Stanley Maxwell

Connecticut-based four-piece Stanley Maxwell plays original music that blends (among many other influences) jazz, funk and rock with tight arrangements and intricate group improvisation. The band has built a grassroots name for themselves throughout the Northeast since 2001. Stanley Maxwell's independently-produced debut album "Don't Wake The Baby!" was recorded in Bristol, Connecticut by Dan Silvia of Hillgrove Recording (a company based in West Roxbury, Massachusetts) and mastered by Anthony Latt of the LattKave Recording Studio in Yonkers, New York.

Stanley Maxwell's independently-produced debut album "Don't Wake The Baby!" was recorded in Bristol, Connecticut by Dan Silvia of Hillgrove Recording (a company based in West Roxbury, Massachusetts) and mastered by Anthony Latt of the LattKave Recording Studio in Yonkers, New York. The album includes "Mousetrap", an eleven-bar blues influenced by Thelonious Monk. The band's recording of the composition by pianist Evan Green has attracted international attention including:

--"Mousetrap" winning "Best Jazz Song" in the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards, an international program that helps indie artists and releases overcome mainstream obstacles and reach wider audiences by providing year-long promotion, marketing and distribution opportunities that place those selected in front of more than 15 million music fans and industry decision makers around the world in 2008.

--Winning the Relix Magazine November 2007 "JamOff" contest for unsigned artists, with Mousetrap featured on the November Relix CD sampler, included with over 100,000 issues of the internationally distributed magazine, dedicated to jam bands and improvisational music.

Past events include:

--Featured performances at annual festivals including First Night Hartford (2008, 2007,2005,2002), the Hartford Advocate's Grand Band Slam (2008 Nominations for Best Jazz and Best Funk/Fusion; Winner - Best Jazz Band in 2007 Readers' Poll; 2003 Nomination for Best R&B), Old State House for the Connecticut Brewfest (2005,2004) and Lunchtime Summer Concert Series (2003, 2002)

--Prestigious venues including Dfest (Diversafest) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the New Haven Jazz Festival, SoNo Arts Celebration, Adirondack Music Festival, Northeast Kingdom Music Festival, the Jonathan Edwards Winery Summer Nights Music Series, the Clinton Art and Music Festival, and The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts for The Connecticut Forum, Mixed Bag Concert Series and Ha! Ha! Hartford

--College tours including Brandeis University, Bryant College, Colby Sawyer College, Curry College, Fairfield University, Framingham State, Maine Maritime Academy, University of Massachusetts, Vassar College, Williams College, and Yale University

--Memorable shows with artists including The Charlie Hunter Trio, The New Deal, The Breakfast, Dub Is A Weapon, Ryan Montbleau, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Zappa Plays Zappa, Cyro Baptista & Beat The Donkey, The Disco Biscuits, The Roots, DJ Le Spam & The Spam Allstars, Hypnotic Clambake, Addison Groove Project, Mountain of Venus, Seth Yacovone, Raisinhill, moe, and members of Max Creek.