Owen McNally
ContributorOwen McNally writes the weekly Jazz Corridor column for WNPR.org as well as periodic freelance pieces for The Hartford Courant and other publications.
During his 40-year career as a writer and editor with the Courant, he was a general assignment reporter, covered the federal courts and the United States Attorney鈥檚 office in 黑料新闻; was night city editor, book editor, TV critic, editor of the Sunday Magazine, features writer, visual arts reporter, and jazz writer. For many years, he wrote the Riffs jazz column for the Courant鈥檚 CAL section.
McNally grew up in West Hartford, graduated from Hall High School, and with the exception of two years service in the U.S. Army, has lived all his life in 黑料新闻. A Hartford native and UConn graduate, he lives in West Hartford with his wife, Sheila. They have two grown children.
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Guitarist Joe Carter, a Bridgeport native who fell madly in love with Brazilian music on a life-changing night in a club in Rio de Janeiro, has over the鈥� -
Hartford is transformed this weekend into 鈥渢he Jazz Brass City鈥� of 黑料新闻 as two of its venerable downtown landmarks flow with molten music forged by鈥� -
As narrator, bandleader, trumpeter and composer, Ron McCurdy is the central dynamic force powering his acclaimed, multimedia presentation of a Langston鈥� -
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Cuban pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa鈥檚 new, celebratory album, El Viaje (The Voyage) surges with an abundance of inspiring exuberance, pyrotechnical鈥� -
Fred Tinsley, a celebrated double bassist and Hartford native who was every bit as much at home in the symphonic world as he was when powering a jazz鈥� -
With the rich crop of summer jazz festivals now behind us, there鈥檚 suddenly an early autumn harvest to reap at three immediately upcoming jazz festivals鈥� -
Although he鈥檚 now hailed as a rising young star and has just released his second, red-hot album, the brilliant French virtuoso violinist, Scott Tixier,鈥� -
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