HARRY CONNICK JR.
GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning musician, singer, composer, legendary live performer, and multi-platinum best-selling artist, Harry Connick, Jr., invites you to celebrate the holidays with him and his band as he crosses the country in concert this holiday season.
Long regarded as one of America’s finest vocalists and pianists, Harry has continued to establish himself as one of the most beloved artists performing holiday music to date, thrilling audiences around the world for decades with his definitive take on Christmas classics, as well as his own originals and fan favorites like “(It Must’ve Been Ol’) Santa Claus” and “When My Heart Finds Christmas.”
Harry Connick, Jr. has exemplified excellence in every aspect of the entertainment world. He has received recognition with multiple GRAMMY and Emmy Awards as well as Tony nominations for his live and recorded musical performances, his achievements on screens large and small, and his appearances on Broadway as both an actor and a composer. He has sold millions of holiday albums, which have become the soundtrack to Christmas for fans around the world.
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JOHN BROWN LITTLE BIG BAND FEATURING NNENA FREELON
Six-Time Grammy Award Nominee Nnenna Freelon is known worldwide as a compelling and captivating live performer. The John Brown Big Band is a professional large jazz ensemble made up of top musicians, specializing in performances of traditional compositions from the Great American Songbook and today’s cutting-edge arrangements. Together, these two forces will bring an unforgettable evening of music to the JPAC as they perform all your favorite Holiday favorites such as “Let it Snow, “Jingle Bells” and “Silent Night.” John Brown ~ Bass.
Doors Open: 6:45 PM
John Brown “Little” Big Band Featuring Special Guest Nnenna Freelon Holiday Show – Pre-Concert Hors d’oeuvres Reception** ~ $35.00 | 5:30
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TONY HIGHTOWER
Singer/Songwriter Tony Hightower is taking up the mantle to be a bridge that ushers R&B audiences into Jazz…Real Jazz. With years of experience as a musical performer and actor with familiar roots that place him firmly within the music’s firmament, Atlanta-native Hightower is still just getting started on this benevolent turn in his journey. And he is bringing a lot of young people with him.
His sophomore project, LEGACY, finds Hightower exploring Jazz vocal stylings from a dazzling prism of angles. The 10-song album moves confidently and assuredly from original compositions such as the soulful scat-laced “All to the Good,” the seductive Brazilian bossa nova of “Rendezvous” and the tender carnal Jarreau-esque love beg “I Need You” to swingin’ covers of Earth, Wind & Fire’s classic Skip Scarborough-penned “Can’t Hide Love,” a mean shuffle boogie groove through Al Green’s “Love and Happiness” and a smoldering upright bass accompanied tiptoe through the 1929 Andy Razaf standard “Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good To You” made further famous in 1944 by one of Hightower’s greatest and earliest Jazz vocal heroes, Nat “King” Cole. That one’ll make the women wiggle.
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DEENE TRIO
The Deene Trio fronted by vocalist Delphine Nérot is accompanied by accordion and double bass.
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The Jazz Voyager
Getting back on a plane once more and in an enclosed space I continue to mask up to protect myself because these variants are steadily morphing. People are still dying daily, maybe not at the rate of its height but nonetheless keep yourself safe.
This Jazz Voyager has decided to head up the East coast and make the sojourn to New England as his next stop. This is where a day earlier I will resume visualizing the autumn colors of this neck of the woods, as they say. I hope to get near some lake water to see the reflection which I’ve missed for many years. So my next stop is Old Lyme, Connecticut for a jazz encounter with bassist Matthew Parrish and saxophonist Houston Person at The Side Door. Located within the Old Lyme Inn at 85 Lyme Street 06371.
These two musicians, an elder master and a mature performer are perfectly matched to bring not only the romance but the heat as they most definitely swing together. This 68 seat venue brings an air of intimacy to every performance. For more information visit notoriousjazz.com/event or thesidedoorjazz.com. The club’s number is 860.434.2600.
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