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Brian Citro

A 2025 City of Chicago Individual Artists Program awardee, Brian Citro has been playing and writing music for 35 years. He studied with renowned guitarist and educator Fareed Haque and is a long-time member of The Drastics. He’s performed and toured with JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub!, Ackah Blay in Ghana, and many others. He leads a jazz quartet with Nick Mazzarella on saxophones, Quin Kirchner on drums, and Matt Ulery on bass, and he co-leads The Hey Lows with multi-instrumentalist and producer Lance Loiselle.

Keep Moving (Home)

By Brian Citro

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Stay Where You Feel; The Take Down; For You 470; Keep Moving (Home); Find Some Strength; Risks & Opportunities; Rolling Down, Back Up; Prelude to Restraint; Restraint; From Hudson; Consternation; Bloom in Gloom; Trains of Thought; Take Your Time.

Happy 87th Charles McPherson! Other birthdays recognized include Al Di Meola and Ada Rovatti. Classic jazz from Freddie Hubbard, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and more

by David W. Daniels
July 28, 2026

In addition to three jazz compositions featuring the alto saxophone of Charles McPherson and other musicians named in the show title, this week's Exploration program includes classic jazz from Carmen McRae, Gene Ammons, Clark Terry, and others. New music is featured from Gregory Hutchinson, Joey Alexander, Jalen Baker, and others. In addition to Mr. McPherson's birthday ...

Calligram Records: Chicago Meets the World

by Mark McKergow
June 23, 2026

Chicago-based Calligram Records was founded in 2023 by trumpeter Chad McCullough and saxophonist Geof Bradfield. Three years and 34 albums later, they have emerged as an authoritative and varied voice for creative jazz from the Windy City and around the world. Their output ranges from small groups to chamber jazz to lively, horn-driven soul outings. With third ...

Brian Citro, Meg Okura, and Dinah Washington

by Jerome Wilson
May 6, 2026

This show has a couple of detours into the world of blues and includes music by Brian Citro, Ellen Rowe, Chris Rea, Meg Okura and Dinah Washington. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Conrad Herwig ...

Guitarist Brian Citro Releases 'Keep Moving (Home)' On Calligram Records

May 6, 2026

Guitarist and composer Brian Citro returns with Keep Moving (Home) (Calligram Records, 2026), his most ambitious recording to date — a fourteen-composition statement that fuses his life as a jazz musician with his parallel career as a human rights lawyer. The album documents Citro's reemergence on the Chicago jazz scene after years spent working abroad, performing ...

Brian Citro: Keep Moving (Home)

by Jack Bowers
May 2, 2026

The sound of Brian Citro's mellow guitar introduces “Stay Where You Feel," the first of his 14 original compositions on Keep Moving (Home), most of which began life as pieces for solo guitar and were revised by Citro to suit a quartet format. Citro's teammates on this generally pleasing yet largely anodyne session are ...

Comer Post

By Brian Citro

Label: DIBS Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Warble Effect; Lefty Swipes; Punk Aldean; Decelarated Cranium; Sparks Fly; Yapper

The Drastics

By Anthony Abbinanti

Label: Happy as a Lark
Released: 2024
Track listing: Unwritten Chapters; Tempus Phantasma; Change of Plans; 'Lude 1 (Payday); Discordant Futures; Haunt; Please See Yourself Out; 'Lude 2 (Frontier Man); Epiphonic; Deconstructionists; The Procession; 'Lude 3 (Ancient Astral Crypt); Eschactocic Edge; 'Lude 5 (Black Feiyues); You Had It Last

The Hey Lows

By Brian Citro

Label: DIBS Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Vibe Train; Take the Fall; Dreams of Buddha; Slidea; Sometime Ago; Plateaus & Inclined Planes; Lucky Man