Jimmy Greene – saxophone
Matthew Fries – piano
Carlo De Rosa – bass
Keith Hall – drums
THURS SEPT 11th, 2025 – 7:30pm
A native of Connecticut, Jimmy Greene is a widely respected saxophonist, recording artist, composer, and educator. Greene has released thirteen albums as a bandleader for the RCA Victor, Mack Avenue, Criss Cross Jazz, Sunnyside and Greene Music Works labels, and has appeared on more than one hundred as a sideman. His latest recording, As We Are Now (Greene Music Works), received critical acclaim upon its release in 2025. Greene’s 2014 release Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue) received two GRAMMY® Award nominations – one for Best Jazz Instrumental Album and another for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals for his song “When I Come Home.”
Greene has garnered awards in composition from ASCAP/IAJE, Chamber Music America and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. He won the Rising Star – Soprano Saxophone category in DownBeat Magazine’s66th Annual Critics Poll and, as a youngster, he was named First Runner-Up in the 1996 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Saxophone Competition. Greene performs worldwide with his quartet and quintet and with legendary bassist Ron Carter’s Foursight Quartet. He has recorded and/or performed in the bands of Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Harry Connick, Jr., Tom Harrell, Avishai Cohen, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kenny Barron and Lewis Nash, among many others.
Tickets:
Advance $20 Adult / $10 Student
Day of $25 Adult / $15 Student
Doors Open: 6:30p
Thank you to the John Stites Jazz Awards for generously supporting this concert.