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THE JAZZ Lnstltute of Chlcago's Blrthday BASH gram JAZZ PROMOTING AND NURTURING JAZZ IN CHICAGO JUNE 2019 WWW.JAZZINCHICAGO.ORG THE EPSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION PRESENTS: THE JAZZ INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S BIRTHDAY BASH PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS Logan Center for the Arts | 915 E. 60th St. • The Promontory | 5311 S Lake Park Ave W. Connect Gallery | 1520 E Harper Ct. Family friendly and free* KNOWN FOR ITS INVENTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT, the Jazz Institute of Chicago has successfully partnered for a half century with musicians, cultural institutions, community organizations and city agencies to showcase the distinctly innovative DNA of Chicago jazz. Free* and open to the public, the Birthday Bash in celebration of our 50th Anniversary will feature renowned Chicago jazz musicians including Orbert Davis, Ari Brown, Maggie Brown and Joan Collaso; a world premiere commission with Tatsu Aoki, filmmaker JonathanW oods and a virtual performance by Nicole Mitchell; community discussions; performances by exciting emerging jazz artists and poetry, visual art and dance–art forms that continue a long mutual love affair with jazz. * All of the Birthday Bash events are free with the exception of "Jazzin' Up Education Workshop" and the VIP tickets to Makaya McCraven's concert at the Promontory. CODING: Music Panel discussion Visual art Theater Film Dance Spoken word choreographed by dance legend Amaniyea of the JIC’s Jazz Links Student Council. This Payne. Light refreshments and wine will be ensemble will feature Duane Powell Aaron Kaufman- provided. Levine on saxophone, Miles Hardemon on 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM: MAKAYA MCCRAVEN trumpet, Charlie Reichert-Powell on guitar, QUINTET Devin Shaw on piano, Steve Bowman on The Promontory | 5311 S Lake Park Ave bass and Frank Morrison on drums. W. Chicago, IL 60615 1 PM – 1:30 PM: FRANKLIN & SON: He’S VIP tickets available at promontorychicago.com Drummer, producer, and sonic collagist THE STORYTELLER, I’m THE POET Café Logan, 1st floor Makaya McCraven is one of Chicago’s Father and son duo, (story- savviest cultural players and a multi-talented Gene Varnado teller and creator of The Franklin Chronicles) force whose inventive process and intuitive, and his son (award-winning youth cinematic style defy categorization. He will Morgan spoken word-artist) team-up for their sig- be joined by Junius Paul on bass, Matt Gold nature brand of storytelling by sharing their on guitar, Greg Ward on alto saxophone and perspectives on topics including race, music Irvin Pierce on tenor saxophone. and family life. 1:15 PM – 3:15 PM: JAZZIN' UP SATURDAY, JUNE 29 EDUCATION WORKSHOP FRIDAY, JUNE 28 All events happening at the Logan Center Screening Room, 2nd floor 5 PM – 7 PM: SOUNDROTATION pres- for the Arts | 915 E 60th St. Chicago, IL Presenter: Dr. Nathan Bakkum ents FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE 60637 Registration by June 14th is required for this EMERGING Artists Connect Gallery | 1520 E Harper Ct. 12 PM – 1 PM: session. Fee: $30 / $25 for JIC Members - 3 PROJECT ENSEMBLE Chicago, IL 60615 CPDU’s will be provided /Attendance to Presented by music historian and DJ Duane Café Logan, 1st floor both Emerging Artists Project Ensemble Powell, this interactive session will explore The NextGenJazz Emerging Artists Project jazz as dance music. The session will also promotes leadership, creativity, and a performance and Listening to the Jazz include a special dance performance foundation for self-marketing for members continued on page 2 JAZZ IN CHICAGO JUNE 2019 2 Ari Brown Maggie Brown Isaiah Collier Orbert Davis Jazz Links Jam Session Nicole Mitchell Cerqua Rivera James Sanders Makaya McCraven Dance Theatre Book launch Scene is required to receive CPDU’s! 7 PM – 8 PM: FEELING GOOD: A MADD 3 PM – 4 PM: CERQUA RIVERA DANCE THE- Register at jazzinchicago.org. TRIBUTE TO NINA SIMONE atrE PRESENTS “mawanZO wa MWILLI NI Presented in partnership with Columbia College Performance Hall ROHO” Chicago M.A.D.D. Rhythms is proud to present a tribute Performance Hall to an American music icon, 3Arts award winning choreographer 2 PM – 3 PM: UNDU: NICOLE MITCHELL, Nina Simone Monique featuring a new choreography from and critically acclaimed company Co- Jonathan WOODS, Tatsu AOKI AND THE M.A.D.D. Haley , performances by Chicago founder & Composer Joe Cerqua are exploring MIYUMI PROJECT Rhythms dancers Performance Hall Jazz greats Maggie Brown, Joan Collaso, a modern African American experience through , , and arrange- traditional African artistic mode. This work de- UNDU is a collaborative sonic ritual intended Tecora Rogers Felena Bunn ments by Ben “Jammin” Johnson. Presented in picts stories that communicate struggle, discov- to unravel the present and embrace a common partnership with M.A.D.D. Rhythms ery and transformation. Presented in partnership past for a shared, visionary future. Commis- 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM: JAMES SANDERS’ with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre sioned for the Jazz Institute’s Birthday Bash, CONJUNTO 4 PM – 6 PM: JAZZ LINKS JAM SESSION UNDU creates a multi-dimensional experience Penthouse, 9th floor Café Logan, 1st floor through live performance by the MIYUMI Latin Jazz Fiesta led by James Sanders on House Band: Jarrard Harris (sax), Ethan Philion Project interacting with Nicole Mitchell who violin, Steve Eisen on saxophone/ flute,Jose (bass), Robert Irving III (piano), Marcus Evans appears through the mediums of video and Porcayo on bass, Leandro Lopez Varady on (drums). pre-recorded sound. piano, Jean Cristophe Leroy on drums, Joe 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM: THE CITY WAS YELLOW: on conga, and on bongo. Presented in partnership with Asian Improv aRts Rendon Luis Rosario CHICAGO JAZZ & IMPROVISED MUSIC 1980- 2010 BOOK LAUNCH AND panEL 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM: ISAIAH COLLIER AND DISCUSSION THE CHOSEN FEW SUNDAY, JUNE 30 Screening Room, 2nd floor Café Logan, 1st floor All events happening at the Logan Center A release event for the “real book” anthology An alumnus of the JIC’s Jazz Links program, for the Arts | 915 E 60th St. Chicago, IL compiled by drummer, composer, and pre- saxophonist and composer Isaiah Collier is 60637 senter . Containing fifty transcribed an up and coming artist in the Chicago music 12 PM – 1:30 PM: JAZZ ON FILm: “OR- Mike Reed compositions, newly contributed bios, and scene. He will be joined by James Wenzel on NETTE: MADE IN AMERICA” AND short insightful candid photography, the collection bass and Jeremiah Collier on drums. “BRIDGES-GO-ROUND” DIRECTED BY is “a soundtrack for a city that was yellow, il- SHIRLEY CLARKE 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM: BLACK AND WHITE: AN Screening Room, 2nd floor luminated by the hue of high-pressure sodium EXAMination OF SEGREgation AND THE Presented in partnership with Chicago Film street lamps.” Reed will be joined by John Corbett and Mike Allemana. JAZZ LIFE ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE Society 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM: SOULEYES: Screening Room, 2nd floor 2PM – 3 PM: J IS FOR JAZZ Penthouse, 9th floor AN EXERCISE IN REstoration Guitarist and ethnomusicologist Mike Allemana Penthouse, 9th floor Children’s play written and directed by Carla will host historian , saxophonist Featuring the , souleyes Timuel Black Stillwell with musical direction by Jarrard Harris. Junius Paul Quartet Jimmy Ellis, and vocalist Margaret Murphy- Plot: When Jae’s brother Jason tells her that he will present the work of Mario Smith, M’Reld Webb to discuss the history of segregation in doesn’t know any jazz music, Jae takes him on Green and other members of the Chicago poetry Chicago and how conditions of racial separa- a musical journey where Jason discovers the community. This will mark the first performance of souleyes in 18 years. tion have shaped cultural activity surrounding joy of this historical music and learns that jazz is the foundation of a lot of the songs he already 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM: THE ORBErt DAVIS jazz past and present. knows! Presented in partnership with The SEXTET FEaturing ARI BROWN 6 PM – 7 PM: DIGGING OUR ROOTS: Stillwell Institute Performance Hall Emmy-Award winning trumpeter, composer and CHICAGO’S GREatEST HITS 2 PM – 5 PM: JAZZOGRAPHY: A Photograph- educator will present ‘Kinda Blue’: — THE SINGERS ic Celebration of Jazz in Chicago Orbert Davis Screening Room, 2nd floor Screening Room, 2nd floor Interpretations of a Classic, featuring Ari Brown on tenor and soprano saxophone, Presented by Howard Mandel, President of the Photographer Lauren Deutsch invites 4 fellow Rajiv Halim Jazz Journalists Association, journalist Aaron jazz photographers to join her in presenting a on alto and soprano saxophone, Leandro Lopez Cohen and vocalist Bobbi Wilsyn, this listening visual celebration of the sounds and sights of Varady on piano, Stewart Miller on bass, and session will focus on three of Chicago’s greatest jazz in Chicago. Ernie Adams on drums. vocalists: Oscar Brown Jr., Dinah Washington, Photographs by: Lauren Deutsch, Michael and Johnny Hartman. Presented in partnership Jackson, Mark Sheldon, Janet Takiyama and #JIC50 | jazzinchicago.org/50th with the Jazz Journalists Association Javet Kimble. JAZZ IN CHICAGO JUNE 2019 3 FRED ANDERSON Park keeps “VelVET VISIons” alIVE by Corey Hall HE HAD LISTENED TO HIS MENTor’s recent RECORDINGS, referenced them while rehearsing his rhythm section with this elder, and even penned a few charts for meaningful measure. And then, just when alto saxophonist Greg Ward ascended the wooden steps to the stage at the Velvet Lounge, his mentor, frontline partner, and the club’s owner, tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson said, “I don’t wanna play any of that music.” “I’m like, ‘Oh, really? Are you sure?’” Ward recalled about that night in 2001. “And Fred said, ‘Let’s just play!’ So we (drummer Vincent Davis and bassist Darius Savage) just improvised.” Ward discussed this experience when detailing Seen here, left to right, are bassist Dennis Carroll, drummer Greg the positive impact Baba Fred instilled in him.
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