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SUMMARY:Noah Baerman Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Jazz pianist and composer Noah Baerman dedicates an evening to the music of one of his (and jazz music’s) biggest heroes\, Wayne Shorter (1933-2023).\n \nOn this night join Noah and his quartet\, featuring Matt Steckler (woodwinds)\, Amanda Monaco (guitar)\, Henry Lugo (bass)\, and Ryan Sands (drums). \nNoah Baerman is a jazz pianist\, composer\, educator\, and activist who has recorded eleven acclaimed albums under his own name and several more as a co-leader of cooperative ensembles including Trio 149\, Envisage Collective\, and Playdate\, earning praise from. Over fifteen years after nearly walking away from the piano due to his struggles with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)\, an incurable connective tissue disorder with which he was born\, Noah recently released his eleventh recording under his own name\, the duo album Alter Ego\, documenting 20 years of collaboration with bassist Henry Lugo. This came on the heels of the double-album Love Right\, a tribute to his friend and former student Claire Randall that involved the participation of 100 musicians. \nA student of Kenny Barron’s while earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Jazz Studies from Rutgers University in the 1990s\, Baerman first earned national recognition for his 2003 release Patch Kit\, conceived around his struggles with EDS and featuring jazz legends Ron Carter and Ben Riley. Patch Kit raised awareness and funds for EDS and led to an invitation from Marian McPartland to be a guest on her long-running NPR program Piano Jazz in 2005. Subsequent works have included Soul Force\, a tribute to the life and message of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, and Know Thyself\, an emotionally sweeping 65 minute suite made possible by a “New Jazz Works” grant from Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation. Baerman’s recent CDs have received coverage from publications including Downbeat\, Jazz Times\, Jazziz\, the NYC Jazz Record\, WNPR’s Jazz Corridor\, the Village Voice\, and the Hartford Courant\, as well as an hour-long examination of his album The Rock and the Redemption on WNPR’s Colin McEnroe Show. \nSince 1998 he has lived with his wife\, visual artist Kate Ten Eyck\, in Middletown\, Connecticut\, where July 10\, 2020 was declared “Noah Baerman Day” by the city’s mayor and the Middletown Commission on the Arts in recognition of his a 2020 Arts Advocacy award. He teaches at several institutions including Wesleyan University\, where he has directed the Jazz Ensemble since 2007\, and has taught through their Graduate Liberal Studies Program since 2002\, as well as spending eighteen summers working with teenaged musicians through the Center for Creative Youth. His teaching concepts have been codified through ten well-regarded instructional books published by the Alfred Publishing Company. In 2012 he became Artistic Director of Resonant Motion\, Inc.\, an organization that seeks to explore and deepen connections between music and positive changes. \nThrough RMI he has overseen numerous educational workshops on the methodology behind socially conscious art\, founded the musically diverse imprint RMI Records\, and fostered and participated in interdisciplinary work. Since 2015 he has curated and hosted RMI’s interactive guest artist series\, Jazz Up Close\, and he been one of the primary architects of RMI’s initiative\, Claire’s Continuum a commissioning program in the memory of Claire Randall\, one of RMI’s charter team members. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic he was awarded an Artists Respond grant from the CT Office of the Arts and he recently completed the multi-year Musician-Aid Requests project\, for which he recorded forty videos\, many of them with socially distanced collaborators\, of songs requested by fans who donated to support musicians financially impacted by the pandemic.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/noah-baerman-quartet/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center\, 605 Main Street\, Middletown\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260619T190000
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SUMMARY:Noah Baerman & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Jazz pianist and composer Noah Baerman dedicates an evening to the music of one of his (and jazz music’s) biggest heroes\, Wayne Shorter (1933-2023).\n \nOn this night join Noah and his quartet\, featuring Matt Steckler (woodwinds)\, Amanda Monaco (guitar)\, Henry Lugo (bass)\, and Ryan Sands (drums). \nNoah Baerman is a jazz pianist\, composer\, educator\, and activist who has recorded eleven acclaimed albums under his own name and several more as a co-leader of cooperative ensembles including Trio 149\, Envisage Collective\, and Playdate\, earning praise from. Over fifteen years after nearly walking away from the piano due to his struggles with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)\, an incurable connective tissue disorder with which he was born\, Noah recently released his eleventh recording under his own name\, the duo album Alter Ego\, documenting 20 years of collaboration with bassist Henry Lugo. This came on the heels of the double-album Love Right\, a tribute to his friend and former student Claire Randall that involved the participation of 100 musicians. \nA student of Kenny Barron’s while earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Jazz Studies from Rutgers University in the 1990s\, Baerman first earned national recognition for his 2003 release Patch Kit\, conceived around his struggles with EDS and featuring jazz legends Ron Carter and Ben Riley. Patch Kit raised awareness and funds for EDS and led to an invitation from Marian McPartland to be a guest on her long-running NPR program Piano Jazz in 2005. Subsequent works have included Soul Force\, a tribute to the life and message of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, and Know Thyself\, an emotionally sweeping 65 minute suite made possible by a “New Jazz Works” grant from Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation. Baerman’s recent CDs have received coverage from publications including Downbeat\, Jazz Times\, Jazziz\, the NYC Jazz Record\, WNPR’s Jazz Corridor\, the Village Voice\, and the Hartford Courant\, as well as an hour-long examination of his album The Rock and the Redemption on WNPR’s Colin McEnroe Show. \nSince 1998 he has lived with his wife\, visual artist Kate Ten Eyck\, in Middletown\, Connecticut\, where July 10\, 2020 was declared “Noah Baerman Day” by the city’s mayor and the Middletown Commission on the Arts in recognition of his a 2020 Arts Advocacy award. He teaches at several institutions including Wesleyan University\, where he has directed the Jazz Ensemble since 2007\, and has taught through their Graduate Liberal Studies Program since 2002\, as well as spending eighteen summers working with teenaged musicians through the Center for Creative Youth. His teaching concepts have been codified through ten well-regarded instructional books published by the Alfred Publishing Company. In 2012 he became Artistic Director of Resonant Motion\, Inc.\, an organization that seeks to explore and deepen connections between music and positive changes. \nThrough RMI he has overseen numerous educational workshops on the methodology behind socially conscious art\, founded the musically diverse imprint RMI Records\, and fostered and participated in interdisciplinary work. Since 2015 he has curated and hosted RMI’s interactive guest artist series\, Jazz Up Close\, and he been one of the primary architects of RMI’s initiative\, Claire’s Continuum a commissioning program in the memory of Claire Randall\, one of RMI’s charter team members. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic he was awarded an Artists Respond grant from the CT Office of the Arts and he recently completed the multi-year Musician-Aid Requests project\, for which he recorded forty videos\, many of them with socially distanced collaborators\, of songs requested by fans who donated to support musicians financially impacted by the pandemic. \nLinks: Website | Facebook (Personal) | Facebook (Music) | Instagram | YouTube
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/noah-baerman-friends/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center\, 605 Main Street\, Middletown\, CT\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mathew Pearl : Solo
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Pearl is a jazz tenor saxophonist and one of New York City’s rising young musicians. Matt received a Bachelor of Music degree in 2023 from the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz (Hartt School\, University of Hartford) in Connecticut. He was awarded a scholarship for his talents in music and academics and studied jazz music\, history\, culture\, and performance while at the university. Matt studied with world renowned saxophonist Abraham Burton and has been mentored by professionals including Rene McLean\, Nat Reeves\, Javon Jackson\, Jonathan Barber\, Matt DeChamplain\, Steve Davis\, Haneef Nelson\, Matt Dwonszyk\, and Zaccai Curtis. \nOriginally from Marlborough\, Massachusetts\, Matt grew up listening to a lot of music\, especially jazz. Matt started playing the clarinet at the age of 10 and the tenor saxophone at the age of 12. Throughout high school and college\, Matt began gigging and performing all over New England. Some notable venues Matt has performed at include the Newport Jazz Festival\, Symphony Hall\, and the Side Door Jazz Club. \nRecently\, Matt has been focusing on performing\, especially in New York City. You might typically find him listening or playing at venues anywhere from Hartford to New York\, including Black Eyed Sally’s\, Cafe Nine\, and Smalls. \n\nInstagram – matthewpearlmusic \nFacebook – www.facebook.com/matthew.pearl.7 \nYouTube – www.youtube.com/@matthewpearlmusic
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/mathew-pearl-solo/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center\, 605 Main Street\, Middletown\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T200000
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SUMMARY:Waberi Jordan & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Waberi Jordan is a vocalist and songwriter whose signature is rooted in the Leimert Park Jazz Community of Los Angeles. Raised on a steady diet of straight-ahead jazz\, at a time when R&B dominated the airwaves\, Waberi’s sound bridges two pivotal eras of artistic expression. \nWaberi studied and played with Horace Tapscott along with The Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra and The Great Voice of UGMAA (Union of God’s Musicians and Artists’ Ascension)\, many notable performers and scholars like Dr. Art Hillary\, McCoy Tyner\, Azar Lawrence\, Nate Morgan\, Pharoah Sanders and many more. \nWaberi has also performed around the world with various bands and ensembles\, from SoulBop (an L.A. based collective of jazz musicians)\, R&B to West African Drum and Dance bands; 50-piece Jazz arkestras in L.A. and Europe to solo acapella sets. She has also been featured on numerous recordings\, including the Jazz CD “Living Water” by extraordinary vocalist DWIGHT TRIBLE\, and classic Reggae CD “Good’s Gonna Happen” Sahra Indio. \nIn 2009 Waberi released her debut album\, The Trajectory of Starah. The accompanying video\, Sunflowers in my Garden premiered the same year\, to critical acclaim. The song has become beloved worldwide. Her second video release\, Put it Right There was released in 2014\, and as an added bonus\, was co-directed and shot by Tim Russ\, noted for his role as Tuvok in Star Trek: Voyager. \n2015 saw Waberi exchanging the West Coast for the East Coast and settling into playing shows in NYC with Grammy nominated artists and local artists alike. \nAn opportunity came to play in Salt Lake City\, Utah in 2017\, during the Sundance Film Festival. Two on Tour was born\, as a duo with long-time friend and collaborator Shena Verrett. They met almost a decade ago in Los Angeles when Alt Rocker Shena performed there and later presented Jazz Songstress Waberi as a featured musical artist for a festival in NYC called The Urb Alt Festival. \n“The IDEA of Two On Tour came about in an organic and cosmic manner\, beginning in 2008 when Shena and I first met. Her lyricism\, accompanied with her bad-ass stage persona was so inspiring and I think the feeling was mutual. I wanted her to write for me and I was kinda embarrassed to ask. Then and there\, in 2008\, we decided that somehow we would play and sing together.” \nWaberi has been embraced by the East Coast jazz and live music community\, with residencies at The Buttonwood tree and at The Middletown Music Festival. With shows booked well into 2020 and beyond\, Waberi Jordan is looking forward – once the tide has turned on this most urgent occurrence of our lifetimes – to live performance\, collaborative in-person projects\, and the joy that life offers.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/waberi-jordan-friends/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center\, 605 Main Street\, Middletown\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T190000
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SUMMARY:Ryan Sands & Altus
DESCRIPTION:Drummer and Composer Ryan Sands will perform with Altus\, a fusion of five gifted musicians—Dave Adewumi\, Isaac Levien\, Neta Raanan\, Nathan Reising\, and Ryan Sands—embarks on sonic journeys rooted in a decade-long musical bond. Inspired by Black American improvisational techniques\, Altus creates narratives that blur the line between immediate experience and timeless mythologies. \nHailing 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\, Lucy Yeghiazaryan\, and Jason Marsalis. He holds the drum chair for Christian Sands and Altus. Ryan has performed in the pit of the Ain’t Misbehavin\, under the direction of Jeffrey Page\, and done music for Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue under the direction of Alphonso Horne. \nRyan’s musical education includes a BA in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory and an MA in Jazz Arts from the Manhattan School of Music. For teaching\, he has taught for Neighborhood Music School in New Haven\, CT\, and iSchool of Music and Art in Shanghai. He currently teaches private drums at Yale University for their Yale Undergrad Jazz Collective. \nRyan’s recording credits include Christian Sands’ Risin’\, Christmas Stories\, and his upcoming record in 2024. Altus’ Riot Cycles and Mythos. David Knowles’s Blackest Night. Shihai Li’s Inner Rhythm. As a bandleader Ryan released his debut record\, Standing On the Edge of Tomorrow\, and will be releasing his sophomore record\, Forest Road: Live at the Side Door\, in 2024. \nLinks: Website | YouTube | Instagram
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/ryan-sands-altus/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center\, 605 Main Street\, Middletown\, CT\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mark Kaplan Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The Mark Kaplan Quartet is an established luminary on the local and regional jazz scene. Mark Kaplan\, tenor saxophone; Martin Carter\, piano; Adam Anderson\, bass; and John Rispoli\, drums.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/mark-kaplan-quartet/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center\, 605 Main Street\, Middletown\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T210000
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SUMMARY:Karen Frisk Trio
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/karen-frisk-trio/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center\, 605 Main Street\, Middletown\, CT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T190000
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Simmons
DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Simmons is a Hartford-based tenor saxophonist who specializes in modern and straight ahead jazz. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Hartford Hartt School of Music in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in jazz studies. Throughout his time at the University of Hartford\, Benjamin studied with world renowned saxophonist\, Abraham Burton\, as well as Nat Reeves\, Rene McLean\, and Steve Davis. Since graduation\, Benjamin has shared the stage with notable Hartford musicians Nat Reeves\, Jonathan Barber\, and Matt Dwonszyk. Benjamin is a prominent player in the Hartford scene and on the rise in New York City.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/benjamin-simmons/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center\, 605 Main Street\, Middletown\, CT\, United States
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