First Saturday Jazz Piano Series, Recital #3!
Saturday, June 6th, at 8:00 pm
At Brent Evans Piano Shop, 963 State Street, New Haven
The First Saturday Jazz Piano series at Brent Evans’ intimate piano salon continues on Saturday, June 6th, with Connecticut’s finest jazz pianist, Kent Hewitt, and New Haven’s own Jeff Fuller on acoustic bass. The program will include jazz standards and arrangements by Hewitt, in preparation for his July residency at Summer Keys in Lubec, Maine. Hewitt will be featured on a 1903 Steinway Model O, meticulously restored by Brent Evans. Fuller will be playing his Upton Hybrid double bass, made by Gary Upton in Stonington, CT.
Refreshments will be served.
Kent Hewitt (b. 1944, New London) earned degrees from Boston University and the University of Connecticut, the latter in Music Theory and Composition. He studied with Ray Santisi, Charlie Mariano, Hal Galper, Fred Hersch, and Ron Brown. Mr. Hewitt has taught at Berklee College of Music, Trinity College, The Hartford Conservatory, and led music clinics for the Hartford Jazz Society. A consummate soloist and accompanist, he has become a mainstay of jazz and popular music in Connecticut and has been musical director of several popular jazz clubs in the state. He has recorded extensively and performed concerts with jazz notables, including Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Kenny Burrell, Jackie McLean, Steve Rossi, and Jon Hendricks. Mr. Hewitt was the first pianist to open at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, has been solo house pianist at Jimmy Ryan’s in New York, and has toured Europe with trumpeter Laco Dezci.
Jeff Fuller (b. 1945, Southbridge, MA). Has toured worldwide and recorded with bebop master saxophonist Lou Donaldson and with Cuban saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera, and has appeared with jazz artists from all eras, including Dizzy Gillespie, Mose Allison, “Papa” Jo Jones, Gerry Mulligan, Clark Terry, “Big Nick” Nicholas, Claudio Roditi and many others. Jeff leads his own jazz and Latin ensembles, Jeff Fuller & Friends and Samba Brasil. He is a composer, arranger and jazz educator, who teaches at ACES Educational Center for the Arts and the Neighborhood Music School.
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http://www.jefffuller.net