Results for "Chicago"

Angel Bat Dawid: Lightning In A Bottle

by Kevin Press
February 1, 2019

Angel Bat Dawid's new album The Oracle is a thing of unique beauty. Lightning in a bottle. What began as a collection of tunes recorded so that her band members who don't read sheet music could learn the new material turns out to be an inspired collection of afro-centric love and happiness. The Chicago-based ...

Meet Jeff Evans

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
January 8, 2019

Our first Super Fan of 2019 is such a jazz head that he and his wife of 42 years got engaged at a jazz club. These days, Jeff frequently can be seen in the New York clubs indulging several of his passions at once. Living in a city he describes as “richly blessed" with venues, he ...

John Avila

Graduate of Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University. Worked at Carl Fischer of Chicago/Gamble Music Company. Co-owner of Valiant Music Supply, Inc. John Avila plays great music, keeps the volume appropriate, is reliable, and looks sharp. As a professional, conservatory trained musician, I will do everything necessary to make your musical entertainment experience enjoyable, easy, and carefree. I can vary the amount of performers according to your taste, budget, and space requirements. The John Avila Trio features guitar/vocal, bass, and drums. We play classic Jazz, Jazz/Rock, Blues, and more

Chicago VI Decades Live

By Chicago

Label: Rhino
Released: 2018
Track listing: Disc One: Isle Of Wight Festival (8/28/70): 1. Introduction; 2. "South California Purples"; 3. "Beginnings"; 4. "In The Country"; 5. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Free Form Intro)"; 6. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"; 7. "Mother".

Disc Two: Isle Of Wight Festival (8/28/70): 1. "It Better End Soon"; 2. "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon"; 3. "25 Or 6 To 4"; 4. "I'm A Man".

Disc Three: 1. "Poem For The People" (Paris, France, 12/8/69); 2. "25 Or 6 To 4" (Paris, France, 12/8/69); 3. "Liberation" (Paris, France, 12/8/69); 4. "Goodbye" (The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, Washington D.C., 9/16/71); 5. "Now That You've Gone" (Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia, 6/26/72); 6. "A Hit By Varèse" (Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL, 8/13/73); 7. "If You Leave Me Now" (Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA, 12/1/77); 8. "Takin' It On Uptown" (Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA, 12/1/77) .

Disc Four *: 1. "Hot Streets" (Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 8/11/78); 2. "Little One" (Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 8/11/78); 3. "Forever" (Pensacola Civic Center, Pensacola, FL, 3/21/87); 4. "Medley: In The Midnight Hour/Knock On Wood/I'm A Man/Get Away" (Pensacola Civic Center, Pensacola, FL, 3/21/87); 5. "You're Not Alone" (Starplex Amphitheater, Dallas, TX, 5/30/92); 6. "The Pull" (Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV, 3/20/94); 7. "In The Mood" (Caesar's Palace, Atlantic City, NJ, 7/28/94); 8. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Caesar's Palace, Atlantic City, NJ, 7/28/94); 9. "Look Away (Acoustic)" - A&E Network, Live By Request, 9/5/02); 10. "America" (WHYY, The Grand, Wilmington, DE, 5/7/14).

DVD: Rockpalast (2/12/77) *: 1. "Anyway You Want"; 2. "Saturday In The Park"; 3. "Skin Tight"; 4. "Just You 'n' Me"; 5. "Hope For Love"; 6. "You Are On My Mind"; 7. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"; 8. "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon"; 9. "Beginnings"; 10. "Scrapbook"; 11. "A Hit By Varèse"; 12. "Call On Me"; 13. "Takin' It On Uptown"; 14. "If You Leave Me Now"; 15. "Once Or Twice"; 16. "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long"/"Mongonucleosis"; 17. "25 Or 6 To 4"; 18. "Got To Get You Into My Life"; 19. "I'm A Man".

Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (2CD/Blu Ray)

by John Kelman
December 22, 2018

Steven Wilson Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall Eagle Records 2018 In a career now early in its fourth decade, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson has bucked almost every trend in the new millennium music industry. After spending over twenty years as the driving force behind Porcupine Tree, he made ...

Bobby Broom: Classic Compositions from Yesterday to Today

by Corey Hall
October 26, 2018

What would your sensibilities say if an established jazz guitarist, supported by organ and drums, reinterpreted Seals and Crofts' “Summer Breeze," the Beatles' “Come Together," and Steely Dan's “Do It Again"? Perhaps you have heard this guitarist before with Sonny Rollins or Stanley Turrentine; maybe you heard the album where his guitar-acoustic bass-drums trio ...

Maria Schneider: On the Road Again

by Mark Robbins
October 14, 2018

Five time Grammy Award winner Maria Schneider and her eighteen-piece collective, some of the finest musicians on the jazz scene today, is on the road in 2018. All About Jazz spoke to the composer/arranger about her work, her love of music and her involvement and commitment to improve on the Music Modernization Act during a stop-over ...

Samuel Mösching

Born: 1986

Samuel Mösching is a professional guitarist, composer and bandleader who has headlined performances internationally, including in the U.S., Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, England and Argentina, being accompanied by illustrious artists like John Stowell, Mars Williams, Rusty Jones, Gerry Hemingway, Maggie Brown, Vincent Davis, Jimmy Bennington, Reuben Gingrich, Jim Baker, Zeshan B & The Transistors, Jonas Tauber, Lola Regenthal and Cormac McCarthy. The long list of venues and festivals include the Blue Note and the Lincoln Center in NYC, Ravinia, The Chicago Jazz Festival, The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Constellation, Bonnaroo Festival, Late Night with Stephen Colbert at the Ed Sullivan Theater, and Cliff Bells in Detroit. As a composer, he has written hundreds of pieces mostly in jazz and modern classical context

Shawn Maxwell

Born: November 1, 1976

“This is bold music. Maxwell isn’t afraid to try out new ideas and take chances…” – Frank Alkyer, Downbeat Magazine

From his youth in the school music programs of Joliet, IL, through the Music B.A. program at

Millikin University, to 25 years of performing on the Chicago music scene and touring the United States, Shawn Maxwell has developed a unique voice on the saxophone.

“A spirited free-thinker and committed non-conformist” – Bill Milkowski (Millstream album notes)

From his first album of original compositions in 2005, to the 2026 release of his fourteenth album Frenetic Domain, he has forged a distinctive style of writing and arrangement. The traditions of jazz form the foundation for Shawn’s music; he builds on that with inspiration from the music he grew up with – rock, funk, hip hop, R&B, classical. Though his compositions have been compared to Frank Zappa, Philip Glass, the Canterbury Sound, and Bach…

Chicago Jazz Festival 2018

by Patrick Burnette
September 12, 2018

Chicago Jazz Festival Chicago, IL August 29-September 2, 2018 A Beginner's Guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival The Chicago Jazz Festival is a free event scheduled each Labor Day weekend and offering over fifty concerts in various outdoor venues. The 40th edition--running from August 29 to September 3, 2018--is now ...