By Anne W. Semmes

Celebrants of jazz across town will soon be headed for the seasonal closing Fall Benefit Concert of BackCountry Jazz on Friday, November 21 at the Round Hill Community House. The concert arranged by artistic and music director Bennie Wallace marks the ninth Greenwich jazz concert this year, with those jazzy gatherings over the summer at that backcountry “Great Lawn” attracting a regular 450-plus attendees Unless with rain, the concert would move to the horse barn of Kelsey Farm with its “incredible acoustics,” tells Wallace, noting, “Easy Kelsey’s been a gracious host.”

Wallace brings his decades long skills as a tenor saxophonist to the musical stage and can bring together famed jazz musicians to join him in his concerts, most regularly Herlin Riley, master drummer fr

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