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Chicago Jazz Composers Collective at the Green Mill - December 16, 2007 Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
Saturday, 08 December 2007
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Matt Holman
The Chicago Jazz Composers Collective will present a concert of original jazz Sunday December 16 from 2 to 4 PM at the Green Mill, 4802 N. Broadway in Chicago. Featured at 2:00 will be composer Matt Holman's Diversion Ensemble featuring Matt Holman playing trumpet and flugelhorn, Jim Gailloreto on saxophones, Matt Ulery on bass, Rob Clearfield on keyboards and Jon Deitemyer on drums performing accessible yet thoughtful original compositions fusing elements of rock, classical, and jazz music. At 3 PM the collective will present composer Kathy Kelly with Tudo de Bom featuring Kathy Kelly on vibes, Jeff Beer on trumpet, Juli Wood on tenor saxophone, Dan DeLorenzo on bass, and Mike Schlick, drums performing three premiere compositions by vibist Kathy Kelly. Kelly's music is eclectic and melodic with influences from jazz, world music, classical and beyond.

Inspired by New York's Jazz Composers Collective, the Chicago Jazz Composers Collective formed in 2001 and began presenting monthly concerts at the Green Mill, each featuring the work of two different jazz composers. Since then the CJCC has presented the music of 45 composers with over 140 Chicago area musicians performing. "It has been so encouraging to watch this grow", says founder and vibraphonist/composer Kathy Kelly. "We now have a regular forum for creating, performing, and listening to new music. The composers have really taken this opportunity to perform and used it to create some outstanding original music." In addition to the monthly concerts, CJCC has twice presented concert series' at the Chicago Cultural Center. The group has also been featured on WBEZ's Eight Forty-Eight program and in Grammy Magazine online.
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A Merry Little Christmas from the Chicago Jazz Orchestra & Ann Hampton Callaway Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
Thursday, 22 November 2007

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Ann Hampton Callaway © Bill Westmoreland

For the second concert in the Chicago Jazz Orchestra's10th annual subscription series, the CJO will be jouned by Ann Hampton Callaway at the Harris Theater for Music & Dance, 205 E. Randolph 0n Thursday, December 13, at 8:00 PM. In this performance, Callaway will be performing with Jeff Lindberg's expanded Chicago Jazz Orchestra the original swinging arrangements of holiday classics as recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and the orchestral arrangements (including strings) of classics from the Barbra Streisand Christmas Album. Many standards loved and cherished by all will be included such as Jingle Bells?, The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting...), My Favorite Things, Silent Night, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming To Town, and many more! This is a treat for lovers of jazz, lovers of theater, and lovers of cabaret. [Click here for a Jazz Police interview with Ann Hampton Callaway ]

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The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet's 10 Day, 10th Anniversary Celebration Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
Thursday, 22 November 2007
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Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet © Ziga Koritnik
The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet has been performing large ensemble improvised music in various iterations for ten years, with numerous concerts and recordings to their credit. The 10th anniversary celebration is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Experimental Sound Studio's 2007 Outer Ear Festival of Sound. The Celebration includes Peter Brötzmann performing with various musicians at various venues runningr from Novemebr 28th through December 7th (See schedule below). At the heart the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet will perform at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Saturday, December 1 at 9:00 PM. Contact the MCA at www.mcachicago.org or 312-397-4010 for information and reservations.

Peter Brötzmann has led a number of internationally renowned, large group improvising ensembles since the late 1960s. The Chicago Tentet, is one of his best. First organized in that city during January of 1997, the band has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe in the last decade, and has released nine albums containing a huge variety of music. In 2007, the ensemble celebrates its ten years of work together with a tour in Europe during June, a festival performance in Molde, Norway, in July and an engagement (their only North American appearance) in Chicago, at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Dave Schumacher/Jerry Weldon Quartet at the Green Mill 11/23-24 Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
Sunday, 18 November 2007

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Jerry Weldon © Andrea Canter
Give your ears a post-Thanksgiving feast on Friday, November 23rd and Saturday, November 24th when the Green Mill Jazz Club in Chicago presents the Dave Schumacher/Jerry Weldon Quartet. This hard swinging group features Dave Schumacher on baritone sax, Jerry Weldon on tenor sax, Dan Trudell on Hammond B3 organ (A chicago favorite with the group Sabertooth), and Paul Samuels on drums.

As a freelance musician, Chicago native Dave Schumacher has been active on the New York scene for the past 23 years. As member of Lionel Hampton's Orchestra from 1983 to 1987 he toured the Americas and Europe. He again toured with Hamp in 1988 and 1989. A highlight in Dave's career was traveling with the Art Blakey Big Band to Japan in 1987 to perform at the Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival.

 

Dave is an original member of Harry Connick, Jr's Orchestra, from its beginnings in 1990 to the present. He has thrilled audiences touring with Harry in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. His baritone sax can be heard on each of these Harry Connick, Jr., Columbia recordings: Forever for Now, When My Heart Finds Christmas, France I Wish You Love, Blue Light Red Light, Songs I Heard, and Thou Shalt Not

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