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The Hall Monitors

March 28, 2025 By Craig OConnell

Friday, March 28

The Hall Monitors

The Hall Monitors

Join us for a special night of jazz with bassist Steven Bulmer’s group the Hall Monitors!

By The Side Door Jazz Club

Date and time

Friday, March 28 · 8 – 10:30pm EDT. Doors at 7:15pm

Location

The Side Door

85 Lyme St Old Lyme, CT 06371

Refund Policy

No Refunds

About this event

 

  • Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes
  • ALL AGES

 

  • Free venue parking

Steven Bullmer – Bass

Nathan Edwards – Saxes

Matt Parker – Sax/Flute

Jen Allen – Piano

Ben Bilello – Drums

Introducing the Hall Monitors, a group of top-notch New England jazz musicians brought together through the love of playing, composing, arranging, AND teaching.

The members are all honored to be jazz coaches at the prestigious Hall High School in West Hartford, CT, as well as educators at numerous colleges and universities throughout the region. The group performs a variety of jazz styles from bop, hard bop, and contemporary jazz genres. They program inventive originals along with original treatments of not-so-standard jazz classics. The group features a classic piano-bass-drums rhythm section with two innovative and complementary saxophonists.

The group’s genesis happened at a special night for Hall High School Jazz Combos at the legendary Hartford nightspot, Black Eyed Sally’s. The jazz coaches were invited to close the program. Saxophonist Matt Parker penned a particularly potent swinger titled Mr. Hall that brought the house to its feet at the conclusion. In May of 2023, the opportunity to launch the group came from an invitation to perform at the Blue Room in CitySpace, Easthampton, MA, for Carol’s Jazz Night concert. The group presented a 90-minute set of 11 tunes, including 5 originals from 3 different band members.

All that was needed now was a name. After pushing many failed pun-names around, trying to work off of the word “Hall,” The Hall Monitors moniker was adopted.

The Hall Monitors have delighted audiences through engagements for The Side Door, Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz, Black Eyed Sally’s, The Packing House, The Buttonwood Tree, and CitySpace Easthampton, MA. The group is also profiled on CreativeGround.org at CreativeGround – Hall Monitors Jazz Quintet.

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Jeremy Pelt Quintet

February 21, 2025 By Craig OConnell

Jeremy Pelt Quintet

The Side Door Jazz Club

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

Fri, February 21, 8PM / $25 – $60 | $2.58 – $4.29 Fees      Get Tickets

Jeremy Pelt

“Pelt is at the peak of his powers with the power and range of Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard in their seminal years.”

Jeremy Pelt – Trumpet

Jalen Baker – Vibraphone

Misha Mendelenko – Guitar

Leighton Harrell – Bass

Jared Spears – Drums

Jeremy Pelt is one of the preeminent young trumpeters in jazz. Forging a bond with the Mingus Big Band, Pelt built upon this and other relationships as his career progressed, eventually leading to collaborations with some of jazz’s greatest masters. These projects include performances and recordings with Cliff Barbaro, Keter Betts, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Ravi Coltrane, Frank Foster, Winard Harper, Jimmy Heath, Vincent Herring, John Hicks, Charli Persip, Ralph Peterson, Lonnie Plaxico, Bobby Short, Cedar Walton, Frank Wess, and Nancy Wilson and the Skatalites.

Pelt frequently performs alongside ensembles including the Roy Hargrove Big Band, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, and the Duke Ellington Big Band, and he is a member of the Lewis Nash Septet and the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band featuring Louis Hayes. As a leader, Pelt has recorded 10 albums and has toured globally with his various ensembles, appearing at many major jazz festivals and concert venues.

Pelt’s recordings and performances have earned critical acclaim, and he has been featured in the Wall Street Journal by jazz writer and producer Nat Hentoff and was voted a rising star on the trumpet five years in a row by Downbeat magazine and the Jazz Journalist Association. Pelt has toured the U.S. and Europe in support of his 2022 release, Soundtrack.

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Fri, February 21

8PM / $25 – $60 | $2.58 – $4.29 Fees Get Tickets

Tagged With: Jeremy Pelt Quintet, The Side Door Jazz Club

Bill Charlap Trio

January 19, 2025 By Craig OConnell

Bill Charlap Trio

The Side Door Jazz Club

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

Sun, January 19
8PM / $20 – $55 | $2.33 – $4.05 Fees
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Bill Charlap

Bill Charlap – Piano

Peter Washington – Bass

Kenny Washington – Drums

Grammy award winning pianist Bill Charlap has performed with many of the leading artists of our time including Phil Woods, Tony Bennett, Gerry Mulligan, Wynton Marsalis, Freddy Cole and Houston Person. Born in New York City, Charlap began playing the piano at age three. His father was Broadway composer Moose Charlap, whose credits include Peter Pan, and his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, who toured with Benny Goodman, and was a regular on the Perry Como show. She earned a 1963 Grammy nomination for her recording of “My Coloring Book.” In 2005, Charlap and Stewart released the acclaimed CD, Love Is Here To Stay (Blue Note).

In 1997, Charlap formed his trio with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington, now recognized as one of the leading groups in jazz. In 2000, he was signed to Blue Note Records and received two Grammy Award nominations, for Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein and The Bill Charlap Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard. He is known for his interpretations of American popular song.. Time magazine wrote, “Bill Charlap 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.” In 2016, Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap: The Silver Lining, The Songs of Jerome Kern, was awarded a Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Album. In April, the Bill Charlap Trio released, Notes from New York, their debut recording for the Impulse label. Alan Morrison’s five-star review in Down Beat stated that the new recording is “a masterclass in class.”

In 2019, Charlap will be celebrating his 15th year as Artistic Director of New York City’s Jazz in July Festival at 92Y. He has produced concerts for Jazz at Lincoln Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Chicago Symphony Center and the Hollywood Bowl. Charlap is married to renowned jazz pianist and composer Renee Rosnes, and the two artists often collaborate in a duo piano setting. In 2010 Charlap and Rosnes released Double Portrait (Blue Note). Bill Charlap is currently the Director of Jazz Studies at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.

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Sun, January 19

8PM / $20 – $55 | $2.33 – $4.05 Fees Get Tickets

Tagged With: Bill Charlap Trio, The Side Door Jazz Club

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