August 2022 JazzGram

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By Howard Mandel The 42nd annual Chicago Jazz Festival – returning to Millennium Park Thursday through Sunday, September 1 through 4, after a pandemic-induced hiatus – is celebrating the city’s rich music legacy, presenting the sounds of our stellar locally-based artists along with leaders from elsewhere who have something to add.

As curated by a committee of the Jazz Institute of Chicago the fest has jazz of all styles and depths, for everyone from casual listener to longtime devotee, those seeking sheer entertainment or transcendent exploration. Top

Chicago Public School bands perform, programmed simultaneously with some of today’s coolest up’n’coming pros. Yes, with more than two dozen performances to choose from, there will be choices to make. But you can’t really go wrong.

Following Thursday afternoon programs in the Cultural Center (including a “What is this thing called jazz?” lecture at the Cultural Center by Grammy-winning Louis Armstrong scholar Ricky Riccardi), the music scheduled at the Jay Pritzker Pavillion mainstage announces the fest’s historic themes, for its known worldwide: Regard for jazz’s traditions

and embrace of its present with ears to its future.

“Vonology,” guitarist Mike Allemana’s tribute to the late, great South Side saxophonist Von Freeman, is a suite in five parts for a hand-picked ensemble (including voices) of musicians who knew Freeman’s mentoring firsthand from his decades of club sessions. A community love letter to a soulful, swinging jazz master, proving his influence and spirit persist.

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at University of Chicago, but there’s nothing academic about it. Mike has collaborated closely with Von’s brother George Freeman (now 95), Von’s son Chico, and Von, of course, himself.

“Vonology” is rooted in Chicago’s hardswinging, blues and bebop basis. Henry Threadgill, native borh Pulitzer Prizewinning composer and performer, is of the Chicago generation that radically advanced those resources, retaining their essences. A proud early member of the fabled Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Threadgill at youthful age 78 exemplifies fearless originality. Zooid, his longstanding guitar-tuba-cellodrums band, employs his unique concept of shifting pitch intervals instead of, say, chords, to structure collective interplay by turns stark, lyrical, funny, ethereal, gritty, often grooving, always expressive.

The Friday afternoon acts in both the Freeman tent and Pavillion’s rooftop stage are all appealing. In the former, poet Regina Harris Baiocchi debuts a piece commissioned by the Jazz Institute through its Mellon Foundation grant supporting “New Works Fresh Voices.” Then trumpeter Russ Johnson, a flexible, dependably inspired favorite on our local scene (also director of jazz studies at University of Wisconsin Parkside), and finally fast rising New York City-based trumpeter Adam O’Farrill with his brother Zack on drums in the Stranger Days quartet.

At the same time on the rooftop, vocalist Roya Naldi revisits songs from the Roaring ‘20s, saxophonist Lenard Simpson (winner of the Luminarts Jazz Competition, graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute, recipient of a Jazz Institute Jazz Links fellowship, too) leads a group and the hip-hop-reggae horns of the Low Down Brass Band are poised to delight. If a flight of stairs isn’t daunting, go ahead -- run back and forth to sample the six acts. But dang!

You’re bound to miss something.

Pritzker Pavilion Friday eve begins with bassist Ethan Philion’s “Meditations

on Mingus”– a centennial tribute to the great, late Charles Mingus. Philion is another “New Works Fresh Voices” honoree. As recorded, his “Meditations” features top rung Chicago players -- saxophonists Rajiv Halim, Geoff Bradfield and Max Bessesen, trumpeter Victor Garcia (as well as Russ Johnson), pianist Alexis Lombre and drummer Dana Hall among them. Whenever those folks are in ensembles – such as the Bradfield/Hall trio with Bay Area clarinetist Ben Goldberg in the Freeman space on Sunday –quality music is assured.

Friday continues spectacularly: New York City-based tenor saxophonist JD Allen (heard at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival last fall, head to head with our own Isaiah Collier, whose New Works Fresh Voices commission is premiered Sunday in the Freeman tent); singing sensation Jazzmeia Horn, who has drive akin to the late Betty Carter’s, and guitarist Bill Frisell, who in trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston has an honest, open-hearted, all inclusive sensibility that conjures beauty for troubled times.

Saturday afternoon stretches out in the tent – from De Paul University educated singer Christy Bennett’s evocation with Fumée of the so-called “gypsy jazz” of guitarist Django Reinhardt through trumpeter Marques Carroll’s muscular mainstream quartet and saxophonist-vocalist Auroa Nealand importation of New Orleans jazz inspired by clarinetist Sidney Bechet to Atomic, highly lauded all-stars of the progressive Scandinavian jazz scene.

But listen here on the rooftop! To high school competitors from Jones College Prep, Lincoln Park High School, Kenwood Academy, Whitney Young High School and Chi Arts. Do not sleep on the coming generation! – tutored by Jazz Institute clinicians as well as their own devoted faculty, these teens are sharp, and the future.

Chicago generates great saxophonists -- alto saxist Greg Ward, on the Pritzker stage Saturday night, is of that line. Al-

ways sounding like himself, Ward is a composer, established educator (ass’t prof at Indiana U.) and improviser who bursts with energy and ideas. He fronts Fitted Shards, featuring guitarists Dave Miller and Matt Gold, and the rhythm team Matt Ulery (bass) and Quin Kirchner (drums).

The sax theme is reinforced with next up altoist Miguel Zénon, and with the two hornmen in bassist William Parker’s band, altoist Rob Brown and tenorist James Brandon Lewis (Chicago’s Hamid Drake is drumming, and rarely touring multi-instrumentalist CooperMoore will be heard on organ). Also throughout Sunday in the Freeman space, when New Yorker Joel Frahm provides obbigati to singer Abigail Riccards, altoist Immanuel Wilkins (widely hailed for his initial two Blue Note albums) makes his Chicago debut, and Collier and Bradfield-Goldberg-Hall offer their sets.

This fest’s final night in the Pritzker Pavillion proceeds with Chicago Nick Mazzarella, an altoist with terrific chops, referential breadth and individuality, accompanied by tenorist Nate Lepine, guitarist Tim Stine and the Ulery-Kirchner team mentioned above.

It concludes with always rousing NEA Jazz Master/Big Chief of the Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group Donald Harrison.

Not to neglect artists who don’t fit my paradigm – at deadline information is coming fast. Pianist Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons quartet includes drummer Teri Lynn Carrington (director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Justice), DJ Val Jeanty and bassist Trevor Dunn.

Who’s playing with with bassist-leader Linda May Han Oh? What to expect from veteran singers’ singer Carmen Lundy? The answers will be surprises, experienced in person, right there and then, Millennium Park, Labor Day weekend – free of charge! The jazz event of Chicago’s summer. Not to be missed.

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RIP DE HAAS

By Neil Tesser When bassist Eddie De Haas moved from Chicago nine years ago, it left a sizable hole on the local jazz scene: after all, he had spent 45 years here, gracefully offering his dark dry tone and solid swing in the service of hundreds of other artists. And when the news came that he had died – on June 22, at the age of 92, in a nursing home in New Jersey – it had a similar impact on those who had worked with and , listened to and known him.

Brad Goode, the next-level trumpeter and Colorado educator, remembered that when he arrived in Chicago, as a

A regular member of the Jazz Showcase rhythm sections that accompanied visiting headliners, Eddie’s playing reflected the debonair grace of his personality – unfailingly friendly, relaxed, authentic.

I think of greeting him after Photo Credit: Discogs pretty much any performance and receiving his trademark flash of pleased recognition, and ofprecocious phenom, a couple of vetten enough, an understatedly funny erans “got a kick out of putting me rejoinder. Many of the hundreds who through my paces” by calling tunes he responded to his passing made sure to had never heard to see how he would emphasize his warmth and kindness, cope. “This was the old school gauntwhich characterized his personal outlet,” wrote Goode. But De Haas, their look and professional career. contemporary, “saw how I was struggling and took it upon himself to get Pianist Stu Katz, who frequently shared me through it. When I couldn't hear the Showcase bandstand with Eddie, what was going on, he'd patiently spell told me, “I never heard him say anything the roots of the chords for me to read negative about anybody.” Bill Goodwin, from his fingerboard. After each gig, Edthe producer and longtime drummer in die would sit with me, recapping each Phil Woods’ bands, was in Chicago and song, telling me how I did, what I had listening to Chet Baker at the Showcase missed, and giving me advice on the when bassist Dennis Irwin’s instrument finer points of playing. He had decided “suddenly imploded; Eddie de Haas imto be my coach.” mediately rushed the stage with his own bass in hand to save the gig.”

And bandleader Lanny Grilly recalled in a Facebook post: “He was incred-

ibly low-key and never showed a drop of ego...

He had a very dry sense of humor. Once I was working with a singer and we asked Eddie to work with us. The singer was describing his style, which he told Eddie sounded a lot like Johnny Mathis. Eddie said with a very straight face, ‘That’ll make it easy for me; I worked with the guy for 10 years.” He certainly didn’t toot his own horn. He certainly could have.

Eddie arrived in the U.S. in 1957, working between New York and Boston, where he reportedly played in one of Chick Corea’s first trios; he moved to Chicago in 1968 with his wife, the vocalist and festival producer Geraldine (who survives him along with their children, music and theatre stars Aisha and Darius). By then his resume ranged across three continents and two decades.

Born in the former Dutch colony Indonesia, de Haas moved as a teenager with his family to the Netherlands in 1946, where the self-taught bassist was introduced to jazz, He soon became a much-requested sideman for bands of all manner and shapes, from those led by the Chicago trad-jazz clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow to the progressive French pianist Martial Solal; as the reliable bassist behind touring stars from Benny Goodman to Miles Davis; and on recordings by, among others, saxophonist Zoot Sims, trombonist Kai Winding, and especially the aforementioned trumpeter

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MIGUEL ZENON TO EXPOSE WORLDWIDE INFLUENCES, INTERESTS AND EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT AT CHICAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL

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By Corey Hall

OPENNESS. REVELATION. “OPRESION Y REVOLUCION.” RUMBA! RIGHT ON! These emotions energized alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon to create Musica de Las Americas, his 14th solo album, which will be released on August 26.

Eight days later, on September 3, Zenon and his quartet – pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Henry Cole – will present this new music at the 2022 Chicago Jazz Festival.

During a recent Zoom conversation

with the JazzGram from Siena, Italy, Zenon explained how his hunger to study history from the Americas and beyond resulted in him creating the album’s eight, Spanish-titled tunes.

and how these resources have been taken advantage of by generations,” Zenon said. “He breaks it down into very specific numbers and regions. The book was groundbreaking at its time.”

“The idea of presenting what I learned honestly is my goal,” he said. “If I can do that, I’m somewhat satisfied.”

Zenon’s quartet is augmented on selected songs by Los Pleneros de La Cresta, a percussion and vocal ensemble based in Puerto Rico that specializes in plena.

“Plena is traditional music from Puerto Rico,” explained Zenon, who first saw his countrymen in performance a few years ago. “Everything I heard them play was something I had not heard before, but it was all in the tradition of the music.”

Los Pleneros de La Cresta is first fea-

“Venas Abiertas” entered Zenon’s conscience in response to Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano’s Las venas abiertas de America Latina, first published in 1971. “The title means ‘The open veins of Latin America,’ and it’s focused on the history and resources of Latin America

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tured on “Navegando (Las Estrellas Nos Guian).” This title, Zenon stated, means, “Sailing guided by the stars.”

These five words, written by Zenon, were sung by Emil Martinez, the ensemble’s lead vocalist, who then provided embellishment through improvisation.

ing together that happened for the revolution to take place,” he said, adding how such unity also fueled “Opresion Y Revolucion.”

When describing this tune to the ensemble, Zenon revealed how studying certain societies before colonization made music in his mind.

“I wrote the song inspired by the idea that a lot of the societies in North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, the Aztecs and Incas travelled these great distances be sea,” he said.

“They had knowledge of nature and everything around them that, guided by the stars, they could travel Photo Credit: Adrien Tillmann hundreds of miles by canoe. There were many things they did before the encounter with the Europeans. In Zenon also allowed Haitian music and many ways, they were more advanced his reading about that country’s revoluin terms of mathematics and knowledge tion to create “Imperios.” “I was thinking of the cosmos.” about the amount of energy and com-

On “Bambula,” Zenon heard and envisioned ancient rhythms and dances, which originated from West Africa, and how their power preserved through the Middle Passage, making it possible for their impact to be experienced by multiple countries centuries later.

“Wherever there are people from Africa, there is a rhythm that we hear through second line, reggaeton… that has found its way into different configurations of American music,” Zenon said. “I wanted to pay homage to that, as it has been so central to the development of music in this part of the world.

“My idea for Musica de Las Americas,” he continued, “is to present my curiosity, translated into musical form, and present it in a way that connects with the listener.”

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Chet Baker, with whom he toured Europe in the mid-1950s. (Along the way, he became fluent in five languages: Indonesian, Dutch, English, French, and Spanish.)

But the vast majority of those who heard Eddie’s bass weren’t necessarily jazz fans; in fact, they probably didn’t realize they had heard him at all. In 1963 – sandwiched between recordings by cool-jazz vocalist Chris Connors and the legendary bop pianist Al Haig – Eddie played on the breakthrough album by a young trio of folk singers. So yes,

that’s Eddie De Haas playing on the Pete, Paul and Mary record “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which reached #2 on the Billboard charts that year. By then it had sold more than a million copies in the U.S. alone – an impressive showing in the days when, before quadrillions of streams and YouTube views, people actually had to buy a record to hear it on demand.

In Chicago, we got to hear Eddie more often than most; others got to explore recordings he made here with saxophonists Von Freeman and Eddie

Johnson, pianist Jodie Christian, and the fondly remembered Swingtet, the Benny Goodman-inspired band led by clarinetist Jerry Fuller and vibist Don DeMicheal. And of course, we got to see him, on stage and off, where he invariably met even casual acquaintances with a wry smile, a slightly mischievous twinkle in his kind eyes, and a humility that belied the impact he had on those around him – the jazz embodiment of craftsmanship and elegance, professionalism and art.

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JIC EVENTS & SPECIAL OFFERS August 5 (6:30PM): Tito Carrillo at Navy Pier’s Water Colors In Person Event | Navy Pier, Lake Stage at Polk Bros Park | 600 E Grand Ave | Free and open to the public!

CLUBS Andy’s http://www.andysjazzclub.com/ 11 E. Hubbard/312-642-6805 Show times: 5pm & 7pm/ 9:30pm & 11:30pm Every Sunday: Andy Brown Quartet (6PM & 8:15PM), Late Night Concert Series w/ Emma Dayhuff’s Phoenix Ensemble (10:30PM) Every Monday: Clark Sommers Lens (6PM & 8:15PM) Every Tuesday (except the 2nd): Mario Abney Effect (6PM & 8:15PM) Every Wednesday: Jeremy Cunningham’s Happenstance (6PM & 8:15PM), Late Night Concert Series w/ Joel Baer Trio Every Thursday (except the 4th): Micah Collier’s Alec Tet (6PM & 8:15PM), Late Night Concert Series w/ Alvin Cobb, Jr. (10:30PM) August 2 (6PM & 8:15PM): Micah Collier’s Alec Tet August 4: Louis Armstrong Nola to Chicago (6PM & 8:15PM), Late Night Concert Series w/ Alvin Cobb Jr. August 5, & 6: Louis Armstrong Nola to Chicago (6PM & 8:15PM), Late Night Concert Series w/ Ken Shiokawa (10:30PM) August 12 & 13: Jarrard Harris Group (6PM & 8:15), Late Night Concert Series w/ Keri Johnsrud (10:30PM) August 19 & 20: Marques Carroll Quintet (6PM & 8:15PM), Late Night Concert Series w/Aaron Shapiro (10:30PM) August 26 & 27: Charles Heath (6PM & 8:15PM), Late Night Concert Series w/ Isabella Isherwood (10:30PM)

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The Arab Blues & Berman/Shelton/Walter August 8 (8PM): Anagram Series: Dziedzic/Ernst/Scriver & Marcus Evans’ M.E.TET August 11 (8:30PM): Improvised Music Series: Rempis/Abrams/Ra + Baker August 14 (8PM): Sonic Paradise 'Flute Flights' w/ Douglas R. Ewart, Robert Dick, Leszek "Hefi" Wisniowski August 15 (8PM): Anagram Series: Chris and Artie & Corbin Andrick and Andrew Vogt’s Earth Tones August 18 (8:30PM): Improvised Music Series: Burl & Paperrr August 22 (8PM): Anagram Series: Lily Finnegan Trio & John Tate Trio August 25 (8:30PM): Improvised Music Series: Katie Ernst Solo & Alex Massa Plays Well With Others August 27 (7PM): Freedom From And Freedom To FT. Opening Set w/ Douglas R. Ewart + Jayve Montgomery August 29 (8PM): Anagram Series: Meghan Stagl Trio & Alvin Cobb Trio August 30 (8PM): Anagram Series Festival Night 1: Lenard Simpson Trio & Madsen/Sommers/Hemphill August 31 (8PM): Anagram Series Festival Night 2: Twin Talk & Dennis Carroll Trio Experimental Sound Studio ess.org 5925 N Ravenswood/773-998-1069 August 27 (2PM): Option: Taalib-Din Ziyad And Mankwe Ndosi Earth Connection

Constellation 3111 N. Western/ www.constellation-chicago.com Show times and cover charges vary. Most shows 18 and over.

August 12 (8:30PM): Restroy - Virtual & In Person Event - Livestream Link: https://youtu.be/E3JN9fiQO4w August 13 (8:30PM): Paul Dietrich's 5+4- Virtual & In Person Event Livestream Link: https://youtu.be/YyAyaBGQKHA

Fitzgerald’s 6615 Roosevelt, Berwyn/708-788-2118 Wednesday SideBar Sessions Sponsored by WDCB 90.9 Chicago’s Jazz Station, 8pm, $10 suggested Donation August 3 (7PM): The Gwen Jazz Jam (M'Fers Only) August 6: Jazz Brunch: Compass Rose 6 (11AM on the Patio), Heavy Sounds (8:30PM at the Sidebar) August 10: Chris Greene Quartet (7PM on the Patio), Groove Witness (8:30PM at the Sidebar) August 11 (7PM on the Patio): Christian Larumbe on the patio!

August 13 (11AM): Jazz Brunch on the Patio: Groove Witness August 14 (7PM): Shout Section Big Band August 16 (7PM): "Fat Tuesday!" w/ High-Hat Second Line August 17 (8:30PM): The Last Word Quintet August 20: Alyssa Allgood (11AM on the Patio), The Heavy Sounds ft. Oscar Wilson & Gina Bloom! (8PM in the Nightclub) August 24 (7PM): Jazz on The Patio w/ Joe Policastro & Friends August 26 (7PM): Friday Night on the Patio w/ Chicago Soul Jazz Collective ft.

Meagan McNeal

Elastic ARTS elasticarts.org/ 2830 N. Milwaukee/773-772-3616/elasticarts.org August 1 (8PM): Anagram Series: Umi Ogimi Trio & Chinchano August 4 (8PM): Improvised Music Series:

Fulton Street Collective/ Jazz Record Art Collective 1821 W. Hubbard/ 773-852-2481. fultonstreetcollective.com/ jazzrecordartcollective.com $10 suggested donation/ $5 with valid student ID. All ages. Cash only. All Livestream Events can be found at:

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https://www.youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective August 11 (8PM): Greg Artry Trio - Virtual & In Person Event Green Mill 4802 N. Broadway/773-878-5552 SUNDAYS (8PM): Soul Message MONDAYS (8PM) Joel Paterson & Friends TUESDAYS: (8PM) Chicago Cellar Boys WEDNESDAYS: (8PM) Alfonso Ponticelli THURSDAYS: Andy Brown (5PM), Alan Gresik’s Swing Orchestra (8PM) FRIDAYS: Chris Foreman (5PM) SATURDAYS: Paper Machete (3PM) August 5,6 (8PM): Alyssa Allgood Quartet August 12,13 (8PM): The Big Gig August 19,20 (8PM): Kurt Elling August 26,27 (8PM): Ben Sidran Hungry Brain 2319 W Belmont Ave/773-935-2118 Every Wednesday (9PM): Wednesday Night Fellowship with Ted Sirota Every Thursday (9PM): Matt Ulery Residency: Clearfield/Kirchner/Ulery August 12 (8PM):The Joel Paterson Trio with Beau Sample and Alex Hall August 19 (8PM): Erwin Helfer August 20 (9PM): Paul Bedal Quartet

Jazz Showcase 806 S. Plymouth Ct./312-360-0234 Two sets at 8pm & 10pm & *Sunday matinee at 4pm.

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Every Monday (5PM): Chicago Jazz Orchestra w/ special guests August 2 (8PM & 10PM): G. Thomas Allen 4TET - “Smooth & SASSY” August 4-6 (8PM & 10PM), 7 (4PM & 8PM): Gary Bartz August 9,10 (8PM & 10PM): John Hanrahan/ Andrew Dixon Quartet August 11-13 (8PM & 10PM), 14 (4PM & 8PM): Stu Katz-John Campbell Quintet feat. Geof Bradfield August 17 (8PM &10PM): Bethany Pickens 4tet August 18-20 (8PM & 10PM), 21 (4PM & 8PM): Harry Allen & Andy Brown Trio August 23 (8PM & 10PM): Petra's Recession Seven August 24 (8PM & 10PM): Chicago Soul Jazz Collective feat. Dee Alexander August 30 (8PM): WDCB 90.9FM Le Piano 6970 N Glenwood Ave/773-209-7631 TUESDAYS: (7PM) Cabaret “The Daryl & Ester Show” EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAYS SERIES: (7PM) Brazilian Latin Jazz -"Rio Bamba" Luiz Ewerling EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAYS SERIES: (7PM) Le Piano Jazz Jam Session THURSDAYS: (7PM) Derek Duleba Organ Trio FRIDAYS: Chad Willets Quartet (7PM) Afterglow Late Show (11PM) SATURDAYS: Chad Willets Quartet (7PM), "Afterglow Set" with Petra van Nuis/ Dennis Luxion Duo (11PM) SUNDAYS (7PM): The Velvet Torch Series

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Whistler 2421 N. Milwaukee, Logan Square/773-227-3530 Every Friday (7PM): Brian Citro August 3 (9PM): Relax Attack Jazz Series: Connor Bernhard Quintet August 10 (9PM): Relax Attack Jazz Series: Supercell August 17 (9PM): Relax Attack Jazz Series: Kyle Madsen Trio August 24 (9PM): Relax Attack Jazz Series: Holloway, Hudson, Spencer Winter’s Jazz Club 465 N. McClurg Court (on the promenade) Ph: 312.344.1270 www.wintersjazzclub.com info@wintersjazzclub.com SET TIMES Tuesday - Saturday 7:30 & 9:30PM Sunday 5:30 & 7:30 PM ALL ENTRANTS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF BEING FULLY VACCINATED August 3 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Rosenberg, Rodgers, Heath Trio August 4 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Michael Lerich Jazz Ensemble: The Great American Songbook Goes To Rio August 5 (5:30 & 7:30PM): Bobby Lewis Quartet: To Louis With Love A Birthday Salute & More!

August 6 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Jeremy Kahn Quartet w/ guest Angel Spiccia August 7 (5:30 & 7:30PM): Carmen Bradford - Debut, One Night Only!

August 10 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Soul Message Band w/ special guest Hinda Hoffman August 11 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Art Davis Quartet: Beyond the Rainbow A Tribute to Harold Arlen August 12 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Henry Johnson Quartet w/ Special Guest Thaddeus Tukes August 13 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Paul Marinaro Quintet The Music of Nat 'King' Cole August 14 (5:30PM & 7:30PM): John Dokes Quintet The Music of Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane August 17 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Neal Alger Trio w/ special guest Luciano Antonio August 18 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Jeremy Kahn Trio w/ Abby Riccards Two For The Road: A tribute to Carmen McRae & George Shearing August 19 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Bosman Twins Quintet August 20 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Chris Madsen Quartet w/ special guest Tito Carrillo August 21 (5:30PM & 7:30PM): Jane Monheit - Debut!

August 25 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Larry Fuller Trio - Debut!

August 26 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Sheila Jordan & Paul Marinaro Alone Together Again August 27 (7:30PM & 9:30PM): Nick Hempton Organ Quartet A Night of Soul Jazz from New York City August 28 (5:30PM & 7:30PM): Bobbi Wilsyn Quintet Stormy Weather: A tribute to Lena Horne August 31 (7:30 & 9:30PM): Chicago Cellar Boys

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SPOTLIGHT ON YOUTH PROGRAMS AT THE ’22 CHICAGO

Kenwood Academy Jazz Band, directed by Gerald Powell, at the Jazz in the Chi festival, May 14, 2022

Five Chicago high school bands that received high marks for their participation at the Jazz in the Chi festival in May 2022 are playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival! On September 3rd at the Harris Theater Rooftop: Young Lions Stage in Millennium Park, each ensemble – three jazz combos and two big bands – will play a set. Additionally, the Jazz Institute of Chicago has matched each of these five school bands with a professional artist/educator as a mentor who will help them prepare in rehearsals leading up to the Jazz Fest. These mentors include bassist Philip Castleberry, bassist Katie Ernst, trumpeter Victor Garcia, saxophonist Darius Hampton and saxophonist Greg Ward.

Here is the full Young Lions Stage line-up: Millennium Park, Harris Theater Rooftop: Young Lions Stage Saturday, September 3 12:00-12:35 PM Jones College Prep H.S. 12:50-1:25 PM Lincoln Park High School 1:40-2:15 PM Kenwood Academy H.S. 2:30-3:05 PM Whitney Young H.S. 3:20-3:55 PM Chicago H.S. for the Arts

Three local high school students who have received the Kiewit-Wang Mentorship Award for 2022-2023 school year will also be announced at the Chicago Jazz Festival! These students were among many who applied to audition in June 2022 for an opportunity to take ten private lessons for free with a local artist of their choice.

The Kiewit-Wang Mentorship Award recipients will be announced on September 3rd at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park at 5:00 PM, between performances by Greg Ward and Miguel Zenon.

For more information about the 2022 Chicago Jazz Fest, visit: https://www. jazzinchicago.org/chicagojazzfest

RETURN OF THE JAMS! Get set for the return of Jazz Links Jam Sessions at the Jazz Showcase. The jam sessions return on Wednesday, September 14th 2022 and on the second Wednesday of each month through spring 2023. It will be a great environment to learn and improve your jazz chops, lead by our

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EXCITING CONCERTS, DISCUSSIONS, SHOWINGS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

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AUGUST 2022

The JazzGram is a monthly newsletter published by the Jazz Institute of Chicago for its members. The Jazzgram represents the views of the authors, and unless so designated, does not reflect official policy of the Jazz Institute. We welcome news and articles with differing opinions.

Design: YoojDesign Correspondents: Diane Chandler-Marshall, Aaron Cohen, Corey Hall, Ayana Contreras, Howard Mandel, Rahsaan Clark Morris, Neil Tesser.

Board of Directors: President: David Helverson Vice Presidents: Timuel Black In Memoriam, David Bloomberg, Warren Chapman, William Norris, Keyonn Pope, Kent Richmond, DV Williams.

Secretary: Howard Mandel

Treasurer: Brian Myerholtz Emeritus Director: Joseph B. Glossberg Executive Director: Heather Ireland Robinson Board Members: Miguel de la Cerna, Rajiv Halim, Jarrard Harris, Chiquita Jones, Greg Kelley, Bill King, Jason Koransky, Terry Martin, Ted Oppenheimer, Bethany Pickens, Mike Reed, Judith E. Stein, Neil Tesser, Darryl Wilson.

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Founded in 1969, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, promotes and nurtures jazz in Chicago by providing jazz education, developing and supporting musicians, building Chicago audiences and fostering a thriving jazz scene.

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