Ricky Alfonso on trumpet at Northampton Jazz Workshop Series at The Loft At The Clarion Hotel

This week we are thrilled to welcome for the first time as our guest artist at the Northampton Jazz Workshop trumpeter Ricky Alfonso. I first played with Ricky a few months ago when Claire Arenius brought him up from Hartford for a gig at the Clarion and he knocked my socks off. I will not be wearing socks this time because it's just too hot but the music will be cooking, I promise.

"Beginning with gigs at Hartford's legendary 880 Club in the 1980s and through his association with the late Bill Barron, the great saxophonist/composer/educator at Wesleyan University, Alfonso has played with a virtual "Who's Who" of top regional and national musicians, including Mario Pavone, Bill Lowe, Ed Blackwell, Thomas Chapin, Steve Davis and Nat Reeves." ...

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This week we are thrilled to welcome for the first time as our guest artist at the Northampton Jazz Workshop trumpeter Ricky Alfonso. I first played with Ricky a few months ago when Claire Arenius brought him up from Hartford for a gig at the Clarion and he knocked my socks off. I will not be wearing socks this time because it's just too hot but the music will be cooking, I promise.

"Beginning with gigs at Hartford's legendary 880 Club in the 1980s and through his association with the late Bill Barron, the great saxophonist/composer/educator at Wesleyan University, Alfonso has played with a virtual "Who's Who" of top regional and national musicians, including Mario Pavone, Bill Lowe, Ed Blackwell, Thomas Chapin, Steve Davis and Nat Reeves."

- Paul Arslanian

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