Tag Archives: Jazz Haven

This Week in New Haven (August 5 – 11)

Pizza at Next Door Pizza and Bar

The week ahead is a good teacher, whose subjects include horticulture and geek culture plus local wines and local pizza. Monday, August 5 In concert with Docunight, whose mission is to illuminate Iran through the medium of film, Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St, New Haven) hosts a free double feature starting at 7 p.m. […]

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This Week in New Haven (August 20 – 26)

Great Golden Digger Wasp in Edgewood Park

Does the presence of numerous legends promise a legendary week in New Haven? We’re about to find out.  (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (October 16 – 22)

Adelie penguins in Antarctica (photo by Jason Auch)

Traveling voices visit us, before we travel around visiting local ones.  (more…)

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Sticking Around

Jesse Hameen II

To jazz-drum is to lead, says Neighborhood Music School instructor Jesse Hameen II. “The proper name for what the drummer sits on is not a seat but a throne… It’s a seat of authority. You direct the pace, the rhythm, the feeling … if you have good musicians.” And through chance, practice, and gumption, Hameen […]

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This Week in New Haven (August 11 – 17)

Best Video screening area

Between a classic film featuring a leading man in his prime, a play staged in a park under the night sky and a professional tennis tournament boasting major talent, we’re seeing stars (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (July 28 – August 3)

The Grand Budapest Hotel

This week in New Haven has us seeing double: two pie contests, a double-feature bundling 20+ local short films, a couple strong jazz shows and several pairs of deep soulful canine eyes (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (September 9 – 15)

Guy Wolff Pottery

September is a time of plenty in New Haven, and that’s clearly reflected in this week’s diverse happenings. Check out a hyperlocal photo exhibit on Monday and a star-studded (more…)

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Cool Summer

Decades on the Green

The summer concert season on New Haven Green got off to an unofficial and unusual start May 30, with the sight of three young musicians from out of town sitting at the memorial fountain and blazing on acoustic instruments through their punk/grunge anthem “Tear You Up” and other original tunes. The band Decades had played […]

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Into the Swing

Godwin Louis | New Haven Jazz Festival

If the 2012 New Haven Jazz Festival were a melodic line, the city name and the musical genre would carry equal emphasis. But it hasn’t always been so locally rooted. When (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (August 6 – 12)

BoDeans August 10 | Music on the Green

It’s a relatively peaceful time of the season, so it’s fitting that this week in New Haven begins with a series of peace-promoting gatherings and ends with a pleasant stroll through an historic house, though there are plenty of laughs, love songs and jazz bands in-between. Monday, August 6 Three local peace organizations—the City of […]

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