Saturday, July 26, 3:00 PM   With a Master’s degree from SUNY Purchase under his belt, the Hartford-born bassist Matt Dwonszyk has catapulted from being one of the top-call bassists in CT to become an artist with an international profile. Between six years, he has appeared at festivals and clubs

Saturday, July 26 6:30 PM   “What’s not to love about a young clarinetist and saxophonist who plays everything we love–modern jazz, world music, ‘hot’ New Orleans-style jazz–and does it all brilliantly?” — The Wall Street Journal   Ever charismatic, prolific and inspired, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds

Friday, July 25 7:45   Emmet Cohen is an internationally acclaimed jazz artist, a dedicated educator and an award winner many times over. Cohen has appeared at the Newport, Monterey, North Sea Jazz Festivals and at venues in over 30 countries. He regularly appears in New York at Jazz at

Pianist/composer Amina Figarova pairs her stellar sextet with a choir of orphaned and at-risk children from Liberia on her masterful new album   Suite for Africa, due out May 3 via AmFi Records, features Wayne Escoffery, Bart Platteau, Alex Pope Norris, Yasushi Nakamura and Rudy Royston, joined by West Africa’s

Time Magazine described Grammy-winning pianist Bill Charlap perhaps best: ”No matter how imaginative or surprising his take on a song is, he invariably zeroes in on its essence.” Charlap who has performed with the leading artists of our time—Phil Woods, Tony Bennett, Gerry Mulligan, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter, to name