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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:https://jazzhaven.org/event/jazz-with-frank-cochran-2/2025-07-25/
LOCATION:The Institute Library\, 847 Chapel Street\, New Haven\, CT\, 06510\, United States
CATEGORIES:Listening Session
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SUMMARY:Jeff Fuller & Darren Litzie
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, July 25th from 6 — 9 pm\, bassist Jeff Fuller and pianist Darren Litzie to join me at a new music venue\, the Bangkok Room\, 76 Main Street\, Ansonia.  By the way\, the food looks absolutely enticing! \n
URL:https://jazzhaven.org/event/jeff-fuller-darren-litzie/
LOCATION:Bangkok Room\, 76 Main Street\, Ansonia\, CT\, 06401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gigs
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SUMMARY:Bill O'Connell Trio with Santi Debriano and Billy Hart
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nBill O’Connell Trio with Santi Debriano and Billy Ha\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy The Side Door Jazz Club \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, July 25 · 8 – 10:30pm EDT. Doors at 7:15pm\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\nBill O’Connell – Piano \nSanti Debriano – Bass \nBilly Hart – Drums \nBill O’Connell is a living example of what can happen when the old axiom “Good things come to those who wait” is put to the test. His professional career spans almost half a century and has earned him widespread acclaim for his virtuosic skills as an attention-grabbing keyboardist\, composer\, arranger\, and bandleader. Over the decades\, the multi-talented musician has produced countless demonstrations of his myriad talents. \nOn four separate occasions\, he has been honored with the coveted “Jazz Writer of the Year” award from SESAC (Society of European Stage Authors and Composers)\, a performing rights organization. In the fall of 2022\, O’Connell received a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement for his clever retooling of the novelty piece “Chopsticks” as a Latin jazz-infused romp for drummer Richard Baratta’s album “The Reel Deal” (Savant). “It was very unexpected\,” O’Connell commented at the time\, “but a very nice surprise!” \nLauded by Downbeat Magazine as “an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer\,” O’Connell was born in New York City on August 22\, 1953. Initially\, his focus as a fledgling piano student was on the established classical repertoire. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music\, serving his initial goal of becoming a classical composer. However\, discovering jazz radically changed his career path. “Jazz combined the sophistication I was looking for in music with the earthy quality and the swing\,” he told Downbeat in a 2022 interview. \nIt wasn’t long before both leading critics and jazz aficionados began to recognize O’Connell’s distinctive keyboard personality. “The range of his artistic spectrum seems limitless\,” declared George Carroll in his review of Latin Jazz Fantasy (Random Chance)\, a groundbreaking 2004 recording that showcased O’Connell’s writing and arranging for a string ensemble. “I suggest that my readers will be moved by this colossus of musical dignity and improvisational authority\,” Carroll surmised. Alex Henderson\, writing for AllMusic.com\, stated that “As a pianist he is known for a lyrical approach that owes something to Keith Jarrett\, Bill Evans and Chick Corea\, as well as Herbie Hancock.” \nO’Connell’s debut recording as a leader was Searching\, a trio date for Inner City Records in 1978. Over the following four decades\, he would record 18 other sessions as a leader\, highlighting his stylistic versatility on releases that include solo\, duo\, and trio formats and a bevy of sessions featuring various incarnations of his Latin Jazz All-Stars ensemble. Over the years he chalked up sideman roles with a stylistically eclectic group of major artists\, from Astrud Gilberto\, Sonny Rollins\, and Chet Baker to John Lucien\, Neanna Freelon\, and Gato Barbieri. \nAlthough he is commanding in any setting\, from blues and ballads to bebop\, bossa\, and the free-flirting fare he explores on several tracks on his latest release\, Live in Montauk (Savant)\, it’s widely recognized that O’Connell’s most influential work has been in the expansive idiom of Latin jazz styles. \nHis initiation into the fertile alternative universe that Latin jazz represents came when he was tapped in 1977 to join Cuban conga player Mongo Santamaria’s popular group as keyboardist and de-facto music director. Working with the legendary conguero for two years afforded the young pianist the opportunity to hone the three skills he would emphasize throughout his career – composing\, arranging\, and playing. His time with Santamaria also resulted in the pianist’s key participation on two trendsetting albums for the Vaya label\, Amanecer and Mongo ala Carte. \n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://jazzhaven.org/event/bill-oconnell-trio-with-santi-debriano-and-billy-hart/
LOCATION:The Side Door Jazz Club\, 85 Lyme St\, Old Lyme
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