From geek to great: Connor Young releases fourth jazz album

Is band cool or not so cool? Ask MUMS band teacher Connor Young. He even has a new album out to prove it.

Enjoy classic holiday jazz with The Ted Perry Trio and a special guest on Sunday, Dec. 7 at Town Hall Theater.

Get in the holiday spirit with jazz pianist Isaiah J. Thompson on Dec. 3 at the Mahaney Arts Center.

Come listen to the Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble play a free concert in Middlebury on Dec. 2.

Sit in the round in the Anderson Studio and hear magnificent jazz from Mathis Picard on Saturday, Oct. 18, 5-7:30 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.

‏Middlebury College’s Sound Investment Jazz Tentet will be presenting an evening of jazz standards at the Mahaney Arts Center’s Robison Concert Hall on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m.

The new House of Jazz Series brings a trio of world-class jazz acts to THT this fall, winter and spring — thanks to a new partnership between Jazz Middlebury and Town Hall Theater.

Mr. Ibrahim returns to the MAC on Saturday, April 29, this time with his band Ekaya during a weekend that celebrates both South African Freedom Day and International Jazz Day.

On Friday July 22, at 7:30 p.m., the Salisbury Summer Performance Series will host Dick Forman (piano) and Glendon Ingalls (string bass) as they explore the music that’s been called America’s National Treasure.

Miles Donahue will be joined by bassist Gerson Quiroga from Chile, who was awarded a Presidential Scholarship at Berklee College of Music and who has performed with Latin Grammy winner Pablo Zeiglar.

Grammy Award-winning pianist Sullivan Fortner will perform a free virtual concert for the Middlebury Performing Arts Series spring season on Friday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. Fortner has gained international praise as a pianist, composer and band leader, and … (read more)

LINCOLN — In the acknowledgments section of his new book, “Everybody’s Doin’ It,” Lincoln author Dale Cockrell muses on how strange it is to put the words “sex” and “musicology” in the same sentence. “Many seem not to think at first that the two can coexi … (read more)