Mike Stern Band

TWO CHANCES TO SEE MIKE STERN THIS YEAR! Mike Stern has played for over three decades with everybody who is anybody in jazz. A 6-time Grammy nominated guitarist, he was named one of the 75 best guitarists of all time by Down Beat Magazine and received Guitar Player magazines’ Certified

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Goodbye to Childhood – A Tribute to Herbie Hancock’s Masterpiece “Speak Like a Child” – Carmen Staaf, piano

Pianist Carmen Staaf, winner of the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Pianist Competition, was chosen for the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute in 2014. Back on the road, now with a Master’s degree in hand, she’s wasted no time. In 2017 she recorded the critically acclaimed Science Fair with drummer

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Randy Brecker & The Chad LB Quartet

The New York Daily News called Chad Lefkowitz-Brown (or Chad LB these days) a “sax phenom.” At 30, he has already toured globally as a soloist and with jazz stars and pop icons like Arturo O’Farrill, Chris Botti, and Taylor Swift. The Chad LB Quartet will perform at this year’s

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Duchess

Duchess, founded in 2013 by New York singers Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner and Melissa Stylianou, has already been anointed by jazz critics.  The group  just placed second in the JazzTimes Critic’s Poll in the company of legends Take 6, New York Voices, and The Manhattan Transfer. Inspired by the music

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Litchfield Jazz Orchestra featuring Alexis Cole, Andrew Hadro, Kris Allen, Albert Rivera, Avery Sharpe…

The Litchfield Jazz Orchestra makes its 6th appearance this summer.  It sprang from the creative imagination of guitarist Doug Munro, long-time Litchfield Jazz Camp instructor and emeritus professor and founder of the jazz program at SUNY Purchase College. Doug proposed we fashion a band of jazz faculty members, and perhaps

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Jane Bunnett & Maqueque

Soprano saxophonist/flutist/bandleader Jane Bunnett has built her career at the crossroads of Cuban music and jazz. A three-time Grammy nominee—her lastest for 2017 for Oddara with Maqueque—and multiple Juno Award winner, and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University, Bunnett has turned her bands into showcases for the finest

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Emmet Cohen Trio w/ Jimmy Cobb

After receiving wide acclaim for his inaugural album In the Element (2011) recorded when he was just 21 and an equally successful follow up collaboration with trumpeter Brian Lynch entitled Questioned Answer (2013), Emmet Cohen has embarked on an important new mission: to celebrate the last remaining legendary jazz artists

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Orrin Evans

The New York Times called Orrin Evans “…a poised artist with an impressive template of ideas at his command.” And so he is.  We are pleased to bring you The Orrin Evans Quartet saluting an extraordinary artist who helped shape his musical development and was a key figure in his

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Doug Munro & La Pompe Attack w/ Matthew Westerby Company Dancers

“Doug Munro…well he can flat out play!”  Dr. Lonnie Smith Master musician and guitar virtuoso Doug Munro is an established veteran of the New York music scene. Since 1987 he has released 17 albums as a leader and has appeared on over 75 recordings as a sideman, producer, and arranger

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Kris Allen Trio

“Allen, in this triumphant follow-up release to his acclaimed debut disc, Circle House, for all of his fluency in the language of jazz and deep knowledge of the music’s modern masters, is very much his own man with his own creative voice.”-  WNPR.org Born and raised in Connecticut, saxophonist Kris

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