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SUMMARY:Fridays with Frank Jazz Listening Sessions
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday Happy Hour Jazz with Frank Cochran at The Institute Library\nEvery Friday from 5:15-7:00 p.m.\nAn Eclectic Selection \nFrom Our Vinyl Collection \nThe Fridays with Frank jazz listening sessions are held in the third floor music room\, to consider\, contemplate and appreciate the wonders in the Institute Library’s amazing jazz vinyl collection. \nFriday Happy Hour Jazz is\, as always\, a BYOB\, BYO Snack evening; the crowd’s always appreciative and always excited to see what people bring. Updates to the schedule\, including inclement weather closures\, will be provided via the internal Jazz email list. Want to be added to that list? Let us know! \nPlease consider making a $5 donation when you come to Friday Happy Hour Jazz.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday Happy Hour Jazz is  \npresented with support from Jazz Haven \nwww.jazzhaven.org  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:http://jazzhaven.org/event/fridays-with-frank-jazz-listening-sessions/2026-01-30/
LOCATION:The Institute Library\, 847 Chapel Street\, New Haven\, CT\, 06510\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jeff Fuller & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, January 30th\, at 7:00 pm\, come on out to Best Video Film & Cultural Center\, 1842 Whitney Ave.\, Hamden\, for the first of two shows with Jeff Fuller’s All-Star jazz group (under the old name) Jeff Fuller & Friends\, with Naomi Wharry (trb/voc)\, Nigel Regan (alto sax)\, Ryan Sands (drs)\, Jeff Fuller\, (bass) and Darren Litzie (pno.)  $20 cover. \n
URL:http://jazzhaven.org/event/jeff-fuller-friends-2/
LOCATION:Best Video Film & Cultural Center\, 1842 Whitney Ave\, Hamden\, CT\, 06517\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jazzmeia Horn
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nJazzmeia Horn\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy The Side Door Jazz Club\n\n\n\n\nJan 30 from 8pm to 10:30pm EST\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special night of jazz with Vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and her group!\n\n\n\nAs Grammy-nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn looks out the window of her 11th-floor hotel room in Tokyo\, she describes the surrounding skyscrapers\, the yellow and pink clouds floating by and Messages — her fourth leader date\, which is set to release October 25\, 2024\, via Empress Legacy Records. \nIn part\, Messages\, is intended to be a word of encouragement to anyone making tough choices — a reminder that we all make sacrifices. Sometimes\, the difficulties encountered along the way are worth it\, though. \nOne of those hardships\, for Horn\, is being on the road as much as she is. It leaves less time to be with her family. But touring the world also granted Horn\, a product of Dallas’ Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts\, space to ruminate on her relationships — both familial and romantic — how they’ve changed and how they inform her art. \n“If you want to sing your own song\, if you have a mission\, if you have a lyric\,” she began\, looking out that window in Japan. “Whatever that voice is\, that love\, that light\, that grit — whatever that is inside of you\, you have to do that.” \nIn contrast to 2021’s Dear Love\, the bandleader pared back her ensemble\, eschewing the personnel of a big band\, but retaining the avant-playfulness of the Sun Ra Arkestra — especially on the interstellar “Submit to the Unknown.” Ruminations on family\, friendship\, and love all circulate among the 10 original compositions on the album. \nAs much as those connections are mined for recurring lyrical motifs\, Horn’s writing — her messages — readily reassures listeners to focus and pursue their ambitions. It’s also the bandleader bolstering herself against the world. \nOn “Sing Your Own Song\,” she sings: “Some things may not be fair/ Gloom and misery everywhere/ But I think it’s amazing/ what life can bring to you.” \nHorn said she wrote the tune for her mother\, who gave up a career in music to raise her. The singer didn’t make the same choice for herself. \n“I miss them when I’m on tour — and when I’m with them\, I miss them\, too\,” Horn said about being away from her children. It’s a sentiment explored further on her composition “Mother’s Love\,” an uplifting and comforting tune that changes meter while Horn lands its melody in unpredictable places. “They’re growing up\, you know. I come back from tour and the youngest one lost a tooth and the other one won an award at school.” \nAs new generations engage the history of the music\, it’s already been built into Messages: Horn interprets the 1932 composition “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me”; and her own tune “Tip” sounds as if it could have been recorded in the ’50s — the band in a casual groove as the bandleader displays her seemingly boundless vocal range. \nHorn is among the vanguard in jazz\, using her knowledge of the canon to inform decisions firmly rooted in traditional parts of the genre\, while still adding in contemporary ideas\, themes and music. The 21st century comes to bear on the album through the singer splicing in voice recordings and voicemails — literal messages — into a few songs. “Voicemail Blues” is a whimsical trip through Horn’s inbox as listeners get to hear from bassist Reggie Workman\, the singer’s friends and family. \nAlbum closer “Flip D Switch” features some Herbie-esque electric keys and a recording of an unhinged tirade delivered by Horn’s ex. After that piece of tape rolls — when the unnamed man tells Horn she has issues with\, among a litany of other nonsense\, obedience — the vocalist summarizes their relationship\, dismissing his fits and tantrums. \nShe sings: “Flip the switch\, I don’t play with kids\, we grown/ Flip the switch\, time for me to move on.” \nThe inverse of that song and sentiment arrives on “Mysteries of Us\,” a compositionally complex\, extended piece delving into the fullness of love Horn feels for her current partner — and their decision to be together. \n“I’ve prayed about it\, I’ve fasted about it\, and I’ve asked God for guidance and wisdom\,” she said about the relationship. “I’ve made my decision.” \nThe song’s comprised of a traditional lyric section\, an instrumental portion — led by Chicago-bred trumpeter Marquis Hill — and an emotionally dense poem\, where Horn guides listeners through the love and hardships of her long-term partnership. \n“I love his sound\,” Horn said about why she asked Hill to contribute to the tune. “And I felt like he was probably the only one who could really give me exactly what I wanted.” \nWhile the bandleader again doesn’t explicitly say who she’s addressing in the lyric\, it traces the couple’s dovetailing spirituality\, and knowledge of literature and scripture. \n“Listening to the lyrics\, you can’t help but reflect on your own past relationships. I just used those thoughts and feelings\, and poured it into the music\,” Hill said about working with Horn and her ensemble\, which here includes pianists Keith Brown and Victor Gould\, bassist Eric Wheeler\, percussionist Kahlil Kwame Bell and drummer Anwar Marshall. “When you hear Jazzmeia sing the melody and sing these lyrics\, you can sense the rawness in her voice\, and the realness in the music. I just tried to piggyback off her energy and tap into that same space.” \nThe openness Hill heard on that single song is evident across each of Horn’s Messages. She’s written this collection for herself\, for her family\, and for listeners and fans who might need a reminder to believe in themselves. \n“When I write\, I don’t really care what people think. I don’t ask\, ‘Is this gonna fit?’ I don’t care\,” Horn said. “My messages are for healing. My messages are for reconciliation. My messages are for exposing\, for movement. My messages are for freedom — the freedom of expression. That’s what the record is really\, truly about.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation\n\n\n\n\nThe Side Door \n85 Lyme St \nOld Lyme\, CT 06371 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:The Side Door Jazz Club\, 85 Lyme St\, Old Lyme
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