with Harry Allen & Gabrielle Stravelli

Gabrielle Stravelli, Vocals
Harry Allen, Saxophone
Jesse Breheney, Bass

Sunday, February 8th, 2026 at 3PM
St George's Episcopal Church
105 Grand Street, Newburgh, NY
Tickets available at the door or in advance online

Vocalist and songwriter Gabrielle Stravelli blends musical traditions with a modern, genre-bending sensibility. The rhythmic swing of jazz frames her original compositions while as an actor and storyteller she reinterprets The Great American Songbook as well as works by contemporary artists as varied as Willie Nelson, Chick Corea and John Fogerty. Unexpected, highly individual choices are her trademark.

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In march of 2025 gabrielle wrapped her fifth month-long residency leading her trio at birdland jazz club and made her debut at The jazz corner in hilton head, SC. in april gabrielle appeared at joe’s pub with fred hersch, kate mcgarry and rondi charleston to celebrate the release of “suspended in time”, a new recording featuring gabrielle and kate singing Fred’s music and rondi’s lyrics.

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To learn more, visit gabriellestravelli.com

Harry Allen has recorded over 70 CDs as a leader and many more as a sideman. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance), the third Gold Disc Award winner, was voted second for album of the year for 1998 by Swing Journal Magazine’s reader’s poll. The Harry Allen - Joe Cohn Quartet won the New York Nightlife Award for Outstanding Jazz Combo Performance of 2006 and was nominated for Best Jazz Combo by the Jazz Journalists Association for the same year. Harry also won the 2010 New York Nightlife Award for Best Jazz Solo.

Jesse Breheney is a native of the city of Newburgh, NY in the Hudson Valley. He began playing bass at an early age and working professionally in high school. He's a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard pre-college division where he studied jazz and orchestral music. Jesse has been based in NYC since 2008 and now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and twin daughters.

        With a musical style that is deeply rooted in the swinging tradition of artists like Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis,

and Frank Sinatra his music brings life to the American Songbook and other jazz classics. Through music, Jesse and the musicians that accompany him push positive energy into the room's atmosphere that always gets people tapping their feet. He can be found performing regularly at notable NYC clubs including but not limited to, Mezzrow, Ornithology, Smoke, Little Branch and St. Tuesday.

   In addition to music, Jesse has a marketing background and a decade of experience as a partner in a boutique digital advertising agency, AD Lubow (now Breheney Media) that focuses on clients in the Performing Arts and Education industry. He also books live entertainment for the Hospitality industry and for private events through the collective In Four Jazz.

   Through the In Four Jazz collective and as a performer he has been a key player in many ongoing music series at NYC establishments including Docks Oyster Bar, Sarabeth’s Restaurants, Jane, Little Branch Bar, Weather Up, Eventi Hotel, Toy (at Gansevoort Hotel), St Tuesday (at Walker Hotel) Lambs Club (Chippawa hotel) the Ned Nomad (soho house) and many more.

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To learn more, visit infourjazz.com

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