Noah Preminger w/ Dave Douglas 8/8/16 Bushnell Park

Intriguing installment of the Hartford Monday Jazz in the park series. Sweltering evening and decent crowd out to see local Jazz hero and Hall High School grad Preminger's quartet. Preminger on sax and a special treat Dave Douglas on trumpet with bass and drums. The evening's focus was straight ahead blowing on traditional blues numbers. Songs by Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James were put through the modern jazz blender to full effect. Preminger and Douglas are music students playing any and all genres (check Douglas' Buster Keaton tribute). The crowd was receptive and I must say Douglas is a big name for this series.