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Jazz Performance By Allegra Levy
Baby Grand Jazz - Allegra Levy
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.
Allegra Levy
Sunday, April 10th - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street, Hartford CT 06103
Center For Contemporary Culture (CCC)
West Hartford native, Jazz singer Allegra Levy released her fourth album on the Steeplechase label entitled “Lose My Number; Allegra Levy sings John McNeil” in August 2020 to rave reviews, despite the inability to perform due to the height of the pandemic. The release featured Levy’s lyrics to legendary trumpeter and composer John McNeil’s compositions. Levy, a rising singer-songwriter based in New York who has been known for her prowess as a lyricist to mostly her own original jazz compositions (rooted in the great American songbook with a nod to the progressive) decided to take a stab at an all lyrics project to McNeil’s plethora of tricky tunes. McNeil is not only a longtime friend and mentor, but produced her first two albums – Lonely City, hailed by The New York Times as “fresh,” “exotic,” and “far beyond the ordinary,” and Cities Between Us, which prompted JazzTimes to pronounce Levy “a double-barreled talent” and “unquestionably one to watch.”
Allegra Levy - Vocals/leader
Carmen Staaf - Piano
Carmen Rothwell - Bass
Colleen Clark - Drums
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