“Get dinner, drinks and Jazz with no cover charge,” jazzman Susheel Kurien says as jazz indoors at Nisi continues the music into autumn.

The Roosevelt Island Daily News

I’ll be playing with Michelle Smith on Flute and Allen Wu on Bass. Jefferson Bacry Cohen will join us on some Bossa’s with his Brazilian sound.

And unexpected friends will surely sit in!

Nisi is at 549 Main Street in the heart of Roosevelt Island. Jazz begins changing your weekend world at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.

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Come and forget the world for an evening.. turn off that Television/laptop/streaming device.. the jazz revolution will not be televised.

Wise words for all.

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