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Joan Hickey

Joan has been teaching and performing in the Chicago area since the 1980's. She went to school at the University of Illinois in Champaign, and discovered jazz her senior year. Many outstanding musicians that had graduated were still there postponing a move to a big city. The result of this was a jazz scene rich with camaraderie and free from economic pressure. "I had no teachers or books, just the recordings. I learned the most by listening to others. People would have parties and I picked up a lot from their comments when we would sit around and listen to recordings. I was drawn to all the unique and sometimes outrageous personalities of the musicians

ears&eyes Records: From Chicago to the World

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 22, 2017

Those who feel that jazz has run out of steam, that there is nothing new to say, should encounter bassist and renaissance man, Matthew Golombisky, who runs the Chicago-based label ears&eyes. The name says it all. Golombisky is interested in what is going on around him. He is not only curious about music, but also passionate ...

Between the Lines

By Joan Hickey

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Herbris; With a Song in My Heart; Francesca; The Man I Love; My Funny Valentine; Midnight Mood; Black magic Woman; Bridge Over Troubled Water; Contemporaneous; The Fruit.

Herbris

December 12, 2006

Album: Between the Lines
By Joan Hickey
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2006
Duration: 08:28

Joan Hickey: Between the Lines

by Dan McClenaghan
October 14, 2006

Chicago-based pianist Joan Hickey and her quintet sound as if they're trying to sneak up on you with some warbling horn work over a steady bass line as the opening Hickey original, “Herbris," spins to life. Then they find the groove that leads into a light-stepping piano solo; and over the course of eight-plus minutes they ...