By Michael Hamad • Nov 26, 2015Saxophonist Jimmy Greene joins Jazz and Strings at Hartford's Infinity Hall on Nov. 29. (Jimmy Katz) A revamped Jazz & Strings: 'It's Jimmy Greene's music, and we're all excited about doing it," says Gene Bozzi [...]
By Owen McNally • Nov 18, 2015 With lush string accompaniment, saxophonist/composer Jimmy Greene later this month presents music from his acclaimed 2014 album, Beautiful Life, his deeply moving, eloquent homage to the life of his beloved [...]
By CHUCK OBUCHOWSKI, Special to The Courant The Hartford Courant 11:23 a.m. EST, March 3, 2012…Friday's Jazz and Strings performance at The Learning Corridor Theater in Hartford celebrated the music of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. It provided an [...]
By OWEN McNALLY, Special To The Courant The Hartford Courant February 7, 2013With an infusion of star power, The Jazz & Strings Series this weekend features the celebrated guitarist Mike Stern, a six-time Grammy nominee, in a concert paying [...]
By OWEN McNALLY, Special To The Courant The Hartford Courant 9:00 AM EDT, October 29, 2012Trumpeter Brian Lynch is cast in the lead soloing role in a tribute to the legendary trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Friday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m...at the Theater of the[...]
By OWEN McNALLY, Special To The Courant The Hartford Courant October 9, 2012Just a year before his death in 1991, legendary tenor saxophonist Stan Getz told a reporter that the record he was proudest of was "Focus," his remarkable 1961 collaboration [...]
By OWEN McNALLY, Special To The Courant The Hartford Courant October 27, 2011Tina Fabrique, the versatile actress/singer with a thick stage and jazz resume, knows Ella Fitzgerald's repertoire as she has proven many times to Hartford audiences. [...]
By CHUCK OBUCHOWSKI, Special To The Courant The Hartford Courant 8:14 p.m. EDT, May 8, 2011— "Claudio for president!" someone shouted as trumpeter Claudio Roditi returned for a second set at the Asylum Congregational Hill Congregation Church in [...]
By Michael Hamad Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:00amLast night’s show at the Learning Corridor in Hartford marked a new high point for the Jazz and Strings tribute series, even though the program strayed immediately from the song order on the original [...]
By CHUCK OBUCHOWSKI, Special to the Courant The Hartford Courant July 20, 2010The final day of the 19th annual Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz proceeded without the cloudbursts that sent some concertgoers home on Friday and Saturday nights. [...]
By OWEN McNALLY Special to The Courant April 4, 2010In the most lavish project of her nearly six-decade career, vocalist Ella Fitzgerald collaborated with celebrated conductor Nelson Riddle and his king-size orchestra in 1959 to produce the [...]