged.
Pat Metheny Group at Palace Theatre — March 14, 1995
Pat Metheny Group at the Palace Theatre — one of the most acclaimed jazz guitarists in history bringing his expansive, genre-blending sound to Albany. Metheny’s live shows are immersive, intricate,…
Mel Torme at Proctor’s Theatre — March 4, 1995
“The Velvet Fog” Mel Torme at Proctor’s Theatre — one of the last tours before his stroke in 1996. Torme was one of the greatest jazz vocalists of the 20th…