Friends of the Festival Scat & Scramble Jazz Brunch
PARTY STARTS: 10:30 AM | FEST STARTS: 12:30 PM Please join us to help our young people continue America’s true art form — jazz. Your attendance will support the future of live jazz by helping the ground breaking Litchfield Jazz Camp continue to build a scholarship fund for students in
Big Bass Blowout w/ Avery Sharpe & Matt Wilson
THE GREAT BIG BASS BLOWOUT / AVERY SHARPE, MATT WILSON, JULIAN SHORE, ZWE BELL LE PERE, EMMA ADOMEIT, SEAN PENTLAND AND JONATHAN MICHEL Avery Sharpe, bass An exemplary bassist, Avery Sharpe is best known for his longtime association with the McCoy Tyner Trio. He originally played piano (starting when he
Litchfield Jazz Orchestra w/ Don Braden “Earth Wind & Wonder”
Litchfield Jazz Orchestra In 2013, guitarist/educator and founder of SUNY Purchase College’s jazz program, Doug Munro, helped us realize a long-term dream. Long a faculty member at Litchfield Jazz Camp, Doug proposed that he arrange for Big Band Django Reinhardt’s gypsy inspired music and launch the very first performance of
Emmet Cohen Trio w/ Jimmy Heath
“As a young jazz musician hungry for knowledge, I quickly realized where the sacred information could be found. The jazz masters! Master Jimmy Heath displays intelligence, sophistication, and spirit of the highest order. He is the exemplar of pure dedication and endless productivity and was an immediate catalyst for my
Curtis Brothers Trio w/ Donald Harrison
The Curtis Brothers music is an affirmation of the basic roots of jazz, rife with blues, swing from its Africa-Caribbean-New Orleans lineage–all the core elements that make the music a spicy, hard bop melting pot. Luques Curtis, bass & Zaccai Curtis, piano Bassist Luques and pianist Zaccai Curtis follow in
Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Band
“Eddie Palmieri. . .has been the most consistently innovative artist in Afro-Cuban music in the United States for the past 30 years.” — John Pareles, New York Times A 9-time Grammy Award winner, Eddie Palmieri is one of the foremost Latin pianists of the last half-century. It is no overstatement to
Orrin Evans Trio
“…a poised artist with an impressive template of ideas at his command.” –New York Times We are pleased to bring you The Orrin Evans Trio for their first appearance at the Litchfield Jazz Festival. Orrin grew up in Philadelphia where he had the chance to meet artists like the great Shirley
Chet Baker Project with June Bisantz
Listen to a wonderful interview with June Bisantz on WNPR’s Where We Live with host John Dankosy. LISTEN HERE. June Bisantz lives two lives: one June is a noted artist and college professor (Eastern Connecticut State University), the other a “gifted singer with a warm, vibrant voice that can twist
Don Braden Quartet featuring Geri Allen
“One of the…lions of the tenor saxophone.” –Roy Haynes Saxophonist Don Braden has toured the world with jazz greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, and many others. He has been on over 80 CDs as a sideman and has 18 as a leader, the latest of which is
Vincent Herring – Eric Alexander Quintet featuring Harold Mabern
In The Spirit Of Coltrane and Cannonball Bassist Joris Teppe, a long-time faculty member at Litchfield Jazz Camp, called me in November and proposed a project I couldn’t refuse Eric Alexander – Vincent Herring Quintet featuring Harold Mabern. Its got the great music of John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley. It