Hartford Public Library Baby Grand Jazz Series 2018 Schedule

Hartford Public Library's highly-popular Baby Chiliad Jazz Series returns IN-PERSON and VIRTUALLY for its 19th season in 2022 with a spectacular line-up of the best jazz musicians in the region. Enjoy every Sun at 3:00pm from Jan 2nd through April 24th, 2022.

VIRTUAL: Melody in on Hartford Public Library'sFacebook Page andYouTube aqueduct.

IN-PERSON: Registration is necessary for each performance. Click the Register Here push button(south) below to reserve your seat. Due to library COVID policy, our audition is capped at l attendees for socially distanced seating in the Center for Contemporary Civilization. If our registration list is full, please sign upwardly for our await list and you will be contacted if we have cancellations. If you are registered and can no longer attend, please let u.s. know. Nosotros will be checking names at the door at each functioning. Masks are required inside Hartford Public Library buildings.

Thank you to our presenting sponsor, The Kaman Foundation, for its standing support. Thanks to Hartford Public Access for filming and broadcasting this season'south performances. And special cheers to our longtime partners The Hartford Jazz Society and WWUH 91.iii FM.

Sounds of A&R | Due south.O.A.R.– January 2nd - REGISTER Here

Award-winning duo Sounds of A&R aka Due south.O.A.R. is the brainchild of vocalist April May Webb and trumpeter Randall Haywood. Partners in music and life, April and Randall take come together creating a singled-out sound that fuses aspects of swing, cool, hard bop and avant-garde while exuding pure soul and R&B. Apr May'southward unique vocal arroyo draws from a wide range of influences such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. She sings with a rustic warm tone and strong joint. Randall utilizes the trumpet with great emotional expression. His sound continues to look towards the time to come, while paying homage to Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Clark Terry and Miles Davis.

April May Webb - Vocals

Randall Haywood - Trumpet

Addison Frei - Piano

Jacob Webb - Bass

Nathan Webb - Drums

Joshua Bruneau – January 9th Annals HERE

From a young age, Josh was drawn to different genres of music including classical, large band and after existence introduced to the trumpet, jazz. Over the years, Josh has shared the phase with artists such equally Harold Mabern, Mike LeDonne, Eric Alexander, Joe Farnsworth, Carl Allen, John Webber, Ken Fowser and Larry Willis to proper noun a few. September 2011 brought Josh to the Detroit Jazz festival with some other of his dandy mentors, Curtis Fuller. Early 2013 constitute Josh travelling with Curtis on his European tour, frequenting jazz clubs in Zurich, Basel, Lausanne and Luzern Switzerland, Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam and Athens. In 2014 Josh released his debut album, "Brilliant Thought" (Cellar Live) featuring Steve Davis and Ken Fowser. Additionally, Josh is often found on records with the Ken Fowser Quintet ("Continuing Alpine," "Now Hear This" and "Don't Expect Downwards") and nearly recently on Davis' nautical chart-topping release "Correlations," the editor's choice in the April 2019 issue of Downbeat Mag.

Joshua Bruneau - Trumpet

Dana Lauren– January 16th - REGISTER Here

Dana Lauren is an laurels-winning and critically acclaimed vocalizer and songwriter. She has toured and recorded with legendary Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, singing at some of the nation's most famed jazz venues. Her 2008 album release "Stairway to the Stars" (featuring and produced past Sandoval), hitting the acme of the jazz charts and received rave reviews from some of the most prestigious jazz publications in the country. Her 2d album release in 2010 "It's You or No Ane," was self-produced and features Christian McBride on bass. That same twelvemonth, Dana was selected as a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Song Competition. Her show is a collection of beloved jazz standards and fresh original compositions that is not to be missed!

Dana Lauren - Vocals

Matt Dechamplain - Pianoforte

Tony Davis - Guitar

Adam Cote - Bass

Mike Camacho - Drums

Timothy Norton Trio– Jan 23rd - Annals HERE

Bassist and Composer Timothy Joseph Norton hails from the foothills of New England. He has chosen New York his home for the by decade. Timothy ofttimes performs at renowned jazz clubs in New York Urban center such equally Smalls Jazz Club, Bar Bayeux, The Jazz Standard and Zinc Bar and has become an in-demand sideman. Timothy is quickly garnering international acclaim. He has several European tours under his belt including having played the Badajoz Jazz Festival, Madrid Jazz Festival, New York Winter Jazz Festival as well as others. He has been fortunate to share the phase with John Mcniel, Jason Palmer, Leandro Pellegrino, Ralph Peterson, Marianne Solivan, Jeff Watts, Deva Mahal and many other notable acts. Timothy serves on the faculty at Jazz at Lincoln Eye. He has been a sideman on several recordings and is anticipating the release of his own anthology in 2022. Timothy continues to grow into an important figure in the modern music earth.

Timothy Norton - Bassist and Composer
Willerm Delisfort - piano
Jonathan Barber - Drums

Noah y Maurizio – January 30th - REGISTER Here

Noah y Maurizio'southward Acoustic Nomads (NyMAN) is a Boston-based band of virtuoso musicians on the cut edge of progressive roots-fusion music. The individual members of the grouping are widely recognized as emerging artists in the audio-visual music scene, but come up from varied musical backgrounds: traditional and contemporary, Appalachian and Venezuelan, Brazilian and Jazz influences combine to give The Acoustic Nomads a unique sound and broad entreatment.

Noah Harrington - Upright Bass
Maurizio Fiore Salas - Venezuelan Cuatro & Guitar
Sofia Chiarandini - Violin
Ethan Setiawan - Mandolin
Parker Ousley - Cello

Emery Austin Smith- Feb 6th - REGISTER Hither

Emery Austin Smith was born, raised and still lives in Hartford. He studied piano with Lillian Johnson Pierce and theory/composition with Clyde Wesley Board. Emery played locally with saxophonist Harold Holt and Percy Nelson. He was the leader and arranger/composer of the Emery Austin Smith Quintet, performing in schools, colleges and museums, lecturing and demonstrating the art and culture of jazz. Emery was a co‐leader with Lou West of the Progressive Arts and Culture Visitor 15-piece band which performed at the first Arts Festival in Hartford. Smith is strongly influenced by Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. Smith worked in New York with Charles Shavers, Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Tina Brooks, Dizzy Gillespie and many more than. Presently, Emery performs in New York and New England. The presentation will exist a mix of jazz (bebop and standards) and popular songs with accompanying historical commentary. He has appeared at The Babe Grand serial in the past to rave reviews!

Emery Austin Smith - Piano

Morris Trent - Bass

Alvin Benjamin Carter, Jr. - Drums

Trevor Davis' Jazz Affair – February 13th - REGISTER Here

By historic period 17 Trevor was playing drums professionally five nights a calendar week with a regionally successful stone band, 1 of whose members went on to atomic number 82 the Saturday Dark Alive studio band and serve as band director for David Bowie, Bob Dylan and George Harrison (GE Smith). Afterwards a twelvemonth of steady gigs, it was on to study and tape jazz with a big band at Johnson State College, now Northern Vermont Academy, and following that a period of freelancing back in key Connecticut when he played live and studio sessions and with dozens of different bands at every imaginable venue from clubs to state clubs to country western clubs, and the full range of private social events. During this period he also played with Michael Bolton, and later managed and played with a leading Connecticut band, Fountainhead. He currently plays with multiple jazz and Dixieland bands, and for the Baby Grand Jazz Series will be focussed on beautiful melodies, using Connecticut's own Doug Schlink on piano, Steve Bulmer on double bass, John Smayda on reeds and Ricky Alfonso on trumpet.

Doug Schlink - Piano

Steve Bulmer - Double Bass

John Smayda - Reeds

Trevor Davis - Drums
Ricky Alfonso - Trumpet

The Colin Walters Quartet – Feb 20th - Annals Hither

A native of Connecticut, Colin Walters is a dynamic and innovative saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer and educator. Colin discovered his passion for the saxophone at an early age and credits his exposure to listening to jazz, classical, gospel, R&B and reggae while growing up. Colin tours and performs regularly in a wide diverseness of ensembles and genres, including the Funky Dawgz Brass Ring, Victor Rendon and the Bronx Conexion, Scott Wenzel Big Band, New London Large Band, New Oasis Symphony Orchestra, Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, Earl MacDonald 10tet and the Colin Walters Quartet. Through performance, education and diverse community engagements, he strives to inspire others to appreciate the cultural aesthetic experiences of music. He is an active clinician and performer advocating music and its importance to the next generation of musicians. He is an uncomplicated ring director in the Darien Public Schools. Colin was most recently a Morse Teaching Artist Fellow, Gluck Community Service Fellow, Samuel L. Jackson, Jr and Irene Diamond Scholarship recipient at The Juilliard School. He holds dual degrees in jazz saxophone performance, music instruction and earned an MA in curriculum and teaching from UConn. In June 2021, Colin completed his MM in jazz studies from The Juilliard School

Colin Walters- Alto Saxophone
Joe Block- Piano
Corentin Le Hir- Bass
Jerome Jennings- Drums

Mary DiPaola Trio– Feb 27th - Annals Hither

Mary DiPaola'southward Trio features the world-renowned Nat Reeves on bass. Mary and Nat have worked together for more than 25 years and along with drummer Kirk Woodard are closely linked to the Jackie McLean Found at the Hartt School. The trio is looking forward to returning to the piano jazz serial at the Hartford Public Library and volition present a diverseness of arranged jazz standards and original compositions of the featured performers. Mary DiPaola began her musical career at the Hartt School, where she received degrees in pianoforte functioning: jazz studies (BMus) under the direction of the legendary Jackie McLean, and music education (MMusEd). She has been performing music throughout Connecticut since, and has recorded twice every bit a bandleader ("Cat'due south Cradle" and "Seventh Sign"). In addition to performing Mary is an educator, having taught individual pianoforte lessons, on faculty at the Hartt School and in East Hartford Public Schools at Sunset Ridge Academy. She currently teaches at Aiken Simple School in the Westward Hartford Public Schools district where she teaches music in grades K-5 and conducts the grades 4-v choir.

Mary DiPaola - Pianoforte

Nat Reeves - Bass

Kirk Woodard - Drums

The DeChamplain/Anick Quartet – March 6 th - REGISTER Here

The collaboration of Hartford-based pianist Matt DeChamplain and Boston-based violinist Jason Anick started as a tribute to the great Stephane Grappelli and Oscar Peterson. It soon blossomed into a quartet that plays works by various composers such as Horace Silver, Hank Mobley and John Coltrane and original compositions that explore the sonic depths of this unique instrumentation. At sixteen years old, Matt was a featured guest in two concerts with jazz fable Dave Brubeck at the same piano. He has performed at venues across the United States such as the Monterey Jazz Festival, Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Birks Jazz Festival, New York's JVC Jazz Festival, the Berklee Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center and Jazz at Lincoln Heart. He has played at renowned jazz clubs such as The Regatta Bar, Smalls, Featherbrained's Club Coca Cola, The Met Room and Yoshi'due south and has played in Europe and the Caribbean. He has been both a sideman and a leader in ensembles that opened for Wynton Marsalis, Hank Jones, Dave Brubeck and The Duke Ellington Orchestra. In 2008, Matt was selected for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Plan at The Kennedy Center under the direction of Dr. Billy Taylor which immune him to written report with Taylor, Curtis Fuller and Winard Harper for two weeks. In 2010, he competed in the Martial Solal Jazz Piano Competition in Paris and in 2018, he was selected equally a runner-up in the Great American Jazz Piano Contest in Jacksonville, Florida.

Jason Anick - violin

Matt DeChamplain - piano

Nat Reeves - bass

Kirk Woodard - drums

Carl Testa's Sway– March 13th - Annals HERE

Carl Testa (b. 1984, Chicago, IL) is a multi-instrumentalist and composer at the intersection of improvised music, jazz, electronics, experimental music, and new media. As a performer/improviser, he is equally comfortable on string bass, electronics, lighting, and combinations thereof. As a composer, he has written audio-visual and electronic music for configurations ranging from solo to chamber orchestra, including multimedia pieces that comprise electronics, lighting, dance, and theater. His work has been performed throughout the US and Europe, and is documented on many recordings, well-nigh recently "Iris (for solo bass and electronics)" (Lockstep Records 2013), and "Sn (for prepared guitar and electronics)", a collaboration with guitarist Christopher Riggs (Gold Bolus Records 2015). In improver to his piece of work every bit a leader/collaborator, he performs regularly with composers Anthony Braxton, Mario Pavone, and Tyshawn Sorey. He serves as the Archives Manager for Braxton's Tri-Axial Foundation where he manages all facets of the production of digital and print scores for the organization. He is an instructor in music composition at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Oasis teaching Audiovisual Alive Coding. He also organized The Uncertainty Music Serial from 2007-2017, which was a monthly concert series in New Haven, CT featuring improvised, electronic, and experimental music. He has received back up from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Country of CT as a 2018 Creative person Young man, from the New Haven Department of Cultural Affairs, and from NewMusicUSA.

Louis Guarino Jr. - Trumpet

Adam Matlock - Pianoforte

Anne Rhodes - Phonation

Carl Testa - Bass and electronics

Yuma Uesaka - clarinets

Michael Carabello Trio – March 20th - Register Hither

Pianist Mike Carabello is a multitalented pianist in the tristate area. Mike is a production of the Artist's Collective Youth Jazz Orchestra under master artist in residence Rene McLean, as well as the Jackie McLean Establish of Jazz. He has worked with bassist Nat Reeves, drummer Ronnie Burrage, saxophonist Rene McLean, trombonist Steve Davis, bassist Matt Dwonszyk and has studied piano under pianists Rick Germanson, Andy Laverne and Alan Palmer. He has Performed at The White House for Get-go Lady Michelle Obama, The Ninth Note Jazz Club, Black Eyed Emerge'due south Jazz Club, The Side Door Jazz Club and The New Haven "On The Green" Jazz Festival to name a few. He is also the pianist for a few working projects in the Connecticut area including Erica T. Bryan and the New Mosaic and the Lost Tribe.

Mike Carabello - Pianoforte

Nat Reeves - Bass

Kirk Woodard- Drums

Nando Michelin– March 27th - Annals Here

This ring is a articulation collaboration between composers Nando Michelin (Montevideo, Uruguay) and Ebinho Cardoso (Cuiaba, Brazil). In their music, they present songs using poems by João Cabral de Melo Neto, diving into the concrete work of a relatively forgotten poet in his own state. The result is exquisite, impressed by the beauty of the compositions, the quality of the arrangements and the level of the recording. Both composers are very experienced educators as well, Nando being a faculty member at Berklee College of Music and Ebinho having toured with his clinics all around Brazil. The idea of producing this music was the result of Nando's get-go meet with Cabral'south poesy, so universal, yet Brazilian. "João Cabral's voluntary exile got me even closer to his literary universe, a Brazilian poet living in Espana, just like nosotros are foreigners residing in the US. That triggered in me a deep regard for his poesy, and made me delve into his universe." João Cabral de Melo Neto was a Diplomat who wrote a large part of his trunk of piece of work in Spain, where he was good friends with Joan Miro and Juan Brossa. "Nosotros recorded compositions inspired by some of the virtually beautiful poems of Brazilian literature, and our principal concern was to go along and bring out the beauty of the text in its plenitude," says Nando.

Nando Michelin - Piano

Ebinho Cardoso - Bass/Voice

Chico Pinheiro - Guitar

Rogerio Boccato - Percussions

Tiago Michelin - Drums

The Sherry Winston Band – April 3rd - Annals HERE

Sherry is a graduate of Howard University'due south Higher of Fine Arts, Schoolhouse of Music and is a fellow member of Alpha Kappa Blastoff Sorority. Some of Sherry'southward awards include the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame Award; "Women of Power;" the Stamford Urban League; the Links "Bear upon Through The Arts" award, 2017; the Louis Armstrong Honour, 2005; nomination for the NAACP "Image Award," 1989; the "Eubie Blake Accolade," selected past Billy Taylor, 1991; "Howard University Alumni Laurels," 1984 and 1989; the Cultural Accomplishment Laurels by the National Black MBA, 1996; WBLS's "Quiet Tempest Award;" and Alpha Kappa Alpha'due south "Partner in the Arts award," 2001. Sherry performed at The White Firm for President and Mrs. Clinton during their last vacation party, and for former President George H.W. Bush-league at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. She has appeared on "Emeril Live," "The Today Show," BET and many other television shows nationally. She hosted six shows for BET TV, with Lou Rawls and Saxophonist Najee at the San Francisco Jazz Festival.

Sherry Winston - Electrical Flute
Richard Cummings - Electric Keyboard
Steve Clarke - Electrical Bass

Allegra Levy – April 10 - Annals Hither

West Hartford native and Jazz singer Allegra Levy released her quaternary album on the Steeplechase characterization entitled "Lose My Number; Allegra Levy sings John McNeil" in August 2020 to rave reviews, despite the inability to perform due to the height of the pandemic. The release featured Allegra's lyrics to legendary trumpeter and composer John McNeil's compositions. Allegra, a rising singer-songwriter based in New York who has been known for her prowess as a lyricist to mostly her own original jazz compositions (rooted in the great American songbook with a nod to the progressive) decided to take a stab at an all lyrics projection to McNeil'south plethora of catchy tunes. McNeil is non just a longtime friend and mentor, just produced her offset two albums – "Lonely City," hailed by The New York Times every bit "fresh," "exotic" and "far beyond the ordinary," and "Cities Betwixt Us," which prompted JazzTimes to pronounce Levy "a double-barreled talent" and "unquestionably one to watch."

Allegra Levy - Voice/leader

Carmen Staaf - Piano

Carmen Rothwell - Bass

Colleen Clark - Drums

Ronnie Burrage & Holographic Principle– Apr 24th - Register Here

Drummer, percussionist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, ring leader and music educator Ronnie Burrage was born on Oct. xix, 1959, in St. Louis. His manner draws most notably from the musical genres of jazz, funk and soul. Burrage sang in The St. Louis Cathedral Boys Choir from ages 7 to 11, and had the opportunity to perform with Duke Ellington, ane of the greatest musical figures to always live, at the incredibly young age of but 9 years former. He was introduced to jazz by listening to music every twenty-four hours, which was typically presented to him by his female parent, his uncles and grandparents. He played drums, percussion, pianoforte and vibraphone, and sang in funk, R&B and jazz groups, including The Soul Flamingos, Fontella Bass, The Oliver Sain Band, Third Circuit & Spirit, Rainbow Drinking glass and Expression Jazz Quintet. From the ages of 15-17, Ronnie was a fellow member of No Commercial Potential with keyboardist Mark Friedrick, bassist Darryl Mixon and guitarist Richie Daniels. They served every bit the opening human action for pianist/keyboardist George Duke and Canadian pop singer/songwriter Gino Vannelli. Ronnie played in clubs, concert halls, festivals and other assorted venues, including the almanac Afro Twenty-four hour period in the Park in St. Louis equally a member of The St. Louis Metropolitan Jazz Quintet in the early 1980s.

Ronnie Burrage - Drums, keys, vocals, perc.

Nimrod Speaks - Bass

Alex Collins - Piano, keys

Kendrick Smith - Alto sax, flute, EWI, bass clarinet

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