HJS Calendar: Jazz Events through June
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Greg Mouning
Jun 1, 2007, 10:59:23 PM6/1/07
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Jazzbuddies,
It's that time again when the sultry, sizzling, summer nights meet up with the red, hot jazz scenes. Check it out for yourself by coming out to support the various live jazz performances happening throughout CT. Please find below the Hartford Jazz Society (HJS) calendar effective through June!
Enjoy,
Greg
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LIVIU POP
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
LIVIU POP'S FUNK-JAZZ ENSEMBLE Brings you funk jazz and soul jazz from the man who's fast become our most popular show producer: drummer Liviu Pop. Liviu's brought us more jazz celebrities than any other performer! We hope you'll join us as Liviu reaches into his bag of tricks once more for a toe-tapping evening spanning myriad sub-genres of jazz.
860-561-0180
June, 2007
Friday, June 1, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
"BIG" AL WILSON
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Hartford Jazz Legend "Big" AL WILSON and his ensemble bring you R&B, funk and standard sounds; all in a definitively jazz vein. These shows are very popular; best make reservations.
860-561-0180
Friday, June 1, 2007 - 8 PM - $20
AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE
The Donald L. Oat Theater - 62 Broadway - Norwich
The Afro-Semitic Experience is an ensemble dedicated to preserving, promoting and expanding the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Jewish and African Diaspora. Imagine a band that understands and can present interpretations of music from traditions as rich as Gospel, Klezmer, Nigunim, Spirituals, and Swing and you have the Afro-Semitic Experience. This is a group that is as comfortable playing a freylakh as they are swinging a blues, that knows how to play a bulgar or some funk. the Afro-Semitic Experience delivers a positive and meaningful musical message about Black-Jewish relations.
Tickets are usually available at the door, but we strongly recommend calling ahead for reservations 860-887-2789
Friday, June 1, 2007 - 8:30 PM - $16/$12 students with ID
VERMONT JAZZ CENTER BIG BAND DANCE PARTY
Vermont Jazz Center - Brattleboro, VT
Tickets can be purchased securely on-line or can be reserved over the phone by calling (802) 254 9088. They also can be bought at In the Moment, 143 Main Street, in Brattleboro, Vermont. For information on access and directions, call the Vermont Jazz Center at (802) 254 9088.
Info
Friday, June 1 - 10, 2007
BURLINGTON DISCOVER JAZZ FESTIVAL
Venues throughout the city of Burlington, VT
For ten days in June the city of Burlington, Vermont, transforms into a jazz oasis. Discover intimate venues, concerts under the stars, cruises on Lake Champlain, workshops and lectures from world-renowned artists and the sound of America's homegrown art form on every corner.
Friday, June 1, 2007 - 9:00 PM
CRAIG HARTLEY (piano) and STEVE SLAGLE (saxophone)
Jazz on the Wharf
Long Wharf Theatre - Stage II - 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven
Directions/Info http://www.longwharf.org/about_directions1.html
203-787-4282
June 2, 2007 - 8:30 pm and 10:00 pm - $15 for the 1st set; $10 for the 2nd set
ANDY MILNE & DAPP THEORY
Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street, New Haven, CT
Tickets available online at http://www.firehouse12.com, or by phone at (203) 785-0468, or at the box office beginning at 7 p.m. the night of the show (subject to availability).
Info http://www.firehouse12.com/events.asp?id=16125
Sunday, June 3, 2007 - 4 PM (Doors open at 3:15 PM) - $25 premium/$15 general/$10 seniors and students
JOEL FRAHM QUARTET - JAZZ IN JUNE
The Music Series at South Church - 90 Main Street - New Britain
The talented jazz saxophonist Joel Frahm's live performances have been called breathtaking. He describes his musical style as modern jazz, traditional but forward-looking. Of his May 1 release, "We Used to Dance," ejazznews raves Frahm has come into his own as one of the most important saxophonists of his generation he has reached a new level instrumentally and emotionally.
To order tickets, call 860-223-7555
Sunday, June 3, 2007 - 2 PM - FREE
A MINI WES FEST! (workshop & concert)
Northampton Community Music Center - 137 South Street - Northampton, MA
Noon: A workshop given by Joe Belmont on the Wes Montgomery guitar style. Many examples of how to play heads, octaves, chord melodies etc. Examples from Wes CDs. Discography, biography. Wes' place in history. Interesting to guitarists and non-guitarists.
2PM: A mini set from the full band. Workshop, explanation of how the rhythm section works in jazz, how to practice jazz, basics structures, soloing etc.
3:30: Breakdown to individual workshops with: Bruce Diehl: saxophones; Joe Belmont: guitar; Paul Arslanian: piano; Clair Arenius: drums; Dave Shapiro: bass
7PM: Concert at Private Lounge at Zoe's Fish and Chop House, 238 Northampton St. Easthampton, MA www.zoesfish.com 413-527-0313
For info on workshop: NCMC 413-585-0001 www.ncmc.net
Sunday, June 3, 2007 - 3 PM - $10
BILL CHARLAP
Brubeck Room - Wilton Library - 137 Old Ridgefield Road - Wilton
Advance registration is suggested and pre-registrants must arrive by 3 p.m. to be guaranteed seating. After 3 p.m., and if space available, waitlisted and walk-in registrants will be admitted.
Register - 203-762-3950 - www.wiltonlibrary.org
Sunday, June 3, 2007 - 6 PM - $10 minimum purchase
MOSAIC
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
MOSAIC presents world music with rhythms based in Latin-American and Native American culture. Smooth jazz with a fiery twist! Rick Handville, guitar; Frank Giguere, drums; Craig Garfinkel, bass.
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 7, 2007 – 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchase
TONY ALLEN
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Swingin' vocal stylist TONY ALLEN brings us the best of the Great American Songbook, and chestnuts from his hit record "I Remember Front Street" and more. Tony's ensemble includes Paul Brown, bass; Jim Argiro, piano; and Joe Ronan, drums. Please reserve to get the best seats for this popular show.
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 7, 2007 – 7:30 PM - FREE
JIMMY MACBRIDE QUARTET (Jimmy Greene, tenor sax; Earl MacDonald, keyboard; Nat Reeves, bass; Jimmy Macbride, drums)
Bristow Big Band, Cliff Schofer, Director
Pond House Auditorium – Elizabeth Park, Hartford
New Jazz in the Park, now in its sixth year, brings world-renowned jazz musicians together with area students and teachers in the joy of making music together. The master teachers give a mini clinic at the host school, followed by a rehearsal with the students. The concert at the Pond House brings together these professionals with the students of Bristow Middle School's jazz band in a joyous celebration of music making.
Jimmy Greene, tenor sax, is a positive young presence in the creative music world. He has performed with such luminaries as Harry Connick Jr. and Horace Silver. Dedicated to being an educator as well as a superb performer, Greene is on the faculty of the Hartt School and the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. Earl MacDonald, keyboard, lives jazz, as a performer, composer and educator. Currently, he is the director of jazz studies at the University of Connecticut. He is currently a member of the prestigious BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop in New York City. Nat Reeves, is a world-renowned bass player who has been teaching at the Hartt School for 17 years. In 1982, Mr. Reeves toured Japan with Sonny Stitt and began teaching at the Artist Collective. During his 25-year career, Mr. Reeves has been fortunate to perform with many great such as Randy Johnston, Carl Alien, Donald Byrd, Wynton Marsalis, Steve Davis, Roy Hargrove, David Hazeltine, Kenny Kirkland and Jeff Watts, among many others. Jimmy Macbride, 16-year-old drummer, has been playing drums since he was three years old. One of Jimmy's earliest public performances was in celebration of Yale's Tricentennial in 2001 with the Mitchell/Ruff Duo. Down Beat Magazine named him Outstanding Soloist in the Jr. High Division in 2003 and 2004. In 2006, Jimmy was named Outstanding Soloist in the High School Division from Down Beat. One of Jimmy's original compositions won the ASCAP 2007 Young Jazz Composers Competition.
Contact: (860) 768-4121
Friday, June 8, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
DAVE DANA
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Guitarist DAVE DANA hosts an all-star ensemble and plays a wide spectrum of music including originals from his latest recording. Reservations strongly suggested.
860-561-0180
Friday, June 8, 2007 - 8:30 PM - $15 / $12 Real Art Ways Members
BASS-DRUM-BONE
Real Art Ways - 56 Arbor Street - Hartford
Mark Helias (double bass & bass guitar); Gerry Hemingway (drums); Ray Anderson (trombone)
"…all three players leap into the territory between melody and rhythm, setting up a crossfire of textures and sliding notes…" New York Times
An all-star collective jazz trio that has refined its own unique approach to the repertoire of its three composer/leaders with thirty years of performing in the U.S. and Europe. Its expressive pallet ranges from the subtle, nuanced interplay of modern chamber music to the full-blown, hard swinging blues of a gutbucket street band. The compositions are often lyrical, while also exploring more challenging, intricate, multilayered forms. It's a generous and inspiring band, bristling with invention and immediacy. Freeform jazz at its best.
860-232-1006 x222
Friday, June 8, 2007 - 8:30 pm and 10:00 pm - $15 for the 1st set; $10 for the 2nd set
ADAM BIRNBAUM TRIO
Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street, New Haven, CT
Tickets available online at http://www.firehouse12.com, or by phone at (203) 785-0468, or at the box office beginning at 7 p.m. the night of the show (subject to availability).
Info http://www.firehouse12.com/events.asp?id=17657
Saturday, June 9, 2007 - 3 PM - FREE
KENNY REED-NORMAN GAGE QUINTET
Hartford Public Library - 500 Main Street - Hartford
This jazz group includes Reed on trumpet and flugelhorn, Gage on baritone saxophone, Evan Green on piano, Dezron Douglas on bass and Jay Williams on drums. The music is modern mainstream or "straight ahead" jazz and draws its repertoire from such writers as Horace Silver, Thelonius Monk, Benny Golson, Joe Henderson, Anthony Wonzey and others, along with some original material. Kenny Reed has recorded a CD with the best of the Washington, DC area musicians, where he lived for thirty years before returning to CT. He has recorded with Larry Willis and Clifford Jordan. This concert is funded by the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust.
Amy Sailor 860-695-6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Saturday, June 9, 2007 - 8 PM - FREE
THE MOVIE MUSIC OF SPIKE LEE AND TERENCE BLANCHARD
New Haven Green
Part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
One of the most fruitful and enduring collaborations in modern filmmaking is that between New York director SPIKE LEE and New Orleans composer TERENCE BLANCHARD. Together, Blanchard and Lee have realized a baker's dozen film projects, beginning in 1990 with Mo' Better Blues through Inside Man (2006) and, perhaps most dramatically, When the Levees Broke, Lee's self-described "requiem" for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Blanchard's griefstricken score for Levees, trembling with angry brass, stands apart from the other film scores at least in part because documentaries don't shape a story. Blanchard and his quintet will set up before Orchestra New England and an enormous movie screen; some music will be performed to picture. Spike Lee will narrate, sharing memories and insights uniquely his own, and introduce each of the stunning soloists: Buoyant newcomer RAOUL MIDON, whose first record drew instant comparisons to Stevie Wonder; and Grammy-, Tony- and every other awardwinning jazz singer, the ebullient DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER.
Tickets can be purchased at the Shubert Theater Box Office (located at 247 College Street, New Haven) and by phone at 203-562-5666 or 888-736-2663. For a complete listing of all Festival events and to order tickets online, log on to www.artidea.org.
Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 3 PM - FREE OUTDOORS CONCERT
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE LIBERTY BIG BAND
Enfield Rotary Park Pavilion at the Enfield Senior Center - Elm Street - Enfield
Liberty Big Band plays the sounds of Glenn Miller to the best of contemporary big band jazz, the United States Air Force Liberty Big Band plays it all with style and sophistication. Part of the United States Air Force Band of Liberty from Hanscom Air Force Base outside Boston, this stellar ensemble has been entertaining audiences throughout the Northeast for more than a quarter century. Made up of 18 outstanding musicians from around the country, the Liberty Big Band takes pride in preserving the heritage of America's true art form - Jazz. Whether you want to walk down memory lane to the sounds of the great big band era or check out some of the new sounds of today, the United States Air Force Liberty Band has something for jazz lovers of all ages. Tickets are not necessary, for information, please call event coordinator Alan Drinan at (860) 265-2499 or visit the USAF Liberty Band website at www.usafbandofliberty.com. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets and a picnic lunch.
Sunday, June 10, 2007 – 6 PM - $10 cover charge and $10 minimum purchase
MIKE THORNTON
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
STELLAR VOCALIST MIKE THORNTON IN HIS ONLY HARTFORD APPEARANCE THIS YEAR! MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW!
Mike grew up in Windsor and graduated from the prestigious Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford. His travels took him all over and he finally settled in D.C., where he's been a long-standing member of the nationally-renowned musical political satire group "The Capitol Steps." If you've seen the "Steps" at the Bushnell, you've seen Mike. Get ready for an evening of cabaret-style jazzy entertainment - as we continue our commitment to providing affordable, critically acclaimed performances to the public. "Powerful and caressing" "winning versatility", "considerable finesse " , "hushed boomer balladry" - Mike Joyce, Washington Post "Mr. Thornton has the ability to take his crowd on a musical journey through 20th Century Jazz; quoting works by the great ones…Joe Williams, Al Jarreau, Mark Murphy, Mel Torme and others…" "….it's easy to see why (Thornton's) audience listens so intently to the warm, yet intense sounds of the Thornton Quartet…." Mike and the Jay Cooley Quartet have played together in the Burlington Jazz Festival, Albany's "Linda" Auditorium, Washington DC'S world-renowned Blues Alley, NYC's Supper Club and all the best jazz clubs on the East Coast. "In the jazz-pop spectrum, he fits somewhere between Mark Murphy and Steve Tyrell -- not bad company." Mike Joyce, Washington Post
860-561-0180
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - Noon - FREE
COOPERATIVE ARTS & HUMANITIES MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT JAZZ BAND, STRING ENSEMBLE & CHORUS
New Haven Green
Patrick Smith, Band Director; Harriett Alfred, Choral Director; Kersten Stevens and Erika Stierli, String Ensemble Directors. Hear three ambitious and impressive music ensembles from Co-op High, one of the citys new magnet high schools.
Info
Thursday, June 14, 2007 – 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchase
LIVIU POP
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 14, 2007 - Noon - FREE
ECA SMALL JAZZ ENSEMBLE
New Haven Green
Impressive music by students at the Educational Center for the Arts on Audubon Street
Info
Friday, June 15, 2007 - 1:15 PM - FREE
COOL CAT JAZZ
New Haven Green
Connecticut Swing, Dixieland-style!
Info
Friday, June 15, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
ROB ZAPULLA SHOW
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Rob's been recording, and playing all over the Western Hemisphere with bands big and small, as well as appearing as vocalist and lead trumpet for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - but we're not gonna let him unpack his bags until he's sung us a few songs and played a few of the mellow solos he's famous for. He'll be rolling out his new record, as well as doing material from his hit "Something Makes Me Want To Dance With You" and more. Get ready for an extra-special swingin' evening of martinis, music and mayhem from one of our favorite stylists of the Great American Songbook! Make reservations.
860-561-0180
Saturday, June 16 at 8:00 p.m.
A BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE TO ATTILA ZOLLER
Vermont Jazz Center - Brattleboro, VT
Admission: General Admission is $16.00 and Senior Citizens & Students with ID are $12.00
Details
Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 8 PM
CURTIS FULLER/ LOUIS HAYES RISING STAR - FEATURING RENE' MCLEAN
NEA Jazz Masters on Tour
The Artists Collective - corner of Woodland Street and Albany Avenue - Hartford
$23 advance purchase AC members, students, seniors and Greater Hartford Arts Council Let's Go members; $27 advance general admission; $35 at the door
Tickets available at the Artists Collective * Integrity -n- Music, Silas Deane Highway, Wethersfield * Japanalia Eiko, Farmington Ave., West Hartford Center, Y Not Wireless, Burr Corners, Manchester.
Note: Advance ticket prices for all Artists Collective special events are honored up until the day of the performance, excluding Sunday, until 2pm.
Call (860) 527-3205 for more information.
Sunday, June 17, 2007 – 6 PM - $10 minimum purchase
DON DE PALMA ENSEMBLE
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
860-561-0180
Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 2 PM & 7 PM - @ $25
JASON MORAN AND THE BANDWAGON
"Milestone"
Part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Off Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway, New Haven
The giants of American jazz understood that to strike deep, music has to resonate with shared ideas and traditions that extend beyond music to the fine arts and popular culture. The use-it-all philosophy of the disarming pianist JASON MORAN reflects a deep understanding of this cultural obligation. Moran is a disciplined, yet baggage-free, jazzmaker of the hip-hop generation, a soundsampling provocateur who can articulate the melody in a conversation and the trio in a traffic jam. MILESTONE tampers with a "typical" concert by The Bandwagon to illustrate philosopher/conceptual artist Adrian Piper's belief that artists and the public share more ideas, impulses and realities than they realize. This shape- and perspectiveshifting
performance suite adopts elements of theater, sound collage and contemporary visual art to turn a jazz performance outside-in and elucidate surprising ways in which the life and work
of making jazz reflects our own.
Tickets can be purchased at the Shubert Theater Box Office (located at 247 College Street, New Haven) and by phone at 203-562-5666 or 888-736-2663. For a complete listing of all Festival events and to order tickets online, log on to www.artidea.org.
Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 8 PM - FREE Outdoors Concert
CYRO BAPTISTA & BEAT THE DONKEY
Part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
New Haven Green
Rhythmically eclectic and musically euphoric, Brazilian Cyro Baptista and his group Beat the Donkey play the sounds of South America filtered through the urban rhythms and party bands of the city. Cyro's style celebrates spectacle, theatricality, and above all a love for the many aesthetic strains that together comprise the sounds of Brazil.
Tickets can be purchased at the Shubert Theater Box Office (located at 247 College Street, New Haven) and by phone at 203-562-5666 or 888-736-2663. For a complete listing of all Festival events and to order tickets online, log on to www.artidea.org.
Sunday, June 17 - 30, 2007
JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL - NEW YORK
Venues throughout New York City
Monday, June 18, 2007 - 10:00 PM - $30
BILL FRISELL TRIO - Bill Frisell, guitar; Tony Scherr, bass; Kenny Wolleson, drums
Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street, New Haven, CT
This group, which is touring the country throughout June, appears on the Grammy®-winning Unspeakable (Nonesuch, 2004) and the double live CD, East/West (Nonesuch, 2005). Frisell's most recent release is Time and Time Again (ECM, 2007), a trio recording with jazz legends Joe Lovano and Paul Motian. Critics have called the prolific Frisell "one of the most well-known jazz musicians in the world" (Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide), "one of the most significant improvisers to emerge in the past 20 years" (Steve Futterman, Washington Post) and "one of the coolest guitarists working in any idiom" (David Sinclair, The Times (London)). "Every time you turn around," writes DownBeat's John Ephland, "Frisell is doing something else that amazes with a level of creativity, burgeoning, wondrous spirit and incredible collaborative energy." The San Francisco Chronicle's Jesse Hamlin adds, "The word 'eclectic' doesn't quite do him justice." Frisell's career spans more than 25 years and features a discography of over 150 recordings, including 33 as a leader or co-leader. Known as "an American original" (Bill Shoemaker, JazzTimes), his own projects have explored American music ranging from country to folk to blues to jazz, as well Brazilian, Greek and Malian music. He has also composed and performed soundtrack music for feature film, radio, and television. The former "house guitarist" for the venerable ECM label, and a major contributor to the New York "downtown" music scene of the 1980's, Frisell has worked with many of the most respected names in improvised music, in addition to collaborations with non-jazz figures such as Laurie Anderson, Bono, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, Renée Fleming, Allen Ginsberg, Rickie Lee Jones and Viktor Krauss among many others. Learn more at http://www.billfrisell.com/
Tickets available online at http://www.firehouse12.com, or by phone at (203) 785-0468, or at the box office beginning at 7 p.m. the night of the show (subject to availability).
Info
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - Noon - FREE
NICKI MATHIS' AFRIKAN AMERIKAN JAZZ
New Haven Green
Bandleader, composer, lyricist and educator Nicki Mathis shares her original works and jazz standards.
Info
Tuesday, June 19 - 24, 2007
VISION FESTIVAL
Clemente Soto Velez LES Gallery - 107 Suffolk Street - New York City
Thursday, June 21, 2007 - Noon - FREE
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD JAZZ BAND
New Haven Green
Whats better than a musician in uniform? The Coast Guard jazz band has taken Americas unique Dixieland swing, bringing goodwill New Orleans style to Disneyland, the Soviet Union,
sure, and Mardi Gras! The jazz band plays on the occasion of the launch of the Amistad on its Atlantic Freedom Tour.
Info
Thursday, June 21, 2007 – 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchase
JAN JUNGDEN TRIO
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Jan Jungden has been performing regionally for over 20 years. She developed her R&B roots with the eclectic "Jake and the Family Jewels" who toured the Northeast playing such clubs as the Bottom Line and Lonestar in NewYork City, Toad's Place in New Haven and clubs & concert venues from Boston to Washington D.C. She has played with Bobby Bennett and the Realms, the Convertibles, and the Patty Tuite Band, among other area favorites. With the Jan Jungden Trio, Jan covers keyboards, flute, vocals, and occasionally accordion. This versatile jazz trio plays classic jazz, Latin tunes, and New Orleans style rhythms as well as originals. The band has just completed a CD entitled "Smooth Ride" of primarily original material. In addition to performing with bands, Jan has played solo piano along the Connecticut shoreline and has worked as church organist. She works as a choir accompanist, and is musical director for local productions of Broadway shows. Jan's jazz influences include Diana Krall and Billie Holiday, as well as Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, and more. She has developed her own flute style by combining jazz with some of Ian Anderson's (Jethro Tull) techniques.
860-561-0180
Friday, June 22, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
BEN GOLDER-NOVICK ENSEMBLE
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Saxophonist Ben Golder-Novick is an in-demand, versatile musician. He has performed with acclaimed groups such as Melvin Sparks, the Rebirth Brass Band, and the New Black Eagles Jazz Band. On April 26th, Ben will be having a CD release party for his debut jazz album, "Out of the Fog." The CD features some of Ben's original compositions as well his interpretations of jazz standards. Ben will be accompanied by an All-Star rhythm section of veteran players on the Northeast jazz scene. Reservations strongly suggested.
860-561-0180
June 22 - 24, 2007
HOT STEAMED JAZZ FESTIVAL
Essex Steam Train - Essex
Traditional jazz and jazz history at its best! A majority of the musicians in these groups are ranked in the top 20 in the Jazz Polls for their instrumentation
Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra - Dan Levinson Galvanized Jazz Band Bob Seeley - Worlds most talented Boogie Woogie & Blues Pianist Jon Seiger and The Allstars Wolverine Jazz Band - Dr. John Clark, with Jimmy Mazzy Jambalaya - Featuring world renowned bassist Phil Flanagan Olivier Lancelot - World Acclaimed Stride Pianist - Paris France Festival All Stars - Jeff Hughes Annette St. John Quartette - Blues and Gospel Vocalist Palomar Quartet - Dan Levinson Expanded Gospel Service with Annette St. John And More!
Saturday, June 23, 2007 - 6:30 PM
MARY DIPAOLA-DAVIS TRIO - Mary diPaola-Davis, Piano; Nat Reeves, Bass; Paul Lombardo, Drums
Music Mountain Jazz at Twilight - Falls Village, CT
Mary diPaola-Davis, Nat Reeves and Paul Lombardo have collaborated as a working Piano-Bass-Drum trio for over ten years. Formed at the Hartt School's Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, they are a familiar presence throughout the area performing at the Hartt School among other venues. Each of the players is a much in demand artist, traveling and performing with many of today's jazz greats.
Tickets: http://www.musicmountain.org/about/tickets.html
Directions: http://www.musicmountain.org/about/directions.html
Saturday, June 23 - 24, 2007
FREIHOFER'S JAZZ FESTIVAL
Saratoga, NY
Sunday, June 24, 2007 – 6 PM - $10 minimum purchase
LIVIU POP
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 6 PM - FREE Outdoors Concert
JAZZ ALIVE QUARTET
Mark Twain House & Museum - 351 Farmington Avenue - Hartford
Thursday, June 28, 2007 – 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchase
DON DE PALMA ENSEMBLE
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 28 - July 8, 2007
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL OF MONTREAL
Indoor and outdoor concerts
Montreal, Canada
Friday, June 29, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
TONY ALLEN AND HIS ENSEMBLE
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Paul Lewis turns 29. Again. For the 20th time. We're planning to have an all-star band including JOE RONAN, drums; JIM ARGIRO, piano; LOU BOCCIARELLI, bass; SEBBIE GIACCO, saxophone and flute, plus extra performers for a fabulous, swingin' BIG-BAND EXPERIENCE.
860-561-0180
Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 6:30 PM
LARRY WILLIS (piano)
Music Mountain Jazz at Twilight - Falls Village, CT
Pianist Larry Willis is a jazz legend, working with such diverse artists as Stan Getz, Woody Shaw, Nat & Cannonball Adderly, Blood Sweat & Tears, and many others. His latest CD, "Blue Fable" (High Note) has garnered rave reviews. Larry records extensively as a leader for Steeplechase and Mapleshade Records including his acclaimed solo piano session, "Solo Spirit."
Tickets: http://www.musicmountain.org/about/tickets.html
Directions: http://www.musicmountain.org/about/directions.html
Ongoing Jazz Series in the Area
Arch Street Tavern (Hartford) - Hartford Jazz Orchestra performs every Monday evening at 8 PM
Firehouse 12 (New Haven)
La Paloma Sabanera Coffeehouse & Bookstore (Hartford)
New Britain Museum of American Art (First Fridays) - various artists perform on the first Friday of each month from 5:30 PM - 8 PM
Silvermine Tavern (Norwalk, CT) - late jazz on the weekends, 9 PM - 11:30 PM, & Dixieland Jazz on Thursday's, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Szechuan Tokyo (West Hartford)
Vibz Uptown (Hartford)
Vinnie's Jump & Jive (Middletown) - Hot Cat Jazz Band performs swing music every other Tuesday from 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM ($7/$5 students)
Wooster Jazz Society (Danbury, CT)
It's that time again when the sultry, sizzling, summer nights meet up with the red, hot jazz scenes. Check it out for yourself by coming out to support the various live jazz performances happening throughout CT. Please find below the Hartford Jazz Society (HJS) calendar effective through June!
Enjoy,
Greg
gamo...@gmail.com
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From: Bill & Chris Sullivan <isin...@worldnet.att.net >
Date: May 30, 2007 9:05 PM
Subject: HJS Calendar: Jazz Events through June (updated)
From the HJS
Calendar: Jazz Events through June
View the latest jazz calendar at http://www.hartfordjazzsociety.com/calendar.html
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchaseView the latest jazz calendar at http://www.hartfordjazzsociety.com/calendar.html
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LIVIU POP
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
LIVIU POP'S FUNK-JAZZ ENSEMBLE Brings you funk jazz and soul jazz from the man who's fast become our most popular show producer: drummer Liviu Pop. Liviu's brought us more jazz celebrities than any other performer! We hope you'll join us as Liviu reaches into his bag of tricks once more for a toe-tapping evening spanning myriad sub-genres of jazz.
860-561-0180
June, 2007
Friday, June 1, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
"BIG" AL WILSON
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Hartford Jazz Legend "Big" AL WILSON and his ensemble bring you R&B, funk and standard sounds; all in a definitively jazz vein. These shows are very popular; best make reservations.
860-561-0180
Friday, June 1, 2007 - 8 PM - $20
AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE
The Donald L. Oat Theater - 62 Broadway - Norwich
The Afro-Semitic Experience is an ensemble dedicated to preserving, promoting and expanding the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Jewish and African Diaspora. Imagine a band that understands and can present interpretations of music from traditions as rich as Gospel, Klezmer, Nigunim, Spirituals, and Swing and you have the Afro-Semitic Experience. This is a group that is as comfortable playing a freylakh as they are swinging a blues, that knows how to play a bulgar or some funk. the Afro-Semitic Experience delivers a positive and meaningful musical message about Black-Jewish relations.
Tickets are usually available at the door, but we strongly recommend calling ahead for reservations 860-887-2789
Friday, June 1, 2007 - 8:30 PM - $16/$12 students with ID
VERMONT JAZZ CENTER BIG BAND DANCE PARTY
Vermont Jazz Center - Brattleboro, VT
Tickets can be purchased securely on-line or can be reserved over the phone by calling (802) 254 9088. They also can be bought at In the Moment, 143 Main Street, in Brattleboro, Vermont. For information on access and directions, call the Vermont Jazz Center at (802) 254 9088.
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Friday, June 1 - 10, 2007
BURLINGTON DISCOVER JAZZ FESTIVAL
Venues throughout the city of Burlington, VT
For ten days in June the city of Burlington, Vermont, transforms into a jazz oasis. Discover intimate venues, concerts under the stars, cruises on Lake Champlain, workshops and lectures from world-renowned artists and the sound of America's homegrown art form on every corner.
Friday, June 1, 2007 - 9:00 PM
CRAIG HARTLEY (piano) and STEVE SLAGLE (saxophone)
Jazz on the Wharf
Long Wharf Theatre - Stage II - 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven
Directions/Info http://www.longwharf.org/about_directions1.html
203-787-4282
June 2, 2007 - 8:30 pm and 10:00 pm - $15 for the 1st set; $10 for the 2nd set
ANDY MILNE & DAPP THEORY
Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street, New Haven, CT
Tickets available online at http://www.firehouse12.com, or by phone at (203) 785-0468, or at the box office beginning at 7 p.m. the night of the show (subject to availability).
Info http://www.firehouse12.com/events.asp?id=16125
Sunday, June 3, 2007 - 4 PM (Doors open at 3:15 PM) - $25 premium/$15 general/$10 seniors and students
JOEL FRAHM QUARTET - JAZZ IN JUNE
The Music Series at South Church - 90 Main Street - New Britain
The talented jazz saxophonist Joel Frahm's live performances have been called breathtaking. He describes his musical style as modern jazz, traditional but forward-looking. Of his May 1 release, "We Used to Dance," ejazznews raves Frahm has come into his own as one of the most important saxophonists of his generation he has reached a new level instrumentally and emotionally.
To order tickets, call 860-223-7555
Sunday, June 3, 2007 - 2 PM - FREE
A MINI WES FEST! (workshop & concert)
Northampton Community Music Center - 137 South Street - Northampton, MA
Noon: A workshop given by Joe Belmont on the Wes Montgomery guitar style. Many examples of how to play heads, octaves, chord melodies etc. Examples from Wes CDs. Discography, biography. Wes' place in history. Interesting to guitarists and non-guitarists.
2PM: A mini set from the full band. Workshop, explanation of how the rhythm section works in jazz, how to practice jazz, basics structures, soloing etc.
3:30: Breakdown to individual workshops with: Bruce Diehl: saxophones; Joe Belmont: guitar; Paul Arslanian: piano; Clair Arenius: drums; Dave Shapiro: bass
7PM: Concert at Private Lounge at Zoe's Fish and Chop House, 238 Northampton St. Easthampton, MA www.zoesfish.com 413-527-0313
For info on workshop: NCMC 413-585-0001 www.ncmc.net
Sunday, June 3, 2007 - 3 PM - $10
BILL CHARLAP
Brubeck Room - Wilton Library - 137 Old Ridgefield Road - Wilton
Advance registration is suggested and pre-registrants must arrive by 3 p.m. to be guaranteed seating. After 3 p.m., and if space available, waitlisted and walk-in registrants will be admitted.
Register - 203-762-3950 - www.wiltonlibrary.org
Sunday, June 3, 2007 - 6 PM - $10 minimum purchase
MOSAIC
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
MOSAIC presents world music with rhythms based in Latin-American and Native American culture. Smooth jazz with a fiery twist! Rick Handville, guitar; Frank Giguere, drums; Craig Garfinkel, bass.
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 7, 2007 – 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchase
TONY ALLEN
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Swingin' vocal stylist TONY ALLEN brings us the best of the Great American Songbook, and chestnuts from his hit record "I Remember Front Street" and more. Tony's ensemble includes Paul Brown, bass; Jim Argiro, piano; and Joe Ronan, drums. Please reserve to get the best seats for this popular show.
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 7, 2007 – 7:30 PM - FREE
JIMMY MACBRIDE QUARTET (Jimmy Greene, tenor sax; Earl MacDonald, keyboard; Nat Reeves, bass; Jimmy Macbride, drums)
Bristow Big Band, Cliff Schofer, Director
Pond House Auditorium – Elizabeth Park, Hartford
New Jazz in the Park, now in its sixth year, brings world-renowned jazz musicians together with area students and teachers in the joy of making music together. The master teachers give a mini clinic at the host school, followed by a rehearsal with the students. The concert at the Pond House brings together these professionals with the students of Bristow Middle School's jazz band in a joyous celebration of music making.
Jimmy Greene, tenor sax, is a positive young presence in the creative music world. He has performed with such luminaries as Harry Connick Jr. and Horace Silver. Dedicated to being an educator as well as a superb performer, Greene is on the faculty of the Hartt School and the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. Earl MacDonald, keyboard, lives jazz, as a performer, composer and educator. Currently, he is the director of jazz studies at the University of Connecticut. He is currently a member of the prestigious BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop in New York City. Nat Reeves, is a world-renowned bass player who has been teaching at the Hartt School for 17 years. In 1982, Mr. Reeves toured Japan with Sonny Stitt and began teaching at the Artist Collective. During his 25-year career, Mr. Reeves has been fortunate to perform with many great such as Randy Johnston, Carl Alien, Donald Byrd, Wynton Marsalis, Steve Davis, Roy Hargrove, David Hazeltine, Kenny Kirkland and Jeff Watts, among many others. Jimmy Macbride, 16-year-old drummer, has been playing drums since he was three years old. One of Jimmy's earliest public performances was in celebration of Yale's Tricentennial in 2001 with the Mitchell/Ruff Duo. Down Beat Magazine named him Outstanding Soloist in the Jr. High Division in 2003 and 2004. In 2006, Jimmy was named Outstanding Soloist in the High School Division from Down Beat. One of Jimmy's original compositions won the ASCAP 2007 Young Jazz Composers Competition.
Contact: (860) 768-4121
Friday, June 8, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
DAVE DANA
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Guitarist DAVE DANA hosts an all-star ensemble and plays a wide spectrum of music including originals from his latest recording. Reservations strongly suggested.
860-561-0180
Friday, June 8, 2007 - 8:30 PM - $15 / $12 Real Art Ways Members
BASS-DRUM-BONE
Real Art Ways - 56 Arbor Street - Hartford
Mark Helias (double bass & bass guitar); Gerry Hemingway (drums); Ray Anderson (trombone)
"…all three players leap into the territory between melody and rhythm, setting up a crossfire of textures and sliding notes…" New York Times
An all-star collective jazz trio that has refined its own unique approach to the repertoire of its three composer/leaders with thirty years of performing in the U.S. and Europe. Its expressive pallet ranges from the subtle, nuanced interplay of modern chamber music to the full-blown, hard swinging blues of a gutbucket street band. The compositions are often lyrical, while also exploring more challenging, intricate, multilayered forms. It's a generous and inspiring band, bristling with invention and immediacy. Freeform jazz at its best.
860-232-1006 x222
Friday, June 8, 2007 - 8:30 pm and 10:00 pm - $15 for the 1st set; $10 for the 2nd set
ADAM BIRNBAUM TRIO
Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street, New Haven, CT
Tickets available online at http://www.firehouse12.com, or by phone at (203) 785-0468, or at the box office beginning at 7 p.m. the night of the show (subject to availability).
Info http://www.firehouse12.com/events.asp?id=17657
Saturday, June 9, 2007 - 3 PM - FREE
KENNY REED-NORMAN GAGE QUINTET
Hartford Public Library - 500 Main Street - Hartford
This jazz group includes Reed on trumpet and flugelhorn, Gage on baritone saxophone, Evan Green on piano, Dezron Douglas on bass and Jay Williams on drums. The music is modern mainstream or "straight ahead" jazz and draws its repertoire from such writers as Horace Silver, Thelonius Monk, Benny Golson, Joe Henderson, Anthony Wonzey and others, along with some original material. Kenny Reed has recorded a CD with the best of the Washington, DC area musicians, where he lived for thirty years before returning to CT. He has recorded with Larry Willis and Clifford Jordan. This concert is funded by the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust.
Amy Sailor 860-695-6324 - asa...@hplct.org
Saturday, June 9, 2007 - 8 PM - FREE
THE MOVIE MUSIC OF SPIKE LEE AND TERENCE BLANCHARD
New Haven Green
Part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
One of the most fruitful and enduring collaborations in modern filmmaking is that between New York director SPIKE LEE and New Orleans composer TERENCE BLANCHARD. Together, Blanchard and Lee have realized a baker's dozen film projects, beginning in 1990 with Mo' Better Blues through Inside Man (2006) and, perhaps most dramatically, When the Levees Broke, Lee's self-described "requiem" for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Blanchard's griefstricken score for Levees, trembling with angry brass, stands apart from the other film scores at least in part because documentaries don't shape a story. Blanchard and his quintet will set up before Orchestra New England and an enormous movie screen; some music will be performed to picture. Spike Lee will narrate, sharing memories and insights uniquely his own, and introduce each of the stunning soloists: Buoyant newcomer RAOUL MIDON, whose first record drew instant comparisons to Stevie Wonder; and Grammy-, Tony- and every other awardwinning jazz singer, the ebullient DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER.
Tickets can be purchased at the Shubert Theater Box Office (located at 247 College Street, New Haven) and by phone at 203-562-5666 or 888-736-2663. For a complete listing of all Festival events and to order tickets online, log on to www.artidea.org.
Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 3 PM - FREE OUTDOORS CONCERT
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE LIBERTY BIG BAND
Enfield Rotary Park Pavilion at the Enfield Senior Center - Elm Street - Enfield
Liberty Big Band plays the sounds of Glenn Miller to the best of contemporary big band jazz, the United States Air Force Liberty Big Band plays it all with style and sophistication. Part of the United States Air Force Band of Liberty from Hanscom Air Force Base outside Boston, this stellar ensemble has been entertaining audiences throughout the Northeast for more than a quarter century. Made up of 18 outstanding musicians from around the country, the Liberty Big Band takes pride in preserving the heritage of America's true art form - Jazz. Whether you want to walk down memory lane to the sounds of the great big band era or check out some of the new sounds of today, the United States Air Force Liberty Band has something for jazz lovers of all ages. Tickets are not necessary, for information, please call event coordinator Alan Drinan at (860) 265-2499 or visit the USAF Liberty Band website at www.usafbandofliberty.com. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets and a picnic lunch.
Sunday, June 10, 2007 – 6 PM - $10 cover charge and $10 minimum purchase
MIKE THORNTON
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
STELLAR VOCALIST MIKE THORNTON IN HIS ONLY HARTFORD APPEARANCE THIS YEAR! MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW!
Mike grew up in Windsor and graduated from the prestigious Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford. His travels took him all over and he finally settled in D.C., where he's been a long-standing member of the nationally-renowned musical political satire group "The Capitol Steps." If you've seen the "Steps" at the Bushnell, you've seen Mike. Get ready for an evening of cabaret-style jazzy entertainment - as we continue our commitment to providing affordable, critically acclaimed performances to the public. "Powerful and caressing" "winning versatility", "considerable finesse " , "hushed boomer balladry" - Mike Joyce, Washington Post "Mr. Thornton has the ability to take his crowd on a musical journey through 20th Century Jazz; quoting works by the great ones…Joe Williams, Al Jarreau, Mark Murphy, Mel Torme and others…" "….it's easy to see why (Thornton's) audience listens so intently to the warm, yet intense sounds of the Thornton Quartet…." Mike and the Jay Cooley Quartet have played together in the Burlington Jazz Festival, Albany's "Linda" Auditorium, Washington DC'S world-renowned Blues Alley, NYC's Supper Club and all the best jazz clubs on the East Coast. "In the jazz-pop spectrum, he fits somewhere between Mark Murphy and Steve Tyrell -- not bad company." Mike Joyce, Washington Post
860-561-0180
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - Noon - FREE
COOPERATIVE ARTS & HUMANITIES MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT JAZZ BAND, STRING ENSEMBLE & CHORUS
New Haven Green
Patrick Smith, Band Director; Harriett Alfred, Choral Director; Kersten Stevens and Erika Stierli, String Ensemble Directors. Hear three ambitious and impressive music ensembles from Co-op High, one of the citys new magnet high schools.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 – 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchase
LIVIU POP
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 14, 2007 - Noon - FREE
ECA SMALL JAZZ ENSEMBLE
New Haven Green
Impressive music by students at the Educational Center for the Arts on Audubon Street
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Friday, June 15, 2007 - 1:15 PM - FREE
COOL CAT JAZZ
New Haven Green
Connecticut Swing, Dixieland-style!
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Friday, June 15, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
ROB ZAPULLA SHOW
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Rob's been recording, and playing all over the Western Hemisphere with bands big and small, as well as appearing as vocalist and lead trumpet for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - but we're not gonna let him unpack his bags until he's sung us a few songs and played a few of the mellow solos he's famous for. He'll be rolling out his new record, as well as doing material from his hit "Something Makes Me Want To Dance With You" and more. Get ready for an extra-special swingin' evening of martinis, music and mayhem from one of our favorite stylists of the Great American Songbook! Make reservations.
860-561-0180
Saturday, June 16 at 8:00 p.m.
A BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE TO ATTILA ZOLLER
Vermont Jazz Center - Brattleboro, VT
Admission: General Admission is $16.00 and Senior Citizens & Students with ID are $12.00
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Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 8 PM
CURTIS FULLER/ LOUIS HAYES RISING STAR - FEATURING RENE' MCLEAN
NEA Jazz Masters on Tour
The Artists Collective - corner of Woodland Street and Albany Avenue - Hartford
$23 advance purchase AC members, students, seniors and Greater Hartford Arts Council Let's Go members; $27 advance general admission; $35 at the door
Tickets available at the Artists Collective * Integrity -n- Music, Silas Deane Highway, Wethersfield * Japanalia Eiko, Farmington Ave., West Hartford Center, Y Not Wireless, Burr Corners, Manchester.
Note: Advance ticket prices for all Artists Collective special events are honored up until the day of the performance, excluding Sunday, until 2pm.
Call (860) 527-3205 for more information.
Sunday, June 17, 2007 – 6 PM - $10 minimum purchase
DON DE PALMA ENSEMBLE
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
860-561-0180
Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 2 PM & 7 PM - @ $25
JASON MORAN AND THE BANDWAGON
"Milestone"
Part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Off Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway, New Haven
The giants of American jazz understood that to strike deep, music has to resonate with shared ideas and traditions that extend beyond music to the fine arts and popular culture. The use-it-all philosophy of the disarming pianist JASON MORAN reflects a deep understanding of this cultural obligation. Moran is a disciplined, yet baggage-free, jazzmaker of the hip-hop generation, a soundsampling provocateur who can articulate the melody in a conversation and the trio in a traffic jam. MILESTONE tampers with a "typical" concert by The Bandwagon to illustrate philosopher/conceptual artist Adrian Piper's belief that artists and the public share more ideas, impulses and realities than they realize. This shape- and perspectiveshifting
performance suite adopts elements of theater, sound collage and contemporary visual art to turn a jazz performance outside-in and elucidate surprising ways in which the life and work
of making jazz reflects our own.
Tickets can be purchased at the Shubert Theater Box Office (located at 247 College Street, New Haven) and by phone at 203-562-5666 or 888-736-2663. For a complete listing of all Festival events and to order tickets online, log on to www.artidea.org.
Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 8 PM - FREE Outdoors Concert
CYRO BAPTISTA & BEAT THE DONKEY
Part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
New Haven Green
Rhythmically eclectic and musically euphoric, Brazilian Cyro Baptista and his group Beat the Donkey play the sounds of South America filtered through the urban rhythms and party bands of the city. Cyro's style celebrates spectacle, theatricality, and above all a love for the many aesthetic strains that together comprise the sounds of Brazil.
Tickets can be purchased at the Shubert Theater Box Office (located at 247 College Street, New Haven) and by phone at 203-562-5666 or 888-736-2663. For a complete listing of all Festival events and to order tickets online, log on to www.artidea.org.
Sunday, June 17 - 30, 2007
JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL - NEW YORK
Venues throughout New York City
Monday, June 18, 2007 - 10:00 PM - $30
BILL FRISELL TRIO - Bill Frisell, guitar; Tony Scherr, bass; Kenny Wolleson, drums
Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street, New Haven, CT
This group, which is touring the country throughout June, appears on the Grammy®-winning Unspeakable (Nonesuch, 2004) and the double live CD, East/West (Nonesuch, 2005). Frisell's most recent release is Time and Time Again (ECM, 2007), a trio recording with jazz legends Joe Lovano and Paul Motian. Critics have called the prolific Frisell "one of the most well-known jazz musicians in the world" (Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide), "one of the most significant improvisers to emerge in the past 20 years" (Steve Futterman, Washington Post) and "one of the coolest guitarists working in any idiom" (David Sinclair, The Times (London)). "Every time you turn around," writes DownBeat's John Ephland, "Frisell is doing something else that amazes with a level of creativity, burgeoning, wondrous spirit and incredible collaborative energy." The San Francisco Chronicle's Jesse Hamlin adds, "The word 'eclectic' doesn't quite do him justice." Frisell's career spans more than 25 years and features a discography of over 150 recordings, including 33 as a leader or co-leader. Known as "an American original" (Bill Shoemaker, JazzTimes), his own projects have explored American music ranging from country to folk to blues to jazz, as well Brazilian, Greek and Malian music. He has also composed and performed soundtrack music for feature film, radio, and television. The former "house guitarist" for the venerable ECM label, and a major contributor to the New York "downtown" music scene of the 1980's, Frisell has worked with many of the most respected names in improvised music, in addition to collaborations with non-jazz figures such as Laurie Anderson, Bono, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, Renée Fleming, Allen Ginsberg, Rickie Lee Jones and Viktor Krauss among many others. Learn more at http://www.billfrisell.com/
Tickets available online at http://www.firehouse12.com, or by phone at (203) 785-0468, or at the box office beginning at 7 p.m. the night of the show (subject to availability).
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - Noon - FREE
NICKI MATHIS' AFRIKAN AMERIKAN JAZZ
New Haven Green
Bandleader, composer, lyricist and educator Nicki Mathis shares her original works and jazz standards.
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Tuesday, June 19 - 24, 2007
VISION FESTIVAL
Clemente Soto Velez LES Gallery - 107 Suffolk Street - New York City
Thursday, June 21, 2007 - Noon - FREE
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD JAZZ BAND
New Haven Green
Whats better than a musician in uniform? The Coast Guard jazz band has taken Americas unique Dixieland swing, bringing goodwill New Orleans style to Disneyland, the Soviet Union,
sure, and Mardi Gras! The jazz band plays on the occasion of the launch of the Amistad on its Atlantic Freedom Tour.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 – 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchase
JAN JUNGDEN TRIO
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Jan Jungden has been performing regionally for over 20 years. She developed her R&B roots with the eclectic "Jake and the Family Jewels" who toured the Northeast playing such clubs as the Bottom Line and Lonestar in NewYork City, Toad's Place in New Haven and clubs & concert venues from Boston to Washington D.C. She has played with Bobby Bennett and the Realms, the Convertibles, and the Patty Tuite Band, among other area favorites. With the Jan Jungden Trio, Jan covers keyboards, flute, vocals, and occasionally accordion. This versatile jazz trio plays classic jazz, Latin tunes, and New Orleans style rhythms as well as originals. The band has just completed a CD entitled "Smooth Ride" of primarily original material. In addition to performing with bands, Jan has played solo piano along the Connecticut shoreline and has worked as church organist. She works as a choir accompanist, and is musical director for local productions of Broadway shows. Jan's jazz influences include Diana Krall and Billie Holiday, as well as Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, and more. She has developed her own flute style by combining jazz with some of Ian Anderson's (Jethro Tull) techniques.
860-561-0180
Friday, June 22, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
BEN GOLDER-NOVICK ENSEMBLE
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Saxophonist Ben Golder-Novick is an in-demand, versatile musician. He has performed with acclaimed groups such as Melvin Sparks, the Rebirth Brass Band, and the New Black Eagles Jazz Band. On April 26th, Ben will be having a CD release party for his debut jazz album, "Out of the Fog." The CD features some of Ben's original compositions as well his interpretations of jazz standards. Ben will be accompanied by an All-Star rhythm section of veteran players on the Northeast jazz scene. Reservations strongly suggested.
860-561-0180
June 22 - 24, 2007
HOT STEAMED JAZZ FESTIVAL
Essex Steam Train - Essex
Traditional jazz and jazz history at its best! A majority of the musicians in these groups are ranked in the top 20 in the Jazz Polls for their instrumentation
Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra - Dan Levinson Galvanized Jazz Band Bob Seeley - Worlds most talented Boogie Woogie & Blues Pianist Jon Seiger and The Allstars Wolverine Jazz Band - Dr. John Clark, with Jimmy Mazzy Jambalaya - Featuring world renowned bassist Phil Flanagan Olivier Lancelot - World Acclaimed Stride Pianist - Paris France Festival All Stars - Jeff Hughes Annette St. John Quartette - Blues and Gospel Vocalist Palomar Quartet - Dan Levinson Expanded Gospel Service with Annette St. John And More!
Saturday, June 23, 2007 - 6:30 PM
MARY DIPAOLA-DAVIS TRIO - Mary diPaola-Davis, Piano; Nat Reeves, Bass; Paul Lombardo, Drums
Music Mountain Jazz at Twilight - Falls Village, CT
Mary diPaola-Davis, Nat Reeves and Paul Lombardo have collaborated as a working Piano-Bass-Drum trio for over ten years. Formed at the Hartt School's Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, they are a familiar presence throughout the area performing at the Hartt School among other venues. Each of the players is a much in demand artist, traveling and performing with many of today's jazz greats.
Tickets: http://www.musicmountain.org/about/tickets.html
Directions: http://www.musicmountain.org/about/directions.html
Saturday, June 23 - 24, 2007
FREIHOFER'S JAZZ FESTIVAL
Saratoga, NY
Sunday, June 24, 2007 – 6 PM - $10 minimum purchase
LIVIU POP
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 6 PM - FREE Outdoors Concert
JAZZ ALIVE QUARTET
Mark Twain House & Museum - 351 Farmington Avenue - Hartford
Thursday, June 28, 2007 – 7:30 PM - $10 minimum purchase
DON DE PALMA ENSEMBLE
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
860-561-0180
Thursday, June 28 - July 8, 2007
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL OF MONTREAL
Indoor and outdoor concerts
Montreal, Canada
Friday, June 29, 2007 – 8 PM - $10 minimum purchase
TONY ALLEN AND HIS ENSEMBLE
SzechuanTokyo - 1245 New Britain Avenue - West Hartford
Paul Lewis turns 29. Again. For the 20th time. We're planning to have an all-star band including JOE RONAN, drums; JIM ARGIRO, piano; LOU BOCCIARELLI, bass; SEBBIE GIACCO, saxophone and flute, plus extra performers for a fabulous, swingin' BIG-BAND EXPERIENCE.
860-561-0180
Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 6:30 PM
LARRY WILLIS (piano)
Music Mountain Jazz at Twilight - Falls Village, CT
Pianist Larry Willis is a jazz legend, working with such diverse artists as Stan Getz, Woody Shaw, Nat & Cannonball Adderly, Blood Sweat & Tears, and many others. His latest CD, "Blue Fable" (High Note) has garnered rave reviews. Larry records extensively as a leader for Steeplechase and Mapleshade Records including his acclaimed solo piano session, "Solo Spirit."
Tickets: http://www.musicmountain.org/about/tickets.html
Directions: http://www.musicmountain.org/about/directions.html
Ongoing Jazz Series in the Area
Arch Street Tavern (Hartford) - Hartford Jazz Orchestra performs every Monday evening at 8 PM
Firehouse 12 (New Haven)
La Paloma Sabanera Coffeehouse & Bookstore (Hartford)
New Britain Museum of American Art (First Fridays) - various artists perform on the first Friday of each month from 5:30 PM - 8 PM
Silvermine Tavern (Norwalk, CT) - late jazz on the weekends, 9 PM - 11:30 PM, & Dixieland Jazz on Thursday's, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Szechuan Tokyo (West Hartford)
Vibz Uptown (Hartford)
Vinnie's Jump & Jive (Middletown) - Hot Cat Jazz Band performs swing music every other Tuesday from 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM ($7/$5 students)
Wooster Jazz Society (Danbury, CT)
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