Brad Terry Quartet Saturday, June 13 at 7pm 2026

Sweet melodies, fluid and flowing jazz playing off one anothers riffs, this is Brad Terry Clarinet, Peter Hermann Guitar, Tony Gaboury Acoustic Bass, and Will Schreiber Drums musicians at their finest. Discussion with musicians after.

Next door to the Terry residence in Connecticut lived a very famous clarinetist: Benny Goodman himself. In a conversation with this neighbor, Brad’s mother told of her son’s interest in music and expressed her concern about the boy’s academic struggles, “Buy him a clarinet!” suggested Goodman. And so she did—a clarinet that came with three free lessons. With those few lessons under his belt, along with one or two from Goodman, Brad went on to develop on his own, through practice and performance. At one time, he was taken under the wing of saxophonist and Basie Band member Buddy Tate, who took his young protegé into Harlem jazz clubs and got him up on bandstands with some of the day’s greatest jazz musicians.

Brad’s playing has won him accolades from Jim Hall, Roger Kellaway, Gene Lees, Doug Ramsey, even Dizzy Gillespie. He has also developed a large fan base in Poland, which he has visited repeatedly, performing concerts and conducting workshops for budding young jazz musicians in that country and beyond. Some of today’s most in-demand European players, in fact, had their first lessons in jazz improvisation at the feet of Brad Terry. (photo credit: Troy Bennett)