Intersections Concert Series: January 19 @ CCC Auditorium

On January 19 at the East Hartford Community Cultural Center, the second concert in the Intersections Concert Series will feature 3 different large ensembles performing a diverse range of jazz and improvised music. The East Hartford Middle School Global Jazz & Creative Music Ensemble (Dan O'Brien, director) and the East Hartford High School Jazz Band (Greg Hoyt & Christian Siegel, directors) will both perform sets fresh off of their school winter concerts the previous week. They will be followed by the professional band, Dan O'Brien's Standards of Dysfunction.

 

Standards of Dysfunction is a new large ensemble which performs spontaneous amalgams of modern jazz arrangements, conducted improvisation and free music. Rife with masterful jazz players and creative improvisers hailing from Boston, Connecticut and New York, Standards of Dysfunction parses out territory between some of music's major polarities; composition and improvisation, tonality and non-tonality, process and product and many more are always in play as the music unfolds. They will be going into the recording studio in spring 2023 to record their first full album based on the music you will hear on this concert.

 

Joe Morris - guitar

Brad Barrett - bass/cello

Yoona Kim - ajaeng

Raf Vertessen - drum set

John Mastroianni, Nathan Edwards, Kaelen Ghandhi - woodwinds

Rob Patrick, Kelly Bray - trumpets

Ben Stapp - tuba

Grant Beale - guitar

Silvain Castellano - bass

Michael Larocca - percussion

Dan O'Brien - conductor

 

Each concert in the Intersections series, which continues monthly through May, will feature performances by professional musicians as well as student ensembles. Save the dates for the upcoming concerts: February 16, March 9, April 27, May 5.

 

Funding support for the Intersections Concert Series is provided by the East Hartford Commission on Culture and Fine Arts and the East Hartford Alumni Association and Education Foundation. Concerts are free and open to the public, no registration required. Register for a reminder for the January 19 concert by clicking here. The East Hartford Community Cultural Center is located at 50 Chapman Place, East Hartford.