Dave Ballou News Today

Super Senior Rita Brooks is a regular at the Bowlerama in Rutland. The 89-year-old recently earned a trip to the USBC Senior Championships in Ohio.

There’s this story Bill Shoemaker loves to tell when it comes to Lester Bowie. While at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1992, he, along with Bowie, wound up at Southend

One of Frederick’s favorite sons, Lester Bowie, will be celebrated Oct. 7 as part of The Fifth Power: A Tribute to Lester Bowie at the Asbury United Methodist Church. To

Allegories Allegories puts pedal steel guitar innovator Susan Alcorn, trumpet virtuoso Dave Ballou, and exploratory percussionist Shelly Purdy in the context of Michael McNeill’s rich piano harmonies and dynamic compositions. Stretching out over grooves and across soundscapes, and even stopping along the way to deconstruct the odd standard, the quartet brings together the players' diverse experiences and broad imaginations into heady and visceral brew.

We asked Bob Stoops, Tom Allen, Clark Lea, Jeff Hafley and Shane Beamer what Marcus Freeman has ahead of him in Year 1.

Not least of all Brian Robinson.

July 1, 2021 The latest alarming coronavirus variant is exploiting low global vaccination rates and a rush to ease pandemic restrictions, adding new urgency to the drive... July 1, 2021 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Sixty years after acing astronaut tests but barred because she was a woman, Wally Funk will rocket into space... July 1, 20211 WATERBURY – Police arrested three people after raiding a home on Ayers Street Wednesday afternoon and seized close to 2 pounds of marijuana, cocaine,... J...

Litchfield Performing Arts is planning two jazz-themed events in the coming months. First up is a livestream, “Litchfield Jazz Presents: Chad LB Quartet,” on Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. The performance is part of a series livestreamed from the Telefunken soundstage in South Windsor. Chad Lefkowitz-Brown The Chad LB Quartet will feature Chad Lefkowitz-Brown on saxophone, Steven Feifke on piano, Dan Chmielinski on bass and Bryan Carter on drums. The free performance will be available on Facebook Liv...