Chris Coogan Quintet

7:00 PM & 9:00 PM – $36

A Weston, Connecticut native, Chris leads the Chris Coogan Quintet, a jazz ensemble whose repertoire includes straight-ahead jazz, fusion jazz and boogie-woogie. He is also director of the Good News Gospel Choir. During his career, Chris has appeared with such eminent musicians as Stevie Van Zandt, Sal Salvador, Ronnie Spector, Harold Danko, Darlene Love, Donna Summer, Phoebe Snow, and Ben E. King, among others, as well as arranging for Teo Maceo, producer for the late Miles Davis. His gospel credentials include performances with Take 6, Maya Angelou and Richard Smallwood. Chris has appeared on television’s Celebrity Jeopardy and the Arsenio Hall Show and has performed at Manhattan’s Blue Note and the Montreaux Jazz Festival. He has written and performed original gospel music for a PBS documentary about evangelist Amy Semple McPherson, and worked with Emmy-award winning composer Brian Keane, who featured Chris on piano in the BBC show Copper.