Events for May 16, 2024 - May 16, 2024

Jerry Z - Hammond B3 organ Oz Noy - guitar (replacing Doug Munro) Liviu Pop - drums $25 Adults $23 Seniors/Military/Student $20 Norwich Arts Center Members

Green was born in New York City. He grew up in Berkeley, California, and studied classical piano from the age of seven. He was also interested in jazz from an early point, as his father was a jazz tenor saxophone player. Benny Green was "discovered" by Faye Carroll, and while still in his teens worked in a quintet [...]

"LIVE from Ashtonwood" launches its 7th season presenting rising jazz artist and Pioneer Valley native, Hailey Brinnel (voice & trombone) and her trio, with Silas Irvine (p) and Joe Plowman (b). This house concert will be streamed LIVE via Facebook here - https://www.facebook.com/AshtonwoodHouseConcerts. More information and details can be found in the Facebook event here - https://www.facebook.com/events/1096776861689311.

Shane Allessio plays hard hitting, heavy swinging, modern original jazz. Drawing from Mingus, George Russell, Stan Kenton, etc, boundaries are pushed while a respect for swing and the jazz tradition is upheld. Screaming crashing dissonances, virtuosic bowed bass solos and foot stomping grooves are to be expected at every show. Coming off of a bold [...]

Charles Mingus remains an imposing figure in jazz even some 45 years after his early death. The master of the double-bass, accomplished pianist, bandleader, and composer was instrumental in moving jazz forward during his lifetime. And his multitudinous body of compositions — Mingus continued to write even after ALS robbed him of his ability to play [...]

NYC flutist, composer, Sunnyside Records artist, producer and clinician, Jamie Baum, has toured the US and over 35 countries performing at major festivals, clubs and concert halls including the Monterey, Madrid, Oeiras, Bermuda, Edinburgh, North Sea, Winter Jazzfest and London Jazz Festivals, Tampere Jazz Happening, Guimaraes Jazz Festival, Jazztopad, Bimhuis, Unterfahrt, Jazz Gallery, Jazz Standard, 55 [...]

Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg wrote Accept When between 2022-23, after a long, beautiful period improvising together intimately in the safety of a friend’s practice space. The deepening of their musical friendship, the affordance of space they give to the possibility of synchronicity, the reminders they write of the preciousness of our existence — all [...]

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 [...]

Cafe Nine and the New Haven Jazz Underground present TUESDAY NIGHT JAZZ! Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, a rotation of local and special guest musicians and bands will play a house set from 7-8pm. After the house band set host bands will open the stage for a jazz jam session from 8-10pm. [...]

20-time Grammy Award Winning Guitarist & Composer, Pat Metheny is launching a solo tour which will coincide with a new album, Dream Box. The tour, a first of its kind for Metheny, will feature personal and fan favorites from his nearly 50-year career.Blending loose and flexible articulation with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility Metheny [...]

Music is like the wilderness: known and definable yet unpredictable and improvisational. Jazz vocalist and SCSU faculty member Ellynne Rey explores songs with nature themes, accompanied by long-time collaborators Darren Litzie (piano), Jeff Fuller (bass), Brian Woodruff (drums), and Mark Kaplan (tenor sax). Engleman Hall - Room C112

“Tribute to Miles Davis” with Peter Hand- guitar, Duane Eubanks- trumpet, Peter Brainin- saxophones, Harvie S- bass and Steve Johns- drums. The band will also play several selections from Peter Hand’s new album, Blue Topaz.

A new music series at Never Ending Books on the 2nd Thursday of every month.  It will feature groups and ad hoc combinations of New Haven Improvisers Collective folks. If you have a group you would like to bring, contact Bob Gorry at bob.gorry@nhic-music.org.  It should feature improvisation in some way, but there are no [...]

Since their inaugural season in 1993, Rhythm & Brass has lived up to the ideal of a musical presentation that is not bound by time, geography or culture. With the unique ability to incorporate influences as divergent as Josquin Des Prez, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, Johann Sebastian Bach, and of course Duke Ellington, Rhythm & [...]

Multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen has emerged  as one of his generation's pivotal figures in music and the related arts. A recognized prodigy, Cohen began Suzuki method piano instruction  at age three, and his playing quickly became a mature melding of musicality, technique, and concept. Downbeat observed that his "nimble touch, measured [...]

7:00 PM & 9:00 PM - $38 Vanessa Racci is a jazz and cabaret singer of Italian American descent with a passion for retro jazz and music made famous by italian Americans. She has produced an album and currently performs several shows that celebrate American jazz composers, Italian American music and their contributions to jazz [...]

After over a decade of relentless touring and recording in all but complete obscurity, the Texas-bred quasi-collective suddenly found itself held up by the press and public as one of the major figures in the jazz world. But as the category names for all five of the band’s Grammy® awards would indicate (Best R&B Performance [...]

Mars on Saturday is an instrumental jazz trio that takes inspiration from the past to make music for the present. Playing original tunes as well as standards old and new, the group was started by Mark Weaver on drums and Steve Nivison on guitar. Mark and Steve have been making music together since they were [...]

Josh Evans - Trumpet Wayne Escoffery - Saxophone James Burton III - Trombone Victor Gould - Piano Eric Wheeler - Bass Brian Richburg Jr - Drums Black Art Jazz Collective is an extraordinary all-star sextet of African American musicians, celebrating Black culture through original music with unapologetic pride. Founded in 2013 by saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, [...]

Get ready to swing into spring with a jazzy afternoon! Join us for a special performance by the Saskia Laroo & Warren Byrd Jazz Group, right here at McLean Retirement Community. Enjoy an hour of American Songbook classics and original tunes, followed by a meet-and-greet with the artists. ️ This event is free and open [...]