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Winter Delights Jazz Fair - Free in Chicago January 26th-27th! |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Monday, 08 January 2007 |
 Chris Foreman - Deep Blue Organ Trio
The Jazz Fair has a 29 year history of showcasing the emerging and long-established jazz talent. The Jazz Fair recognizes the diverse communities and directions the music has generated and encourages the preservation and evolution of each of its forms. It truly is an event unique to Chicago--by virtue of the fact that nowhere else has the local jazz community been given the time and space to be recognized as the sum of all of its diverse parts.
Chicago Jazz Jams is the new name for the part of the winter festival
that is programmed by the Jazz Institute. Presented on Friday, January
26th, this year as always, we will once again cover the whole spectrum
of music for all generations -- from a jam session with top young jazz
players to the premiere of a new suite of compositions by pianist Ryan
Cohan to an “only-in-Chicago” mix of blues and traditional Japanese
music with Yoko Noge’s Japanesque to the cool sounds of the Deep Blue
Organ Trio.
On Saturday the 27th, we will present a lineup of Jazz Cinema,
including the new film about Edward Wilkerson's Shadow Vignettes, ODD
Eye O Mumbo Jumbo.
 iane Ellis Friday, January 26
The Jazz
Institute of Chicago’s CHICAGO JAZZ JAMS
Chicago Cultural Cente,r 77 E. Randolph Street 312.427.1676
7p.m. –
Midnight Admission:
FREE!
The Blues Today Panel Discussion First Floor Garland 7:30-9:00
p.m.
David
Whiteis, author of CHICAGO BLUES: PORTRAITS AND STORIES, moderates a
panel discussion on the blues as a contemporary musical and cultural
presence in Chicago and the U.S., with a special emphasis on the
ongoing importance and role of the music in the African-American
community. Panelists include Sharon Lewis, blues vocalist and recording
artist; Bob Jones, blues songwriter, record producer, and artist
manager; and Star Johnson, blues promoter and proprietor of the New
Club Paradise on Cermak Ave.
Jazz Links Jam Session Randolph Café 7:00–8:00
p.m.
An
old-fashioned “get up and put up” with the top students from our Jazz
Links Jam Sessions and veterans Robert Irving III, Lorin Cohen and
Kobie Watkins. Come hear the next generation of jazz!
Diane Ellis’ Jazzy Ladies Randolph
Café 8:30–10:00 p.m
Veteran
saxophonist Diane “Lil Jazz” Ellis has for many years been a teaching
dynamo at Dixon Elementary School—raising many who have come to light
as the next generation of young jazz lions. Her own playing is steeped
in the south side tradition of big bluesy sound, balanced by the
womanly approach supported by her compatriots.
Inspiración Latina Randolph Café 10:30–Midnight
Get
out your dancing shoes! Trombonist John Rodriguez leads this young band
of stellar musicians whose repertoire includes the music of Mongo
Santamaria, Eddie Palmieri, Arturo Sandoval as well as original
compositions. Dancing is not only permitted, it is highly recommended!
 Yoko Noge
Yoko Noge's Japanesque with John Primer Claudia Cassidy Theater 7:30–9:30
What
does Japanese Minyo (folk music) have in common with Chicago Blues?
Both musical forms are deeply rooted in people's souls and grew from
everyday life experience; songs about hard labor, about crying for lost
love, about paying the rent. Music from these two very different
cultures meld together to create a new cross-border roots music. With
Yoko Noge on piano and vocals, Tatsu Aoki on shamisen, John Primer on
guitar, Bob Stroger on bass, Avreeayl Ra on drums and Amy Homma and
Hide Yoshihashi on Taiko drums.
Deep Blue Organ Trio Claudia Cassidy Theater 10:30–Midnight
Celebrating
the classic jazz combo configuration of the Hammond B3 organ, guitar
and drums, as well as the Black-American experience through music,
Chris Foreman, Greg Rockingham and Bobby Broom bring a modern edge to a
musical timepiece.
Ryan Cohan: One Sky: Tone Poems for Humanity Preston Bradley Hall 9:00–11:00
p.m.
Commissioned
by Chamber Music America, One Sky is an extended composition
complemented by four new Cohan originals. A gifted young pianist,
Cohan’s world groove textures and meters are strongly supported by the
members of his group which includes Jim Gailloretto and Geof Bradfield
on reeds, Tito Carrillo on trumpet, James Cammack and Lorin Cohen on
bass and Kobie Watkins on drums.
Harambee Circle 7–Midnight
A
gathering place in the GAR Rotunda where jazz fans can meet the
musicians and peruse the offerings of the many jazz organizations
representing Chicago’s diverse jazz community.
Saturday, January 27
11:30 a.m - 5:00
p.m.
CINEMA JAZZ
Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center , 77 E. Randolph
Street 312.427.1676
Admission: FREE!
11:30-12:30:Rare Jazz Films Clips from Delmark Record's
Bob Koester
12:30-1:50:Edward Wilkerson and Shadow Vignettes ODD
eye O Mumbo Jumbo (2006)
Jonathan
Woods Shadow Vignettes: Odd Eye O Mumbo Jumbo is an uproarious romp
through the life and times of America's premiere African American
Avant-Garde jazz big band. Lead by visionary composer Edward Wilkerson
Jr. Shadow Vignettes has thrilled audiences from San Francisco
California to Osaka Japan. Now for the first time, award winning
filmmaker Jonathan Woods gives us an insider’s view into the
philosophical and musical wizardry which fuels some of today's most
breathtaking music.
1:50-2:50: Swing Gitan: A Gypsy Jazz Odyssey
(2006) Eric Heneman
Produced
by Chicago filmmaker Eric Heneman, Gypsy Jazz Odyssey is a portrait of
Swing Gitan leader Alphonso Ponticelli, following him to the Django
Reinhardt festival in Samois Sur Seine, France, where a gathering of
gypsy musicians stay up all night; sitting around campfires and jamming
into the night.
2:50-3:50 : Reed Royalty (1998) narrated by Branford Marsalis
This
show, narrated by master saxophonist Branford Marsalis, begins in New
Orleans as Branford plays a lonely blues over shots of this historic
city. Branford traces the development of great jazz reed players from
the pioneering saxophonist, Sidney Bechet, to the modern styling of
Jane Ira Bloom and Paquito D'Rivera. Along the way we see, in
outstanding archival film footage such reed royalty as Artie Shaw,
Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, , Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Harry
Carney, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz, Sonny Stitt,
Cannonball Adderly, Phil Woods, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Ornette
Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy and others.
3:50-5:00:A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba
(2005) Gonzalo Rubalcalba
Part
travelogue, part concert film, A Night in Havana is an enjoyable tour
through the origins of Afro-Cuban jazz and one of its earliest
purveyors, Dizzy Gillespie. Featuring great renditions of Afro-Cuban
jazz classics "A Night in Tunisia" and "Manteca" and guest appearances
by Arturo Sandoval and a very young Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Dizzy Gillespie
in Cuba is a breezy trip to our forbidden neighbors down south.
The Winter Delights Jazz Fair is part of Chicago's Top 10 Winter
Delights 2007, the citywide initiative from January 2-February
28. For more information, call 1.877.CHICAGO (1.877.244.2246
toll-free) or visit 877Chicago.com. The TTY toll-free number for
the hearing impaired is 1.866.710.0294.
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