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DRIFT/LOOP: A 24-Hour Performance Installation

Olin Library - Wesleyan University 252 Church Street, Middetown

If you would like to participate in the DRIFT/LOOP performance, please watch this short overview videoand fill out this Google form to indicate your interest and availability. Come hear tones drift in and out of Olin Library throughout Homecoming Weekend. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the stacks will ring vibrantly with reverberated tones, shimmer [...]

Free

Roxy Coss: Artistic Agency & Musical Improvisation (lecture + music)

Exley Science Center - Wesleyan University 265 Church Street, Middletown

Join Grammy–award winning musician, composer, educator, and activist Roxy Coss for a lecture-recital featuring a discussion of her background in artistic agency with live jazz improvisation. A renowned jazz saxophonist, Coss is the 2024-2025 Menakka and Essel Bailey ‘66 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, a Bailey College of the Environmental Think Tank fellow, and the founder and [...]

Free

VJC Emerging Artist Festival (livestream)

Day 2: Saturday, November 2 @ Vermont Jazz Center Student group performances, Ekep Nkwelle clinic for student musicians & Concert with Ekep Nkwelle Quartet 11:00 to 4:00 pm: Student group performances. Location: Vermont Jazz Center Main Stage (New!) On Saturday the VJC, in association with area high schools & universities, will present student groups performing [...]

Free

3’s Company

Grindstone Tavern 3 River Street, Canton

brunch

Jazz Jam at Cafe Nine

Cafe Nine 250 State Street, New Haven

Come enjoy an afternoon of live jazz with the area's finest players. Sit in with the band and show off your chops or just sit and enjoy a cold drink while the music creates the vibe.

Karen Frisk Trio

Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center 605 Main Street, Middletown

Karen Frisk is a jazz vocalist who has performed in several areas of the country with local and world-renowned jazz artists. On this evening, she will be joined by Kent Hewitt on piano, and Joe Fitzgerald on bass. All proceeds from this show go to The Buttonwood Tree. Originally from Cromwell Connecticut, Karen always claimed [...]

$20

Ryan Sands Quartet

Side Door Jazz Club 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme

David Adewumi - Trumpet Max Light - Guitar Kris Monson - Bass Ryan Sands - Drums Hailing from Orange, CT/New Haven County, Ryan Sands has worked his way to becoming one of the top young drummers in his field. His emphatic performances have landed him performances with Terell Stafford, Geoffrey Keezer, Wayne Escoffrey, Tamir Hendleman, [...]

$20 – $50

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