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guitarist Mike Allemana’s tribute to the late, great South Side sax ophonist Von Freeman, is a suite in five parts for a hand-picked ensemble (in cluding 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 Thepersist.composition is informed by Allema na’s research of South Side jazz in com pletion of his Ph.D in ethnomusicology
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 devo tee, those seeking sheer entertain ment 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 performanc es 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-win ning Louis Armstrong scholar Ricky Ric cardi), 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“Vonology,”future.
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 Asadd.curated
By Howard Mandel
PROMOTING AND NURTURING JAZZ IN CHICAGO PAGE 2JAZZINCHICAGO.ORGJAZZINCHICAGO.ORG continued from page 1, Chicago Jazz Festival 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. Hen ry Threadgill, native borh Pulitzer Prizewinning composer and performer, is of the Chicago generation that radically advanced those resources, retaining their essences. A proud early mem ber 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 con cept of shifting pitch intervals instead of, say, chords, to structure collective interplay by turns stark, lyrical, funny, ethereal, gritty, often grooving, always Theexpressive.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 In stitute through its Mellon Foundation grant supporting “New Works Fresh Voices.” Then trumpeter Russ John son, a flexible, dependably inspired favorite on our local scene (also di rector 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, vo calist Roya Naldi revisits songs from the Roaring ‘20s, saxophonist Lenard Simpson (winner of the Luminarts Jazz Competition, graduate of the Theloni ous 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.
Saturday afternoon stretches out in the tent – from De Paul University edu cated singer Christy Bennett’s evoca tion with Fumée of the so-called “gyp sy jazz” of guitarist Django Reinhardt through trumpeter Marques Carroll’s muscular mainstream quartet and sax ophonist-vocalist Auroa Nealand im portation of New Orleans jazz inspired by clarinetist Sidney Bechet to Atomic, highly lauded all-stars of the progres sive Scandinavian jazz scene. But listen here on the rooftop! To high school competitors from Jones College Prep, Lincoln Park High School, Ken wood 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.
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 “Medita tions” features top rung Chicago play ers -- saxophonists Rajiv Halim, Geoff Bradfield and Max Bessesen, trumpet er Victor Garcia (as well as Russ John son), pianist Alexis Lombre and drum mer Dana Hall among them. Whenever those folks are in ensembles – such as the Bradfield/Hall trio with Bay Area clarinetist Ben Goldberg in the Free man space on Sunday –quality music is Fridayassured.continues spectacularly: New York City-based tenor saxophonist JD Allen (heard at the Hyde Park Jazz Fes tival last fall, head to head with our own Isaiah Collier, whose New Works Fresh Voices commission is premiered Sun day in the Freeman tent); singing sen sation Jazzmeia Horn, who has drive akin to the late Betty Carter’s, and gui tarist 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.
The sax theme is reinforced with next up altoist Miguel Zénon, and with the two hornmen in bassist William Park er’s band, altoist Rob Brown and teno rist 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 Ric cards, altoist Immanuel Wilkins (widely hailed for his initial two Blue Note al bums) makes his Chicago debut, and Collier and Bradfield-Goldberg-Hall of fer their sets. This fest’s final night in the Pritzker Pavillion proceeds with Chicago Nick Mazzarella, an altoist with terrific chops, referential breadth and individ uality, 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 Cul tural 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 Berk lee 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 surpris es, 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.
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 Kirch ner (drums).
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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 hu mor. 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. Ed die 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 Borndecades.inthe former Dutch colony Indo nesia, 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 pia nist Martial Solal; as the reliable bassist behind touring stars from Benny Good man to Miles Davis; and on recordings by, among others, saxophonist Zoot Sims, trombonist Kai Winding, and es pecially the aforementioned trumpeter
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Brad Goode, the next-level trumpeter and Colorado educator, remembered that when he arrived in Chicago, as a precocious phenom, a couple of vet erans “got a kick out of putting me through my paces” by calling tunes he had never heard to see how he would cope. “This was the old school gaunt let,” wrote Goode. But De Haas, their contemporary, “saw how I was strug gling and took it upon himself to get me through it. When I couldn't hear what was going on, he'd patiently spell the roots of the chords for me to read from his fingerboard. After each gig, Ed die would sit with me, recapping each song, telling me how I did, what I had missed, and giving me advice on the finer points of playing. He had decided to be my coach.”
When bassist Eddie De Haas moved from Chicago nine years ago, it left a sizable hole on the local jazz scene: af ter 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 Ahim.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 pretty much any performance and receiving his trademark flash of pleased recognition, and of ten enough, an understatedly funny rejoinder. Many of the hundreds who responded to his passing made sure to emphasize his warmth and kindness, which characterized his personal out look and professional career.
Pianist Stu Katz, who frequently shared the Showcase bandstand with Eddie, told me, “I never heard him say anything negative about anybody.” Bill Goodwin, the producer and longtime drummer in Phil Woods’ bands, was in Chicago and listening to Chet Baker at the Showcase when bassist Dennis Irwin’s instrument “suddenly imploded; Eddie de Haas im mediately rushed the stage with his own bass in hand to save the gig.”
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OPENNESS. REVELATION. “OPRESION Y REVOLUCION.” RUMBA! RIGHT ON! By Corey Hall MIGUEL ZENON TO EXPOSE WORLDWIDE INFLUENCES, INTERESTS AND EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT AT CHICAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL Photo Credit: Adrien Tillmann
During a recent Zoom conversation with the JazzGram from Siena, Italy, Ze non explained how his hunger to study history from the Americas and beyond resulted in him creating the album’s eight, Spanish-titled tunes.
These emotions energized alto saxo phonist 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 drum mer Henry Cole – will present this new music at the 2022 Chicago Jazz Festival.
Los Pleneros de La Cresta is first fea
“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 select ed songs by Los Pleneros de La Cresta, a percussion and vocal ensemble based in Puerto Rico that specializes in plena.
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“Venas Abiertas” entered Zenon’s con science in response to Uruguayan jour nalist Eduardo Galeano’s Las venas abi ertas 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 and how these resources have been taken advantage of by generations,” Ze non said. “He breaks it down into very specific numbers and regions. The book was groundbreaking at its time.”
“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.”
These five words, written by Zenon, were sung by Emil Martinez, the ensemble’s lead vocalist, who then provided embellishment through Whenimprovisation.describing this tune to the en semble, Zenon revealed how study ing certain societies before coloni zation made music in his mind.
“My idea for Musica de Las Ameri cas,” 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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continued from page 4, Miguel Zenon continued from page 3, De Haas Chet Baker, with whom he toured Eu rope in the mid-1950s. (Along the way, he became fluent in five languages: In donesian, Dutch, English, French, and ButSpanish.)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 – Ed die 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 ac tually had to buy a record to hear it on Indemand.Chicago, we got to hear Eddie more often than most; others got to ex plore 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 invari ably 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, profes sionalism and art.
“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, guid ed by the stars, they could travel hundreds of miles by canoe. There were many things they did before the encounter with the Europeans. In many ways, they were more advanced in terms of mathematics and knowledge of the cosmos.”
JAZZINCHICAGO.ORG tured on “Navegando (Las Estrellas Nos Guian).” This title, Zenon stated, means, “Sailing guided by the stars.”
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Zenon also allowed Haitian music and his reading about that country’s revolu tion to create “Imperios.” “I was thinking about the amount of energy and com ing together that happened for the revolution to take place,” he said, adding how such unity also fueled “Opresion Y Revolucion.”
On “Bambula,” Zenon heard and envisioned ancient rhythms and dances, which originated from West Africa, and how their power pre served through the Middle Passage, making it possible for their impact to be experienced by multiple coun tries centuries later.
“Wherever there are people from Af rica, 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 hom age to that, as it has been so central to the development of music in this part of the world.
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Alone Together Again
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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 KenwoodPMAcademy H.S. 2:30-3:05 PM Whitney Young H.S. 3:20-3:55 PM Chicago H.S. for the Arts
SPOTLIGHT ON YOUTH PROGRAMS AT THE ’22 CHICAGO
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 RETURN OF THE JAMS! Kenwood Academy Jazz Band, directed by Gerald Powell, at the Jazz in the Chi festival, May 14, 2022
Three local high school students who have received the Kiewit-Wang Men torship Award for 2022-2023 school year will also be announced at the Chicago Jazz Festival! These students were among many who applied to audi tion 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 Sep tember 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: jazzinchicago.org/chicagojazzfesthttps://www.
Five Chicago high school bands that received high marks for their participa tion at the Jazz in the Chi festival in May 2022 are playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival! On September 3rd at the Har ris Theater Rooftop: Young Lions Stage in Millennium Park, each ensemble –three jazz combos and two big bands – will play a set. Additionally, the Jazz In stitute of Chicago has matched each of these five school bands with a profes sional artist/educator as a mentor who will help them prepare in rehearsals leading up to the Jazz Fest. These men tors include bassist Philip Castleberry, bassist Katie Ernst, trumpeter Victor Garcia, saxophonist Darius Hampton and saxophonist Greg Ward.
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