A full-length photo of two people standing side-by-side on an elevated platform, both with their arms outstretched in an inviting pose. One individual is in a deep red gown and white jacket, and the other is in a red jacket and dark pants, wearing a white Santa hat.
Daniela Soledade (L) and Nate Najar Credit: natenajar / Facebook

Is it really the holiday season if Nate Najar isn’t at Palladium Theater leading a gang of the Bay area’s best jazz musicians through a yuletide jam session?

This Natemas includes vocals from Brazilian songwriter-guitarist Daniela Soledade along with a band that features Simon Lasky on piano, drummer Eddie Metz, Charlie Silva on bass, plus brass from trumpeter Bruce Harries and woodwinds by Adrian Cunningham handling saxophone, clarinet and flute.

And while next year is the 20th anniversary of Najar’s end-of-the-year throwdown, this one marks the last jazz holiday in a room that is set to undergo a massive renovation.

“At 19 years—which is very surreal to me—this is likely to be the last Nate Najar’s Jazz Holiday in the original Hough Hall and we are extremely excited to put a bow on the era with the most swinging holiday show we’ve ever played,” Najar told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “The frontline is composed of some of the greatest jazz soloists playing today and we have a brand new all star rhythm section that will swing us into the most grooving holidays ever. “

Tickets to Nate Najar’s Jazz Holiday happening at Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg on Thursday, Dec. 11 are still available and start at $25.

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This article appears in Nov. 27 – Dec. 03, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...