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Mahanthappa Leads Quartet at the Green Mill, October 20th Print E-mail
Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor   
Tuesday, 16 October 2007

 

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Rudresh Mahanthappa

One of the most accomplished innovators on alto saxophone, Rudresh Mahanthappa leads his exciting quartet in performance at the Green Mill in Chicago, on Saturday, October 20th. Joining him on the bandstand will be one of the keyboard sensations of the new Millennium, long-time collaborator Vijay Iyer, along with acclaimed French bassist Francois Moutin and fast-rising star drummer, Damion Reid. 

Rudresh Mahanthappa earned degrees from Berklee and from Chicago’s DePaul University and currently teaches at the New School in New York City. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, currently he leads or co-leads seven ensembles in addition to his ongoing work with Vijay Iyer. His quartet recording, Mother Tongue (Pi) was named a “Top Ten” Jazz CD of 2004 by the Chicago Tribune, Jazz Times, Coda, All About Jazz, and Jazzmatazz as well as one of the top jazz albums of 2005 by several European publications including Jazz Review. He released Code Book in 2006, with Iyer and Moutin, along with drummer Dan Weiss. Also in 2006, Rudresh and Iyer released a highly regarded duet recording, Raw Materials. As a sideman, Mahanthappa has worked with David Murray, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette, Von Freeman, Tim Hagans, David Liebman, Greg Osby, and Dr. Lonnie Smith, among others. Like Iyer, he is a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and has received numerous grants for composition. Notes the Chicago Tribune, "Mahanthappa creates a music that is at once technically brilliant yet musically cogent, harmonically adventurous yet expressively straightforward. Mahanthappa takes listeners into fascinating Eastern Idioms that are otherwise virtually unheard in jazz today."  

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Ramsey Lewis Trio Performs at Jazz Showcase Benefit, October 21 Print E-mail
Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor   
Monday, 15 October 2007

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Ramsey Lewis
 

Closed nearly a year, the internationally renowned Jazz Showcase will relocate to Dearborn Station early in 2008, thanks in part to a benefit featuring the famed Ramsey Lewis Trio. Set for Sunday, October 21st (7 pm) at the Chicago Cultural Center in Preston Brady Hall (78 E. Washington), Chicago jazz fans can help support the relocation costs for the Showcase while enjoying one of the premiere trios in modern jazz. 

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Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers- Cookin' in Chicago. Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
Tuesday, 25 September 2007

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Lavay Smith © Andrea Canter
Chicago's Green Mill will present the sultry chanteuse Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers for two nights, Friday, September 28th at 9pm and Saturday, September 29th at 8pm. Lavay Smith, vocalist and bandleader of the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, grew up in Southern California and the Phillipines. She has become an internationally recognized Diva of Jazz and Blues, with a singing style influenced by Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith, Little Esther Phillips and other legendary greats. Lavay Smith’s band features some of the finest musicians anywhere, and consists of four horns, piano, bass and drums. Truly an all-star ensemble, Lavay’s musicians have performed and recorded with Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat “King” Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Quincy Jones, Tito Puente, Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Big Mama Thornton, Erroll Garner, Rosemary Cloony, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra, Dr. John, Sy Oliver, and many more.
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Centennial Celebration for Albert Ammons in Chicago, September 22nd Print E-mail
Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor   
Tuesday, 18 September 2007

“Without boogie woogie, American music as we know it, would not be....as we know it! Just ask the Rolling Stones!” – Lila Ammons

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Albert Ammons,courtesy of Lila Ammons
A leading practitioner of boogie woogie piano, Albert Ammons would have been 100 years old in September 2007. To mark the centennial of this legend of American music, a series of celebratory events have been held throughout the United States, starting in February in Tarzana, California with a concert by Ammons’ granddaughter, vocalist Lila Ammons of Minneapolis. On September 22nd, the centennial will be celebrated in his birthplace with a concert in the historic First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, with the support of Cleveland Steel Container Corporation.

Albert Ammons

Born in Chicago on September 23, 1907, Albert Ammons was taught by his father to play the pianola, and also studied with future compatriot Meade Lux Lewis. With Lewis he played piano in Chicago clubs of the 1920s while also working as a cab driver, later taking gigs entertaining passengers on trains running between Chicago and the South.

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