The
Saugerties Sunday Jazz Session
By Peter Aaron
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Besides
being an incredible singer, she has a really good rapport with the
audience and she keeps the music fresh, from getting boring [sic].
She understands the musicians’ side as well as the audience’s
side.”
It’s
this kind of atmosphere that keeps not only musicians from the immediate
area constantly coming back to jam, but also draws players from
as far north as Albany and as far south as Westchester County (and
even farther south; one recent guest was New York saxophone star
and award winner Rob Scheps). The night sometimes even finds several
of Pentony’s more serious Bard students sitting in to learn
from such experienced masters as bassists Don Miller and Rich Syracuse,
pianists Mike Kull and Francesca Tanksley, drummers Pete O’Brien
and Jeff “Siege” Siegel, tenor saxophonist Howie Brown,
and a long list of others. You never know who’s going to show
up, but you can always count on that all-important good vibe.
“You
can really feel the love in that room every Sunday night. But it’s
not just me or the musicians that make the session so great,”
Pentony says. “Or the audience, or the room itself. It’s
the whole thing together. It’s really its own life force.”
And
once you’ve been a part of that force—be it on or in
front of the stage—you’ll wonder how anyone could ever
let it slip away. The jazz jam session takes place at the Pig Bar
& Grill, at 110 Partition St. in Saugerties Sundays from 7:30
to 10:30pm.
Admission
is free. For more information, call (845) 246-1058.
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