Saturday, August 22, from 7-9:15, bassist David Chevan will be playing with the Afro-Semitic Experience, in the bandstand on the Green in New Milford, 25 Main Street. We haven’t played in Connecticut in a while and we’re planning two dynamic sets that will include music from our forthcoming album, Exodus to Emancipation. This concert is rain or shine. If it rains, as it did the last time we played in New Milford, the concert will be held at the Congregational Church which is right by the green. It’s also a nice space, so please plan to come no matter what the weather is to enjoy our music.
Bassology
Thursday, August 13, from 8-10. jazz bassist David Chevan will be playing jazz at the Cannon, 135 Dwight Street in New Haven. This show features the latest edition of Bassology, my long-time jazz quartet that first got its start in the 1990s and features Natalie Hamilton on piano and vocals, Alvin Carter, Jr. on drum set and Will Bartlett on sax. Will has been writing some new arrangements for the group, and we’re excited to debut those charts as well this new edition of the ensemble.
David Chevan
Tuesday, September 9, Jazz bassist David Chevan will be celebrating his 65th birthday at Café Nine as the featured artist. Music is from 7-10 pm. On the gig with David will be Will Bartlett, Warren Byrd, Alvin Carter and Saskia Laroo, David will be playing his original compositions, arrangements and transcriptions from 7-8 pm followed by a jam session from 8-10 pm. Please come celebrate the completion of David’s 65th revolution around the sun by listening to the music and then playing with him during the jam session.
David Chevan’s Latin Jazz Ensemble
Friday, April 4, at Three Sheets, 372 Elm Street, in New Haven, jazz bassist David Chevan will be playing a set of Latin Jazz with students from his Latin Jazz Ensemble at SCSU. They’re going to feature some Latin classics interspersed with a few tunes from Brazil. That set is from 6-7 and that is followed directly at 7:30 by a jam session that lasts until 9 pm.
David Chevan, Rex Cadwallader & Ryan Sands
Wednesday, April 2. Jazz bassist David Chevan will be performing an Art of Trio concert with Rex Cadwallader on piano and Ryan Rahim Sands on drum set. The concert takes place at 7:30 in Garner Recital Hall which is located in Engleman Hall on the Southern Connecticut State University campus. Admission is free! They try to keep the program spontaneous and in the moment, so who knows what will happen! Rex and David have been presenting Art of Trio concerts all around the New Haven area since the early 1990s. They’re very fortunate that the Stutzman Family Foundation has been supporting the series for the past decade.
