Friday, January 30, 2009
THE CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE,
AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JON FADDIS®,
CELEBRATE THE 10th AMERICAN HERITAGE JAZZ SERIES
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, at 8:00 pm at HARRIS THEATER
AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JON FADDIS®,
CELEBRATE THE 10th AMERICAN HERITAGE JAZZ SERIES
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, at 8:00 pm at HARRIS THEATER
featuring
THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK with BOBBI WILSYN,
CURTIS FULLER, RON HAWKING
CURTIS FULLER, RON HAWKING
and
PREMIERE OF ASCAP SALUTE TO HANK JONES
CHICAGO, January 26, 2009 – Artistic Director Jon Faddis and The Chicago Jazz Ensemble (The CJE) continue the celebration of the 10th American Heritage Jazz Series with The Great American Songbook featuring Bobbi Wilsyn, Curtis Fuller and Ron Hawking and the premiere of the ASCAP Jazz Commissioning Program salute to the life, work and 90th birthday of Hank Jones on Friday, February 20, at 8:00 pm at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph, Chicago. In addition, Faddis and writer/broadcaster Neil Tesser will present a pre-concert conversation about the evening's performance at 7:20 pm.
The Great American Songbook is an evening of American classics featuring the music of Leonard Bernstein, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and others. Drawing on classic arrangements from The CJE's library as well as from Faddis' own collection, the concert is sure to present some of everyone's favorite compositions from America's masters.
The Chicago Jazz EnsembleTM is: JON FADDIS, Artistic Director & trumpet; alto saxophones, DAN NICHOLSON and JARRARD HARRIS; tenor saxophones, PAT MALLINGER and ROB DENTY; baritone saxophone, BRIAN SJOERDINGA; trombones, AUDREY MORRISON, TIM COFFMAN, TRACY KIRK, and THOMAS MATTA; trumpets, MARK OLEN, LARRY BOWEN, ART HOYLE and PHAREZ WHITTED; guitar, FRANK DAWSON; bass, DAN ANDERSON; Music Director & drums, DANA HALL; vocals, BOBBI WILSYN.
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance is located at 205 East Randolph on the southeast corner of Chicago's Millennium Park. Tickets for this series are $15 - $45, with a 10% discount to senior citizens and students and a 20% discount to groups of 10 or more. Tickets can be purchased at (312) 369-6600, (312) 334-7777 or www.harristheaterchicago.com. Symphony Center is located at 220 South Michigan Avenue. For tickets and more information on The CJE's concert at Symphony Center, visit www.cso.org or call (312) 294-3000.
The Chicago Jazz Ensemble's 10th anniversary series also includes The Art of the Composer: Music by William Russo and Frank Foster on Friday, March 20, 2009. On June 5, 2009, at 8 pm, The CJE – with MacArthur-Award winner Regina Carter as special guest on violin – takes the stage at Symphony Center for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Echoes of Nations: Dvořák Festival in a performance of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington: "Black, Brown and Beige" and "The New Orleans Suite." The CJE, in residence at Columbia College Chicago, is sponsored in part by Downbeat, Schilke Music Products, MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at Prince, Illinois Arts Council, The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation, Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, The Robert Pritzker Family Foundation, The Sara Lee Foundation and media sponsor WDCB/90.9 FM. Log on to www.chicagojazzensemble.com for more information on the 10th American Heritage Jazz Series or call (312) 369-6270.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Victorian Halls To Celebrate Release Of New CD 1/24
Chicago's Hardest Working Band To Throw CD Release Party At Beat Kitchen
DECEMBER 15, 2008 – Chicago's VICTORIAN HALLS are writing their own playbook.
Rather than rest on their laurels for a single moment - which would be easy to do given the glowing national praise their debut album Springteen received in 2008 - the quartet are starting 2009 with a wake up call in the form of a brand new self-released and self-titled EP that further pushes the envelope of the band's trademarked straightjacket pop sound.The thing about VICTORIAN HALLS is this - they don't so much write pop songs as chase them down an alley and hatchet them to death. Then, like some metaphorical Dr. Frankenstein, they sew the songs' limbs back together and in the process create a whole new monster: music that is crudely punk, brilliantly artful and instantly likeable. It's as quixotic as it is unquestionably pleasing, equal measures pop and pulp fiction.
And the band is set to set the monster loose on the world. First stop - their hometown.
VICTORIAN HALLS will be celebrating with a CD Release Show at the Windy City's uber-hip Beat Kitchen. Attendees will not only be treated to a set by the frenetic VICTORIAN HALLS, but also by support acts TONIGHT THE PROM, SNOWSERA and THE NEW DIET. In addition, all in attendance will get a FREE copy of VICTORIAN HALLS' new CD.
Your help in covering this event would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you are interested in previewing the show, or are interested in featuring the band or reviewing the release, which can be downloaded here:
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