Jeremy Pelt – Trumpet
Mykhailo Mendelenko – Guitar
Lasse Corson – Piano
Leighton Harrell – Bass
Jared Spears – Drums

Jeremy Pelt was born in California in 1976 and began playing trumpet at age five, studying classical music and piano before a high school jazz band sparked a lifelong devotion to the music. He went on to study jazz improvisation and film scoring at Berklee College of Music, and forged an early bond with the Mingus Big Band that helped launch a career built on collaborations with some of jazz’s greatest masters, including Jimmy Heath, Frank Wess, Cedar Walton, Ravi Coltrane, Nancy Wilson, and Bobby “Blue” Bland, among many others. He has also performed with the Roy Hargrove Big Band, The Village Vanguard Orchestra, and the Duke Ellington Big Band, and is currently a member of the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band featuring Louis Hayes.

As a leader, Pelt has recorded more than ten albums and toured globally with his various ensembles, earning him five consecutive Rising Star honors on trumpet from DownBeat Magazine and the Jazz Journalists Association. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal by legendary jazz writer and producer Nat Hentoff, and JazzTimes has praised him as “a technical marvel” who “executes intricate solos with ease, plays gorgeous ballads in a tasteful manner, and never lacks flair or sensitivity.” This is a rare opportunity to experience one of jazz’s most respected trumpeters in an intimate setting.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.

Jack Madry – Piano
Kirk Edwards – Saxophone
John Moore – Drums
Jim Hunter – Bass
Chris Leigh – Guitar

Jack Madry is a jazz pianist and pastor at Madry Temple Church in New London, Connecticut, whose lifelong relationship with music runs deep, shaped by the rhythms of gospel, the history of the civil rights movement, and decades spent at the piano bringing people together through sound. A beloved figure in the southeastern Connecticut community, Madry brings a rare blend of spiritual depth and musical versatility to everything he plays.

With the P.J. Madry Experience, Madry leads a group built for range, moving comfortably between jazz standards, blues, contemporary sounds, and gospel, a reflection of the full breadth of his musical life. Joined by saxophonist Kirk Edwards, drummer John Moore, bassist Jim Hunter, and guitarist Chris Leigh, this is a night built on feel, soul, and the kind of connection that only comes from musicians who have spent years playing together in their own community.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.

Jalen Baker – Vibraphone

Gavin Moolchan- Drums

Gabriel Godoy – bass

Dayne Reliford – Piano

Jalen Baker has been lauded as “a bold new vibraphonist in Jazz town who warrants an ear with a promising career” by DownBeat Magazine. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago with an MFA from Florida State University, he is also an alumnus of Houston’s famed performing arts high school HSPVA. Baker has gone on to become a mainstay on the international jazz scene, performing regularly with notable bandleaders such as Jeremy Pelt, Johnathan Blake, Ulysses Owens Jr., and Tim Warfield, among many others.

He is also an accomplished composer and bandleader in his own right with the Jalen Baker Quartet. With the release of his debut album This Is Me, This Is Us in 2021 and his second album Be Still in 2023, he earned worldwide recognition from publications including DownBeat, UK Jazz Journal, Textura, JazzIZ, and Stereogum. Baker is also recognized as a Rising Star in DownBeat Magazine’s Critics Poll and was included in Houston City Book’s Leaders and Legends series. In addition to an often robust touring schedule, Jalen is also an educator and adjunct professor at Texas Southern University, where he uses both his classical percussion training and his jazz training to guide the next generation of musicians.

This is a rare opportunity to experience one of jazz’s most exciting rising talents in an intimate setting.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.

One of jazz’s most inventive and rhythmically daring drummers brings his trio to The Side Door

Ari Hoenig is a jazz drummer, composer, and educator known for his unusual and intense approach to drumming, emphasizing complex rhythms in direct harmony with other group members. Born in Philadelphia to a conductor and classical singer father and a violinist and pianist mother, Hoenig began studying violin and piano at age four before turning to drums at twelve, honing his skills at Philadelphia jazz clubs like Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus by age fourteen. He attended the University of North Texas, where he studied with Ed Soph and played in the celebrated One O’Clock Lab Band, before transferring to William Paterson College to be closer to New York City.

Rather than playing the traditional role of timekeeper, Hoenig elevates drumming to a central and visible part of the performance, drawing comparisons to the approaches of Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, and Jack DeJohnette before him. He has performed and recorded with the Jean Michel Pilc Trio, the Kenny Werner Trio, Chris Potter Underground, the Kurt Rosenwinkel Group, and the Joshua Redman Elastic Band, among many others. He formed the Ari Hoenig Quartet in 2002 and has released fourteen albums as a leader, with his quartet winning the prestigious BMW Welt Award in Munich in 2013 for best band led by a drummer. He currently performs regularly at the legendary Smalls Jazz Club in New York City and is on faculty at NYU Steinhardt and The New School.

This is a rare opportunity to experience one of jazz’s most singular percussive voices in an intimate setting.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.

Bill Charlap is one of the most gifted interpreters of the American songbook working today. Born in New York City into a deeply musical family, his father was Broadway composer Moose Charlap, whose credits include Peter Pan, and his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, a Grammy nominated vocalist who toured with Benny Goodman. Charlap began playing piano at age three and went on to work with Gerry Mulligan, Phil Woods, Tony Bennett, Wynton Marsalis, and Ron Carter, among many others. Time magazine has written that he “approaches a song the way a lover approaches his beloved, no matter how imaginative or surprising his take on a song is, he invariably zeroes in on its essence.”

For this special Sunday afternoon engagement, Charlap steps away from the trio format to offer something entirely different, an intimate, interactive solo performance he calls Jazz in Conversation. Part performance and part illumination, Charlap will play, explore, and speak directly to the audience about the music itself, the harmonic choices, the history behind a standard, the art of interpretation, offering a rare window into the mind of one of the great living jazz pianists. This is an unforgettable opportunity to experience Charlap’s artistry up close, in a setting built for exactly this kind of intimacy.

Bill Charlap – Piano
David Wong – Bass
Dennis Mackrel – Drums

Bill Charlap was born in New York City into a deeply musical family, his father was Broadway composer Moose Charlap, whose credits include Peter Pan, and his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, a Grammy nominated vocalist who toured with Benny Goodman. Charlap began playing piano at age three and never looked back. In the late 1980s he joined Gerry Mulligan’s quintet, and in 1995 secured one of the most coveted piano chairs in jazz with the Phil Woods Quintet. Since then he has performed with an extraordinary range of the music’s leading artists, including Tony Bennett, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Houston Person, and Barbra Streisand.

Charlap is widely regarded as one of the most gifted interpreters of the American songbook working today. Time magazine has written that he “approaches a song the way a lover approaches his beloved, no matter how imaginative or surprising his take on a song is, he invariably zeroes in on its essence.” His acclaimed trio, celebrated for its telepathic interplay and deep swing, has been together for decades and has released nearly 20 albums together. In 2016, his collaboration with Tony Bennett, The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. From 2004 through 2023 he served as Artistic Director of New York City’s Jazz in July Festival at 92NY, and he currently serves as Director of Jazz Studies at William Paterson University.

Joining him for this special four night engagement are bassist David Wong and drummer Dennis Mackrel, two of the most respected rhythm section players in jazz. This is a rare and extraordinary opportunity to experience one of the true masters of jazz piano in an intimate setting.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.

Bill Charlap – Piano
David Wong – Bass
Dennis Mackrel – Drums

Bill Charlap was born in New York City into a deeply musical family, his father was Broadway composer Moose Charlap, whose credits include Peter Pan, and his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, a Grammy nominated vocalist who toured with Benny Goodman. Charlap began playing piano at age three and never looked back. In the late 1980s he joined Gerry Mulligan’s quintet, and in 1995 secured one of the most coveted piano chairs in jazz with the Phil Woods Quintet. Since then he has performed with an extraordinary range of the music’s leading artists, including Tony Bennett, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Houston Person, and Barbra Streisand.

Charlap is widely regarded as one of the most gifted interpreters of the American songbook working today. Time magazine has written that he “approaches a song the way a lover approaches his beloved, no matter how imaginative or surprising his take on a song is, he invariably zeroes in on its essence.” His acclaimed trio, celebrated for its telepathic interplay and deep swing, has been together for decades and has released nearly 20 albums together. In 2016, his collaboration with Tony Bennett, The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. From 2004 through 2023 he served as Artistic Director of New York City’s Jazz in July Festival at 92NY, and he currently serves as Director of Jazz Studies at William Paterson University.

Joining him for this special four night engagement are bassist David Wong and drummer Dennis Mackrel, two of the most respected rhythm section players in jazz. This is a rare and extraordinary opportunity to experience one of the true masters of jazz piano in an intimate setting.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.

Bill Charlap – Piano
David Wong – Bass
Dennis Mackrel – Drums

Bill Charlap was born in New York City into a deeply musical family, his father was Broadway composer Moose Charlap, whose credits include Peter Pan, and his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, a Grammy nominated vocalist who toured with Benny Goodman. Charlap began playing piano at age three and never looked back. In the late 1980s he joined Gerry Mulligan’s quintet, and in 1995 secured one of the most coveted piano chairs in jazz with the Phil Woods Quintet. Since then he has performed with an extraordinary range of the music’s leading artists, including Tony Bennett, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Houston Person, and Barbra Streisand.

Charlap is widely regarded as one of the most gifted interpreters of the American songbook working today. Time magazine has written that he “approaches a song the way a lover approaches his beloved, no matter how imaginative or surprising his take on a song is, he invariably zeroes in on its essence.” His acclaimed trio, celebrated for its telepathic interplay and deep swing, has been together for decades and has released nearly 20 albums together. In 2016, his collaboration with Tony Bennett, The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. From 2004 through 2023 he served as Artistic Director of New York City’s Jazz in July Festival at 92NY, and he currently serves as Director of Jazz Studies at William Paterson University.

Joining him for this special four night engagement are bassist David Wong and drummer Dennis Mackrel, two of the most respected rhythm section players in jazz. This is a rare and extraordinary opportunity to experience one of the true masters of jazz piano in an intimate setting.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.

Martin Wind – Bass
Scott Robinson – Saxophone
Glenn Zaleski – Piano
Matt Wilson – Drums

Martin Wind was born in Flensburg, Germany in 1968 and moved to New York in 1996 to study at NYU on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service. He earned his diploma as an orchestral musician from the Music Conservatory in Cologne under Wolfgang Guettler, former bassist of the Berlin Philharmonic, before completing his Master’s degree in Jazz Performance and Composition at NYU under Mike Richmond, Jim McNeely, and Kenny Werner. In 1995 he placed third at the International Thelonious Monk Bass Competition in Washington, D.C., and the following year his trio Dreiklang won the first Cognac Hennessy Blue Note Jazz Search in Germany, leading to a recording for Blue Note Records.

Since settling in New York, Wind has become a fixture of the city’s jazz scene, recording and performing with an extraordinary range of artists, including Pat Metheny, Toots Thielemans, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Slide Hampton, Buddy DeFranco, John Scofield, Sting, Kenny Barron, and Houston Person, along with regular appearances with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He has released more than 20 albums as a leader or co-leader, and is a longstanding member of ensembles led by pianists Bill Mays, Dena DeRose, and Ted Rosenthal, as well as drummer Matt Wilson’s various groups. He is also on faculty at NYU and Hofstra University.

Joining him for this performance is a formidable lineup, saxophonist Scott Robinson, pianist Glenn Zaleski, and longtime collaborator and drummer Matt Wilson, together forming a quartet of extraordinary depth, versatility, and swing.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.

Thana Alexa: Voice/Loops/FX/Percussion

Alejandra Sofia: Keys/Voice

JC Maillard: Guitar/Voice

Jacquelene Acevedo: Percussion/Voice

Thana Alexa is one of the most inventive voices in jazz today, a vocalist, composer, arranger, and producer whose music pushes the boundaries of the genre while remaining deeply rooted in the jazz tradition. Born in New York City to a Croatian family, Alexa earned her BFA in Jazz and Contemporary Music from The New School, and her use of the voice as both a lyrical and experimental instrument has drawn comparisons to some of the most creative vocalists working today. Billboard has praised her for “turning a style of scatting that’s become cliche into something entirely new, evocative, and exhilarating,” while JazzTimes writes that “her voice is enthralling, her compositions are heart warming and her arrangements are heart stopping.”

Alexa’s 2020 album ONA, meaning “she” in Croatian, earned her two Grammy nominations, including Best Jazz Vocal Album, and was inspired by the cross generational stories of the immigrant women in her family, evolving into an exploration of the experiences of contemporary women everywhere. She is an active member of her husband, five time Grammy winner Antonio Sanchez’s touring ensemble Migration, and formed the trio SONICA alongside fellow vocalist Nicole Zuraitis and bassist Julia Adamy. A former Downbeat cover artist and Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star, Alexa also serves as artistic director of the Ponta Lopud Jazz Festival in Croatia and is deeply committed to uplifting female voices in jazz through her ongoing Founding Mothers of Jazz project.

This is a rare opportunity to experience one of the most original and fearless voices in jazz today in an intimate setting.

The Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Tickets are reserved seating. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn prior to the show receive 10% off their dinner bill.