Summer Sounds

Niqisax leads a jazzy crüe at the Garden Bar on Wednesday, 13 August 2025.

Presented by Regattabar.

Part of the “Berklee Summer in the City” music series.

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Niqisax

Niqisax

“Berklee Summer in the City” strikes again!

Saxophonist Niqisax (a play on Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx?) led a Berklee-born jazz quartet through a set of originals and standards from the likes of Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, and more, last Wednesday at the Garden Bar in Harvard Square.

The event was presented by Regattabar, as part of the Berklee music series popping up all over the Boston outdoor locations this summer. We previously covered a gig featuring percussionist Cameron Spann leading a quartet on a rooftop in Kendall Square.

Niqisax’s audience took in the free concert at sea level on a hot and humid afternoon. The early birds found shade beneath the large white party tent dominating the bricktop plaza, while the rest of the groundlings nabbed seating where they could find it in the full sun. There was cornhole and ringtoss for the lawn sports crowd. And for the famished, wagyu hot dogs, beer, wine, and “Frozies” at the bar.

If the jazz quartet of saxophone, keyboard, standup bass, and drums was feeling the heat, they played it cool. Niqisax handled the sax with a strong and even tone that skipped, hopped, and pirouetted around the plaza, served up alongside a strange summer cocktail of warm breeze, hot garbage, and bus exhaust.

Quaff in good health, cough in good health. Whatever gets you better.

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