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Baby Grand Jazz - Carl Testa's Sway

Jazz Performance By Carl Testa's Sway

Jazz Performance By Carl Testa's Sway

Baby Grand Jazz - Carl Testa's Sway

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.

Carl Testa's Sway
Sunday, March 13th - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Hartford Public Library - Downtown
500 Main Street, Hartford CT 06103
Center for Contemporary Culture (CCC)

Carl Testa (b. 1984, Chicago, IL) is a multi-instrumentalist and composer at the intersection of improvised music, jazz, electronics, experimental music, and new media. As a performer/improviser, he is equally comfortable on string bass, electronics, lighting, and combinations thereof. As a composer, he has written acoustic and electronic music for configurations ranging from solo to chamber orchestra, including multimedia pieces that incorporate electronics, lighting, dance, and theater. His work has been performed throughout the US and Europe, and is documented on many recordings, most recently "Iris (for solo bass and electronics)" (Lockstep Records 2013), and "Sn (for prepared guitar and electronics)", a collaboration with guitarist Christopher Riggs (Gold Bolus Records 2015).

In addition to his work as a leader/collaborator, he performs regularly with composers Anthony Braxton, Mario Pavone, and Tyshawn Sorey. He serves as the Archives Manager for Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation where he manages all facets of the production of digital and print scores for the organization. He is an instructor in music composition at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven teaching Audiovisual Live Coding. He also organized The Uncertainty Music Series from 2007-2017, which was a monthly concert series in New Haven, CT featuring improvised, electronic, and experimental music. He has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the State of CT as a 2018 Artist Fellow, from the New Haven Department of Cultural Affairs, and from NewMusicUSA.

Yuma Uesaka - Clarinets
Louis Guarino Jr. - Trumpet
Adam Matlock - Piano
Anne Rhodes - Voice
Carl Testa - Bass and Electronics