Baby Grand Jazz Series at the Hartford, CT Public Library

Baby Grand Jazz is a terrific free concert series held at the downtown Hartford Public Library.  I had an opportunity to enjoy David Chevan and Afro Semitic Experience this past Sunday.  Mr. Chevan, bassist and composer, grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts and is currently a Professor of Music at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut.  His latest compositions meld jazz improvisation with Jewish liturgy.  The concert, held on the first floor of the library, was well-attended, with the appreciative audience overflowing, observing from the open atrium second floor above, and the music wafting throughout the library.   Especially rousing was the last number, "Let My People Go", a new jazz variation on the old spiritual.

Here is a schedule for the remaining concerts of the series:

Baby Grand Jazz 2014
Sundays, January - April, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Downtown Library 

Jan 5 - Meg Okura and Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble
Jan 12 - David Chevan and Afro Semitic Experience
Jan 19 - Maxine Martin
Jan 26 - Allie Bosso
Feb 2 - Craig Hartley
Feb 9 - Taino Pacheco
Feb 16 - Erin O’Luanaigh
Feb 23 - Michael Gregory
Mar 2 - William Fluker
Mar 9 - Ray Gonzalez
Mar 16 - Warren Byrd
Mar 23 - Nelson Bello
Mar 30 - Yoko Miwa
Apr 6 - Jeff Wieselberg
Apr 13 - Sonny and Perley
Apr 27 - Emery A. Smith

- See more at: http://www.hplct.org/classes-seminars-exhibits#sthash.avTxrMw4.dpuf