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SUMMARY:Jazz with Frank Cochran
DESCRIPTION:Join renowned jazz historian and Jazz Haven Board member Frank Cochran for a BYOB Friday with Frank Happy Hour jazz listening session every Friday from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at the Institute Library in downtown New Haven.  Each Friday Frank selects iconic jazz LPs to play from the Library’s extensive collection.  Discussion follows.  Bone up on your jazz history and BYOB.   Donations appreciated. \n
URL:http://jazzhaven.org/event/jazz-with-frank-cochran-2/2025-11-14/
LOCATION:The Institute Library\, 847 Chapel Street\, New Haven\, CT\, 06510\, United States
CATEGORIES:Listening Session
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Simmons
DESCRIPTION:\nBenjamin Simmons\nBenjamin Simmons is a Hartford-based tenor saxophonist and graduate from the Hartt School of Music\, studied with world renowned saxophonist Abraham Burton\, Nat Reeves\, Rene McLean\, and Steve Davis. Benjamin is a prominent player in the Hartford and New York City scene. \nNovember 14\, 2025 @ 7:00 – 8:00 pm\, $20 \nThe Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center: 605 Main Street Middletown\, CT 06457 \nTICKETS:  https://buttonwood.networkforgood.com/events/84941-benjamin-simmons-saxophone \n
URL:http://jazzhaven.org/event/benjamin-simmons/
LOCATION:Buttonwood Tree\, 605 Main St\, Middletown
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CATEGORIES:Gigs
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SUMMARY:Steve Nelson Quartet
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nSteve Nelson Quartet\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy The Side Door Jazz Club\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNov 14 from 8pm to 10:30pm EST\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Nelson – Vibraphone \nRick Germanson – Piano \nKiyoshi Kitagawa – Bass \nCharles Goold – Drums \nSteve Nelson is an acclaimed American jazz vibraphonist and marimba player\, widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent modernist performers on the instrument for his inventive\, fluidly harmonic\, and chromatic approach. \nIntroduced to the vibraphone in high school by his teacher George A. Monroe—a steelworker by day and a gifted vibraphonist in the Milt Jackson tradition—Nelson also received early instruction in piano and jazz fundamentals from Monroe\, to whom he later dedicated the track “Blues for George A.” on his album Full Nelson. He began his professional career in Pittsburgh\, quickly progressing to gigs with guitar legend Grant Green after a recommendation from local musician Jerry Byrd. \nNelson earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from Rutgers University\, studying in the renowned Jazz Studies program under pianist Kenny Barron\, bassist Larry Ridley\, and drummer Ted Dunbar. His debut recording was on James Spaulding’s Plays the Legacy of Duke Ellington (1983)\, followed by collaborations in the early 1980s with Barron\, David “Fathead” Newman\, Bobby Watson\, and the George Shearing big band. \nThroughout his career\, Nelson has been the vibraphonist of choice for jazz icons\, including long-term partnerships with pianist Kenny Barron\, saxophonist Jackie McLean\, drummer Lewis Nash\, pianist James Williams\, bassist Curtis Lundy\, and pianist Mulgrew Miller’s Wingspan Sextet. Since the 1990s\, he has been a core member of bassist Dave Holland’s Quintet and Big Band\, contributing to decades of composing\, performing\, and touring. \nAs a leader\, Nelson has released albums such as Live at Acireale (Red Records)\, Full Nelson (Sunnyside)\, and Communications (Criss Cross)\, showcasing his personal voice on vibes. In 2025\, he earned a Grammy nomination for his work on Barron’s quintet album Beyond This Place\, praised as “one of the best career efforts of the number one vibes player of his generation.” \nIn addition to performing worldwide\, Nelson serves as an educator\, teaching jazz ensemble at Montclair State University and mentoring young vibraphonists\, as featured in the 2023 short documentary Sparni. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:15 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Side Door\, 85 Lyme St\, Old Lyme\, CT 06371 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:http://jazzhaven.org/event/steve-nelson-quartet/
LOCATION:The Side Door Jazz Club\, 85 Lyme St\, Old Lyme
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SUMMARY:Otherlands Trio
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nOtherlands Trio\n\nFriday\, November 14\, 2025\n 8:30 PM 11:00 PM \n\n\nFirehouse 12 45 Crown Street New Haven CT 06510 (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 8:30PM TICKETS \n\n\n\n\n 10:00PM TICKETS \n\n\n\n\n\nStephan Crump (acoustic bass)\, Eric McPherson (drums)\, Darius Jones (alto saxophone) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOtherlands Trio is a new creative formation featuring veteran instrumentalist/composers Stephan Crump\, Darius Jones\, and Eric McPherson. Their dynamic\, ever-evolving\, magnetically charged music emerges from a pursuit of ego dissolution and spiritual communion. \nStephan Crump is a Grammy-nominated bassist and composer\, collaborator and bandleader\, soloist and educator\, based in New York City since 1994. A Memphis native\, Crump fell for New York’s fecund scenes during his first semester at Amherst College\, when he would drive hours to play late-night\, weekday gigs in the West Village. He knew this is where he’d make his life and career. \nWorking beyond genre\, he has become a crucial component of multiple New York music communities in and beyond jazz. For two decades\, Crump recorded and toured as a third of Vijay Iyer’s acclaimed trio\, helping to build that band’s global reputation. Meanwhile\, many of his own ensembles—Rhombal\, with Tyshawn Sorey\, Ellery Eskelin\, and Adam O’Farrill; Secret Keeper\, with Mary Halvorson; Rosetta Trio\, with Jamie Fox and Liberty Ellman—prize versatility and voicings in a manner that more traditional configurations often do not. His Borderlands Trio\, with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Eric McPherson\, brings this same mentality to a more familiar setting. Other collaborators have included Miguel Zenón\, Gordon Gano\, Patti Austin\, Johnny Clyde Copeland\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Jim Campilongo\, David Gilmore\, Sam Newsome\, Steve Lehman\, Cory Smythe\, Ingrid Laubrock\, Okkyung Lee\, Mat Maneri\, and Ches Smith. \nCrump’s physical and emotional connection to the bass is abundant through the new sextet Slow Water\, which explores ecology and environment through composition and group communication. He teaches On Magnetism\, a course in connecting more deeply through one’s instrument\, after a lifetime of doing just that\, and lives still in Brooklyn with his wife and collaborator\, the singer Jen Chapin\, and their two sons. \nA native of NYC\, Eric McPherson came to prominence apprenticing with legendary saxophonist and educator\, Jackie Mclean\, and innovative pianist and composer Andrew Hill. Those foundational experiences cultivated Eric into one of the leading drummers in contemporary creative music. Eric continues the legacy of the musical giants who came before him. As well as performing and teaching internationally with an array of today’s leading contemporary creative musicians\, Eric teaches privately and at the University of Hartford’s\, Jackie Mclean institute. \nDarius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of African-American music. Jones has been awarded the Van Lier Fellowship\, Jerome Foundation Commission\, Jerome Artist-in-Residence at Roulette\, French-American Jazz Exchange Award\, and the Fromm Music Foundation commission at Harvard University. Jones has released a string of diverse recordings featuring music and images evocative of Black Futurism. His work as a new music composer for voice culminated in a major debut performance at Carnegie Hall in 2014. Jones has collaborated with artists including Gerald Cleaver\, Oliver Lake\, William Parker\, Andrew Cyrille\, Craig Taborn\, Wet Ink Ensemble\, Jason Moran\, Trevor Dunn\, Dave Burrell\, Eric Revis\, Matthew Shipp\, Marshall Allen\, Nasheet Waits\, Branford Marsalis\, Travis Laplante\, Fay Victor\, Cooper-Moore\, Matana Roberts\, JD Allen\, Matthew Shipp\, Nicole Mitchell\, Georgia Ann Muldrow\, and many more. The New York Times named Jones among the Best Live Jazz Performances of 2017 for his Vision Festival performance with Farmers by Nature. In 2018\, Darius premiered across the United States a major new composition entitled LawNOrder\, a dramatic commentary on social justice and American politics. Jones’ music is a confrontation against apathy and ego\, hoping to inspire authenticity that compels us to be better humans. \nDebut album (“Star Mountain”) arrives October 17\, 2025 on Intakt Records \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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