Marblehead Jazz At The Arts Returns To King Hooper Mansion

MARBLEHEAD, MA — The Marblehead Jazz at the Arts series will return to the King Hooper Mansion on Thursday with Tim Ray and Berklee College of Music students and recent graduates performing as part of the Marblehead Arts Association show.

The event will take place at the mansion at 8 Hooper Way Thursday night at 7 p.m.

Ray is a professor at Berklee College of Music and has an illustrious career as a jazz pianist, working with music greats such as Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Gary Burton, Lyle Lovett and Bonnie Raitt.

He has played with the Boston Pops and has a long-standing connection with the Marblehead Arts Association, as he played in the first Jazz at the Arts concert back in 2018.

Gene Arnould of Arnould Gallery in Marblehead is co-founder of Jazz at the Arts and has a life-long love of jazz, starting with Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis and Erroll Garner. He works in close collaboration with many prestigious musicians in the area, and said he like the intimate setting for jazz performances in the ballroom at the historic King Hooper Mansion with its cozy, cabaret-style seating and welcoming atmosphere.

Doors open for the show at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 with a cash bar.

Tickets can be found at the Arnould Gallery and at the MAA website here.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)