Ben Wolfe Quartet at The Side Door Jazz Club

BEN WOLFE Quartet - Saturday February 28 - Doors 7:30 - Show 8:30pm 860-434-0886* www.thesidedoorjazz.com

Check this incredible line up of Jazz talent!.... Ben Wolfe - bass, Donald Edwards - drums, Stacy Dillard - saxophone, Orrin Evans - piano

As Wynton Marsalis said, “Ben Wolfe swings with authority.” Including his recent MAXJAZZ release “From Here I See, Bassist-composer Ben Wolfe has released seven CDs comprised solely of his original music. Of the music on his MAXJAZZ debut “No Strangers Here” The New York Times says, “In this music Mingus and Miles Davis meet Bartok and Bernard Herrmann”. Chamber Music America awarded him the 2004 New Works: Creation and Presentation Program Grant, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. As a result of this award, Wolfe was able to compose his extended composition Contradiction: Music for Sextet. Wolfe also recently made his mark as a film composer, working with Matthew Modine on the film short, I Think I Thought. At the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, The New York Sun reviewed his work on this film as, “a standout music score.”...

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BEN WOLFE Quartet - Saturday February 28 - Doors 7:30 - Show 8:30pm 860-434-0886* www.thesidedoorjazz.com

Check this incredible line up of Jazz talent!.... Ben Wolfe - bass, Donald Edwards - drums, Stacy Dillard - saxophone, Orrin Evans - piano

As Wynton Marsalis said, “Ben Wolfe swings with authority.” Including his recent MAXJAZZ release “From Here I See, Bassist-composer Ben Wolfe has released seven CDs comprised solely of his original music. Of the music on his MAXJAZZ debut “No Strangers Here” The New York Times says, “In this music Mingus and Miles Davis meet Bartok and Bernard Herrmann”. Chamber Music America awarded him the 2004 New Works: Creation and Presentation Program Grant, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. As a result of this award, Wolfe was able to compose his extended composition Contradiction: Music for Sextet. Wolfe also recently made his mark as a film composer, working with Matthew Modine on the film short, I Think I Thought. At the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, The New York Sun reviewed his work on this film as, “a standout music score.”

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