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, …
Tag Archives: New Haven Jazz Festival
This Week in New Haven (August 17 – 23)
The week begins calmly, with a soft-hitting show at a small local club and a good opportunity to quiet the mind. Then titters and giggles and other crowd noises begin to…
This Week in New Haven (August 12 – 18)
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. The New Haven Jazz Festival swings through town this week, and tennis rackets will be swinging fast and with great precision starting Friday at the…
Into the Swing
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…
This Week in New Haven (August 6 – 12)
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, …
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