Jazz Fridays | Chris Coogan

Jazz Fridays at the Fairfield Museum are back! Music lovers are invited to kick off their weekends at these free jazz concerts held on the Museum Commons. Bring your own picnic and blankets/chairs and join us for a wonderful evening.
In the case of inclement weather, concerts will be cancelled and the Fairfield Museum will make every effort to reschedule the performance. Please check the Fairfield Museum website (www.fairfieldhistory.org) for weather-related updates.
Please do not set up chairs/blankets before 4 pm.
 
Free
 
About the Performer
During his career, Chris Coogan has appeared alongside Stevie Van Zandt, Sal Salvador, Ronnie Spector, Harold Danko, Darlene Love, Donna Summer, Phoebe Snow, Maya Angelou, Richard Smallwood, and Ben E. King, among others, as well as arranging for Teo Maceo, producer for the late Miles Davis. Coogan has appeared on television’s Celebrity Jeopardy and the Arsenio Hall Show and has performed at Manhattan’s Blue Note and the Montreaux Jazz Festival. He has written and performed original gospel music for a PBS documentary about evangelist Amy Semple McPherson, and worked with Emmy-award winning composer Brian Keane. A Weston, Connecticut native, Coogan leads the Chris Coogan Quartet, a jazz ensemble whose repertoire includes straight-ahead jazz, fusion jazz and boogie-woogie, and serves as the Director of music at Saint Matthews, Norwalk, Connecticut. Accompanying Chris Coogan are John Mobilio (bass), Jim Royle (drums), Jim Clark (sax), and Rex Denton (trumpet).

Jazz Fridays at the Fairfield Museum is made possible thanks to the generous support of Alan and Sylvia Neigher, Bank of America, and the CT Arts Endowment Program.