Firehouse 12 Announces 2008 Fall Jazz Series Schedule

New Haven's Firehouse 12 will kick-off its fourth annual Fall Jazz Series on Friday, September 19th with a performance by the Steve Lantner Trio. The weekly series will continue Friday nights through December 12th, with a one-week break on November 28th for Thanksgiving.

All performances will include sets at 8:30 and 10:00 p.m. Tickets will be $15 for the opening set and $10 for the second set. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone at (203) 785-0468, or at the box office beginning at 7 p.m. the night of the show (subject to availability). A season pass for both sets of every show will be available for $150 through October 17th.

2008 Fall Jazz Series Schedule:

09/19: Steve Lantner Trio
09/26: Conference Call
10/03: Ned Rothenberg's Sync
10/10: Shakers n' Bakers
10/17: Josh Roseman's Execution Quintet
10/24: Bad Touch
10/31: Joe McPhee and Trio X with Mikolaj Trzaska
11/07: George Schuller's Circle Wide
11/14: Jamie Baum Septet
11/21: Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings
12/05: The Flatlands Collective
12/12: Donny McCaslin Trio

Firehouse 12 is an award-winning bar, state-of-the-art recording studio and unusually intimate music venue located at 45 Crown Street in New Haven's historic Ninth Square District. For its semi-annual jazz concert series, the striking, acoustically engineered studio space transforms into an incomparable 80-seat venue critics have hailed as “New England's premier improvised music venue" (Bill Carbone, New Haven Advocate) and “New Haven's acclaimed avant-garde bastion of the bold and experimental" (Owen McNally, Hartford Courant).

Its label arm, Firehouse 12 Records, is known as “one of the most interesting and innovative labels this side of the Atlantic" (Marc Medwin, Cadence). Since its inception in early 2007, the label has released a succession of acclaimed recordings, including a 10-disc box set from legendary saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, new music from celebrated young talents, trumpeter/composer Taylor Ho Bynum and flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell, and the recorded debuts of highly regarded newcomers, trumpeter/composer Peter Evans and drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey. This fall, it will release Dragon's Head, the long-awaited debut of guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's working trio featuring bassist John Hebert and drummer Ches Smith, as well as download-only recordings of performances from past series at Firehouse 12.