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 [...]
(photo: Maurice D Robertson) The Hartford Jazz Society celebrated its 60th Anniversary and kicked off its end of year Fundraising Drive with a smoking concert by trombone master Steve Turre’s Sextet featuring young rising stars of the art form. If you missed it live, you can still watch it on the Hartford Jazz Society’s [...]
The Hartford Jazz Society is proud to present our 60th Anniversary Concert and Fundraiser, Friday November 13th, 7pm on HJS Facebook Live. Our special guest is trombonist/seashellist Steve Turre. Mr Turre will be leading an all-star sextet with: Orion Turre, drums; Wallace Roney Jr., trumpet; Emilio Modeste, tenor saxophone; Isaiah Thompson, piano; and Corcoran Holt, acoustic [...]
After the success of our virtual Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz (PMMNJ) concert series, we are proud to continue our virtual Monday Night Jazz concerts on a monthly basis through the rest of 2020. Schedule of Events September 14 - Dan Liparini Quartet October 12 - Warren Byrd and Saskia Laroo November 13 - Special [...]
photo by Tré Davis The piano trio is a format with a deep history in jazz music. There is Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans and countless other historic trios. It's the essence of jazz improvisation; Piano, Bass, Drums. And while the Zaccai Curtis Trio may not yet be enshrined in jazz history, [...]
by Ken Laster It was 5:30 pm August 10; an hour and a half before the live-stream concert was to begin. The HJS and "The Library" staff were setting up lights, cameras, mics and technology (I was fortunate to be part of the production staff). The band had arrived and were getting instruments ready. [...]
by Ken Laster It was Latin Jazz night on August 3, 2020 at the Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz series, and Nelson Bello brought the heat to this live-streamed concert. He also brought his new purple sparkle finished congas with him, which he played with fire and intensity. With the rhythm section of Damian Curtis [...]
by Ken Laster Matt DeChamplain brought his drummer-less trio project to the Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz series on July 27. It was a display of magnificent virtuosity from all three musicians. This format was inspired by the classic trios from Oscar Peterson and Nat King Cole from the late 50's, early 60's. The band [...]
by Ken Laster The second installment of the 2020 Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz series live-streamed featured alto saxophonist Dakota Austin and his Quartet. The set featured all but one original composition. The band, schooled in the tradition of the hard-bop masters, had a more modern approach with a heavy dose of Fender Rhodes electric [...]