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About Bill Sullivan

Bill edits the HJS Jazz Calendar and previously managed HJS's ongoing concert series for many years, including the successful "Jazz at the Atheneum" series from its inception in 2003 through May 2009 (http://hartfordjazzsociety.com/hjs_archive/2009-jazz-antheneum.html). Worked closely with guitarist/bassist Joe Morris to produce the "Monday Night Jazz in Bushnell Park" concert series in 2008 (http://hartfordjazzsociety.com/hjs_archive/mnj2008-about.html). Compiled a directory and extensive post on "Native Americans in Jazz—Present and Past" (http://hartfordjazzsociety.com/2017/07/21/native-americans-in-jazz-present-and-past/).

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)

Music as Medicine

The Louis Armstrong Department of Music Therapy | Mount Sinai The Healing Power of Music: Johns Hopkins Center Marries Music and Medicine Music as Medicine – The Musical Recommended Daily Allowance Music as medicine? 30 minutes a day shows benefits after heart attack Keep Your Brain Young with Music Music as Medicine: The Power of [...]

By |June 27th, 2022|Categories: Education, Jazz History|Comments Off on Music as Medicine

Jazz Archives

Baby Grand Jazz Series at Hartford Public Library (2014-Present) Jazz Up Close Archive (2015-Present) Live At The Village Vanguard (2008-2014) Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz (2007-2018) Roulette Concert Archive (1978-2021) Fillius Jazz Archive and on YouTube  

By |December 29th, 2021|Categories: Concert Reviews, Jazz History, Media|Comments Off on Jazz Archives

Reflections

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him ... the highest duty of the writer, [...]

By |April 13th, 2018|Categories: Jazz History|Comments Off on Reflections

A Tour de Force Free Jazz Performance at Willimantic Records

Willimantic Records is gaining a well-deserved reputation for consistently providing a welcoming space for free jazz - something greatly appreciated by the musicians who perform there as well as by their avid supporters. That this space exists at all acquired more urgency with the ending of Carl Testa’s Uncertainty Music series in New Haven after [...]

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Jazz on the Radio and Online

Sunday: WRCH 100.5 (Smooth Jazz: 8am - Noon) WGBH 89.7 (9pm - Midnight) Monday: WRTC 89.3 (Trinity College) (6am – 9am; 3pm – 4:30pm) WWUH 91.3 (University of Hartford) (9am – Noon; 7:05pm – 8:30pm) WPKN 89.5 (Bridgeport) (1pm – 4pm) WESU 88.1 (Wesleyan University) (5pm – 6pm) WWUH 91.3 (University of Hartford) (7:05pm – [...]

By |October 8th, 2017|Categories: Media|Comments Off on Jazz on the Radio and Online
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