The month of June began with a splash — literally. A tropical storm washed out our planned event, June Jazz Café. We rescheduled the event for this week, and I look forward to seeing readers of this blog at the event.  (We don't plan on rescheduling it again [!!], so this is your last chance to catch fine jazz and food at St. Mary's until next June.)

Jazz Café at St. Mary’s Church, located at Classon and Willoughby Avenues in the Clinton Hill neighborhood, is proud to host one of Brooklyn’s own: the acclaimed Jeff Newell Quartet on Friday evening, October 4.

A variety of food dishes, prepared by St. Mary’s parishioners, will be served beginning at 7:30 p.m. The Quartet performs two sets of their unique mix of jazz styles that night, starting at 8:30 p.m., with dessert served between sets.

Tickets are $25, available in advance, or can be purchased at the door. Feel free to phone St. Mary’s at (718) 638–2090, Fr. Jerry Keucher at (347) 713–2218, or send an email to me or to music.stmarysclintonhill@verizon.net to find out more about this annual jazz event.

This event is made possible with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered in Kings County by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).