Wolosoff On Debussy
The Reflections in Music series was founded in 2007 to celebrate the relationship between music and other art forms. In 2020, Bruce Wolosoff, the Shelter Island-based composer and pianist, took over as the series’ executive and artistic director.
Mr. Wolosoff will bring the next iteration of the series to The Church in Sag Harbor on Sunday afternoon at 2 with “Reflections on Debussy,” a piano performance and a discussion about Claude Debussy, one of Mr. Wolosoff’s favorite composers.
“Debussy found inspiration for his music in paintings, in poetry, in other music, and in the natural world around him,” says Mr. Wolosoff. “I can think of no better subject for a Reflections program, and no better place to present this program than The Church.”
Tickets are $10.
Bogdanovich Fest
The Sag Harbor Cinema will kick off an ongoing retrospective series of the films of Peter Bogdanovich on Saturday with two of his most personal films, “Saint Jack” and a rare 35mm print of “They All Laughed.” Both films star Ben Gazzara, a longtime Sag Harbor resident.
Bogdanovich, who died in January, was only 32 when “The Last Picture Show” was released in 1971. It won eight Oscar nominations, including best director, and situated him among his “New Hollywood” peers Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg.
Based on the novel by Paul Theroux, “Saint Jack” (1979) stars Gazzara as an American hustler in Singapore. Roger Ebert gave the film four stars and lauded Gazzara’s performance.
“They All Laughed” (1981) stars John Ritter, Blaine Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Colleen Camp, Dorothy Stratten, and Gazzara in a romantic comedy about private investigators who find their own love lives entangled with the cases they have been assigned.
Music for Monk
Greg Lewis, a jazz virtuoso and master of the Hammond B3 organ, grew up listening to his father’s Thelonious Monk records. Mr. Lewis will perform cuts from his CD “Organ Monk,” a tribute to the jazz icon, as well as other selections, in person at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill Friday at 6 p.m.
In a review on allaboutjazz.com, Ernest Barteldes said, “Reinventing the music of Thelonious Monk is no easy task, but organist Greg Lewis does precisely that on ‘Organ Monk.’ ” His accompanists on the 2010 album, Cindy Blackman on drums and Ron Jackson on guitar, will join him at the Parrish, as will the tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon.
The program is presented in collaboration with Hampton Jazz Fest’s winter series. Tickets are $20, $15 for members.
Jamming Again
After two years, the Jam Session, a weekly jazz jam that has featured top artists in the genre, will return.
The event will begin anew on Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at its new home, the Wamponamon Masonic Lodge in Sag Harbor. The night will feature the Jam Session’s house band with special guests, followed by “a good ol’ boisterous and ferocious jam session,” according to a statement.
“This is without question the most unusual and amazing venue we have ever hosted the Jam Session,” said Claes Brondal of the Jam Session, who is a drummer. “The acoustics are superb and the atmosphere is magical. We expect this new venue to embrace our music and the wonderful music community that has evolved over the past 13 years.”
Admission is $15, with proceeds going to a local charity. Performing musicians will be admitted free.
Jazz Duo
Jane Hastay, a pianist, and Peter Martin Weiss, a bassist, are playing every Friday and Saturday evening from 6 to 9 at Main Prospect restaurant in Southampton.
A couple both onstage and off, their arrangements blend jazz, pop, classical, bossa nova, R&B, tango, and other genres. They have performed in Manhattan at the Blue Note, Lenox Lounge, Lincoln Center, and St. Peter’s Church, and locally at Guild Hall, Bay Street Theater, the Bridgehampton Museum, and the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, where Ms. Hastay is the music director.
The duo, who met 30 years ago at a San Francisco jazz club, have also hosted the East End’s Parlor Jazz/Art of Song concert series.
Celebrating R&B
"Souled Out,’" a concert by Tommy Sullivan, a vocalist and a founding member and musical director of the 1960s band Brooklyn Bridge, happens at the East Hampton Library on Saturday at 6 p.m.
The program will feature the music of Smokey Robinson, Custis Mayfield, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, the Four Tops, Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, Little Anthony, James Brown, Wilson Pickett, and the Temptations.
Dead's New Arrival
Their Jan. 27 concert having been canceled due to the blizzard, the Roses Grove Band will get another chance to bring its psychedelic sounds to the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m. According to its Facebook page, the band plays the music of the Grateful Dead "with the improvisational spirit of Phil Lesh and Friends."
Tickets are $20.
Virtual Jazz
The virtual winter music series from the Arts Center at Duck Creek continues on Saturday with a performance by the Courtney Wright Quartet at Bay Bayeux in Brooklyn. It will be available for viewing on the center’s website and YouTube channel within a week.
A composer and baritone saxophonist based in New York City, Ms. Wright won the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award and the prize for emerging Black composers from the International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers, in tandem with the University of South Florida.
She will be accompanied by Andrew Wagner on trumpet, Caelan Cardello on piano, and Eliza Salem on drums.
Solo Cello, Virtually
The Perlman Music Program’s Stires-Stark Alumni Recital series, available for viewing on the program’s YouTube channel, has just added a performance by Chase Park, a cellist. The program will include Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1720 composition Suite for Solo Cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008, and Henri Dutilleux’s “Trois Strophes sur le Nom de Sacher” from 1976.
Future recitals will feature Kristin Lee, violin, and Kwan Yi, piano, which will become available on March 4, and Haran Meltzer on cello, March 25.
Classical Piano
Anne Tedesco, a pianist who recently received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in music and career longevity, will perform a concert of classical music at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton on Sunday at 3 p.m.
The program will include works by Scarlatti, Debussy, Beethoven, Guinovart, Chopin, and Brahms. Registration is required.
