All tagged Jazz

Pianist Dalton Ridenhour Strides into Town

Missouri native Dalton Ridenhour loves all forms of jazz, but especially ragtime and stride piano traditions. Ridenhour, the featured performer at Sunday’s Tri-State Jazz Society concert at Community Arts Center, is a New York-based pianist who plays with a bunch of different bands, including Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Goodbye Picasso, and Mona’s Hot Four. He is well known to aficionados of early jazz is a sensitive and gifted player.

Return to the Old Stomping Ground

On Sunday, April 7, New Yorker David Ostwald sweeps into his old hometown with the six-piece band that he fronts in a steady Wednesday night gig at the legendary jazz club Birdland in Midtown Manhattan. Beginning at 2 p.m., David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band will celebrate and expatiate on traditional jazz at its Tri-State Jazz Society appearance at Community Arts Center in Wallingford.