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Montreal Jazz Fest Weekend 2024

Montreal Jazz Weekend I am happy to once again offer a bus trip to the Montreal Jazz Festival for 2024!!!!! I hope you will consider joining me for this wonderful weekend of jazz! 😊 -Tonya Knight Recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest jazz festival on the planet, the Festival has been synonymous with [...]

By |December 30th, 2023|Categories: Concerts and Festivals|Comments Off on Montreal Jazz Fest Weekend 2024

The Fred Ward Story

by Leslie Manselle Summer 2021 (photos by Maurice D. Robertson) You know, sometimes you meet people who just strike you as interesting, real interesting. You want to know more about them. Well, this person· is real humble, confident, quiet; low key, low profile; very giving, very generous. He's older and kind of private, so no [...]

By |December 15th, 2023|Categories: Hartford Jazz Society|Comments Off on The Fred Ward Story

HJS Fall Concert and Workshop with Joel Frahm

On November 15, 2023, Joel Frahm (tenor saxophone) returned to his High School alma mater for a day of music and education as part of the Hartford Jazz Society Fall concert/workshop series. The day commenced with an afternoon workshop, open to the public, where Joel imparted some of his valuable wisdom and experience to our [...]

By |November 28th, 2023|Categories: Concert Reviews, Education, Hartford Jazz Society|Comments Off on HJS Fall Concert and Workshop with Joel Frahm

Jazz Photography

William P. Gottlieb Collection—Library of Congress Herman Leonard Maurice D. Robertson Photo Arts (Hartford) Steven Sussman Photography (West Hartford) Smithsonian Collection Chuck Stewart Photography Chuck Stewart—Signed Silver Gelatin Collection

By |August 8th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on Jazz Photography

Jazz Interviews

Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program National Jazz Archive Jazz Oral History Project (Rutgers Universities - The Institute of Jazz Studies) Fillius Jazz Archive Interviews Collection (Hamilton College) Jazz Interviews (BBC Radio) Joseph Celli Podcast Series Jazz Legends (Fresh Air Archive) 50 Jazz Interviews to Get You Inspired The HistoryMakers—MusicMakers

By |August 2nd, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on Jazz Interviews

Jazz History in CT

"Jazz In Connecticut — The Early Years" (Owen McNally, The Hartford Courant) HJS in the News (1962-1985) HJS Swinger Newsletter (1962 - 1979) Unsung Heroes: The Music of Jazz in New Haven Billie Holiday - all performances in Connecticut (1937 - 1958) Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - all performances in Connecticut (1931 - 1971) [...]

By |July 31st, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on Jazz History in CT

Jazz History in CT – Index of selected coverage in The Hartford Courant (1919-2002)

The articles cited below represent a small fraction of the total number of articles that can be found online in The Hartford Courant in this time period, especially 1923 – 1960. Other newspapers that reported on jazz, such as The Hartford Times, are available only on microfilm, if at all. During the 1940s and 1950s, [...]

By |July 31st, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on Jazz History in CT – Index of selected coverage in The Hartford Courant (1919-2002)

UCONN Freshman Wins Coveted Downbeat Award

Congratulations to University of Connecticut student Michael Farina for winning the Downbeat Student Music Award for Undergraduate College Outstanding Performance on tenor saxophone. Michael is a freshman studying under John Mastroianni in the Jazz Studies program at UCONN. The DownBeat awards are considered among the most coveted honors in the music industry. Entries are judged [...]

By |May 17th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|2 Comments

Sarah Hanahan in NYC

It's great to see our University of Hartford, Jackie McLean Institute graduates playing in one of the iconic New York City jazz clubs. That was the case a few weeks back when Sarah Hanahan (U of H class of 2019) appeared at Smalls Jazz Club on March 20, 2023 with the Joe Farnsworth Quartet and [...]

By |April 24th, 2023|Categories: Concert Reviews|Comments Off on Sarah Hanahan in NYC
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