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Max Bessesen is a young saxophonist and composer based in New York City. His 2020 debut album Trouble (Ropeadope Records) features Cornettist Ron Miles and garnered praise from Jazzwise, SomethingElse! and JazzTimes. He has performed with Bobby Broom, Greg Ward, and Russ Johnson among others, and his work is supported by The Luminarts Foundation, Pathways to Jazz, and The Frank Huntington Beebe Fund. As a 2016-17 Beebe Fellow, Max spent a year studying music in India, Ghana and Cuba. Max’s work draws heavily from jazz and improvised music and according to JazzTimes, it “is nothing if not evocative

Emerging Artist Festival 2022
November 4-5, 2022

Vermont Jazz Center &
Downtown Brattleboro

Friday evening: Youth musicians perform as part of Gallery Walk (no reservations required)

Saturday daytime: Student group performances, clinic

Saturday evening: Dan Wilson Quartet concert

Dan Wilson - guitar
Glenn Zalenski - piano
Paul Thompson - bass
Dave Throckmorton - drums

Plus area high school & university bands

The Emerging Artist Festival, now in its 5th year, celebrates youth involvement in jazz.

On Friday evening, the VJC will once again team up with local high schools and universities as well as Gallery Walk and Downtown Brattleboro Alliance to present youth jazz ensembles in local venues, including the Boys and Girls Club and the 118 Elliot Street Gallery for evening performances.

During the day on Saturday, the VJC will team up with area schools and the Vermont Association of Jazz Educators to feature student groups who will perform for each other and be coached by clinicians including festival headliner, Dan Wilson.

Daytime activities will culminate in a clinic offered by Wilson to area youth and aficionados of jazz and blues.

Saturday evening at 8:00 PM, Rising Star Award-winning jazz guitarist Wilson will perform the marquee event for the general public.

Dan Wilson has been hailed for his performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, his work with Christian McBride’s ‘Tip City’ and his Grammy-nominated recording as a member of Joey DeFrancesco’s Project Freedom band.

Wilson’s musicianship was cultivated while growing up in the church in Akron, Ohio.

That connection with gospel and uplifted spirit permeates his work as a solo artist (he has three albums out as a leader) and informs his appearances as a sideman with Eric Marienthal, Russell Malone, Les McCann, René Marie, Jeff Hamilton, David Sanborn, Dave Stryker and others.

Sponsored by Marcy Hermansader in memory of Jonathan Flaccus.

Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hill #222
Brattleboro VT 05301

Admission is sliding scale $20-80

https://secure.vtjazz.org/np/clients/vtjazz/eventRegistration.jsp?forwardedFromSecureDomain=1&event=1544

Masks are required for events taking place in-person at the Jazz Center during the Fest.

https://vtjazz.org/safety-protocols/

Tickets available online at https://www.vtjazz.org
and by email.

Handicapped access available by emailing
ginger@vtjazz.org

www.vtjazz.org
gingervjc@gmail.com
802 258 9088

Nina Simone married art and activism during her legendary Carnegie Hall performance in 1964, leading to a historic live album and definitive recording of her civil rights anthem “Mississippi Goddam.” Boldly stepping into Simone’s shoes is powerhouse vocalist and Grammy winner Ledisi, whose 2021 album Ledisi Sings Nina showcases “both the diversity and depth of Simone’s musicianship, and the breathtaking range and reach of Ledisi’s own voice” (The New York Times). Taking on Simone’s emotionally searing, socially conscious songs, Ledisi returns to Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to one of the icons of 20th-century music.

Angelica Sanchez -piano
Adam O'Farrill -trumpet
John Hebert -bass
Reggie Nicholson -drums

Sets at 7.30pm + 9.30pm ET

Michael Formanek -bass
Tomas Fujiwara -drums & vibraphone
Mary Halvorson -guitar

A special two-night run at The Jazz Gallery celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the longstanding collective ensemble Thumbscrew, featuring Michael Formanek (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums and vibraphone), and Mary Halvorson (guitar). It also coincides with the release of their seventh record as a band, Multicolored Midnight, out now on Cuneiform Records.

Percussive dance pioneer, composer, vocalist Max Pollak is pictured on the recent US Postal Forever stamp honoring tap dance. At the Jazz Gallery he reunites with bassist Alexis Cuadrado and vibraphonist/percussionist Felipe Fournier to chart a new course through his compositions - panoramic chamber music powered by hand and foot percussion.

Max Pollak -percussion, vocals, dance
Felipe Fournier -vibraphone, percussion
Alexis Cuadrado -bass

Sets at 7.30pm + 9.30pm ET

Mike Moreno will be performing music from his upcoming release “Standards From Film,” (Criss Cross Records) an album paying tribute to some of the most iconic songs and film scores written for Golden Age Hollywood films. It’s also a tribute to the iconic women who play the lead roles in those films, like Gail Russell - Stella Meredith (Stella By Starlight) in the Uninvited 1944, Gene Tierney - Laura Hunt in Laura 1944, and Lana Turner - Marianne in Green Dolphin Street 1947.

Mike Moreno -guitar
Micah Thomas -piano
Matt Penman -bass
Obed Calvaire -drums

Sets at 7.30pm + 9.30pm ET

Vocalist, Carrie Jackson & Trio, Radam Schwartz, piano, Takashi Otsuka, bass, Dave Gibson, drums
Performing Classic Jazz, Blues, and more. Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, Pa the oldest continuously running jazz club in the the country. Jazz in the Pocono Mountains is situated in Historic Delaware Water Gap, PA, Jazz . Food . Lodging

The service offers an opportunity for those who cannot attend a worship service on Sunday morning but still receive a word of spiritual meditation with ALL THAT JAZZ! The service takes place every first Saturday, except in July. Come on out, join us - we'd love to have you!

Hailing from the musically prolific West African nation of Mali, guitarist and composer Habib Koité has been called the biggest pop star of the region by Rolling Stone. He is a modern-day troubadour descended from a noble line of griots, from whom he inherited his passion for music. His grandfather played the kamele n’goni – a traditional string instrument associated with the legendary hunters from the Wassoulou region of Mali. Koité is perhaps best known for his danssa doso, a unique blend of local rhythms with traditional hunter’s music, and often plays his guitar on open strings in the style of a n’goni. His latest studio album Kharifa, released in 2019, was recorded in Bamako and is rich with the musical traditions and instruments of his country.