19.1.05
THE BEST THINGS IN JAZZ ARE FREE!
The Winter Delights Jazz Fair, a collaboration of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, the Mayor’s Office of Special Events, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Office of Tourism and will be presented at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. and the Pritzker Pavillion at Millennium Park from January 20- 23, 2005.
The Jazz Fair has a 27 year history of showcasing the emerging and long-established talent that has built Chicago’s unparalleled reputation as the true birthplace of Jazz. The Jazz Fair really manifests what we're about: recognizing the diverse communities and directions the music has generated and encouraging 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. And we will once again cover the whole spectrum of music for all generations-- from a jam session with top young jazz players to a vocal summit between Kurt Elling and Oscar Brown Jr. to 91 year-old Franz Jackson’s New Chicago Hot 7.
Sincerely,
Thursday, January 20, 7–8:30 p.m.
Ben Allison Quintet
Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street 312.744.6630
East coast bassist Ben Allison has an adventurous spirit which sparks both his own compositions and those of Herbie Nichols, Lucky Thompson, Andrew Hill and more.
Friday, January 21, 12:15–1 p.m. Lunchbreak Acoustic Café:
Ben Allison Kush Trio
Randolph Café
Chicago Cultural Center
77 E. Randolph Street 312.744.6630
Bassist and composer Ben Allison’s trio performs.
Friday, January 21, 7p.m. – Midnight
The Jazz Institute of Chicago’s
Chicago Jazz Jams
Chicago Cultural Center 77 E. Randolph Street 312.427.1676
Randolph Café 7–8:30p.m.
Jabari Liu's One4All band
with special guest Corey Wilkes and
Jazz Links Jam Session featuring Chicago's top high school jazz players. The future is now. Jabari Liu is one of Chicago's youngest hot cats. Come witness a meteor shower of rising stars!
Randolph Café 8:45–10:15p.m.
and we don’t stop: jazz to hip hop performance.
David Boykin has infused his hard swinging style of experimental jazz with his own original hip hop lyricism resulting in astonishing alchemy. This performance brings together similar elements: mc-ing and jazz vocalizing, dj-ing and jazz orchestration, beat boxing and jazz drumming, break-dancing and swing dancing, tap dancing graffiti, modern art movement, and the muralist movement and culture knowledge. With Dee Alexander, Maggie Brown, MCs - Capital D, of All Natural, Thaione Davis, and Cosmogactus,
DJ 5th Element and David Boykin’s own Expanse band.
Randolph Café 10:30–Midnight
Chicago Blues Divas
with Deitra Farr, Zora Young and Liz Mandville Greeson. Three hard driving women backed by Chicago’s top rhythm players including John Primer on guitar, Felton Crews on bass, Ricky Nelson on drums and Matthew Skoller on harp.
Preston Bradley Hall 7:15–9:15p.m.
New Chicago Hot 7 featuring Franz Jackson, Bob Cousins, Dan Delorenzo, Tom Hope, Bobby Lewis, Eric Schneider and Tommy Bartlett. Traditional jazz, Chicago style.
Preston Bradley Hall 9:30–11:30p.m.
The Sounds of Browns: Oscar Brown Jr. and Maggie Brown. The First Family of vocalese paints the town Brown with the words and music of the High Priest of Hip.
The Jazz Marketplace will gather purveyors of the art to share with the patrons of the Fair. In addition to Chicago’s independent record labels and jazz arts related concerns, the Midway has included the Chicago Historical Society, the Museum of Contemporary Arts, the DuSable Museum, Jazz Unites and many others.
Saturday, January 22, 7:30–9:30 p.m. Triple Threat
Jay Pritzker Pavilion Stage Millennium Park Randolph Street and Columbus Drive 312.744.663
Join Grazyna Auguscik, Zach Brock, and John McLean on the stage of the Pritzker Pavilion for a concert celebrating the release of their new CD’s. Seating is limited. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 23, 3–5 p.m.
Reginald Robinson and Jon Weber
Preston Bradley Hall Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington Street 312.744.6630
MacArthur Fellow Reginald Robinson is a living link to ragtime music—one of the only modern composers of the earliest roots of jazz. Jon Weber is another traditionalist who takes familiar standard to another level.
posted by eduardo chagas @ 19.1.05
