Jazz at the Pequot

The Westport Arts Center today presented another in its jazz series at the Pequot Library in Southport. The audience warmly welcomed New Duke, an eight-piece jazz ensemble that combines the past music of Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club period through the 1960s with the modern grooves of hip-hop, rock and reggae. Brian Torff, bassist, guitarist, harmonicist, vocalist, composer, lyricist, a professor of music at Fairfield University and who oversees the WAC jazz series, originally formed the esemble for a teachers’ workshop about Ellington. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com