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Joe Clark Big Band featuring Jeff Hamilton: Lush
by Nicholas F. Mondello
According to a Carl Sandburg poem, Chicago is “the city of big shoulders." There's a unique strength about Chicago that's different than New York or Los Angeles. Might it be suggested, therefore, that players emanating from the Windy City might also carry a bit more muscle, swagger and workmanlike focus? Perhaps.With Lush, his debut ...
Rob Mazurek Octet: Skull Sessions
by Troy Collins
The shadow of Miles Davis continues to influence the efforts of generations of jazz musicians, especially fellow trumpeters. Davis' myriad innovations span multiple styles and time periods, making it virtually impossible to ignore his achievements. Yet when the We Want Miles exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil asked former resident Rob Mazurek to devise a presentation inspired ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Three Compositions
by John Sharpe
On Three Compositions, veteran Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's scores are interpreted by an established grouping with an AACM lineage, namesake flautist Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble, unlike his previous album of written material, Numbers (Rogue Art, 2011), which featured a varied cast of contemporary players. It makes all the difference. This performance was one of three ...
FELA! comes to Chicago
The award-winning Broadway musical FELA! – which is bringing the life and music of Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to the world stage - will play Chicago’s Arie Crown Theater February 19 – 23. An all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza in the best Broadway tradition, in other respects FELA! transcends musical theater convention. Escapism is replaced ...
Marc Riordan Quartet: Binoculars
by Mark Corroto
Question: when is a pianist-led recording also a drummer's record? That query, as it relates to pianist Marc Riordan's Binoculars, is not poised as a Zen koan, because there is an answer.The correct response: when the pianist is a drummer.Riordan, an up-and-coming percussionist in the Chicago music scene, can be heard in ...
Petra's Recession Seven: Live In Chicago
by Jack Huntley
Petra van Nuis' voice is at once alluring and robust. Her tone alternates between delicate playfulness and declarative strength, perfectly suiting the combination of hot jazz and standards on Live In Chicago, an enchanting portrait of her band, Petra's Recession Seven. And oh, what a band it is--capable of captivating backing as well as exciting soloing.
Porchlight Music Theatre Presents "Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill"
Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to celebrate Black History Month, with the third production in their 2012 – 2013 season, Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, February 2 – March 10, 2013, starring Alexis Rogers as Billie Holiday and directed by Porchlight Artistic Associate Rob Lindley with music direction by Jaret Landon, at ...
Alberto Mizrahi: Matzah to Menorah: A Holiday Jazz Celebration
by Hrayr Attarian
There is a well-established legacy of fusing the sacred with the secular in jazz. Pianist Duke Ellington's Concert of Sacred Music (RCA, 1966) is, perhaps, the most ceremonial example of this but there is a myriad of other recordings. Guitarist Grant Green's gospel-inspired Feelin' the Spirit (Blue Note, 1962), pianist/harpist Alice Coltrane's exploration of Hinduism and ...
Trumpeter Art Davis, Drummer Tim Davis Join Merit School Of Music Tuition-free Conservatory
Well-known performing Chicago jazz artists are now sharing their musical experience and passion with a new generation at Merit School of Music in Chicago's West Loop. Newly-hired trumpeter Art Davis and drummer Tim Davis join a list of established jazz performers on faculty at Merit’s Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-free Conservatory, which offers college preparatory instruction free ...
Rob Parton Big Band CD Release Party Fitzgerald's In Berwyn IL
Rob Parton celebrates his ninth big band release on December 19th at 7:30pm at FitzGerald's Nightclub with “We'll Be Together Again". FitzGerald's is located at 6615 West Roosevelt Road in Berwyn IL. Very close to Chicago. About 20 minutes from the loop. ROB PARTON BIG BAND BIO The Rob Parton Big Band (RPBB), a 19 piece ...
