WESTPORT–Michael  Mossman will perform at the VFW Post 399 this Thursday, July 30. The show is part of the Jazz at the Post series, which offers a new concert each Thursday, presented by the Jazz Society of Fairfield County.

This week’s show will feature Michael Mossman on trumpet, Luis Perdomo on piano, Alex “Apolo” Ayala on bass, Greg Wall on saxophones, Vince Cherico on drums and Carly Moldonado on percussion.

According to the release announcing the show, the Grammy winning trumpeter, composer and arranger Michael Mossman has done it all.

After apprenticing as a youngster with Jazz legends Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Horace Silver and others, he took center stage as music director for Blue Note Records’ “boy band”, Out of the Blue, while still in his 20’s.  Mossman has been a key performer in Latin jazz, having  performed and recorded with Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Chico O’Farrill, Ray Barretto, Daniel Ponce, Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Paquito D’Rivera, Bebo Valdez and Michel Camilo, receiving Grammys for his work with the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and his arrangements for the legendary Joe Henderson.

Pianist Luis Perdomo, together with Miguel Zenón, won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. Drummer Vince Cherico has captured six of them! Grammy winners Carly Moldonado and Alex Ayala together with JazzFC Artistic Director Greg Wall round out the ensemble.

Dinner by Chef Derek Furino will be served at 6:45 p.m. The price is $25 and reservations are not required.

Musical sets begin at 7:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. The 7:30 set cover charge is $20 ($15 for students / veterans). 

The Jazz Society of Fairfield County offers “free or low-cost concerts by accomplished artists, outreach to under-served audiences, and educational and performance opportunities for student, amateur and emerging professional musicians,” its website says.

Since 2015, the organization has worked with Post 399 to bring the weekly jazz event to the post’s home on the Saugatuck River, featuring “celebrated jazz artists such as Ethan Iverson, Antonio Hart, David Kikoski, Harvie S and Joe Farnsworth as well as introducing our audience to the new generation of musicians moving the tradition forward,” the society’s website says.

Jazz at the Post

VFW Post 399
465 Riverside Ave.
Westport
(475) 298-5079