WESTPORT–Mitch Schechter will perform at the VFW Post 399 this Thursday, July 16. 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 features Mitch Schechter on piano, Greg Wall on saxophones, Takashi Otsuka on bass and Charlie Descarfino on drums.

According to the release, pianist and composer Schechter is a musical mystic. A former protege of the great Mike Longo (pianist and music director for Dizzy Gillespie), Schechter has enjoyed making music with some of the finest musicians in New York, while raising a family in a log cabin on a lake in the highlands of New Jersey’s Northwestern corner. His music is exquisite, with almost symphonic development of themes, yet proving a harmonic and rhythmic playground for the performers who are fortunate enough to play it.

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 cover fee for the late set is $10.

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