WESTPORT–Violinist Sara Caswell is this week’s Jazz at the Post star: Thursday at VFW Post 399, 465 Riverside Ave., Westport.

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 with the VFW Post.

This week’s shows feature Caswell on violin, Ike Sturm on bass, Jesse Lewis on guitar and Michael W. Davis on drums.

Caswell is a Grammy-nominated, classically trained string player who has toured or recorded with Bruce Springsteen, Esperanza Spalding, Regina Carter, Linda Oh, Henry Threadgill, Fred Hersch, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci, and Helen Sung, to name a few, as well as leading her own band including Ike Sturm and Jesse Lewis. She also is a member of the 9 Horses trio and Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge. Caswell teaches at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, New York University, and the New School. 

Bassist Ike Sturm has performed and recorded with Gene Bertoncini, Theo Bleckmann, Ingrid Jensen, Donny McCaslin, Bobby McFerrin, Ben Monder, Maria Schneider, Kenny Wheeler and Sara Caswell. He has played on four Downbeat award-winning recordings, as well as several Steve Reich releases on Canteloupe and Nonesuch Records.

Dinner by Chef Derek Furino will be served at 7 p.m. The price is $25; 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 8:30 set is $10. Tickets are available here.

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 since 2015 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.