Nicolay with The Hot at Nights

Not a football fan? Fear not. The Super Bowl is NOT the only show in town on Sunday, February 5. Harvard Square’s Club Passim will host a unique collaborative performance featuring Grammy-nominated music producer/performer and exploratory jazz-trio The Hot at Nights. Together they will perform the music from their recent Shibuya Session EP.


Nicolay, born and raised in The Netherlands, first made his mark as a producer of electronica, R&B and hip hop. After stints with various instruments and bands, he teamed with rapper/singer Phonte to form The Foreign Exchange. They released their critically-acclaimed album Connected in 2004. This success enabled Nicolay to move to the U.S. and cut a sophomore album, Leave it All Behind, with the Grammy-nominated single “Daykeeper.”

The Hot at Nights (featuring 8-string guitar virtuoso Chris Boerner, with Matt Douglas on sax/woodwinds and Nick Baglio on drums) formed in North Carolina in the summer of 2010. The three-piece jazz outfit’s compositions are largely improvisational, though they pull from contemporary songwriters, classic funk, rock, pop, and the electric avant-garde styles that have spanned the last 30 years of contemporary jazz.