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Sunday, 05 September 2010

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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
Saturday, 28 August 2010
Ramsey Lewis Celebrates his 75th Birthday at the Chicago Jazz Festival The Chicago Jazz Festival will present jazz-filled afternoons at Millennium Park on September 2 and the Chicago Cultural Center on September 3 and a spectacular opening night at Millennium Park on Friday September 3 featuring Mike LeDonne Trio with Eric Alexander, Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Orchestra , and Ramsey Lewis 75th Birthday Celebration. Then the festival returns for two full days and nights at Grant Park on September 4 and 5. Performers include Brad Mehldau, Henry Threadgill's Zooid, Kurt Elling with Ernie Watts, Brian Blade, Douglas Ewart Nyahbingi Drum Choir, Dana Hall Quintet with Nicholas Payton, Chuchito Valdez, Corey Wilkes, and many more. (A full schedule follows). Still free, with a tremendous line-up, this is one of the most heavily attended jazz festivals in the world.
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
Monday, 23 August 2010
Gonzalo Bergara Quartet The all-acoustic Gonzalo Bergara Quartet brings their modern variant of 1930s Django Reinhadrt–inspired Gypsy jazz to the Green Mill in CHicago on Friday, August 27th and Saturday, August 28th. Argentinian-born Gonzalo spent several years living and playing music in France and touring the world extensively with the John Jorgenson quintet before settling in Southern California. He has created a unique playing style; bringing intense emotion to his music with cascading arpeggios, insightful pacing and variety. His recent CD Porteña Soledad has received glowing reviews from around the world. According to Guitar Player Magazine, “Gonzalo Bergara has lavished such care on every phrase, built each arrangement with such lapidary precision and pared away anything extraneous, the music becomes sculpture. It has weight, density, gravity.” Supported by an ace clarinetist and a honed rhythm section, the Gonzalo Bergara quartet is fiery, focused and deeply moving.
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Red Holloway © Andrea Canter The public first became aware of saxophonist Red Holloway during the Sixties as a result of his association with organist "Brother" Jack McDuff and guitarist George Benson. The band was together from 1963 to 1966 and performed road tours in the States as well as concerts in Europe. Red recorded several albums with McDuff on Prestige, including the hit single Rock Candy. Red revisited the Jack McDuff songbook and his latest Delmark release Go Red Go! which teamed him with guitarist Henry Johnson and organist Chris Foreman. Expect to hear this great music as Red Holloway appears with Henry Johnson and his quartet at the Jazz Showcase at Dearborn Station in Chicago on Thursday, August 19th through Saturday, August 22nd.
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
Sunday, 08 August 2010
Toumani Diabaté Internationally acclaimed Malian kora master Toumani Diabaté, continues his collaboration with Chicago’s jazz community in a concert of original and newly commissioned material. Toumani Diabaté joins the Chicago Transilience Ensemble led by Jeb Bishop and Joshua Berman with Hamid Drake, Josh Abrams, Jeff Parker, Jason Adasiewicz, Nicole Mitchell and Nate Lepine for a free evening of cross-cultural fertilization, improvisation and expanded musical frontiers on Thursday, August 12th at Pritzker Pavilion in Millemeum Park. Toumani Diabaté is one of the most important musicians in Africa. Toumani plays the kora, a harp unique to West Africa with 21 strings; and more than any other kora player it is Toumani who is responsible for bringing this instrument to audiences around the world. He is a performer of truly exceptional virtuosity and creativity - someone who shows that the kora can rival the world's greatest instruments.
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