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Chilled Water Supply

Chilled Water Supply (CWS) is a one-year-old jazz ensemble based at Yale. Performing a mix of original tunes, standards, and unique covers, CWS blends a variety of jazz genres with a unique and original sound. The band has performed at numerous venues and private functions in the New Haven area, and recently made its debut on the New York jazz scene. CWS was also one of the finalists in the student band competition to perform at a university-wide concert last spring. The group recorded its first album in spring 2010, and is releasing its second at the end of the year.

Bob Gorry

Born: June 18, 1964

A Singular Guitarist combining elements of avant-jazz, prog, searing blues, and new art music. Leader of the New Haven Improvisers Collective. Composer.

Tyshawn Sorey

Born: July 8, 1980

ewark-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey (b. 1980) is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, effortless mastery and memorization of highly complex scores, and an extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation in his work. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles, as well as artists such as John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Marilyn Crispell, George Lewis, Claire Chase, Steve Coleman, Steve Lehman, Robyn Schulkowsky, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, and Myra Melford, among many others. The New York Times has praised Sorey for his instrumental facility and aplomb, “he plays not only with gale-force physicality, but also a sense of scale and equipoise”; The Wall Street Journal notes Sorey is, “a composer of radical and seemingly boundless ideas.” The New Yorker recently noted that Sorey is “among the most formidable denizens of the in-between zone…An extraordinary talent who can see across the entire musical landscape.” Sorey has received support for his creative projects from The Jerome Foundation, The Shifting Foundation, Van Lier Fellowship, and was recently named a 2017 MacArthur fellow

Ken Serio

Born: July 14, 1964

Ken Serio has been playing the drums since the age of 11, and has studied with the great Joe Morello, Kenwood Dennard, and Zak Danziger. He has a large recording and touring list, including Mark Egan, Vic Juris, Ronnie Earl, Bill Turner (guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets), Crosscurrents, Calvin Hill, Danny Gottlieb, Pete McCann, Gil Goldstein, Leo Jordan, Dave Mann, Dave Mullen, Billy Eric, Victoria Warne, Stefanie Seskin, and groups including, Racing 8, Dem Brooklyn Bums, Asylum and Bed Of Nails. Ken also performs drum clinics for Hot Sticks drum sticks SJC Drums and Dream Cymbals which he proudly endorses, and various studio work including jingles for Kelloggs and Coca Cola. Ken also has four cds out under his own name

Pete Jolly

Born: June 5, 1932

Pete Jolly lived a double life as studio ace by day and jazz cat by night for over 40 years. A member of the musicians union since his teens, he settled in Los Angeles in his early 20s and became a member of Shorty Rogers' Giants, one of the leading West Coast jazz groups. He also began working as a studio musician in the mid-1950s and decided to divide his energy between the security of studio work and the artistic satisfaction of playing jazz in local clubs in Los Angeles. Jolly's father, also named Peter, was a superb accordion player, and he started the boy on the instrument not long after weaning

Stuart Watson

Born: April 9, 1981

Stuart Watson is a bassist from New Haven.

Steve Clarke

Born: December 18, 1954

STEVE CLARKE TRIO is a Funky-Jazz-Fusion Band.
Pat Marafiote -Keys (Larry Coryell, Dave Weckl)
Steve Clarke -Bass (myspace.com/steveclarke)
Chris Stanley -Drums (George Benson, Anthony Jackson)

New CD "Sparkle" 2016 features the Bass www.CDBaby.com/cd/steveclarke8 Prior CD "New Beginnings features:Mike Stern, Chris Morrison, Authur Lipner and Johnny Durkins !!!
http://www.youtube.com/qupsclarke
"Sparkle" is his 8th release on Hop-N-Bop Records and is being well received by fans in U.S. and Europe.
The inter play of this trio is quite noticeable, performing together the last 5 years and doing 5 European tours as a trio has paid off. The grooves and improvisations throughtout the recordings and shows flow naturally and seamlessly into and out of the compositions.
Internationally known bassist Steve Clarke has released 7 funk-Jazz CD's under own name .
Available for tours, studio & lessons

Marcel P Blanchet

Born: February 28, 1958

Recording Artist, Composer, Producer, Arranger, Drummer, Musical Product Endorser and Motivational Speaker. Marcel is a Touring Drummer for traveling shows and his own project "Beyond the Sun" A session musician for countless radio and TV commercials also keeps him busy. Marcel has provided motivational keynote speeches and business entertainment through his drumming skills motivating his audiences in goal achieving while striving for greater goal accomplishments. Sharing his stories and lessons learned with audiences of all ages, he strengthens their attitudes by helping build key elements in their creativity

BassDrumBone and the New Haven Jazz Renaissance

by Daniel Barbiero
September 4, 2017

When they first began playing together in New Haven, Connecticut in 1977, the trio BassDrumBone--bassist Mark Helias, percussionist Gerry Hemingway and trombonist Ray Anderson--were called OAHSPE. The name, which Anderson recalls having heard in Seattle from a source he understood to be Native American, is supposed to mean “sky earth and spirit." It is coincidentally also ...

Wadada Leo Smith At Firehouse 12

by Franz A. Matzner
May 11, 2017

Wadada Leo Smith Firehouse 12 Create Festival New Haven, Connecticut April 8-9, 2017 It is rare to experience the arc of a prolific artist's work while they are still active, and in the case of Wadada Leo Smith, to witness it at the simultaneous height of creative power ...