Dominic Coles came to New Haven 100 years after Cole Porter left — and brought with him a respectful new twist to the songwriter’s durable canon.
Coles, a Yale freshman, played his ES 135 Gibson electric guitar Sunday as part of the Yale Jazz Ensemble. The group performs this time each year in an annual jazz tribute to the late Stan Wheeler of Branford, a Yale law prof and jazz musician who passed away in 2007.
The annual concert —which also featured an ethereal set by the Reunion Jazz Ensemble, whose members include longtime New Haven music-scene stalwarts bassist Jeff Fuller an saxophonist Tim Moran — filled the Yale Law School auditorium.
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