Jazz Performance By The DeChamplain/Anick Quartet
Baby Grand Jazz - The DeChamplain/Anick Quartet
Hartford Public Library's highly-popular Baby Grand Jazz Series will return IN-PERSON and VIRTUALLY for its 19th season in 2022 with a spectacular line-up of the best jazz musicians in the region. Enjoy every Sunday at 3:00pm from January 2nd through April 24th, 2022.
IN-PERSON: Click the registration button on this page to register. Due to library COVID policy, our audience is capped at 50 attendees for socially distanced seating in the Center for Contemporary Culture. If our registration list is full, please sign up for our wait list, and you will be contacted if we have cancellations. We will be checking names at the door at each performance.
*Masks are required inside Hartford Public Library buildings.
VIRTUAL: Tune in on Hartford Public Library's Facebook Page and YouTube channel.
The DeChamplain/Anick Quartet
Sunday, March 6th - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Hartford Public Library - Downtown
500 Main Street, Hartford CT 06103
Center for Contemporary Culture (CCC)
The collaboration of the Hartford-based pianist Matt DeChamplain and the Boston-based violinist Jason Anick started as a tribute to the great Stephane Grappelli and Oscar Peterson. It soon blossomed into a quartet that plays works by various composers such as Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, and John Coltrane and original compositions that explore the sonic depths of this unique instrumentation. At 16 years old, Matt DeChamplain was a featured guest in two concerts with jazz legend Dave Brubeck at the same piano. Matt has performed at venues across the United States such as the Monterey Jazz Festival, Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Birks Jazz Festival, New York’s JVC Jazz Festival, the Berklee Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has played at renowned jazz clubs such as The Regatta Bar, Smalls, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, The Met Room and Yoshi’s and has played in Europe and the Caribbean. He has been both a sideman and a leader in ensembles that opened for Wynton Marsalis, Hank Jones, Dave Brubeck, and The Duke Ellington Orchestra. In 2008, Matt was selected for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program at The Kennedy Center under the direction of Dr. Billy Taylor which allowed him to study with Dr. Taylor, Curtis Fuller and Winard Harper for two weeks. In 2010, he competed in the Martial Solal Jazz Piano Competition in Paris, France and in 2018, he was selected as a runner up in the Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville, Florida.
Jason Anick - Violin
Matt DeChamplain - Piano
Nat Reeves - Bass
Kirk Woodard - Drums
Mon, Nov 04 | Closed |
Tue, Nov 05 | Closed |
Wed, Nov 06 | Closed |
Thu, Nov 07 | Closed |
Fri, Nov 08 | Closed |
Sat, Nov 09 | Closed |
Sun, Nov 10 | Closed |
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