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Julia A. Miller

LowDown Brass Band

Born: October 1, 2003

LowDown Brass Band (LDB), deftly synthesizes the gritty sounds of Chicago with the high energy street beat of the Crescent City. LDB brandishes a powerful brass frontline of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, with a funky backline of drums and sousaphone. Combining the poetic ferocity of Billa Camp with stellar vocal harmonies, adventurous improvisation, movement, and grooves, LDB creates an infectious and diverse sound that has something for every listener. Fresh off their headlining set at The 2018 Montreal Jazz Festival, LowDown maintains a constant performing and touring schedule throughout North America

Fred Lorenz Dunham

Quentin Coaxum

One of Chicago’ brightest young trumpeters, Quentin Coaxum is one of our most thoughtful composers. He is inspired by great literary voices including James Baldwin, Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, the civil rights movement and “the dynamics of human relationships in America’s current social climate.” His deeply moving song, “Alton Sterling,” honors the memory of the African American shot to death two years ago by white police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Coaxum, who grew up outside of St. Louis, is heavily influenced by the soulful post-bop styles of the late '50s and early '60s, but as evidenced on his well-received 2014 debut album, Current, his music has a contemporary edge.

Jazz Community Big Band

Jazz Community Big Band is an 18-piece band playing the music of Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Thad Jones and many more.

Gayle Kolb

Gayle Kolb had once played some of the plushest clubs in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and her hometown of Chicago. But it wasn't until she had been away from singing for a stretch of years to devote herself to family that she discovered herself as an artist—a jazz artist, which was what she'd always wanted to be. Having seen the highly regarded Chicago bassist Dennis Carroll in performance and admired his work with singers, Kolb called him out of the blue for advice on reentering the music world-or not. “I knew he would tell me the truth about my singing,” she says. “He would tell me if I should go home

Rocky Yera

Born: August 22, 1983

Award winning, Cuban born tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger Rocky Yera began his musical journey at the age of twelve. Since his early years, Rocky received his main influences and musical guidance from multi-Grammy Award winning producer Richard Aspinwall. Rocky's other significant musical influences include Cannonball Adderley, Ed Calle, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Joshua Redman, Chris Potter, Jeff Coffin, Lenny Pickett, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Edward Van Halen. Rocky has been acknowledged with several awards throughout his career. As a high school student at New World School of the Arts, he was awarded the Downbeat Magazine Outstanding Performance award in 2000

Luciano Antonio

Luciano was born into a musical family on January 3, 1969 in rural Iretama, Parana, Brazil’s southern region. From this melodiously rich environment, he learned first how to sing with his mom, Luiza Maria. He further developed his vocal abilities through his maternal grandparents, who performed for local live radio shows and paternal grandparents, who harmonized beautifully. By age 14, he took the violão (acoustic guitar) as a self taught instrument, focusing his repertoire on Brazilian Folk and Bossa Nova (Brazilian Jazz). He continued his pursuit of technical development through the study of classical guitar at the age of 17, attending several guitar symposiums, work shops and master classes under one of Brazil’s most respected professors, Henrique Pinto

Eric Novak

Born: January 28, 1993

A self taught multi-instrumentalist, Eric began as a classically trained oboe player when he was 11. In college, sparked by his new interests in recording and creating original music, he began to pick up other instruments such as piano, organ, saxophone and then later, flute and bass. In 2016, after graduating college, he moved to Chicago, Illinois. In the span of just a year, he has managed to work in a variety of genres, from indie, southern, progressive rock, jazz, neo soul, funk, rap, pop, psychedelic, electronic and modern experimental styles with a constantly changing cast of musicians

Roger Paul Menning

Born: September 28, 1950

Founder of the Prairie Brass Band and co- founder of the Chicago Brass Band. Masters of Music from Western Michigan University, majoring in theory and composition. Major instruments are trombone, bass trombone, tuba, Eb tenor horn. Member of the Chicago Brass Band, Sound Hounds, Dixie Dogs, Trombonaires. Forming a new Trad Jazz Band on the north side of Chicago, in the style of Tuba Skinny and the Shotgun Jazz Band.