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SUMMARY:MoCACT Presents: Endea Owens + The Cookout
DESCRIPTION:Experience an electrifying evening with Grammy\, Peabody\, and Emmy Award-winning bassist\, composer\, and bandleader Endea Owens\, one of jazz’s most exciting contemporary voices. A member of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s house band Stay Human\, Owens has performed with icons including Wynton Marsalis\, Diana Ross\, and many others. \nJoined by her dynamic ensemble\, The Cookout\, Owens brings a high-energy performance rooted in jazz\, soul\, and community spirit. With music from her acclaimed albums Feel Good Music (2023) and Caught Up in This Illusion (2025)\, this is a powerful\, feel-good concert not to be missed. \nVIP Tickets (limited to 40) include:\n– Table Seating (tables of 4)\n– Carafe of wine + water per table\n– Light snack\n– One signature cocktail \nGeneral Admissions Tickets include:\n– General Seating\n– One drink ticket (includes wine or sparkling water)
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/mocact-presents-endea-owens-the-cookout/
LOCATION:MoCA CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jazz,Music
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SUMMARY:Jumaane Smith Quartet - FREE SHOW
DESCRIPTION:JUMAANE SMITH’s widely critically-acclaimed 2024 album\, “Come on Home\,” remained in the top 50 on the Jazz Week chart for 9 straight weeks. He has performed on 5 GRAMMY Award-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies)\, 2 Emmy Award-nominated TV performances\, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder\, in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (trumpet solo)\, and more. \nJumaane has spent the last several years touring and recording with Michael Bublé as lead trumpeter/vocalist and featured soloist and tours with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center\, Birdland Jazz Club\, Tanglewood\, Vail Jazz Festival\, The Blue Note\, Java Jazz Festival\, Rochester International Jazz Festival\, Catalina Island Jazz Festival\, and many more. \nJumaane Smith’s critically-acclaimed debut album\, “I Only Have Eyes For You\,” featured special guests Michael Bublé\, Jackie Evancho\, and Naturally 7. His sophomore album\, “When You’re Smiling\,” was released to much praise in January 2020. “Come on Home” featured Smith’s highly lauded soul-jazz and blues originals backed by his stellar organ band and received resounding praise\, including a 4 Star review from DownBeat Magazine. \nAs a composer\, Smith has scored music for films such as “Handsome Harry” (starring Steve Buscemi and Jamey Sheridan) and the documentary “Being in the World\,” as well as for his own recordings and the interactive sheet music company Tomplay. \nSmith has worked with musical legends such as Quincy Jones\, Herbie Hancock\, Christian McBride\, Aretha Franklin\, Barbra Streisand\, Alicia Keys\, Jon Batiste\, Kamasi Washington\, Theo Croker\, Etienne Charles\, and Michael Bublé (as featured trumpet/vocals soloist). As a full scholarship recipient at the Juilliard School of Music’s Jazz Studies program (2001-2005)\, Wynton Marsalis was Smith’s primary trumpet teacher.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/jumaane-smith-quartet-free-show/
LOCATION:Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts\, 40 Jesup Road\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jazz,Music
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SUMMARY:JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
DESCRIPTION:The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO)\, comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today\, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988 and spends over a third of the year on tour across the world. Featured in all aspects of Jazz atLincoln Center’s programming\, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and lead seducational events in New York\, across the U.S.\, and around the globe; in concert halls; dance venues; jazz clubs; public parks; and with symphony orchestras\, ballet troupes\, local students\, and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis\, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire\, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works\, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington\, Count Basie\, Fletcher Henderson\, Thelonious Monk\, Mary Lou Williams\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Benny Goodman\, Charles Mingus\, and current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Wynton Marsalis\, Wycliffe Gordon\, Ted Nash\, Victor Goines\, Sherman Irby\, Chris Crenshaw\, and Carlos Henriquez. For more information on Jazz at Lincoln Center\, please visit www.jazz.org. \nWYNTON MARSALIS\nWynton Marsalis(Music Director\, Trumpet) is the Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center(JALC). Born in New Orleans\, Louisiana in 1961\, he is the son of renowned jazz pianist and music educator Ellis Marsalis\, Jr. Marsalis was gifted his first trumpet at age six by Al Hirt; soon thereafter\, he began playing in New Orleans’ famed Fairview Baptist Church Bandled by banjoist Danny Barker. However\, it wasn’t until he turned twelve that Marsalis began to formally train on the trumpet and perform in bands throughout the city\, from the New Orleans Philharmonic and New Orleans Youth Orchestra to funk bands\, concert bands\, and small jazz ensembles. As a teenager\, his passion for music rapidly escalated. In 1979\, at the age of seventeen\, Marsalis moved to New York City to study classical trumpet at The Juilliard School. Yet he quickly entrenched himself in New York’s effervescent jazz scene\, launching his career with the legendary Art Blakey &The Jazz Messengers. At just nineteen\, Marsalis hit the road with his own band—he has been touring the world ever since. From 1981 to the time of this writing\, he has performed 5\,328 concerts in 856 distinct cities and 66 countries around the world. \nWynton Marsalis’ core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principles of jazz. He promotes individual creativity (improvisation)\, collective cooperation (swing)\, gratitude and good manners (sophistication)\, and facing adversity with persistent optimism (the blues).
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/jazz-at-lincoln-center-orchestra-with-wynton-marsalis/
LOCATION:Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts\, 40 Jesup Road\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
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