The New York Second
The New York Second is a Netherlands-based jazz group that features the compositions of bandleader and pianist Harald Walkate and has released five albums and generated nearly 2.5 million streams on Spotify. Its most recent album, Room for Other People (2024) received rave reviews from around the globe: “A masterpiece of European jazz”… “the music is simply stunning.”
In February it will be releasing its sixth album, Café Madrid, featuring the internationally renowned American vibraphonist Rob Waring. Advance review: “the music is melancholy yet uplifting; complex yet accessible; cool yet vibrant.”
The group’s albums and performances have featured some of the Netherlands’ best-known musicians, including Teus Nobel, Jasper van Damme, Tom Beek, Mark-Alban Lotz, Thomas Pol, Jesse Schilderink, Vincent Veneman and Suzan Veneman.
The music of The New York Second can be classified as contemporary jazz, but takes on influences from soul, Latin and classical. Critics have typified the music as “atmospheric”, “poetic” and “cinematic”.
