Fridays with Frank

Join renowned jazz historian and Jazz Haven Board member Frank Cochran for BYOB “Fridays with Frank.”  Happy Hour jazz listening sessions are held every Friday from 5:15 to 7:00 pm at the Institute Library in downtown New Haven.  Each Friday Frank selects iconic jazz LPs to play from the Library’s extensive collection.  Discussion follows.  BYOB and please give a modest donation towards the IL’s spiraling utilities. A $5.00 contribution is welcome.

This Friday, December 12th, Frank will feature the music of Lee Konitz. Between the 1940s and his death at 92 in 2020, Konitz played with most everyone, and made records with most. From the 1949 Birth of the cool, a long though intermittent association with Lennie Tristano, gigs with Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Giuffre, Harold Danko in the 1980s, and Warne Marsh in the 90s, he was constantly showing up on LPs, always with an intellectually relaxed sound like no one else. Even when Elvin Jones was the drummer. We’ve got a bunch of his records; you will, Frank believes, be in for a treat because there will be at least one you’ve never heard.