Jazz at the Post...Westport’s home for Jazz!
VFW Post 399 has graced the shore of the Saugatuck for over 100 years, and is still an undiscovered treasure. Along with their stellar services for combat veterans, the Post is open to the community, and invites everyone to help them utilize their beautiful riverfront facility to improve the quality of life for all the residents in our area.
The listening room has great acoustics, and the down home but delicious food makes it easy to simultaneously satisfy one’s appetite for great Jazz without going hungry!
Pianist Chris Coogan has been one of the most popular performers in our area for many years, and for good reason: He “plays great”! Chris grew up here, and has chosen to make Fairfield County his home, as well as his home base for his many faceted misc career. He is a world class jazz pianist, […]
Rick Zurkowski, bassist extraordinaire, and founding member of JazzFC favorite sons “Portal” (along with David Morgan, Matt Moadel and Greg Wall) has toured across the United States and Europe, backing up well known artists such as Martin Sexton and Blues Grammy Award-winner, Joe Louis Walker. He is also a member of the bands "Jen Durkin […]
Ted Rosenthal, a real musician's musician has performed worldwide as soloist, with his trio, and sideman with many jazz greats including Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, James Moody, Bob Brookmeyer and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He has also been a featured soloist with several major American orchestras including the Detroit Symphony. Ted's latest release, Rhapsody in Gershwin, reached #1 […]
Award-winning jazz guitarist Paul Bollenback developed a taste for the exotic over the course of a three-year period when his family lived in India. He was 11 years old when the family traveled to New Delhi, and years later the sounds and experiences of that early journey found their way into his first album from Challenge […]
Bob DeVos - guitar Mark Mincello - Hammond B3 organ Steve Johns - drums Greg Wall - saxes Guitarist, composer, and arranger Bob DeVos is hailed as “a brilliant, knowing bebop player, a master with a sound to die for-- rich, full, deep, positive, round and warm.” With long, blues- drenched melodic lines and […]
Janice Friedman - piano Boots Maleson - bass Tim Horner - drums Greg Wall - saxes Pianist Janice Friedman has joined musical forces with some of the biggest names in Jazz including Joe Lovano, Lew Tabakin, and Billy Higgins. The famous pianist, Marian McPartland, not only had her on “Piano Jazz,” but also had her join […]
Pianist Henry Hey comes to Jazz at the Post! Henry loves all types of music, and that wide-reaching interest has seen him working with well-known artists who are equally diverse. In the world of Jazz, Henry has worked with artists such as Donny McCaslin, Joe Locke, Seamus Blake, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Alex Sipiagin, Cassandra Wilson […]
Michael Philip Mossman has been active on the international scene since the age of 17. And has recorded with his own groups and with a virtual “who's who” of the music industry. Following stints as lead trumpet with the Machito Orchestra, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Michael became the musical director […]
Sarah Jane Cion is a 1st Place Winner of the internationally acclaimed 17th Annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition. The judges were Horace Silver, Kenny Barron, Ellis Marsalis, Benny Green and Bill Charlap. Ms. Cion’s trio has performed in Japan at the prestigious Fukuoka Blue Note and Sarah appeared on the Nationally syndicated NPR radio show “Piano […]
TURN UP THE HEAT! Chris Coogan PianoGreg Wall Saxophones John Mobilio Bass Jim Royle Drums Join us for a cool evening of hot jazz at Westport's finest music destination, JAZZ AT THE POST. These guys have a chemistry that's intoxicating...Chris Coogan has been called by The New York Times, "a masterful pianist." Coogan's […]
