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Mike Flanagan: Perfect Pairs

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Mike Flanagan: Perfect Pairs

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Fri, March 3, 8:30PM / $25 – $45    Get Tickets

Perfect Pairs

Mike Flanagan – Saxophone
Lauren Scales – vocals
Chris Grasso – piano
Luques Curtis – bass
Richie Barshay – drums
Mike Flanagan is a Lennon Award-winning, OUTmusic Award-winning, and three-time Billboard-charting saxophonist, pianist, music director, songwriter, and educator. He began playing professionally at age 17 and went on to earn a Bachelor’s of Music in Jazz Performance and Music Education from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. During his undergraduate studies, he was selected at the age of 19 to tour Japan as a member of the Berklee Swing Orchestra and by age 20 he held a two-night-a-week performance-residency as band leader at the Sheraton Hotel Prudential and featured world-renowned guest musicians such as Esperanza Spaulding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joann Brackeen, Christian Scott, Andre Hayward, Bob Moses, Jason Palmer and more. After graduating Berklee, Mike began songwriting, producing, and releasing albums independently on his own label MRF Music, under recording-artist moniker, MikeMRF

In 2013, Mike released his sophomore album Mob Music which peaked at #1 on the iTunes Jazz Albums Charts and #2 on the Billboard HeatSeekers Chart. The album would go on to produce several radio singles and song placements in Film and Television (Off Season TV, Amazon and Bear City 2 and 3, both of which Mike acted in).  The album also garnered a number of songwriting awards. In 2014, Mike won 2 OUTmusic Awards including the highly coveted Humanitarian Songwriter of the Year for his song “Be Strong (LGBT Youth)” and Best Spoken Word for “Tender.”  He received 5 nominations that year, the most of any artist, including Best Music Video for “Trying.” “Be Strong” was also selected as Boston Pride’s Flag-Raising Anthem.  Additionally, in 2014, the album’s jazz ballad “This Love” placed Top 10 in the U.S. Songwriting Competition and in 2017, the album title track “Mob Music” won the Lennon Award (Hip-Hop) in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

The Mob Music album was followed by Mike’s 2016 EP, Yasko Sensei, dedicated to his late mentor and musical-hero, Yasko Kubota. The EP landed at #11 on the iTunes Jazz Albums Charts and #2 on Billboard’s Most Added Chart for radio-single “Makes Me Wonder.” Mike continued his education at New York University in their Master of Music in Music Theory & Composition Master’s Program where he was made an Adjunct Professor of Composition upon entry. During his time at NYU, Mike toured the U.S. and U.K as Music Director for Lisa Bello, held a weekly live-music residency at ReBar Chelsea, and wrote the Mob Music 2 Album as the coursework and thesis for his Master’s Degree.  Mob Music 2 was released on October 18, 2019 and hit #39 on the iTunes R&B Albums Chart and was featured on Apple Music. Album opener, “Tip Jar” landed in the Semi-Finals of the 2020 International Songwriting Competition and was featured in the Television Show “30 The Series” (Amazon Prime) along with two other songs from the album.

In April of 2021, Mike and Lisa Bello released Wait Just Listen (The Live Album) and embarked on an eleven city album release tour, which included a sold-out main stage at City Winery Boston, accompanied by drummer extraordinaire Charles Haynes. Throughout his career, Mike has performed Ruth Pointer (Pointer Sisters), Cassandra Wilson, Matt Alber, Ada Vox, Varla Jean Merman, Esera Tuaolo, and many more. He has also recorded piano for Kat Deluna and LeAndria Johnson. Mike is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMYs.) and holds a MA Professional Educator’s License in Music (Instrumental, Vocal, General).

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Fri, March 3

8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

Mike Flanagan: Perfect Pairs

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Mike Flanagan: Perfect Pairs

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Fri, March 3, 8:30PM / $25 – $45  Get Tickets

Perfect Pairs

Mike Flanagan – Saxophone
Lauren Scales – vocals
Chris Grasso – piano
Luques Curtis – bass
Richie Barshay – drums
Mike Flanagan is a Lennon Award-winning, OUTmusic Award-winning, and three-time Billboard-charting saxophonist, pianist, music director, songwriter, and educator. He began playing professionally at age 17 and went on to earn a Bachelor’s of Music in Jazz Performance and Music Education from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. During his undergraduate studies, he was selected at the age of 19 to tour Japan as a member of the Berklee Swing Orchestra and by age 20 he held a two-night-a-week performance-residency as band leader at the Sheraton Hotel Prudential and featured world-renowned guest musicians such as Esperanza Spaulding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joann Brackeen, Christian Scott, Andre Hayward, Bob Moses, Jason Palmer and more. After graduating Berklee, Mike began songwriting, producing, and releasing albums independently on his own label MRF Music, under recording-artist moniker, MikeMRF

In 2013, Mike released his sophomore album Mob Music which peaked at #1 on the iTunes Jazz Albums Charts and #2 on the Billboard HeatSeekers Chart. The album would go on to produce several radio singles and song placements in Film and Television (Off Season TV, Amazon and Bear City 2 and 3, both of which Mike acted in).  The album also garnered a number of songwriting awards. In 2014, Mike won 2 OUTmusic Awards including the highly coveted Humanitarian Songwriter of the Year for his song “Be Strong (LGBT Youth)” and Best Spoken Word for “Tender.”  He received 5 nominations that year, the most of any artist, including Best Music Video for “Trying.” “Be Strong” was also selected as Boston Pride’s Flag-Raising Anthem.  Additionally, in 2014, the album’s jazz ballad “This Love” placed Top 10 in the U.S. Songwriting Competition and in 2017, the album title track “Mob Music” won the Lennon Award (Hip-Hop) in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

The Mob Music album was followed by Mike’s 2016 EP, Yasko Sensei, dedicated to his late mentor and musical-hero, Yasko Kubota. The EP landed at #11 on the iTunes Jazz Albums Charts and #2 on Billboard’s Most Added Chart for radio-single “Makes Me Wonder.” Mike continued his education at New York University in their Master of Music in Music Theory & Composition Master’s Program where he was made an Adjunct Professor of Composition upon entry. During his time at NYU, Mike toured the U.S. and U.K as Music Director for Lisa Bello, held a weekly live-music residency at ReBar Chelsea, and wrote the Mob Music 2 Album as the coursework and thesis for his Master’s Degree.  Mob Music 2 was released on October 18, 2019 and hit #39 on the iTunes R&B Albums Chart and was featured on Apple Music. Album opener, “Tip Jar” landed in the Semi-Finals of the 2020 International Songwriting Competition and was featured in the Television Show “30 The Series” (Amazon Prime) along with two other songs from the album.

In April of 2021, Mike and Lisa Bello released Wait Just Listen (The Live Album) and embarked on an eleven city album release tour, which included a sold-out main stage at City Winery Boston, accompanied by drummer extraordinaire Charles Haynes. Throughout his career, Mike has performed Ruth Pointer (Pointer Sisters), Cassandra Wilson, Matt Alber, Ada Vox, Varla Jean Merman, Esera Tuaolo, and many more. He has also recorded piano for Kat Deluna and LeAndria Johnson. Mike is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMYs.) and holds a MA Professional Educator’s License in Music (Instrumental, Vocal, General).

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Fri, March 3

8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

Alex “Apolo” Ayala

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Alex “Apolo” Ayala

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Sat, February 25, 8:30PM / $25 – $45  Get Tickets

Alex “Apolo” Ayala

ALEX “APOLO” AYALA

Puerto Rican Bassist Alex “Apolo” Ayala-Berri?os embodies the spirit of the multi-lingual musician. His vast knowledge of both Latin music and Jazz languages makes him one of the few Bi-lingual bassists in the music scene. A native from San Juan,Puerto Rico, he blends his Afro-Caribbean roots with Jazz language, which enables him to pace himself through Swing, Bebop, Blues, Bomba, Plena, Rumba, and explorations of other Latin-American expressions (Samba/Bossa, Tango, Afro-Peruvian, Afro- Colombian, Afro-Venezuelan). With a professional career of over 20 years, his body of work includes Grammy Nominations and a Latin Grammy Award as a sideman, as well as performances, tours, and recordings with Latin music giants and world-renowned Jazz musicians. Eddie Palmieri, Gilberto SantaRosa, Roberto Rohena, Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Mambo Legends Orchestra, Tito Nieves, Tito Rojas, Orquesta Akoka?n, Puerto Rican Power, Luis “Perico” Orti?z, Giovanni Hidalgo, Antonio Hart, Papo Va?zquez, Nestor Torres, Conrad Herwig, Mike Eckroth, Flavio Silva, Edsel Gomez, Paoli Meji?as, Ralph Irrizary & Timbalaye, Jerry Gonzalez, William Cepeda, Mitch Frohman, Los Pleneros de la 21, among many others, are on his resume. He has also recorded for Puerto Rican rapper extraordinaire Residente. Based in New York City since 2013, he started in music at age 11. He studied and graduated with honors from “Escuela Libre de mu?sica de Hato Rey”, and later on he earned his BA Degree in Jazz and Caribbean Music from Conservatorio de Mu?sica de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music), where he studied with legendary bassist Eddie Gomez, and worldwide renowned Saxophonist David Sanchez, among others. Currently, he leads “The Ba?mbula Project”, an Afro-Puerto Rican Jazz Quartet, and also plays with the Antonio Hart Quartet, Mike Eckroth Latin Jazz trio, Trombeatz, Flavio Silva’s Break Free, and serves as the Musical Director of Los Pleneros de la 21. His second album as a leader, “BA?MBULA”, was released on February 2022 under Truth Revolution Recording Collective.

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Sat, February 25

8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

Ronnie Burrage & Holographic Principle

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Ronnie Burrage & Holographic Principle

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Sat, February 18, 8:30PM /  $25 – $45   Get Tickets

Ronnie Burrage

Drummer, percussionist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, band leader and music educator Ronnie Burrage was born on October 19, 1959 in St. Louis, Missouri. His style draws most notably from the musical genres of “jazz”, “funk” and “soul”. Burrage sang in The St. Louis Cathedral Boys Choir from ages seven to eleven, and had the opportunity to perform with Duke Ellington, one of the greatest musical figures to ever live, at the incredibly young age of only nine years. He was introduced to “jazz” by listening to music every day, which was typically presented to him by his mother, his uncles and grandparents. He played drums, percussion, piano and vibraphone, and sang in “funk”, “R&B”, and “jazz” groups, including “The Soul Flamingos”, “Fontella Bass”, “The Oliver Sain Band”, “Third Circuit & Spirit”,” Rainbow Glass” and “Expression Jazz Quintet”. From the ages 15 to 17, Ronnie was a member of “No Commercial Potential” with keyboardist Mark Friedrick, bassist Darryl Mixon and guitarist Richie Daniels. They served as the opening act for pianist/keyboardist George Duke and Canadian “pop” singer/songwriter Gino Vannelli. Burrage played in clubs, concert halls, festivals and other assorted venues, including the annual “Afro Day in the Park” in St. Louis, Missouri. As a member of The St. Louis Metropolitan Jazz Quintet in the early 1980’s.

Ronnie Burrage’s current band “Holographic Principle” is featured on his upcoming Truth Revolution Recording Collective/Truth Revolution Records in collaboration with his own label, MiMikAlana Records debut release, entitled “Dance of the Great Spirit”. The band includes Polish pianist Michal Wierba and bassist Nimrod Speaks, alongside Ronnie himself on an assortment of instruments, which of course include the drum kit. According to Burrage, “The purposes of ‘Dance of the Great Spirit’ is to bring ‘Holographic Principle’ to the world, to provide work for each member of the trio, so that they might provide for their families and most importantly fund the nonprofit organization, ‘World Rhythm Academy’ www.worldrhythmacademy.org.

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Sat, February 18

8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

Steve Davis & Abena Koomson-Davis

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Steve Davis Quintet ft. Abena Koomson-Davis

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Fri, February 17, 8:30PM / $25 – $45     Get Tickets

Steve Davis & Abena Koomson-Davis

Trombonist Steve Davis remains one of today’s leading voices on the instrument.  He has worked with a range of jazz icons including Art Blakey, Jackie McLean, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Ron Carter, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Eric Alexander & Nat Reeves to name a few.  At The Django, Stevie-D collaborates with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis, who was an original cast member of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical FELA!  Abena also plays in several notable groups including the a cappella trio Saheli, the Cool Rulers, Van Davis and is musical director of the Resistance Revival Chorus (RRC).  Stevie-D & Abena will present a mix of standards & original compositions performing with a dynamic rhythm section featuring pianist Rick Germanson, bassist Nat Reeves and drummer Jonathan Barber.

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Fri, February 17

8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

Marianne Solivan Quartet

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Marianne Solivan Quartet

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Fri, February 10, 8:30PM / $25 – $45    Get Tickets

Marianne Solivan

With years of steady gigging (5 or 6 a week) in Boston during her school days at Berklee College of Music and The New England Conservatory, Solivan has had a unique opportunity to learn on the bandstand.  These early years allowed her to hone her skills as a strong band leader and amass a huge, broad repertoire that can challenge any song hound.  Her dedication to learning this music led her to study with a varied group of musician/educators that taught the tradition as well as modern approaches to the music.  These tools have shaped a vocalist with deep roots in the vocal tradition yet without any of the “retro” feel.  Solivan’s singing is a mixture of honest storytelling with a modern sense of self and determination.

In 2007 Solivan made the move to New York and began to sit in at many of the jam sessions the city has to offer.  Smoke Supper Club was her first consistent “hang” and a venue that led to many of her later musical collaborations with Jeremy Pelt, Ugonna Okegwo, and others.  Being a part of the scene has been a big part of the learning process and has been the catalyst for musical collaborations with Peter Bernstein, Steve Wilson and Lewis Nash.  This visibility and consistency on the bandstand opened doors for gigs at the famed Smalls Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Birdland, The Blue Note, and many others.  And have led her to become one of the first call singers on the scene.

In 2012 Solivan brought together her years of experience and musical collaborations to the studio and recorded a series of duos, trios, and quartet pieces that became her first CD, Prisoner of Love, on HiPNOTIC Records.  Solivan recalls “I chose to work with a number of musicians on the project to showcase the musical environments that I have been working in for the last 4 years in New York, mainly small group settings. Together we told stories of love; lost, stolen, broken, desperate, and lonely.”

The OTTOWA CITIZEN gets right to the heart of the beauty of the disc “On Prisoner of Love, vocalist Marianne Solivan surrounds herself with some A-list, hard-swinging company [and] sounds every bit in the same league as these seasoned accompanists.  Solivan’s expression of classic jazz feeling and values is so room-filling and personal, you really can’t fault her disc one bit.”

In 2014 she went into the studio with the her working band, including pianist Xavier Davis, bassist Matthew Parrish and drummer Gregory Hutchinson and recorded SPARK which is an energized, swinging, honest and straight forward in it’s storytelling and sure to help her reach a wider jazz audience.

In 2015 after years of duo, trio and quartet work she has now jumped into the big band arena.  This is exciting news not only because this powerhouse singer has shown to hold her own with heavies the likes of Peter Bernstein, Jeremy Pelt and Christian McBride but also because there is currently no other female vocalist led big band. Solivan’s idea was to create a band that incorporated many of the elements  in her quartet including high energy, swing and a unique repertoire.  In addition she wanted to work with some of the jazz communities best arrangers to work on expanding the her repertoire, which includes a number of her own originals as well as standards, with original arrangements of material that was created for this group. So far, the result has been a highly energized & swinging band that will take you from the traditional feel through to salsa and the modern jazz idiom. All anchored by Solivan’s strong surefooted voice and confident leadership.

 

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Fri, February 10, 8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

Joe Chambers Trio

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Joe Chambers Trio

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Sat, February 4, 8:30PM / $30 – $50      Get Tickets

Joe Chambers

Born and raised near Philadelphia to a musical family, Joe Chambers heard not only the rock and roll of Louis Jordan and Slim Gaillard, but the classical of Vivaldi, Wagner, Beethoven and Mahler. Drums came early. “I think an instrument picks you. I used to play on post and pans when I was little. I was setting them up like a kit at four years of age, so the instincts were there.”

More taken with Lester Young and Lionel Hampton than Little Richard, Chambers nonetheless soon joined a band playing all the R&B hits of the day. “We played ‘house rock,’ horn players walking the bar like Big Jay McNeely and Tiny Bradshaw. But then I started hearing esoteric jazz like Miles Davis, and that grabbed me. When I heard that at age 13, immediately I was hooked.”

Chambers’ parents also played a big role in his musical vision, and prompted him to learn more. “The level of music that they listened to compared to today was just incredible, in terms of popular culture. Bebop is the most revolutionary period in American music. I call it the era when drummers freed themselves, from Jo Jones to Kenny Clarke to Max Roach.

Preachers used to preach against jazz. Then the people stopped dancing, killing the big bands. Bebop moved jazz from folkoric to a more cult-oriented and intellectual sound. That’s why R&B came in. There was a need for more proletarian music. Bebop became cult music. It was a revolutionary time. I witnessed all of that.”

Earning his undergrad degree in music from the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, by age twenty-two Chambers had cut his first session with Freddie Hubbard’s Breaking Point album. The snowball began , from the aforementioned recording sessions to road work with Harold Land, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy, and Dizzy Gillespie.

A member of the ’60s fraternity that recorded some of Blue Note’s greatest music, Joe Chambers can lay claim to a place alongside such innovative artists as Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner and Bobby Hutcherson. Chambers’ intense drumming, a trademark blend of cymbal- driven forward motion, deep rhythmic continuity, and explosive creativity, graced many landmark albums which fostered one of the most fertile eras in recent jazz memory. Chambers’ credits include Hubbard’s Breaking Point, Hutcherson’s Components, Shorter’s Schizophrenia and Etcetra, Hill’s Compulsion, and Tyner’s Tender Moments, as well as Archie Shepp’s New Thing at Newport, Charles Mingus’ Like a Bird, and Chick Corea’s Tones for Joan’s Bones and many others.

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Sat, February 4

8:30PM / $30 – $50 Get Tickets

Michael Weiss Quartet featuring Eric Alexander

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Michael Weiss Quartet featuring Eric Alexander

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Fri, February 3, 8:30PM / $25 – $45      Get Tickets

Michael Weiss

“This music lives and breathes freshness and exhilarating originality.” – Jazz Journal

Michael Weiss – piano

Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone

Vince Dupont – bass

Pete Van Nostrand – drums

 

Since arriving in New York in 1982, pianist, composer, arranger and educator Michael Weiss has forged a formidable career working in the bands of jazz legends Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, The Jazztet, Slide Hampton, Frank Wess, Jimmy Heath Quartet, the Heath Brothers, the George Coleman Quartet, Charles McPherson, Jon Hendricks, Lou Donaldson, Junior Cook/Bill Hardman Quintet, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and Mingus Epitaph Orchestra . Weiss’ fifteen year association with Griffin, yielded four recordings and annual tours in the USA and around the world. He has also performed with Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Clark Terry, Clifford Jordan, Curtis Fuller, Phil Woods, Pepper Adams, Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, David Newman, Gerry Mulligan, Nancy Wilson, Randy Brecker, Tom Harrell, Wynton Marsalis, Gary Bartz, and other high profile jazz recording artists. As a band leader, Weiss has headlined at the Village Vanguard, Detroit Jazz Festival, Detroit Symphony Hall, Smithsonian Institution, and major New York venues such as the Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Birdland, Bradley’s, Iridium, Sweet Basil, Smoke and Dizzy’s Club CocaCola. Reviewing his Vanguard debut, the New York Times wrote that Weiss “demonstrated a strong sense of leadership and organization” exhibiting “sensitivity and logic, along with crisp control.” Television appearances include CBS-TV’s Nightwatch and PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center: The City of Jazz. NPR radio appearances include PianoJazz with Marion McPartland, Making the Music with Wynton Marsalis, Jazzset, and the Jazz Piano Christmas Special. Weiss took second prize in the 1989 Thelonious Monk Institute’s International Piano Competition. Weiss’ recordings as a leader on the Cellar Live, CrissCross, SteepleChase, DIW and Sintra labels have been hailed by the critics:

“Weiss has a rich palette of composing devices at his command” – Downbeat

“Weiss’ original compositions conjured a distinct world of sound, a testament to the nature of Weiss’ imagination.” – Chicago Tribune

“Warmth, integrity and above all, originality. Weiss’ originals are formful and dynamic enough to sound as if they were standards of the genre.” – JazzTimes

“the songs simply smoke” – Detroit Free Press

“About as close to perfection as a recording can get” – Jazz Improv

“This music lives and breathes freshness and exhilarating originality.” – Jazz Journal

Weiss also appears on recordings of Johnny Griffin, Frank Wess, Charles McPherson, Steve Grossman, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Ronnie Cuber, Louis Smith and Dick Oatts. As a composer Weiss is a two-time Chamber Music America New Works grant recipient and was the grand prize winner of the 2000 BMI/Thelonious Monk Institute’s Composition Competition presented to him by Wayne Shorter. Weiss is deeply committed to jazz education, having held faculty positions at Indiana University, Hartt College of Music and Queens College. In his master classes and residencies, Weiss draws on his long and varied bandstand experience to directly address the standards and performance practices required of a professional jazz musician.

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Fri, February 3

8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

Jimmy Greene Quartet

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Jimmy Greene Quartet

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Sat, January 28, 8:30PM / $25 – $45     Get Tickets

Jimmy Greene

A native of Connecticut, Greene is considered one of the most respected saxophonists of his generation. His previous solo releases, Flowers: Beautiful Life Vol. 2 (Mack Avenue), the GRAMMY®-nominated Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue), Live at Smalls (SmallsLive), Mission Statement (RazDaz/Sunnyside), The Overcomers Suite (NuJazz), Gifts and Givers (Criss Cross), True Life Stories (Criss Cross), Forever (Criss Cross), Brand New World (RCA Victor) and Introducing Jimmy Greene (Criss Cross) have been met with much critical acclaim. In fact, Tony Hall of Jazzwise Magazine (UK) calls Greene “ . . . . without doubt one of the most striking young tenors of recent years.”

Greene and his groups perform regularly in jazz venues, festivals and clubs worldwide, including Jazz Standard (New York), Newport Jazz Festival (Rhode Island), Detroit Jazz Festival (Michigan), TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival (Canada), Le Club (Moscow), Casa del Jazz (Rome), Sunside Jazz Club (Paris), Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel), Lapataia Jazz Festival (Uruguay) and Amazonas Jazz Festival (Brazil). In one such appearance, Jim Macnie of the Village Voice said,”[Greene] is good for a couple of body chills every time you see him. He’s got a big barrelhouse sound, and a way of negotiating changes that make academic moves seem natural.” Greene’s television performances in support of his recordings have included spots on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC-TV), CBS This Morning and The Meredith Vieira Show (Nationally Syndicated). Greene has also performed and presented in churches, faith-based conferences, mental health conferences and arts symposiums throughout the United States and Canada.

In addition to his recordings and appearances as a leader, Greene appears on over 75 albums as a sideman, and has toured and/or recorded with Horace Silver, Ron Carter, Tom Harrell, Freddie Hubbard, Harry Connick, Jr., Avishai Cohen, Kenny Barron, Lewis Nash, Dee Dee Bridgewater, the New Jazz Composers Octet and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, among many others.

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Sat, January 28

8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

Jimmy Greene Quartet

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Jimmy Greene Quartet

The Side Door Jazz Club

at Old Lyme Inn, 85 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Fri, January 27, 8:30PM / $25 – $45    Get Tickets

Jimmy Greene

A native of Connecticut, Greene is considered one of the most respected saxophonists of his generation. His previous solo releases, Flowers: Beautiful Life Vol. 2 (Mack Avenue), the GRAMMY®-nominated Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue), Live at Smalls (SmallsLive), Mission Statement (RazDaz/Sunnyside), The Overcomers Suite (NuJazz), Gifts and Givers (Criss Cross), True Life Stories (Criss Cross), Forever (Criss Cross), Brand New World (RCA Victor) and Introducing Jimmy Greene (Criss Cross) have been met with much critical acclaim. In fact, Tony Hall of Jazzwise Magazine (UK) calls Greene “ . . . . without doubt one of the most striking young tenors of recent years.”

Greene and his groups perform regularly in jazz venues, festivals and clubs worldwide, including Jazz Standard (New York), Newport Jazz Festival (Rhode Island), Detroit Jazz Festival (Michigan), TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival (Canada), Le Club (Moscow), Casa del Jazz (Rome), Sunside Jazz Club (Paris), Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel), Lapataia Jazz Festival (Uruguay) and Amazonas Jazz Festival (Brazil). In one such appearance, Jim Macnie of the Village Voice said,”[Greene] is good for a couple of body chills every time you see him. He’s got a big barrelhouse sound, and a way of negotiating changes that make academic moves seem natural.” Greene’s television performances in support of his recordings have included spots on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC-TV), CBS This Morning and The Meredith Vieira Show (Nationally Syndicated). Greene has also performed and presented in churches, faith-based conferences, mental health conferences and arts symposiums throughout the United States and Canada.

In addition to his recordings and appearances as a leader, Greene appears on over 75 albums as a sideman, and has toured and/or recorded with Horace Silver, Ron Carter, Tom Harrell, Freddie Hubbard, Harry Connick, Jr., Avishai Cohen, Kenny Barron, Lewis Nash, Dee Dee Bridgewater, the New Jazz Composers Octet and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, among many others.

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Fri, January 27

8:30PM / $25 – $45 Get Tickets

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