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Ricky Alfonso at The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts And Cultural Center
Courtesy of Anne-Marie Cannata McEwen | Posted on April 24, 2014
Where
The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts And Cultural Center
605 Main Street
Middletown, CT
Map
(860) 347-4957
When
Sat, May 17, 2014
8:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Trumpeter Ricky Alfonso has been a mainstay on the East Coast jazz scene since the early 1970s. A product of the modern jazz movement with a unique trumpet style steeped in the blues with plenty of swing.
Ricky has worked with many area jazz luminaries including Mario Pavone, Michael Mussillami, Bill Lowe, Ed Blackwell, Joe Fonda, Nat Reeves, Tom Chapin, Andy Jaffee, David Liebman and the late Bill Barron. Ricky also recorded and toured with R/B great Joe Cocker leading the horn section in Cocker’s return to prominence following the great Woodstock Festival of 1969. A composer, arranger and educator, he has long since developed his own very personal style on the trumpet....