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Event Series Event Series: Baby Grand Jazz

Baby Grand Jazz – Haneef Nelson

Sunday April 28 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

| Free

In 2024, Baby Grand Jazz is celebrating its 20th season. Hartford Public Library is excited to host everyone back at the Downtown Library in the Center for Contemporary Culture (CCC). Enter through the Library’s Arch Street entrance only.

All concerts are from 3:00-4:00 p.m. with doors opening at 2:00 p.m. The concerts will also be streamed on YouTube and Facebook.

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This jazz group blends history with today and creates a sound that’s both timeless and classic. Hartford based Haneef N. Nelson works as a composer/arranger, bandleader, sideman, musical curator, and educator. His earliest education in Jazz came from the Jazzmobile where he studied with Eddie Preston, Cecil Bridgewater, and Donald Byrd among others. He also studied with Dave Burns at the Long Island High School of the Arts and then attended The Hartt School to study with Jackie McLean, Raymond Williams, Steve Davis, Nat Reeves, and more. He has taught at The Hartt School, UMASS Amherst, Amherst College, Keene State College and currently teaches at the University of Rhode Island.
Haneef N. Nelson, trumpet/flugelhorn
Nathan Edwards, tenor/soprano sax
Andrew Wilcox, piano/vibraphone
Matt Dwonszyk, bass
Akin Hobson, drums
Get a preview of their sound HERE

 

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