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Greg Mouning
Feb 3, 2007, 4:13:25 PM2/3/07
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Hey Jazzbuddies,
I'm certain some of you have made your plans for the Super Bowl by now. Here is a reminder to remember to make plans for upcoming jazz events too. Below is a list of Jazz happenings through March supplied by the Hartford Jazz Society (HJS) calendar.
Enjoy,
Greg
gamo...@gmail.com
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From: Bill & Chris Sullivan <isin...@worldnet.att.net >
Date: Feb 3, 2007 9:36 AM
Subject: HJS Calendar: Jazz Events through March
LIPBONE REDDING TRIO
Mezzanine Jazz Cafe - 960 Main St. - Downtown Hartford
Inventive voicestrumentalist and Southern Gentleman, Lipbone Redding, creates original songs that effervesce with New Orleans swing, Memphis grooves and New York City style. Though his songs stand alone, his entire show is greased with uncanny riffs of vocal trumpeting (AKA THE LIP-BONE*), booming mouth percussion, hilarious side moments and esoteric lyrics. Visit http://www.lipbone.com for more information.
860-524-9590
Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
BILL CHARLAP TRIO
Iron Horse Music Hall - Northhampton, MA
Bill Charlap is one of the strongest mainstream jazz pianists on the scene and one of the most gifted interpreters of standards with highly sophisticated yet direct arrangements and stellar improvisational skills. A show no jazz fan can afford to miss!
Adv: $22.50 - Door: $25.00
Iron Horse Schedule
Sunday, February 4 at 3:00 p.m. - FREE
KALIM ZARIF
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford - 3rd Floor Program Room
Contact: Amy Sailor, 860.695.6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Pianist and Steeple Chase Records recording artist Kalim Zarif (aka Bill Gault), can be heard on the CD "When Destiny Calls." Zarif has played extensively in New York with various bands such as Art Blakely, Donald Byrd, Frank Foster, Jackie McLean and Curtis Fuller. Zarif will be joined by Fred Stroud-bass, and Ralph Duncan-drums.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. - $5
TIM PRICE JAZZ QUARTET
Newington High School Auditorium - 605 Willard Ave.- Newington, CT
An evening of Jazz that is sure to have you dancing down the aisles and tapping your feet! Tim Price is a NYC based multi-woodwind specialist, composer, arranger& author. A Selmer clinician & Berklee graduate, he is on the faculty of both New School University (NYC) & Kutztown U.
Details
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
REV GARY MILLER & HIS CELEBRATION DIXIELAND BAND
Asylum Hill Congregational Church - Hartford, CT
Join the Rev. Gary L. Miller as he leads his band of "Dixieland Do Gooders" in a benefit concert for ServCorps. Enjoy some hot jazz on a cool winter evening while supporting the work of an organization dedicated to engaging people in community service including housing and hurricane recovery.
Tickets: $20 - advance and $25 - door
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
A WORLD OF PIANO - COOPER-MOORE (solo)
Northampton Center for the Arts - 17 South Street - Northampton, MA
Cooper-Moore is a composer, pianist, designer and builder of musical instruments, and music educator. A native of the Piedmont area of Virginia, Cooper-Moore moved to New York in 1973, leased a five-floor Canal Street building and transformed it into a work space for performing and visual artists. He has performed in the bands of Joseph Daley, Perry Robinson, Susie Ibarra, Warren Smith and Butch Morris, and with the dance companies of Jill Becker, Koo Dance, and Movin' Spirits Dance Theater. Triptych Myth, his trio with Tom Abbs and Chad Taylor, has just released The Beautiful (AUM Fidelity). Andy Battaglia, of Salon.com, called him, "one of New York's most effusive but reclusive musical geniuses. Cooper-Moore is a one-man New Orleans jazz funeral flailing like the Grambling State marching band across a vaudeville stage." He has built an extensive instrument collection, using paper, bamboo, metal, wood, and acrylic. He has extensive experience as a music therapist and educator, and is a national consultant for Headstart.
Tickets are $12 for the general public ($30 for the entire World of Piano Series), $8 for students and seniors, and are available at AJ Hastings in Amherst, State Street Fruit Market and the Center for the Arts in Northampton
Contact: Glenn Siegel, Penny Burke, 413-584-7327 - http://www.nohoarts.org/
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 8:00 p m - $10 suggested donation
ERIC FRAZIER TRIO - Web site www.ericfraziermusic.com
The Buttonwood Tree - 605 Main Street - Middletown - 860/347-4957
Eric Frazier-congas,vocals percussion, Kim Myers-piano, John Nevin –Bass. From Brooklyn, NY Eric Frazier, "is a musician, producer, songwriter, educator, arranger, composer and author. His love of the physical culture and creative expression led him to the study of the Conga Drum, Djembe Drum and African Dance. Eric's band plays a potpourri of music including Jazz, Salsa, R&B. Calypso and Blues."
Details
Saturday, February 10, 2007 from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
HARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY'S ANNUAL VALENTINE DANCE - Details
Featured Performer: Kent Hewitt Quartet with vocalist Shawnn Monteiro
Hilton Garden Inn, 555 Corporate Drive, Windsor, CT (Exit 38, Route 91)
Sunday, February 11 at 3:00 p.m. - FREE
GUY DAVIS (solo piano)
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford - 3rd Floor Program Room
Contact: Amy Sailor, 860.695.6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Musician, composer, actor, director and writer Guy Davis revives the traditions of acoustic blues through the materials of the great blues masters, African American stories, and his original songs and stories. Davis most recently appeared a PBS special on the late Jazz and Blues artist Howard Armstrong.
Friday, February 16, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
A WORLD OF PIANO - RAN BLAKE (solo)
Northampton Center for the Arts - 17 South Street - Northampton, MA
Ran Blake has created a unique niche in music as an artist and educator. His improvisations are not only informed by his vast knowledge of jazz, but also by Greek folk songs, movie soundtracks, American pop music and gospel. His dual musical legacy includes more than 35 albums on some of the world's finest jazz labels, as well over 30 years as a groundbreaking educator at Boston's New England Conservatory. Nearly half of Mr. Blake's recordings are solo performances. "(They) are some of the most introspective and intensely private in modern jazz," observed Ed Hazell in Jazziz Magazine. "He's not a blindingly fast player, but few pianists can match his nuanced touch on the keyboard or the inventiveness, even
perversity, with which he paraphrases and reconstructs familiar songs."
Tickets are $12 for the general public ($30 for the entire World of Piano Series), $8 for students and seniors, and are available at AJ Hastings in Amherst, State Street Fruit Market and the Center for the Arts in Northampton
Contact: Glenn Siegel, Penny Burke, 413-584-7327 - http://www.nohoarts.org/
Saturday, February 17 at 8:00 p.m.
JIMMY GREENE QUARTET
Vermont Jazz Center - Brattleboro, VT
Admission: General Admission is $16.00 and Senior Citizens & Students with ID are $12.00
Details
Saturday, February 17 at 8:00 p.m - $10.
ALBERT RIVERA QUARTET
La Paloma Sabenera - 405 Capitol Avenue - Hartford
Jazz @ La Paloma kicks off again with this exciting young tenor from da Bronx. Albert Rivera grew up in the Bronx and become interested in music at an early age. He attended the LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performing Arts in New York City where he was introduced to jazz. While in high school he played at Lincoln Center, in Monterey, California and in various street festivals in New York. Albert graduated from the New School University Jazz and Contemporary Music Program in 2005. Albert will come to hartford with his Quartet; with Zaccai Curtis on piano, Adam Christgau on drums, and Luques Curtis on Bass. Albert was a Teaching Assistant for the Vermont Jazz workshop in 2004. He began as a student at the Litchfield Jazz Camp in 1999 while still in high school, became a Teaching Assistant while in college, and in 2005 began his role as the Assistant Director.
Sunday, February 18 at 3:00 p.m. - FREE
ALAN PALMER (solo piano)
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford - 3rd Floor Program Room
Contact: Amy Sailor, 860.695.6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Composer, pianist and former Associate Professor of Jackie McLean's Institute of Jazz, Alan Palmer has studied, performed, recorded and toured with numerous and prominent classical and jazz musicians. Palmer currently teaches at Queens College and recently became a member of the Kenny Garrett Band.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
TIERNEY SUTTON
Iron Horse Music Hall - Northhampton, MA
The New York Times describes Tierney Sutton as "a serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level." Her technically superior voice is one of the most impressive instruments in Jazz and earned her JazzWeek's Vocalist of the Year award in 2005. Her live album "I'm With the Band" was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 for Best Jazz Vocal Album and she returns to the Iron Horse supporting a new studio record set for an early 2007 release.
Adv: $16.00 - Door: $19.00
Iron Horse Schedule
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
MICHAEL GREGORY TRIO (Michael Gregory, guitar; Mark Helias, bass; Pheeroan akLaff, drums)
Bezanson Recital Hall - University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA
Michael Gregory has successfully straddled the pop and improvised music worlds since the beginning of his career in the 1970s. A long-time resident of the Pioneer Valley, Gregory will perform a concert of improvised music that will be a revelation.
$12 general, $7 students
Details & Tickets
Friday, February 23
WOOSTER JAZZ SERIES
Featuring: STEVE DAVIS (trombone) and his TRIO
Book early to get a seat! 203-830-3963 - Danbury, CT
Web Site
Sunday, February 25 at 3:00 p.m. - FREE
NICKI MATHIS
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford - 3rd Floor Program Room
Contact: Amy Sailor, 860.695.6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Vocalist and recording artist Nicki Mathis presents a musical overview of Harlem Renaissance inspired tunes, highlighting the prominence of African American entertainers such as Gertrude Ma Rainey, Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake and James Weldon Johnson. A special piece inspired by Hurston's Jump at de Sun will round out the repertoire. Accompanying Mathis will be Warren Byrd-piano, Doug Long-bass and Joceyly Pleasant-drums.
March, 2007
Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m - $10.
JIMMY GREEN QUARTET
La Paloma Sabenera - 405 Capitol Avenue - Hartford
La Paloma welcomes Hartford area alto saxophonist Jimmy Greene in concert with his top-flight quartet. Jimmy Greene plays alto saxophone for the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band & as sideman w/Horace Silver & Tom Harrell. A young lion whose mentor was Jackie McLean, Greene navigates bebop with blues tradition & a distinctive compositional voice.
Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m
EDDIE PALMIERI - THE SUN OF LATIN MUSIC
Wesleyan University (Middletown) - Crowell Concert Hall
The world has long admired the Harlem-born, eight-time Grammy Award-winning Eddie Palmieri as one of the foremost Latin pianists of the last half-century. His ability to fuse the rhythms of his Puerto Rican heritage with the jazz influences of Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner made him an immediate hit when he played New Yorks Palladium Ballroom in the 1950s and 60s. He has continued to roll on with stylistic innovations over the years, creating classic Latin albums and later mixing salsa with R&B, pop, rock, Spanish vocals and more jazz improvisation. Now 69, Palmieri celebrates over fifty years as a professional musician, revolutionizing the sound of Latin music and ensuring his place in the music pantheon. At Wesleyan he performs with his ensemble, La Perfecta II.
Admission: $22 general; $17 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students
Event URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
For more information: boxo...@wesleyan.edu - 860-685-3355 - cfap...@wesleyan.edu
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
STEVE LIPPIA IN "SIMPLY SINATRA" - FREE Admission
Clarice L. Buckman Theater - Quinnipiac University - Hamden, CT
Part of the 2006/2007 Sonny Costanzo Concert Series
Saturday, March 17 at 8:00 p.m.
ARMEN DONELIAN - DAVE CLARK - GEORGE SCHULLER
Vermont Jazz Center - Brattleboro, VT
Admission: General Admission is $16.00 and Senior Citizens & Students with ID are $12.00
Details
Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 3 p.m..
TONY PURRONE TRIO & PAQUITO D'RIVERA
Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts
Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield, CT
Eight-time Grammy winner, saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera welcomes Tony Purrone, one of the most accomplished improvisational guitarists of his time, and his trio of world-class musicians for one performance only.
Tickets : $25 General Public, $20 Students/Children/Faculty/Seniors
Directions
Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
MICHELE ROSEWOMAN & NEWYOR-UBA
Bezanson Recital Hall - University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA
Pianist and composer Michele Rosewoman's music salutes the Orishas (deities) in a contemporary jazz setting using original compositions and modern arrangements of traditional Yoruban (Nigerian) and Arara (Dahomey) chants. The 10-member ensemble integrates brass, saxophones and a rhythm section, with master Cuban folkloric musicians.
$12 general, $7 students
Details & Tickets
Saturday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m - $10.
PAN-AMERICANS
La Paloma Sabenera - 405 Capitol Avenue - Hartford
Jazz @ La Paloma presents Grammy award winning bassist, and Hartford resident, Charles Flores as part of the multinational jazz trio, Pan-Americans. Pan-Americans is composed of Mr. Flores, Kris Allen on Sax and Rogerio Boccato on percussion.
Charles Flores' career began in Cuba with the Cuban jazz vocalist/composer Bobby Carcasses. While playing with Carcasses, he was recruited by pianist Emiliano Salvador, one of the key figures in the history of Cuban jazz. For the next three years, Charles played and toured throughout Europe and Latin America with Salvador and his quartet. Charles played bass with the Latin-fusion group "Afro-Cuba" during 1992 and 1993 recording a CD titled "Acontecer". Charles joined the Michel Camilo Trio in the year 2001. He travels and performs throughout the most important jazz venues of the world. Recording live at the Blue Note, Charles Flores with Michel Camilo and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez won a Grammy for the Best Latin Jazz Album (Live At The Blue Note) of the year 2003.
Saturday, March 31 at 9:00 p.m - $25.
DAFNIS PRIETO QUINTET
Club Helsinki - 284 Main St. - Great Barrington, MA 01230 - 413-528-3394
Top Notch Afro Cuban Jazz! 2007 Grammy Nominee For Best Latin Jazz Album!
"From Cuba, With Rhythm, Taking Jazz By Storm; Dafnis Prieto Makes His Mark in New York" - this is how the New York Times' senior jazz critic Ben Ratliff headlined his January 17, 2002 artist feature on the then 27 year old drummer, percussionist and composer from Santa Clara, Cuba. Since then, Dafnis has been at the center of the Afro-Cuban Jazz world performing with some of the world's greatest jazz artists such as Jane Bunnett & Spirit of Havana, Henry Threadgill, Eddie Palmieri, Chico O'Farril, DD Jackson, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdez, Roy Hargroves Havana Crisol, Herbie Hancock and Arturo Sandoval. By 2005, he was the leader of his own quintet. No longer a sideman, he released his first album "About The Monks" to critical acclaim. His 2006 release "Absolute Quintet" has been nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year."
Info and Directions
Ongoing Jazz Series in the Area
Arch Street Tavern (Hartford)
Firehouse 12 (New Haven)
La Paloma Sabanera Coffeehouse & Bookstore (Hartford)
Main and Hopewell (Glastonbury) Mezzanine (Hartford)
New Britain Museum of American Art (First Fridays)
Silvermine Tavern (Norwalk, CT)
Szechuan Tokyo (West Hartford)
Wooster Jazz Society (Danbury, CT)
I'm certain some of you have made your plans for the Super Bowl by now. Here is a reminder to remember to make plans for upcoming jazz events too. Below is a list of Jazz happenings through March supplied by the Hartford Jazz Society (HJS) calendar.
Enjoy,
Greg
gamo...@gmail.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bill & Chris Sullivan <isin...@worldnet.att.net >
Date: Feb 3, 2007 9:36 AM
Subject: HJS Calendar: Jazz Events through March
From the HJS
Calendar: Jazz Events through March
View the latest jazz calendar at http://www.hartfordjazzsociety.com/calendar.html
Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. - $10 CoverView the latest jazz calendar at http://www.hartfordjazzsociety.com/calendar.html
LIPBONE REDDING TRIO
Mezzanine Jazz Cafe - 960 Main St. - Downtown Hartford
Inventive voicestrumentalist and Southern Gentleman, Lipbone Redding, creates original songs that effervesce with New Orleans swing, Memphis grooves and New York City style. Though his songs stand alone, his entire show is greased with uncanny riffs of vocal trumpeting (AKA THE LIP-BONE*), booming mouth percussion, hilarious side moments and esoteric lyrics. Visit http://www.lipbone.com for more information.
860-524-9590
Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
BILL CHARLAP TRIO
Iron Horse Music Hall - Northhampton, MA
Bill Charlap is one of the strongest mainstream jazz pianists on the scene and one of the most gifted interpreters of standards with highly sophisticated yet direct arrangements and stellar improvisational skills. A show no jazz fan can afford to miss!
Adv: $22.50 - Door: $25.00
Iron Horse Schedule
Sunday, February 4 at 3:00 p.m. - FREE
KALIM ZARIF
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford - 3rd Floor Program Room
Contact: Amy Sailor, 860.695.6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Pianist and Steeple Chase Records recording artist Kalim Zarif (aka Bill Gault), can be heard on the CD "When Destiny Calls." Zarif has played extensively in New York with various bands such as Art Blakely, Donald Byrd, Frank Foster, Jackie McLean and Curtis Fuller. Zarif will be joined by Fred Stroud-bass, and Ralph Duncan-drums.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. - $5
TIM PRICE JAZZ QUARTET
Newington High School Auditorium - 605 Willard Ave.- Newington, CT
An evening of Jazz that is sure to have you dancing down the aisles and tapping your feet! Tim Price is a NYC based multi-woodwind specialist, composer, arranger& author. A Selmer clinician & Berklee graduate, he is on the faculty of both New School University (NYC) & Kutztown U.
Details
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
REV GARY MILLER & HIS CELEBRATION DIXIELAND BAND
Asylum Hill Congregational Church - Hartford, CT
Join the Rev. Gary L. Miller as he leads his band of "Dixieland Do Gooders" in a benefit concert for ServCorps. Enjoy some hot jazz on a cool winter evening while supporting the work of an organization dedicated to engaging people in community service including housing and hurricane recovery.
Tickets: $20 - advance and $25 - door
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
A WORLD OF PIANO - COOPER-MOORE (solo)
Northampton Center for the Arts - 17 South Street - Northampton, MA
Cooper-Moore is a composer, pianist, designer and builder of musical instruments, and music educator. A native of the Piedmont area of Virginia, Cooper-Moore moved to New York in 1973, leased a five-floor Canal Street building and transformed it into a work space for performing and visual artists. He has performed in the bands of Joseph Daley, Perry Robinson, Susie Ibarra, Warren Smith and Butch Morris, and with the dance companies of Jill Becker, Koo Dance, and Movin' Spirits Dance Theater. Triptych Myth, his trio with Tom Abbs and Chad Taylor, has just released The Beautiful (AUM Fidelity). Andy Battaglia, of Salon.com, called him, "one of New York's most effusive but reclusive musical geniuses. Cooper-Moore is a one-man New Orleans jazz funeral flailing like the Grambling State marching band across a vaudeville stage." He has built an extensive instrument collection, using paper, bamboo, metal, wood, and acrylic. He has extensive experience as a music therapist and educator, and is a national consultant for Headstart.
Tickets are $12 for the general public ($30 for the entire World of Piano Series), $8 for students and seniors, and are available at AJ Hastings in Amherst, State Street Fruit Market and the Center for the Arts in Northampton
Contact: Glenn Siegel, Penny Burke, 413-584-7327 - http://www.nohoarts.org/
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 8:00 p m - $10 suggested donation
ERIC FRAZIER TRIO - Web site www.ericfraziermusic.com
The Buttonwood Tree - 605 Main Street - Middletown - 860/347-4957
Eric Frazier-congas,vocals percussion, Kim Myers-piano, John Nevin –Bass. From Brooklyn, NY Eric Frazier, "is a musician, producer, songwriter, educator, arranger, composer and author. His love of the physical culture and creative expression led him to the study of the Conga Drum, Djembe Drum and African Dance. Eric's band plays a potpourri of music including Jazz, Salsa, R&B. Calypso and Blues."
Details
Saturday, February 10, 2007 from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
HARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY'S ANNUAL VALENTINE DANCE - Details
Featured Performer: Kent Hewitt Quartet with vocalist Shawnn Monteiro
Hilton Garden Inn, 555 Corporate Drive, Windsor, CT (Exit 38, Route 91)
Sunday, February 11 at 3:00 p.m. - FREE
GUY DAVIS (solo piano)
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford - 3rd Floor Program Room
Contact: Amy Sailor, 860.695.6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Musician, composer, actor, director and writer Guy Davis revives the traditions of acoustic blues through the materials of the great blues masters, African American stories, and his original songs and stories. Davis most recently appeared a PBS special on the late Jazz and Blues artist Howard Armstrong.
Friday, February 16, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
A WORLD OF PIANO - RAN BLAKE (solo)
Northampton Center for the Arts - 17 South Street - Northampton, MA
Ran Blake has created a unique niche in music as an artist and educator. His improvisations are not only informed by his vast knowledge of jazz, but also by Greek folk songs, movie soundtracks, American pop music and gospel. His dual musical legacy includes more than 35 albums on some of the world's finest jazz labels, as well over 30 years as a groundbreaking educator at Boston's New England Conservatory. Nearly half of Mr. Blake's recordings are solo performances. "(They) are some of the most introspective and intensely private in modern jazz," observed Ed Hazell in Jazziz Magazine. "He's not a blindingly fast player, but few pianists can match his nuanced touch on the keyboard or the inventiveness, even
perversity, with which he paraphrases and reconstructs familiar songs."
Tickets are $12 for the general public ($30 for the entire World of Piano Series), $8 for students and seniors, and are available at AJ Hastings in Amherst, State Street Fruit Market and the Center for the Arts in Northampton
Contact: Glenn Siegel, Penny Burke, 413-584-7327 - http://www.nohoarts.org/
Saturday, February 17 at 8:00 p.m.
JIMMY GREENE QUARTET
Vermont Jazz Center - Brattleboro, VT
Admission: General Admission is $16.00 and Senior Citizens & Students with ID are $12.00
Details
Saturday, February 17 at 8:00 p.m - $10.
ALBERT RIVERA QUARTET
La Paloma Sabenera - 405 Capitol Avenue - Hartford
Jazz @ La Paloma kicks off again with this exciting young tenor from da Bronx. Albert Rivera grew up in the Bronx and become interested in music at an early age. He attended the LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performing Arts in New York City where he was introduced to jazz. While in high school he played at Lincoln Center, in Monterey, California and in various street festivals in New York. Albert graduated from the New School University Jazz and Contemporary Music Program in 2005. Albert will come to hartford with his Quartet; with Zaccai Curtis on piano, Adam Christgau on drums, and Luques Curtis on Bass. Albert was a Teaching Assistant for the Vermont Jazz workshop in 2004. He began as a student at the Litchfield Jazz Camp in 1999 while still in high school, became a Teaching Assistant while in college, and in 2005 began his role as the Assistant Director.
Sunday, February 18 at 3:00 p.m. - FREE
ALAN PALMER (solo piano)
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford - 3rd Floor Program Room
Contact: Amy Sailor, 860.695.6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Composer, pianist and former Associate Professor of Jackie McLean's Institute of Jazz, Alan Palmer has studied, performed, recorded and toured with numerous and prominent classical and jazz musicians. Palmer currently teaches at Queens College and recently became a member of the Kenny Garrett Band.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
TIERNEY SUTTON
Iron Horse Music Hall - Northhampton, MA
The New York Times describes Tierney Sutton as "a serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level." Her technically superior voice is one of the most impressive instruments in Jazz and earned her JazzWeek's Vocalist of the Year award in 2005. Her live album "I'm With the Band" was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 for Best Jazz Vocal Album and she returns to the Iron Horse supporting a new studio record set for an early 2007 release.
Adv: $16.00 - Door: $19.00
Iron Horse Schedule
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
MICHAEL GREGORY TRIO (Michael Gregory, guitar; Mark Helias, bass; Pheeroan akLaff, drums)
Bezanson Recital Hall - University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA
Michael Gregory has successfully straddled the pop and improvised music worlds since the beginning of his career in the 1970s. A long-time resident of the Pioneer Valley, Gregory will perform a concert of improvised music that will be a revelation.
$12 general, $7 students
Details & Tickets
Friday, February 23
WOOSTER JAZZ SERIES
Featuring: STEVE DAVIS (trombone) and his TRIO
Book early to get a seat! 203-830-3963 - Danbury, CT
Web Site
Sunday, February 25 at 3:00 p.m. - FREE
NICKI MATHIS
Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford - 3rd Floor Program Room
Contact: Amy Sailor, 860.695.6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Vocalist and recording artist Nicki Mathis presents a musical overview of Harlem Renaissance inspired tunes, highlighting the prominence of African American entertainers such as Gertrude Ma Rainey, Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake and James Weldon Johnson. A special piece inspired by Hurston's Jump at de Sun will round out the repertoire. Accompanying Mathis will be Warren Byrd-piano, Doug Long-bass and Joceyly Pleasant-drums.
March, 2007
Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m - $10.
JIMMY GREEN QUARTET
La Paloma Sabenera - 405 Capitol Avenue - Hartford
La Paloma welcomes Hartford area alto saxophonist Jimmy Greene in concert with his top-flight quartet. Jimmy Greene plays alto saxophone for the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band & as sideman w/Horace Silver & Tom Harrell. A young lion whose mentor was Jackie McLean, Greene navigates bebop with blues tradition & a distinctive compositional voice.
Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m
EDDIE PALMIERI - THE SUN OF LATIN MUSIC
Wesleyan University (Middletown) - Crowell Concert Hall
The world has long admired the Harlem-born, eight-time Grammy Award-winning Eddie Palmieri as one of the foremost Latin pianists of the last half-century. His ability to fuse the rhythms of his Puerto Rican heritage with the jazz influences of Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner made him an immediate hit when he played New Yorks Palladium Ballroom in the 1950s and 60s. He has continued to roll on with stylistic innovations over the years, creating classic Latin albums and later mixing salsa with R&B, pop, rock, Spanish vocals and more jazz improvisation. Now 69, Palmieri celebrates over fifty years as a professional musician, revolutionizing the sound of Latin music and ensuring his place in the music pantheon. At Wesleyan he performs with his ensemble, La Perfecta II.
Admission: $22 general; $17 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students
Event URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
For more information: boxo...@wesleyan.edu - 860-685-3355 - cfap...@wesleyan.edu
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
STEVE LIPPIA IN "SIMPLY SINATRA" - FREE Admission
Clarice L. Buckman Theater - Quinnipiac University - Hamden, CT
Part of the 2006/2007 Sonny Costanzo Concert Series
Saturday, March 17 at 8:00 p.m.
ARMEN DONELIAN - DAVE CLARK - GEORGE SCHULLER
Vermont Jazz Center - Brattleboro, VT
Admission: General Admission is $16.00 and Senior Citizens & Students with ID are $12.00
Details
Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 3 p.m..
TONY PURRONE TRIO & PAQUITO D'RIVERA
Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts
Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield, CT
Eight-time Grammy winner, saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera welcomes Tony Purrone, one of the most accomplished improvisational guitarists of his time, and his trio of world-class musicians for one performance only.
Tickets : $25 General Public, $20 Students/Children/Faculty/Seniors
Directions
Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
MICHELE ROSEWOMAN & NEWYOR-UBA
Bezanson Recital Hall - University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA
Pianist and composer Michele Rosewoman's music salutes the Orishas (deities) in a contemporary jazz setting using original compositions and modern arrangements of traditional Yoruban (Nigerian) and Arara (Dahomey) chants. The 10-member ensemble integrates brass, saxophones and a rhythm section, with master Cuban folkloric musicians.
$12 general, $7 students
Details & Tickets
Saturday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m - $10.
PAN-AMERICANS
La Paloma Sabenera - 405 Capitol Avenue - Hartford
Jazz @ La Paloma presents Grammy award winning bassist, and Hartford resident, Charles Flores as part of the multinational jazz trio, Pan-Americans. Pan-Americans is composed of Mr. Flores, Kris Allen on Sax and Rogerio Boccato on percussion.
Charles Flores' career began in Cuba with the Cuban jazz vocalist/composer Bobby Carcasses. While playing with Carcasses, he was recruited by pianist Emiliano Salvador, one of the key figures in the history of Cuban jazz. For the next three years, Charles played and toured throughout Europe and Latin America with Salvador and his quartet. Charles played bass with the Latin-fusion group "Afro-Cuba" during 1992 and 1993 recording a CD titled "Acontecer". Charles joined the Michel Camilo Trio in the year 2001. He travels and performs throughout the most important jazz venues of the world. Recording live at the Blue Note, Charles Flores with Michel Camilo and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez won a Grammy for the Best Latin Jazz Album (Live At The Blue Note) of the year 2003.
Saturday, March 31 at 9:00 p.m - $25.
DAFNIS PRIETO QUINTET
Club Helsinki - 284 Main St. - Great Barrington, MA 01230 - 413-528-3394
Top Notch Afro Cuban Jazz! 2007 Grammy Nominee For Best Latin Jazz Album!
"From Cuba, With Rhythm, Taking Jazz By Storm; Dafnis Prieto Makes His Mark in New York" - this is how the New York Times' senior jazz critic Ben Ratliff headlined his January 17, 2002 artist feature on the then 27 year old drummer, percussionist and composer from Santa Clara, Cuba. Since then, Dafnis has been at the center of the Afro-Cuban Jazz world performing with some of the world's greatest jazz artists such as Jane Bunnett & Spirit of Havana, Henry Threadgill, Eddie Palmieri, Chico O'Farril, DD Jackson, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdez, Roy Hargroves Havana Crisol, Herbie Hancock and Arturo Sandoval. By 2005, he was the leader of his own quintet. No longer a sideman, he released his first album "About The Monks" to critical acclaim. His 2006 release "Absolute Quintet" has been nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year."
Info and Directions
Ongoing Jazz Series in the Area
Arch Street Tavern (Hartford)
Firehouse 12 (New Haven)
La Paloma Sabanera Coffeehouse & Bookstore (Hartford)
Main and Hopewell (Glastonbury) Mezzanine (Hartford)
New Britain Museum of American Art (First Fridays)
Silvermine Tavern (Norwalk, CT)
Szechuan Tokyo (West Hartford)
Wooster Jazz Society (Danbury, CT)
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