The Branford Compassion
Club hosts Cool Cats Jazz Brunch, a benefit emceed by News Channel 8 anchorman
Darren Kramer, featuring the esteemed Jeff Fuller and the Premier Jazz Ensemble
of the Neighborhood Music School.
The buffet brunch is
Sunday, Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m. at Pine Orchard Yacht & Country Club, 2 Club
Parkway. There is a donation of $45 a person. Reserve by Nov. 1 by email at
bccspecialevents32@gmail.com or call 203-444-0653. For more information, visit
www.branfordcompassionclub.org.
There will be wine basket
raffles, silent auction theme baskets and the chance to enjoy one of the Shoreline’s
best brunches, not normally available to the public, at the club, with its
stunning views of the Thimble Islands to a soundtrack of sophisticated jazz. Proceeds
benefit BCC’s mission to rescue, care for and adopt out homeless felines and
for operating expenses at its Feline Rescue and Adoption Center, 2037 Foxon
Road, North Branford.
If Sundays mean football, you
can kick back over a great brunch with hip music and be home in time for
kickoff. Whether a jazz aficionado or a neophyte curious about the great American
music genre, you’ll enjoy the cool and laid-back vibe.
The Yale School of
Music-trained Fuller, an award-winning bassist and composer, has been a fixture
around the New Haven jazz scene for decades. He has toured worldwide with such
luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Mose Allison, “Papa” Jo Jones, Gerry Mulligan
and Clark Terry. A faculty member at the Neighborhood Music School, and ACES
Educational Center for the Arts, he gets to pick from the cream of the crop for
the Premier Jazz Ensemble, composed of NMS students and faculty.
Kramer, the popular
weeknight anchor of WTNH News Channel 8, gives generously of his time for
charities and has a large and faithful following on Twitter, where he is a
prolific Tweeter of both wry commentary and news postings.
Branford Compassion Club
is an all-volunteer-run non-profit organization founded in 1997. Its shelter,
which opened in 2011, celebrated its milestone 1,000th cat adoption on
Oct. 3.
