Moccio's day job produced some of the biggest choruses of the last fifteen years — 'Wrecking Ball', 'Earned It', 'Love Yourself' — but on his own records he strips everything back to a single piano recorded so close you can hear the felt and the room. Hearing that intimacy in the Blue Note's low-ceilinged basement, where the front tables are practically under the lid of the instrument, is a completely different experience from a stadium singalong. This is a one-night stand between two multi-nigh
What to expect
A packed subterranean club with tables ringed tight around a grand piano and a long bar down the side. Two seatings, each about seventy-five minutes. Expect original solo pieces, some reharmonised versions of the pop songs he wrote for other people, and a fair amount of storytelling between numbers.
Good to know
- The A/B/C/D/E/F/M to West 4th Street–Washington Square leaves you a two-minute walk away.
- Seating is assigned by arrival order within your ticket tier, so early arrivals get the piano-side tables.
- There is a food-and-drink minimum on top of the ticket at tables; bar seats have a lower one.
- Two separate seatings run each night — the later set is usually the calmer, more sparsely filled one.
- The room is small and reached down a short flight of stairs from West 3rd Street.
- Good for a date night: it is dark, close, and the music is quiet enough to sit inside.
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Common questions
Will he play the pop songs he wrote?
He often works his best-known co-writes into the set as solo piano reworkings, but the core of the show is his own instrumental albums.
Is it a full band or solo piano?
Moccio's touring shows centre on solo piano; the sound is deliberately spare rather than a jazz-combo setting.
Can I buy just one set?
Yes — the two seatings are ticketed separately, and you choose which one you want when you book.
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