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SUMMARY:Sarah Hanahan Quartet at The Side Door Jazz Club
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Hanahan Quartet at The Side Door Jazz Club brings one of the most acclaimed young alto saxophonists in jazz to Old Lyme on Saturday\, August 22\, for an intimate performance inside the historic Old Lyme Inn. \nThe concert begins at 8 p.m.\, with doors opening at 7:15 p.m. Hanahan will be joined by pianist Caelan Cardello\, bassist Matt Dwonszyk and drummer Samuel Bolduc for an evening of modern jazz led by a musician DownBeat has named its No. 1 Rising Star Alto Saxophonist for two consecutive years. \nFrom Connecticut’s Hartt School to Juilliard\nHanahan’s path to the national jazz scene has strong Connecticut roots. \nRaised in Marlborough\, Massachusetts\, she began playing alto saxophone at age eight. Her father was a drummer\, and his love of music provided an early introduction to the jazz that would eventually become her career. \nHanahan came to Connecticut to attend the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School\, a program founded by legendary alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. \nThere\, she studied with musicians including Abraham Burton\, Rene McLean\, Nat Reeves and Javon Jackson. She continued her education in New York\, earning a master’s degree from The Juilliard School. \nThat combination placed Hanahan in two important jazz traditions: the hard-bop lineage associated with McLean and Hartford\, and the intensely competitive New York jazz scene where she has since established herself as a working musician. \nA Rapid Rise Through the Jazz World\nHanahan has accumulated an impressive list of collaborators while still relatively early in her career. \nShe has performed or worked with musicians including Jeff “Tain” Watts\, Billy Hart\, Dee Dee Bridgewater\, Nat Reeves\, Steve Davis and Marc Cary. She has also performed with the Grammy-winning Mingus Big Band and Sherrie Maricle’s DIVA Jazz Orchestra. \nNew York audiences can regularly find her at clubs including Birdland\, Smalls Jazz Club\, Dizzy’s Club and Smoke Jazz Club. \nNPR also selected Hanahan for the inaugural class of its Jazz Night in America Youngbloods\, a project hosted by bassist Christian McBride highlighting emerging jazz musicians. \nBut one of the biggest steps forward came with her first album. \nAmong Giants\nHanahan released her debut album\, Among Giants\, in 2024. \nThe title proved appropriate. Rather than surrounding herself entirely with musicians from her own generation\, Hanahan recorded with veteran pianist Marc Cary\, longtime Hartford bassist and educator Nat Reeves and celebrated drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts. \nThe album received a five-star review from DownBeat and was selected as one of the magazine’s top albums of 2024. \nIn 2025\, DownBeat readers named Hanahan the No. 1 Rising Star Alto Saxophonist\, recognition she has now earned in consecutive years. \nHer playing combines the force and improvisational freedom of the jazz tradition she studied in Hartford with a lyrical quality and an energetic stage presence. The result is music that respects where jazz came from without sounding like an attempt to preserve it behind glass. \nThe Quartet Coming to Old Lyme\nFor the Side Door performance\, Hanahan leads a four-piece group: \nSarah Hanahan — Alto Saxophone\nCaelan Cardello — Piano\nMatt Dwonszyk — Bass\nSamuel Bolduc — Drums \nThere are Connecticut connections within the quartet beyond Hanahan’s years at Hartt. \nBassist Matt Dwonszyk is himself a product of the Jackie McLean Institute and has become a significant presence in Connecticut and New York jazz. He has performed with artists including Harold Mabern\, Larry Willis and Steve Davis while also leading his own groups. \nPianist Caelan Cardello represents another generation of emerging jazz musicians. The New Jersey pianist has already performed at major New York jazz venues and developed a reputation as both a bandleader and sideman. \nTogether\, the quartet format leaves plenty of room for interaction. With only saxophone\, piano\, bass and drums\, each musician has space to respond to the others as arrangements move between composed passages and improvisation. \nJazz in a Room Built for Listening\nThe setting is part of what makes this performance different from seeing the same quartet in a large theater. \nThe Side Door Jazz Club is a dedicated jazz listening room located inside the historic Old Lyme Inn at 85 Lyme Street. Rather than functioning as a general-purpose venue that occasionally books jazz\, The Side Door was created specifically around the experience of hearing the music in a small room. \nThat matters with a quartet like Hanahan’s. Jazz is conversational music. A drummer changes direction\, the bassist catches it\, the pianist leaves an opening and the saxophone answers. In a room this size\, the audience can watch those exchanges happen only feet away. \nSince opening in 2013\, The Side Door has attracted nationally and internationally recognized jazz musicians while establishing Old Lyme as an unlikely stop on the touring jazz circuit. \nDinner Before the Show\nGuests can turn the concert into a full evening by dining at the Old Lyme Inn before the performance. \nTicket holders who have dinner at the inn before the show receive 10% off their dinner bill. \nBecause the concert uses reserved seating\, guests don’t need to race for a preferred spot when the doors open. Free parking is also available at the venue. \nThe performance is open to all ages. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Sarah Hanahan Quartet\nDate: Saturday\, August 22\, 2026\nDoors: 7:15 p.m.\nShow: 8–10 p.m.\nLocation: The Side Door Jazz Club at Old Lyme Inn\nAddress: 85 Lyme Street\, Old Lyme\, CT 06371\nSeating: Reserved\nAges: All ages\nParking: Free \nTickets are non-refundable. Guests dining at the Old Lyme Inn before the performance receive 10% off their dinner bill. \nMore information is available at the Event Website listed below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n\n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/sarah-hanahan-quartet-at-the-side-door-jazz-club/
LOCATION:Side Door Jazz Club\, 85 Lyme St\, Old Lyme\, 06372\, United States
CATEGORIES:SIde Door Jazz Club
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SUMMARY:Kosmographers Jazz Trio at The Marquee on State Street
DESCRIPTION:Kosmographers Jazz Trio at The Marquee on State Street offers an evening of live jazz\, cocktails and downtown atmosphere on Saturday\, August 22\, inside one of New London’s newest music venues. \nThe trio performs from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.\, with guitarist Scott Drouin\, bassist Ian Hagan and drummer Tom Tefcale bringing a stripped-down guitar\, bass and drums lineup to The Marquee. \nDoors open at 4 p.m.\, giving guests the option of arriving early for happy hour before settling in for the evening’s performance. \nMeet the Kosmographers\nKosmographers brings together three musicians in the classic jazz-trio format of guitar\, bass and drums. \nScott Drouin — Guitar \nDrouin has been part of the southeastern Connecticut jazz community for years. His appearances have included performances with musicians from New London’s jazz scene\, including bassist Ian Kelly and saxophonist Doug Rice. \nWith Kosmographers\, Drouin takes the melodic and harmonic role normally divided between instruments in a larger jazz ensemble. The absence of a piano leaves plenty of open space for guitar\, bass and drums to interact. \nIan Hagan — Bass \nHagan provides the trio’s low-end foundation\, giving the guitar room to move while connecting its melodic lines to the rhythm of the drums. \nIn a small jazz group\, the bassist does considerably more than keep time. Walking bass lines can establish the harmony\, change the direction of a solo and create a musical conversation between the other players. \nTom Tefcale — Drums \nTefcale completes the trio on drums\, providing the rhythmic framework for a format that depends heavily on musicians listening and responding to one another. \nThat’s part of what makes a trio interesting to watch. There isn’t much room to hide. With only three instruments onstage\, each musician can change the direction and energy of a piece almost instantly. \nJazz in an Intimate Room\nThe setting may be almost as interesting as the band. \nThe Marquee on State Street opened in July 2026 at 312 State Street\, bringing a new jazz-focused cocktail bar and performance space to downtown New London. \nThe family-owned venue was created by Christopher Leffert and his parents\, Sean and Sayra Leffert\, who transformed the former DEVS/Nico’s location into a space inspired by old movie palaces\, classic cinema and the atmosphere of a 1920s speakeasy. \nThe main room seats a little more than 45 people and includes a small performance stage. There’s also a separate speakeasy area with seating for approximately 20. \nThat relatively small scale is intentional. \nInstead of putting musicians at the far end of a large restaurant\, The Marquee was designed around the idea of combining cocktails\, conversation and live music in the same intimate room. \nClassic Movies Meet Live Music\nMovie memorabilia and vintage-inspired details reinforce The Marquee’s cinema theme\, while the bar emphasizes classic cocktails and its own signature creations. \nSmall plates are also available for guests who want something to eat during the evening. \nThe concept grew partly from Christopher Leffert’s interest in classic and experimental films and partly from the family’s desire to bring another live entertainment option to downtown New London. \nJazz has been central to the venue from its opening\, although its entertainment plans extend to other forms of live music\, comedy\, DJs and special events. \nThe Marquee celebrated its grand opening on July 17 with a live jazz performance\, making Saturday’s Kosmographers appearance part of a music calendar that’s still very new to the city. \nAnother Piece of New London’s Arts District\nThe location puts The Marquee in the middle of a downtown neighborhood already anchored by music\, theater and visual arts. \nThe Garde Arts Center is just down State Street\, while Hygienic Art\, galleries\, restaurants and other live music venues are scattered throughout the surrounding blocks. \nThe Marquee’s owners have said they want the business to become part of that larger creative community rather than simply another downtown bar. \nA local jazz trio playing in a room specifically created with live jazz in mind fits that idea rather nicely. \nSaturday night’s show also offers something different from a large concert. There are no arena seats or distant stage. It’s three musicians\, a small room and the kind of musical interplay that’s much easier to appreciate when you’re sitting only a few yards away. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Kosmographers Jazz Trio\nDate: Saturday\, August 22\, 2026\nDoors Open: 4 p.m.\nPerformance: 7:30–10:30 p.m.\nAcross from the Garde \nMusicians:\nScott Drouin — Guitar\nIan Hagan — Bass\nTom Tefcale — Drums \nGuests can arrive early for happy hour before the trio takes the stage for an evening of jazz in The Marquee’s intimate\, cinema-inspired setting. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
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LOCATION:The Marquee on State Street\, 312 State Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Marquee on State Street
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SUMMARY:Benny Green at The Side Door in Old Lyme
DESCRIPTION:Benny Green at The Side Door in Old Lyme on Saturday\, August 29\, for an intimate evening of solo piano. \nThere will be no rhythm section behind him. No bassist carrying the bottom end. No drummer keeping time. \nJust Green\, a piano and more than four decades of experience stretching from Betty Carter and Art Blakey to Freddie Hubbard\, Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson. \nDoors open at 7:15 p.m.\, with the performance running from 8 to 10 p.m. The all-ages concert is the second of two consecutive nights Green will perform at The Side Door. \nFrom His Father’s Records to the Piano\nGreen was born in New York in 1963 and raised in Berkeley\, California\, where music was already waiting for him at home. \nHis father played tenor saxophone\, and records by musicians including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker became part of Green’s early musical education. \nHe began classical piano lessons at seven\, but something else was happening when he sat at the instrument. Green was listening to jazz records and trying to reproduce what he heard\, figuring out melodies and improvisations by ear. \nEventually\, jazz won. \nWhile still a teenager\, Green was already working professionally around the Bay Area. He performed with singer Fay Carroll and gained experience alongside established musicians including trumpeter Eddie Henderson and bassist Chuck Israels. \nBefore Green was old enough to build a national reputation\, he was learning how to listen\, accompany another musician and swing. \nThose lessons would become useful very quickly. \nBetty Carter’s Classroom\nAfter moving to New York\, Green joined legendary jazz vocalist Betty Carter in 1983. \nCarter’s bands had a reputation for becoming classrooms for exceptional young musicians. She demanded that players listen\, respond and develop their own musical identities rather than simply reproduce what they’d heard before. \nGreen stayed for four years. \nThen\, in 1987\, he stepped into another of jazz’s great training grounds. \nArt Blakey called. \nBecoming a Jazz Messenger\nJoining Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers carried a significance far beyond landing another job. \nFor decades\, Blakey’s band served as a launching pad for generations of major jazz musicians. Alumni included Wayne Shorter\, Lee Morgan\, Freddie Hubbard\, Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis\, among many others. \nGreen had grown up listening to Blakey. \nNow he was sitting at the piano in his band. \nGreen remained a Jazz Messenger until Blakey’s death in 1990\, absorbing the hard-driving rhythmic approach that would become an important part of his own playing. \nHis next stop didn’t exactly lower the stakes. \nGreen went on to work with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard\, one of the defining jazz musicians of the postwar era. \nRay Brown and an Extraordinary Phone Call\nGreen eventually joined another master\, bassist Ray Brown. \nBrown’s career reached all the way back to playing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker during the birth of bebop. He had also spent years performing with Oscar Peterson. \nGreen joined Brown’s trio in the early 1990s and remained with the group for several years. \nThen Oscar Peterson himself took notice. \nIn 1993\, Green became the first recipient of the City of Toronto’s Glenn Gould International Protégé Prize in Music. \nPeterson personally selected him. \nFor a young jazz pianist\, it’s difficult to imagine a more intimidating endorsement. One of the greatest pianists in the history of the music had effectively pointed across generations and said: watch this one. \nThe relationship didn’t end with an award. \nOscar and Benny\nGreen and Peterson eventually performed together and later recorded together. \nTheir collaboration produced Oscar and Benny\, recorded with Ray Brown and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. \nThe album eventually leaves the rest of the musicians behind for its closing performance. \nTwo pianos. \nOscar Peterson at one. \nBenny Green at the other. \nFor Green\, it was another direct connection in an extraordinary musical lineage. The musicians he’d once encountered through records weren’t simply influences anymore. \nThey had become his teachers\, employers\, collaborators and peers. \nBuilding a Career of His Own\nGreen eventually stepped out from those legendary bands and established himself as a leader. \nHis recording career has included albums for Blue Note and other major jazz labels\, with more than 100 recording sessions as a leader and sideman. \nHis Blue Note years produced albums including Lineage\, Greens\, Testifyin! Live at the Village Vanguard\, That’s Right!\, The Place to Be\, Kaleidoscope and These Are Soulful Days. \nAlong the way\, Green has worked with another generation of major jazz musicians\, including bassist Christian McBride and guitarist Russell Malone. \nThe thread running through it all is swing. \nGreen can be technically dazzling\, but technique isn’t the destination. His playing comes from a jazz tradition in which rhythm matters just as much as harmony\, and where even a complicated improvisation still needs to move. \nNow Take Everyone Else Away\nThat’s what makes Saturday’s performance particularly interesting. \nGreen is playing alone. \nA trio normally divides responsibilities among musicians. A bassist can establish the foundation while a drummer controls pulse and dynamics. The pianist can leave space\, respond to the others or step forward and then retreat. \nSolo piano removes that safety net. \nGreen has to provide the bass movement\, harmony\, melody\, rhythm and improvisation himself. He decides when the music breathes and when it drives forward. \nFor a musician whose education came from some of jazz’s greatest bandleaders and rhythm sections\, the format exposes everything he’s learned. \nOne instrument has to contain the whole band. \nNew Music Is Coming\nThe Old Lyme performances also arrive at an interesting point in Green’s recording career. \nHis new album\, Renovation!\, is scheduled for release on September 18\, less than a month after his two nights at The Side Door. \nThe timing puts the Connecticut appearances immediately ahead of the next chapter in a recording career that has stretched across decades. \nGreen performs at The Side Door on both Friday\, August 28\, and Saturday\, August 29\, before heading to Portsmouth\, New Hampshire\, for another performance the following night. \nSaturday’s Old Lyme concert is the second of the two Side Door performances. \nA Room Made for This Kind of Night\nThe Side Door Jazz Club is tucked inside the historic Old Lyme Inn at 85 Lyme Street. \nRather than a general entertainment venue that occasionally books jazz\, The Side Door was created as a dedicated jazz listening room. \nThat distinction matters for a solo piano performance. \nThere are no arena screens or enormous distances separating musician and audience. The room is intimate enough to hear the smaller things: a change in touch\, the space Green leaves between phrases\, the left hand quietly establishing a pulse before the right hand takes off somewhere else. \nTickets are reserved seating\, and the performance is open to all ages. \nFree parking is available\, and guests who dine at the Old Lyme Inn before the concert receive 10% off their dinner bill. \nOne Piano\, Four Decades of Teachers\nThere’s a remarkable collection of names attached to Benny Green’s career. \nBetty Carter. \nArt Blakey. \nFreddie Hubbard. \nRay Brown. \nOscar Peterson. \nBut Saturday night isn’t a history lecture. \nThose musicians matter because traces of what Green learned from them remain in the way he plays. \nThe singer who taught him to accompany. The drummer who taught generations how to swing. The trumpeter whose hard-bop vocabulary helped define an era. The bassist who had been there when bebop was being invented. The pianist who personally chose Green as his protégé. \nAt The Side Door\, none of them will be onstage. \nIn a way\, all of them will. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Benny Green Solo Piano\nDate: Saturday\, August 29\, 2026\nTime: 8–10 p.m.\nDoors: 7:15 p.m.\nLocation: The Side Door Jazz Club at the Old Lyme Inn\nAddress: 85 Lyme Street\, Old Lyme\, CT 06371\nSeating: Reserved\nAge: All ages\nParking: Free\nPerformer: Benny Green\nPerformance: Solo piano\nRefunds: No refunds \nGuests dining at the Old Lyme Inn before the performance receive 10% off their dinner bill. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/benny-green-at-the-side-door-in-old-lyme/
LOCATION:Side Door Jazz Club\, 85 Lyme St\, Old Lyme\, 06372\, United States
CATEGORIES:SIde Door Jazz Club
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