The Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz series returned to Bushnell Park live in 2021 after a year of virtual streaming due to Covid-19. This drone footage by Tré Davis captures the beauty of Bushnell Park and our wonderful audience during the concert on August 2, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtPvH3Nrx_Y no audio credit Tré Davis
The Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz series was back in action LIVE for 2021! Last year it was the Covid-19 quarantine, jazz clubs and venues shuttered, concerts viewed at home on your digital devices. With vaccines, masks, and testing we were given the opportunity to break out of our year long isolation and once again [...]
photo credit NEA Congratulations to the latest "class" of NEA Jazz Masters for 2022, Stanley Clarke, Donald Harrison, Jr., Billy Hart and Cassandra Wilson. I will not attempt to go into the bio's of each of these legendary jazz artists, as that has been chronicled in these fine articles by the NEA [...]
Press Release For Immediate Release: 10:00AM, 6/29/21 Contact Person: Diana Wimbish, dwimbish(@)yahoo(dot)com, 860-242-6688 2021 PAUL BROWN MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ SERIES The Hartford Jazz Society is proud to announce the live return of the summer Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz Series (PBMNJ) at Bushnell Park. This summer marks the 54th season that the Hartford Jazz Society [...]
(l to r) Mario Pavone and Don DePalma. photo credit: Rosemarie Foote Roy The Connecticut jazz scene mourned the passing of two of its greatest legends in one weekend (May 17-18, 2021); bassist Mario Pavone and pianist Don DePalma. There have been so many losses in the jazz world over the last year, but [...]
album art by Andres Chaparro Straight from the Hart, a compilation CD produced by the Hartford Jazz Society, is the essence of the Hartford jazz scene. It is an album born out of the love and respect for Jackie McLean and Paul Brown. These jazz icons planted the seeds of jazz into the [...]
by Ken Laster Entrance is the debut album from trumpeter John Hasselback III. The Hasselback family is a familiar name to the Hartford jazz scene. Following in the footsteps of both his parents, John Hasselback III also graduated the Hartt School of Music. John benefited from growing up in a musical family in upstate [...]
*** Press Release ***Middletown— Trevor Davis of The Library Studio, announces that the Hartford Jazz Society and the Middletown Commission on the Arts are collaborating to provide funding, contingent upon Common Council approval, for a two-concert series entitled ‘Middletown on the Map.’ Both concerts will be free via livestream on the Hartford Jazz Society Facebook [...]
image from Wikipedia Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was a grand master of jazz; a creative force that like his mentor Miles Davis, constantly pushed the envelope ever evolving the jazz genre. Perhaps best known as a Jazz/Rock Fusion pioneer, he was much more than that. From [...]
In 1965, Franzo and Marina King witnessed a live performance of John Coltrane in San Francisco. For them it was truly a religious experience that eventually lead to the founding of the "Church of Saint John Coltrane". This excellent National Public Radio documentary will recount the story behind the Church of Saint John Coltrane, built [...]