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Apply Now for a Micky Golomb Jazz Musician, Composer or Educator College Scholarship—Deadline May 31, 2026
If you are a high school senior or college freshman living in Fairfield County, enrolled, or enrolling in a music degree program at an institution of higher education, you can apply for the scholarship offered by the Jazz Society of Fairfield County, Inc. aka JazzFC. Created to honor the memory of Myron “Micky” Golomb, a well-regarded ...
Explode Your Jazz Career! Free Jazz Professional Workshop 'The Business Of The Beat'
The Jazz Society of Fairfield County (aka JazzFC), CT's premier Jazz performing, educational, and service nonprofit, will host a free Professional Development Day for professional and pre-professional Jazz performers and composers on Thursday, April 30, from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Jazz at the Post (VFW Post 399), 465 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT. Designed to ...
Tomeka Reid: The Low Seat, The Long Haul, And 'Dance! Skip! Hop!'
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle drops on cellist and composer Tomeka Reid. Tomeka Reid has spent the last decade building one of the most distinctive voices in creative music. The New York Times called her a “New Jazz Power Source." She's a MacArthur Fellow, a founder of the Chicago Jazz String Summit, and a key ...
Grails Opens in New Haven, a Sanctuary for Audiophiles and Music Lovers
Yale University Properties will welcome Grails, a music playground reimagining the record store as a cultural destination, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1020 Chapel Street on Wednesday, October 22, at 11 a.m. with founder King Kenney and distinguished community partners including New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker and Hope Chávez, executive director of the Arts Council of ...
Knox Chandler: Exploring The Sound Of The Shoreline
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on guitarist Knox Chandler. Knox's name might ring a bell from his work with The Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, or maybe from his string arrangements on Depeche Mode's Exciter (Mute, 2001). However, his latest project takes an entirely different turn. After decades in the music business bouncing between ...
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Teddy Horangic
I am a jazz vocalist and band leader who performs frequently in NYC and New Haven.
Giacomo Gates Sings The Song, Tony Adamo Writes The Music
Jazz troubadour and terminal hipster Giacomo Gates just keeps getting better and better. Gates is one of the top male jazz singers around today. He's a talented, skillful, and a rock-solid professional. With his vocalese and bebop attitude, he sings, scats, dropping his swinging baritone voice into every lyric he sings. A few years ago, singer, ...
The Era I Almost Missed
by Ron Aprea
The following is an excerpt from “Section 9: Les Elgart" of The Era I Almost Missed--An Autobiography by Ron Aprea (Self Published, 2021). The Embers West / Richie Barz Still rehearsing my band and looking for a room in Manhattan, my drummer Jimmie Young hooked me up with pianist Mike Longo. Mike just finished ...
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Ben Bilello
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As one of the most in demand freelance drummers in New England, Ben Bilello can be seen at numerous clubs, concert halls and festivals with a wide variety of artists. Originally from Narragansett, Rhode Island, Ben began playing the snare drum in his elementary school band. As time passed, Ben became interested in learning the drum set, acquiring his first kit at age fourteen. His first significant exposure to jazz occurred around this time and he made the decision to study music at a formal conservatory. After graduating from Narragansett High School in 1995, Ben moved to West Hartford, Connecticut to begin college
2020: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The COVID-19 pandemic put the jazz world in a tailspin, just like the world at large, in 2020. And there is plenty of uncertainty going into the new year about what “new normal: might emerge from the darkness. International Jazz Day, like so many other things, became an online virtual event this time around. Pianist Keith ...
