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3 events,Dr. G's Jazz Brunch held on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays from 12pm (noon) until 3pm at Quattro's Italian Restaurant: All events will also include jazz masters Jeff Fuller on bass and Barry Ries on drums &/or trumpet. "Dr. G" will provide guitar accompaniment. Concerts will be held at HPL’s Downtown Library on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. from January through April, excluding Easter Sunday on April 5. Performances will take place in the Center for Contemporary Culture, 500 Main Street, Hartford. Doors open at 2:00 p.m., and each concert lasts about an hour. Shows will also be streamed [...]
Free
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Nathan & Noah East – Acclaimed Father-Son Duo In April of 2025 Nathan East & Noah East released their debut full length album Father Son which received rave reviews and for which they have been touring. A founding member of the chart-topping contemporary jazz group Fourplay, Nathan East was 16 years old when he got [...]
$65
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2 events,For over 24 years, hosting public rehearsals every Monday night, now at Guilford VFW Post 7666. Tuxedo Junction was started in 1989 by Pete Jacobs (trumpet) and Will Tayler (drums), WWII veterans who set up an 8-piece Dixieland jazz band in the basement of the senior citizens center in Madison, CT. Pat soon joined on [...]
Free
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2 events,
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In April of 2025 Nathan East & Noah East released their debut full length album Father Son which received rave reviews and for which they have been touring. A founding member of the chart-topping contemporary jazz group Fourplay, Nathan East was 16 years old when he got his first break and found himself on the [...]
$39
It's a funky Big Band thang, a large jazz ensemble that rocks the house. Playing music from Tower of Power, Frank Zappa, The Brecker Brothers, Jaco Pastorious, Steely Dan, The Yellow Jackets, Bob Berg.....You'll want to see them again and again! https://www.facebook.com/OtherOrchestra/ |
1 event,Located in downtown Hartford, for the aficionado, musician, or the curious first-timer, Black Eyed Sally’s Jazz Jams are the best taste of live jazz in Hartford. Set in the southern juke joint atmosphere of Black-eyed Sally’s, these jam sessions will strike a chord as you hear what our local talent has to offer, with regular [...] |
1 event,
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"Over the last couple of years in New York one method for deciding where to hear jazz on a given night has been to track down the pianist Kris Davis" — The New York Times A Grammy-winning pianist and composer, Kris Davis has built her career on a remarkable commitment to group improvisation. With twenty-five [...]
$17.50 – $35
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3 events,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 [...]
Free
New England Jazz Underground presents jazz on the 1st and 3rd Friday every month.
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Join us for a special night of jazz with Saxophonist Miguel Zenon and his Quartet! Miguel Zenón - Saxophone Luis Perdomo - Piano Matt Penman - Bass Henry Cole - Drums This young musician and composer is at once reestablishing the artistic, cultural, and social tradition of jazz while creating an entirely new jazz language [...]
$33
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6 events,The Bob Ahern Quartet will be performing the last Saturday of each month at the legendary Lighthouse Inn from 6-9. The group features Lisa Marien on vocals and Bob Ahern on drums along with various Jazz artists each month.
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Joe Carter - guitar Laura Volpintesta - vocals, percussion David Finck - bass Jerrod Cattey - drums When guitarist Joe Carter and his Samba Rio Quarteto hit the stage on March 7, the Northwest Park coffee house will transform into a lively Rio de Janeiro jazz club. Carter is a Connecticut-born jazz guitarist who fell [...]
$18 – $20
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1 event,Concerts will be held at HPL’s Downtown Library on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. from January through April, excluding Easter Sunday on April 5. Performances will take place in the Center for Contemporary Culture, 500 Main Street, Hartford. Doors open at 2:00 p.m., and each concert lasts about an hour. Concerts will be streamed on [...]
Free
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2 events,For over 24 years, hosting public rehearsals every Monday night, now at Guilford VFW Post 7666. Tuxedo Junction was started in 1989 by Pete Jacobs (trumpet) and Will Tayler (drums), WWII veterans who set up an 8-piece Dixieland jazz band in the basement of the senior citizens center in Madison, CT. Pat soon joined on [...]
Free
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2 events,It's a funky Big Band thang, a large jazz ensemble that rocks the house. Playing music from Tower of Power, Frank Zappa, The Brecker Brothers, Jaco Pastorious, Steely Dan, The Yellow Jackets, Bob Berg.....You'll want to see them again and again! https://www.facebook.com/OtherOrchestra/ |
2 events,Located in downtown Hartford, for the aficionado, musician, or the curious first-timer, Black Eyed Sally’s Jazz Jams are the best taste of live jazz in Hartford. Set in the southern juke joint atmosphere of Black-eyed Sally’s, these jam sessions will strike a chord as you hear what our local talent has to offer, with regular [...]
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The Sean Nelson Jazz Orchestra returns to the Side Door as part of their monthly residency The Sean Nelson Jazz Orchestra is a "full bodied and polished brassy big band" (Jazz Weekly) made up of 17 of the finest musicians in New England. Formed in 2016 as the New London Big Band, for the past [...]
$23
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1 event,A new music series on the 2nd Thursday of every month. It will feature groups and ad hoc combinations of New Haven Improvisers Collective folks. Show up with your instrument before 7pm and join COMBO NHIC.
Free
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4 events,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 [...]
Free
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Hall High School proudly invites the community to experience the 68th annual production of Pops ’n Jazz, a beloved West Hartford tradition showcasing the school’s extraordinary jazz musicians, singers, dancers, and theater students. This year’s production explores the magic behind the music with a theatrical theme of Putting It Together, and tells the story of [...]
$15 – $20
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7PM & 9PM - @ $40 Born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1972, Brian was introduced to music by his mother, Catherine. By the age of 17, he was playing with jazz luminaries such as Lou Donaldson and Houston Person. Brian is a staple of the downtown NYC scene working with virtually everyone who plays with [...]
$40
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4 events,The Bob Ahern Quartet will be performing the last Saturday of each month at the legendary Lighthouse Inn from 6-9. The group features Lisa Marien on vocals and Bob Ahern on drums along with various Jazz artists each month.
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Hall High School proudly invites the community to experience the 68th annual production of Pops ’n Jazz, a beloved West Hartford tradition showcasing the school’s extraordinary jazz musicians, singers, dancers, and theater students. This year’s production explores the magic behind the music with a theatrical theme of Putting It Together, and tells the story of [...]
$15 – $20
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3 events,
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Hall High School proudly invites the community to experience the 68th annual production of Pops ’n Jazz, a beloved West Hartford tradition showcasing the school’s extraordinary jazz musicians, singers, dancers, and theater students. This year’s production explores the magic behind the music with a theatrical theme of Putting It Together, and tells the story of [...]
$10
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Instantiations, formerly known as Improvisations Now, is a monthly series of concerts conceived and programmed by Joe Morris (guitarist, bassist, improviser, composer-wearer of many hats). Joe invites dynamic, innovative musicians - important members of the global improvised music scene - and performs with them. The music is completely improvised. Every concert, every instance is a [...]
$8 – $15
Concerts will be held at HPL’s Downtown Library on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. from January through April, excluding Easter Sunday on April 5. Performances will take place in the Center for Contemporary Culture, 500 Main Street, Hartford. Doors open at 2:00 p.m., and each concert lasts about an hour. Concerts will be streamed on [...]
Free
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2 events,For over 24 years, hosting public rehearsals every Monday night, now at Guilford VFW Post 7666. Tuxedo Junction was started in 1989 by Pete Jacobs (trumpet) and Will Tayler (drums), WWII veterans who set up an 8-piece Dixieland jazz band in the basement of the senior citizens center in Madison, CT. Pat soon joined on [...]
Free
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2 events,
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Anna Webber (tenor saxophone/flute), Sarah Rossy (voice/keyboards), Chiquita Magic (keyboards/voice), John Hollenbeck (drums/composition) From the Greek name Georgios, which was derived from the Greek word georgos meaning “farmer, earthworker”, itself derived from the elements γῆ (ge) meaning “earth” and ergon meaning “work”. George Washington Carver, George Gervin, George Clooney, George Floyd, George Wein, Georgia (the [...]
$20
It's a funky Big Band thang, a large jazz ensemble that rocks the house. Playing music from Tower of Power, Frank Zappa, The Brecker Brothers, Jaco Pastorious, Steely Dan, The Yellow Jackets, Bob Berg.....You'll want to see them again and again! https://www.facebook.com/OtherOrchestra/ |
1 event,Located in downtown Hartford, for the aficionado, musician, or the curious first-timer, Black Eyed Sally’s Jazz Jams are the best taste of live jazz in Hartford. Set in the southern juke joint atmosphere of Black-eyed Sally’s, these jam sessions will strike a chord as you hear what our local talent has to offer, with regular [...] |
1 event,
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Hall High School proudly invites the community to experience the 68th annual production of Pops ’n Jazz, a beloved West Hartford tradition showcasing the school’s extraordinary jazz musicians, singers, dancers, and theater students. This year’s production explores the magic behind the music with a theatrical theme of Putting It Together, and tells the story of [...]
$15 – $20
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6 events,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 [...]
Free
New England Jazz Underground presents jazz on the 1st and 3rd Friday every month.
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Hall High School proudly invites the community to experience the 68th annual production of Pops ’n Jazz, a beloved West Hartford tradition showcasing the school’s extraordinary jazz musicians, singers, dancers, and theater students. This year’s production explores the magic behind the music with a theatrical theme of Putting It Together, and tells the story of [...]
$15 – $20
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4 events,The Bob Ahern Quartet will be performing the last Saturday of each month at the legendary Lighthouse Inn from 6-9. The group features Lisa Marien on vocals and Bob Ahern on drums along with various Jazz artists each month.
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Hall High School proudly invites the community to experience the 68th annual production of Pops ’n Jazz, a beloved West Hartford tradition showcasing the school’s extraordinary jazz musicians, singers, dancers, and theater students. This year’s production explores the magic behind the music with a theatrical theme of Putting It Together, and tells the story of [...]
$15 – $20
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1 event,Concerts will be held at HPL’s Downtown Library on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. from January through April, excluding Easter Sunday on April 5. Performances will take place in the Center for Contemporary Culture, 500 Main Street, Hartford. Doors open at 2:00 p.m., and each concert lasts about an hour. Concerts will be streamed on [...]
Free
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2 events,For over 24 years, hosting public rehearsals every Monday night, now at Guilford VFW Post 7666. Tuxedo Junction was started in 1989 by Pete Jacobs (trumpet) and Will Tayler (drums), WWII veterans who set up an 8-piece Dixieland jazz band in the basement of the senior citizens center in Madison, CT. Pat soon joined on [...]
Free
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2 events,It's a funky Big Band thang, a large jazz ensemble that rocks the house. Playing music from Tower of Power, Frank Zappa, The Brecker Brothers, Jaco Pastorious, Steely Dan, The Yellow Jackets, Bob Berg.....You'll want to see them again and again! https://www.facebook.com/OtherOrchestra/ |
2 events,Located in downtown Hartford, for the aficionado, musician, or the curious first-timer, Black Eyed Sally’s Jazz Jams are the best taste of live jazz in Hartford. Set in the southern juke joint atmosphere of Black-eyed Sally’s, these jam sessions will strike a chord as you hear what our local talent has to offer, with regular [...] |
0 events,
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2 events,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 [...]
Free
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Join us for a special night of jazz with Pianist Amina Figarova and her Sextet! Amina Figarova - Piano Charlie Porter - Trumpet Bart Platteau - Flutes Wayne Escoffery- Tenor sax Luques Curtis - Bass Donald Edwards - Drums Amina Figarova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and as a child studied to be a classical [...]
$28
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4 events,The Bob Ahern Quartet will be performing the last Saturday of each month at the legendary Lighthouse Inn from 6-9. The group features Lisa Marien on vocals and Bob Ahern on drums along with various Jazz artists each month.
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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) is an artist who has never been content to stand still and inhabit only the present. Adjuah changed his name out of a desire to connect with his family roots in West Africa and clear a stronger path to the future. His music similarly embraces the African roots [...]
$20 – $35
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2 events,
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A concert featuring the music of jazz pianist James Williams (1951–2004) performed by Jazz Piano Instructor, Visiting Professor in Continuing Studies and the Center for Prison Education, and Director of the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble Noah Baerman, bassist Henry Lugo, and drummer Dennis Mackrel.
Free
Concerts will be held at HPL’s Downtown Library on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. from January through April, excluding Easter Sunday on April 5. Performances will take place in the Center for Contemporary Culture, 500 Main Street, Hartford. Doors open at 2:00 p.m., and each concert lasts about an hour. Concerts will be streamed on [...]
Free
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2 events,For over 24 years, hosting public rehearsals every Monday night, now at Guilford VFW Post 7666. Tuxedo Junction was started in 1989 by Pete Jacobs (trumpet) and Will Tayler (drums), WWII veterans who set up an 8-piece Dixieland jazz band in the basement of the senior citizens center in Madison, CT. Pat soon joined on [...]
Free
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1 event,It's a funky Big Band thang, a large jazz ensemble that rocks the house. Playing music from Tower of Power, Frank Zappa, The Brecker Brothers, Jaco Pastorious, Steely Dan, The Yellow Jackets, Bob Berg.....You'll want to see them again and again! https://www.facebook.com/OtherOrchestra/ |
1 event,Located in downtown Hartford, for the aficionado, musician, or the curious first-timer, Black Eyed Sally’s Jazz Jams are the best taste of live jazz in Hartford. Set in the southern juke joint atmosphere of Black-eyed Sally’s, these jam sessions will strike a chord as you hear what our local talent has to offer, with regular [...] |
1 event,
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Marilyn Crispell (piano), Harvey Sorgen (drums) Marilyn Crispell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied classical piano and composition, and has been a resident of Woodstock, New York since 1977 when she came to study and teach at the Creative Music Studio. She discovered jazz through the music of [...]
$20
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3 events,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 [...]
Free
New England Jazz Underground presents jazz on the 1st and 3rd Friday every month.
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Diana Krall is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. To date, her albums have garnered two Grammy® Awards, ten Juno® Awards and have also earned nine gold, three platinum and seven multi-platinum albums. Krall's unique artistry transcends any single musical style and has [...]
$55 – $155
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2 events,The Bob Ahern Quartet will be performing the last Saturday of each month at the legendary Lighthouse Inn from 6-9. The group features Lisa Marien on vocals and Bob Ahern on drums along with various Jazz artists each month. |
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