Jazz Up Close: Sam Bardfeld Quartet Featuring Michael Sarin

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Performance

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Adults
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Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Jazz Up Close at Russell Library, Resonant Motion, Inc. presents its first presentation of the 2025 series. Violinist/composer Sam Bardfeld will present and discuss his compositions in a quartet accompanied by Henry Lugo on bass, host and series curator Noah Baerman on piano, and special guest Michael Sarin on drums.

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Sam Bardfeld is a violinist, composer, arranger and author. He is a member of The Jazz Passengers and a frequent collaborator of Bruce Springsteen's. He has worked as sideman with a long list of jazz, pop, folk and experimental acts including Elvis Costello, John Zorn, Calexico, Anthony Braxton, Henry Butler, Debbie Harry, Steven Bernstein, John Cale, Kris Davis, Savion Glover, The Red Clay Ramblers, Willie Colon, The String Trio of NY, Hank Roberts, Johnny Pacheco, Dar Williams, and Chuck Prophet among others. He has a substantial catalogue as a bandleader having received acclaim from the press for his albums including Refuge, The Great Enthusiasms, Taxidermy, and Periodic Trespasses, including rave reviews from Downbeat and JazzTimes magazines and the All Music Guide. In the 1990’s, Sam’s immersion in NYC’s fertile Salsa and Latin Jazz scene led to writing a book, Latin Violin (Hal Leonard, 2002), considered to be the authoritative work on the Afro-Cuban violin tradition. He is an instructor of jazz violin at the New School jazz program in NYC.

Support for this event has been provided by Resonant Motion’s donors and the Middletown Commission on the Arts.