Thursday, May 21
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Registration Required Below
Learn how to better appreciate jazz music, America’s original art form, with Greg Wall, aka The Jazz Rabbi, who will lead an introduction on how to refine your listening skills and hear the music like the pros who compose and create it.
Wall said that many people, including music lovers, often have a problem with jazz music — “Too complicated! Too wild! Everybody just does their own thing!” But, when people understand the basics of what is actually going on “under the hood” — the music takes on a new and more inviting voice, Wall said.
The program will consist of jazz classics and original music by GRAMMY®-winning composer and arranger Dan Pugach.
Experienced jazz lovers are also welcome to attend as a way to better refine their listening skills!
The Allen and Helen Hermes Arts Series was founded in 2003, and is funded by a generous gift the couple donated to the Mark Twain Library. The mission of the series is to enrich the quality of life in the community of Redding by producing and supporting events in the visual, literary, theater and musical arts.
About Our Presenters
Greg is the Artistic Director of JazzFC, CT’s foremost musical nonprofit that was formed to enrich the cultural life of Fairfield County by promoting the performance and appreciation of jazz and its heritage. He appears each Thursday night with a rotating cast of highly acclaimed musicians at Jazz at the Post, Westport’s lovely weekly Jazz club at the VFW on Riverside Avenue.
For more information visit JazzFC.org and if you would like to help JazzFC in its outreach mission to serve underserved and non-traditional audiences around Fairfield County, including school children, write to info@JazzFC.org.
Dan Pugach — is a GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer and composer, who has been nominated for the GRAMMY® five times and was a two-time winner of the ASCAP Foundation’s Jazz Composer Award.