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The longest-running live music series on Miami Beach - 7 days a week, 9 times a week. No Cover. No Minimum. Come at your leisure for drinks in the Lobby or call LT Steak & Seafood to book a table for dinner.

Date August 9, 2025
Time 6:00 pm - 11:59 pm
Location The Piano Bar

The longest-running live music series on Miami Beach - 7 days a week, 9 times a week. No Cover. No Minimum. Come at your leisure for drinks in the Lobby or call LT Steak & Seafood to book a table for dinner.

6 PM TO 12 AM

LeNard Rutledge, born and raised in Miami, Florida, where there are only a handful of truly great jazz vocalists, is usually compared, aptly, to the legendary Lou Rawls. Like Rawls, Rutledge's classy elegance is often permeated by the raw passion of his church choir work. In fact Rutledge still sings with the choir at The Church of The Incarnation. Rutledge began not as a vocalist but as a percussionist, playing in the marching and concert band at Miami Central Senior High, and later making his income while attending Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, North Carolina.  

He began his vocal career in 1997, when he was asked to join the famed Melton Mustafa Orchestra after returning to Miami. LeNard was the featured vocalist for Melton Mustafa for seven years. In 2002, Rutledge was introduced to the music director of The Van Dyke Café's, Don Wilner, who immediately recognized Rutledge's talent and began giving him regular performance dates. LeNard has shared the stage with a number of highly respectable jazz artist such as: Wycliffe Gordon, Kenny Drew Jr., Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kirk Whalum, Marion Meadows and the late George Duke.

Howard (Jaui) Schneider has been performing, composing and arranging music professionally for six decades. He is the composer of "La Cuna", recorded by Ray Barretto and considered by many a Latin Jazz standard.

Jaui has had extended gigs with Ray Barretto, Buddy Rich, Phyllis Hyman, Wiilly Chirino, Carmen Lundy, Nicole Henry, Ira Sullivan and many others of note. His music has been featured on TheTonight Show, soap operas and cable TV shows. Jaui currently gigs around South Florida on Piano, bass and chromatic harmonica.

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