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JAZZCITY 2019: A JOURNEY THROUGH JAZZ – WOMEN OF CHICAGO JAZZ MARCH 8 AT 7 PM Garfield Park Conservatory | 300 N. Central Park Ave. Earma Thompson, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Dorothy Donegan

WHAT A TIME THIS IS FOR WOMEN IN JAZZ! kept secret until late in life. Having retired from an The battle for equality continues, but having had to fight active career to raise her son, she didn't release her so long for every opportunity and scrap of recognition, first album as a leader until she was 81. women are finally being acknowledged for their The concert is also dedicated to two women who contributions and heard on their own terms – and not as have made mighty contributions to Chicago jazz through "female jazz artists," but artists who transcend gender. thick and thin: former Chicago Tribune jazz critic Harriet And yet, even as jazz memorializes and elevates male Choice and former Symphony Center and Ravinia Festival legends such as Bird, Duke and Monk, pioneering women jazz programmer Penny Tyler, co-founders of the Jazz such as Lil Hardin Armstrong, Mary Lou Williams and Institute of Chicago. remain unsung and under-appreciated. That, Pickens has had a distinguished career as both a too, is changing. musician and educator. Her dual piano performances On March 8 at Garfield Park Conservatory, two with her late, great father Willie Pickens were much gifted pianists – the veteran Bethany Pickens and the up prized. She has contributed greatly to future generations and coming Alexis Lombre – will help give their female of jazz as an instructor with the Ravinia Jazz Scholars predecessors the attention and respect they deserve by Program, director of the Chicago Public Schools All-City celebrating the contributions of three Chicago icons: Elementary Jazz Ensemble and piano instructor at her —Pianist, composer and arranger Lil Hardin alma mater, Kenwood Academy High School. Armstrong, a key member of 's Lombre, a product of the Jazz Institute's training historical Hot Five and Hot Seven bands of the programs who studied with Willie Pickens, blends the 1920's and a bandleader in her own right. sounds of Chicago's South Side, where she grew up; —Pianist Dorothy Donegan, a classical prodigy Kansas City, where her grew up, and , as a and protégé of who dazzled audiences student at the University of . She leads various with her virtuosity and entertained them with bands and works as a side musician. her flamboyance. Pickens and Lombre will be backed by an excellent —Pianist Earma Thomson, an earthy stylist who was band including Pharez Whitted on trumpet, Kaliq a mainstay in Chicago for a half-century – she Woods on clarinet, Junius Paul on bass and Charles accompanied – but remained a best Heath on drums. n

JazzCity is a free concert series initiated in 1997 by the Jazz Institute in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, now in its 22nd season of bringing people together from across the city to listen to Chicago’s top jazz musicians. JazzCity is sponsored by WDCB 90.9 FM and WHPK 88.5 FM Radio and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information visit www.Jazzinchicago.org or call 312.427.1676. JAZZ IN CHICAGO MARCH 2019 2 HEADS UP – JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH IS COMING!

BY COREY HALL

JAM WITH ALL US MONTH LONG!

JAZZCITY: THE BRANCH - APRIL 5 Ellis Park | 3520 S. Cottage Grove Ave. Jazz and Blues harmonica player Billy Branch is the link that illustrates that the roots of jazz come from the mother tree of the blues. Branch explores this notion with 91 year old guitar wizard George Freeman.

"TODAY AT APPLE" JIC BIRTHDAY EVENT - APRIL 11 The Apple Store | 401 N. Michigan Ave. The Apple store on Michigan Avenue will be lit with the sounds of some of your favorite local and national artists celebrating the 50 years of the JIC and the technology that has made Apple an icon of innovation and creative communication.

CELEBRATE THE POWER OF JAZZ EDUCATION - APRIL 17 The Standard Club | 320 S. Plymouth Ct. Our annual event will honor two Chicago educators who use their craft and passion to keep music alive for generations to come.

JAZZ EDUCATION DAY - APRIL 23 | 806 S. Plymouth Ct. In partnership with WDCB, join sax players and Rajiv Halim as they play and discuss the importance of mentorship, as well as the beautiful intricacies, profound structure and important influences of the form and flows of jazz music.

DIGGING OUR ROOTS - APRIL 25 Chicago Cultural Center | 78 E. Washington St. A lively conversation between tenorwoman Juli Wood and jazz journalist, photographer and saxophonist Michael Jackson about the Chicago Sound and the ways in which the particular energy and vitality of Chicago’s urban culture shaped Chicago’s tenor players’ approach to their horns.

INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY - APRIL 30 Location TBA A panel of educators, organizational leadership, visionaries and and musicians will lead an informative and resource-rich discussion on immigration and the role that international artists play on the jazz landscape. Includes performance and jam session.

JAZZ IN CHICAGO MARCH 2019 3 FORUM EXAMINES HOW JAZZ MUSICIANS ADDRESS SENSITIVE SOCIAL ISSUES

BY COREY HALL

MURDERED WHILE WORSHIPPING GOD, THEIR names were chanted by the performer as the song began. Vocalist and composer Rene Marie, honored those indi- viduals almost one year after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emanuel A.M.E. Church. Her tribute son, “Be the Change,” performed in Charleston, South Carolina in 2016, had as its purpose, a desire to heal. “I was just trying to process (what happened.) That’s how most of my songs like that come about, where I have complicated feelings inside so that they don’t result in bitterness,” she said. “There is some reflection of love and hope I have for humanity. I definitely wanted to say their names.” Rene marie, Vijay Iyer, Arturo O'Farrill For emphasis, Marie augmented her rhythm section with saxophone, trombone, and trumpet. “I wanted each “That was my dream. That any minute I could just drive horn player to approach the music as if one was the elder, off, and it would end it all. And it would be over. There like the older generation, looking back on past protests was a black cloud over me, like Predator, just somebody and movements to affect a better change for America,” watching me, always, like Big Brother…” she explained. “I wanted it to be as if they were having a Iyer’s initial reaction? conversation, disagreeing here, agreeing there, and coming “We got to the end of that take…and I said, ‘Okay, we to a resolution at the end.” don’t need that on the album,’ ” he recalled. “But she said, Marie shared these feelings during “Jazz in Troubled ‘No, we have to have that on the album, because people Times,” a panel discussion held at the two-day Jazz need to know that this is what this experience is.’ ” Hill, Congress that took place last month in New York. This Iyer added, successfully completed therapy, ceased having panel, moderated by journalist Larry Blumenfeld, also these nightmares, and is now a married mother. “That’s included life observations from pianists Vijay Iyer and another measure of success,” he said. “No one’s going to Arturo O’Farrill. give you a Grammy for that, but that’s real impact.” Creating community through chaos served as a Music with a message cannot be created if the artist is catalyst for Iyer’s Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Project, fearful, O’Farrill stated during his monologue. His Afro- which he recorded with hip hop artist Mike Ladd. This Orchestra – joined by 50 musicians – recorded recording allowed veterans of color, who had served in Fandango at the Wall: A Soundtrack for the , Iraq and Afghanistan, a forum to discuss their experiences. Mexico and Beyond. This album’s inspiration, O’Farrill Confronting complicated issues inherent with this subject, said, came from Jorge Francisco Castillo, who, since 2008, Iyer noted, is an undertaking that, on the surface, receives has hosted a festival where musicians congregate at the minimal attention. border separating San Diego and Tijuana to play Afro- “When any of us chooses to take a stand or engage Mexican music. in work that asks difficult questions, it is rewarded with “I felt this was such a powerful way to make a point,” crickets,” he said. “But then you have to think, ‘What is O’Farrill said. “The point is it’s not physical realities that success?’ You have to think about it differently. I knew divide us; it is (us.) We are our biggest enemies.” going in that this was not a business venture.” O’Farrill then discussed the near-violent response his Iyer then discussed Lynn Hill, a veteran who music received late last year at New York’s Birdland jazz contributed to the album. After reading a poem during club. When introducing “Llegara Llegara Llegara,” he said, a recording session, she revealed that she had repeatedly “I have to rely on this piece because of what’s going dreamt about committing suicide by driving off a cliff. continued on page 7

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March 10: Three CIty’s Trio, 8:30pm JIC EVENTS & AROUND TOWN March 16: Josh Berman Quartet, 8:30pm March 21: Avishai Cohen Quartet, 8:30pm March 8, (7pm): A Journey Through Jazz – Women of Chicago Jazz, March 23: Stein/Giallorenzo/Kirchen/Kirshner, 8:30pm Garfield Park Conservatory (see page 1) March 27 - 28: Schlippenbach Trio, 8:30pm March 13: (5pm) Jazz Links Jam Session, Jazz Showcase, 806 S. March 29: Geof Bradfield Nonet, 8:30pm Plymouth Ct., (see page 7) DRAKE HOTEL CHICAGO...... 140 E. Walton March 14: (7:30 pm) The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Coq d’Or at the Drake Hotel/312-932-4622 at the Studebaker Theater (see page 8) Thursdays through Saturdays: Jazz Vocalists, call for details. March 21: Digging Our Roots (5:30pm) Robert Irving III & Ayana EDDIE V’S...... 521 N Rush Street/312-595-1114 Contreras on Chicago Jazz & Pop, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington www.eddiev.com/home March 24: Noteworthy Jazz Ensemble (7:30 & 9:30pm) Room 43, ELASTIC ARTS...... 2830 N. /elasticarts.org 1043 E 43rd St. March 7: Diamond/Gillan Duo & Jakob Warmenbol Group, 9pm March 11: Alex Massa Trio & Vlatkovich Tryyo, 9pm *PLEASE NOTE: Not all clubs have their schedules March 14: Young/Foster/Zerang, 9pm CLUBS* set by our deadlines or present jazz exclusively. March 18: Twin Talk & Animal Mother, 9pm Call ahead or check their websites. March 21: Randi P Solo & RGB Trio, 9pm March 22: Devin Clara Fanslow, 8pm 210 RESTAURANT & LIVE MUSIC LOUNGE..... 210 Green Bay Rd, Highwood, IL/847-433-0304/210restaurant.com EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO...... 5925 N. Ravenswood The JazzLive@210 series is every Thursday 7-10pm. We also offer 773-998-1069/www.ess.org jazz or acoustic music Wednesdays 7-10pm. No cover FIFOLET CAJUN & COCKTAILS...... 1942 W. Division St/773-384-6886 March 1: Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra w Tanya Melamed, 8pm Wednesdays (8pm): Aaron Day Trio March 2: Angel Spiccia Duo, 5pm FITZGERALD’S...... 6615 Roosevelt, Berwyn/708-788-2118 March 3: Gritman and Moran, 5pm Wednesday SideBar Sessions sponsored by WDCB 90.9 Chicago’s March 5: Roy McGrath, 9:30pm Jazz Station, 8pm, $10 suggested donation March 6: Bill Porter, 7pm March 3: Chicago Grandstand , Woodridge Friends of March 10: Laury Shelley, 7pm Jazz, 5:30pm March 28: Rosie & the Rivets, 7pm March 6: Sidebar Sessions with Mitch Paliga Sextet 8:00pm ANDY’S ��������������������������������������������������������� 11 E. Hubbard/312-642-6805 March 7: Bitters (SideBar), 8:00pm Showtimes: 5pm & 7pm / 9:30pm & 11:30pm March 10: Jazz Community Big Band, 6:00pm March 13: SideBar Sessions w Chicago Latin Jazz Collective, 8pm Every Sunday: pm and 7pm - Charles Heath’s Early Risers Jazz Jam, March 17: Bill O'Connell's Chicago Skyliners, 6:00pm 9:30Pm and 11:30Pm - Pharez Whitted’s Late Night Jazz Jam March 20: SideBar Sessions with Jarod Bufe Quartet, 8:00pm Every Monday: 5pm and 7pm - Eric Schneider Quartet, 9:30Pm and March 27: SideBar Sessions with Jazz from Planet Flippo, 8:00pm 11:30Pm - Bowmanville March 31: British Buddy Alumni Big Band w vocalist Frieda Lee, 6pm March 5: 5-8:30pm - Private Event, 9:30pm and 11:30pm - After Dark A Tribute FITZ’S SPARE KEYS...... 119 N. York St, Elmhurst/630-379-5007 Every Tuesday: 5pm and 7pm - Vocalist Keri Johnsrud, 9:30pm and GOOD LIFE CAFÉ...... 2057 Ridge Road, Homewood/708-960-0418 11:30Pm - After Dark A Von Freeman Tribute Every Thursday at 7pm Every Wednesday: 5pm and 7pm - Andy Brown Quartet, 9:30pm GREEN MILL...... 4802 N. Broadway/773-878-5552 and 11:30pm - Mike Smith & The Jordan Baskin Trio SUNDAYS: (7pm-10pm) Uptown Poetry Slam/ (11pm) Soul Jazz Every Thursday: 5pm and 7pm - Pete Benson Organ Trio, 9:30 and Night with the Joel Paterson Trio featuring Chris Fore- 11:30pm - The Trumpet Summit man on the Hammond B-3 Organ Every Friday at 5pm and 7pm: Vocalist Elaine Dame March 16, 23, 30: (3pm-5pm) The Paper Machete | (8pm - mid- Friday, 1st: 9:30pm and 11:30pm - Typhanie Monique night) Leadbelly | (midnight - 5am) After Hours March 2nd: pm and 7pm - Sharel Cassity Quartet, 9:30 and 11:30- Party with Pat Mallinger & Company Typhanie Monique MONDAYS: (9pm-1am) Patricia Barber Quartet March 9: 5pm and 7pm, Alysa Allgood, 9:30 and 11:30 - Soul Mes- TUESDAYS: (9pm-1am) The Fat Babies sage Band CD Release Event WEDNESDAYS: (6:30pm-8pm) Paper Machete Cocktail Hour/ March 15: 9:30pm and 11:30pm - Ray Vega and Chad McCullough (9pm-1am) Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan/ March 16: 11AM to 4Pm - St. Patricks Day Parade Day Fun with The (2am) Late Night Industry Set with the Frank Mulligan Stew Band, 5pm and 7pm - Typhanie Monique, 9:30 and Catalano Sextet 11:30 - Ray Vega & Chad McCullough THURSDAYS: (5:30pm-8pm) Andy Brown Solo Cocktail March 22: 9:30pm and 11:30pm - George Fludas Group Hour Show/ (9pm-1am) Alan Gresik Swing Shift March 23: 5pm and 7pm - Sharel Cassity Quartet, 9:30pm and Orchestra 11:30Pm - George Fludas Group FRIDAYS: (5pm-8pm) “Flipside Show” with Chris Foreman on Ham- March 29: 9:30pm and 11:30Pm - Sax to the Bone Feat. Mike Smith mond B-3 Organ and Tom Garling March 1: 9pm - 1am Grazyna Auguscik and the Atom String March 30: 5pm and 7pm - Sharel Cassity Quartet, 9:330pm and Quartet immediately followed by After Hours Green Mill 11:30pm - Sax To The Bone Feat. Mike Smith & Tom Garling Quartet Jam Session BENNY’S CHOP HOUSE...... 444 N. Wabash/312-626-2444/ March 8: (9pm - 1am) Sabertooth immediately followed by After www.bennyschophouse.com Hours Green Mill Quartet Jam Session BUDDY GUY’S LEGENDS CHICAGO...... 700 S. Wabash Ave./ SATURDAYS: (3pm-5pm) The Paper Machete/(midnight-5am) After 312-427-1190/www.buddyguy.com. Sundays: 5-8pm Hours Jazz Party with Pat Mallinger and Company CAFE MUSTACHE...... 2313 N Milwaukee Ave./773-687-9063 March 2: (8pm - midnight) Grazyna Auguscik and the Atom String cafemustache.com Quartet Live music Tuesdays-Sundays March 9: (8pm - midnight) Chi Town Jazz Festival March 15: (9pm - 1am) Leadbelly immediately followed by After CALIFORNIA CLIPPER ...... 1002 N. California Ave. Hours Green Mill Quartet Jam Session Live music Tuesdays-Sundays: 8pm-1:30am March 22: (9pm - 1am) Julien Labro immediately followed by After CITY LIFE...... 712 E. 83rd/312-723-6700 Hours Green Mill Quartet Jam Session Sundays: 8:30pm-12:30am March 29: (9pm - 1am) Orrin Evans Trio immediately followed by CITY WINERY...... 1200 W. Randolph St/312-733-WINE After Hours Green Mill Quartet Jam Session www.citywinery.com HIDEOUT...... 1354 W. Wabansia/773-227-4433 CONSTELLATION...... 3111 N. Western/www.constellation.org Two sets, 9:30pm (unless otherwise noted) Show times and cover charges vary. Most shows 18 and over. February 10: Twin Talk record release, 9pm

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HONKY TONK BBQ...... 1800 S. Racine/312-226-7427 THE LIGHTHOUSE...... 1236 W. Chase/773-764-9414 Every Wed: The Blue Three, 6pm | Every Sun: Chicago Cellar Boys, 8pm Every other Thursday (free) featuring Jimmy Bennington HUNGRY BRAIN...... 10pm, 2319 W Belmont Ave/773-935-2118, $10 M LOUNGE...... 1520 S. Wabash/312-447-0201 Tuesday night fellowship hosted by Greg Ward, every Tues. at 9pm Free live music every Tuesday and Wednesday 7:00 - 10:00pm HYDE PARK JAZZ SOCIETY SUNDAY JAZZ AT ROOM 43...... MISKA’S...... 2156 W. Belmont/773-935-5373 1043 E. 43rd, hydeparkjazzsociety.com, Sundays, 7:30 & 9:30pm, $10 cash Sundays: 5:30pm-7pm. Improvisation jam session hosted by $5 for students with ID's Josh Beatty/Michael Baker/Henry Mayer March 3: Pat Mallinger, saxes MULLEN’S BAR AND GRILL...... 3080 Warrenville Rd., Lisle/630-505-0240 March 10 (double bill): 6pm: U-High Jazz Band, 7:30: Julius Tucker Thursdays: 8pm, Pete Ellman’s Big Band March 17: Ernie Adams, drums MULTI KULTI...... 1000 N. Milwaukee, 4th Floor, 10pm, March 24: Noteworthy Jazz Big Band Tuesdays: Jazz with Vincent Davis March 31: Joan Collaso Hosts 5th Sunday Jam Sundays: Improvisation jam session hosted by Henry Mayer 3RD TUESDAY AT CAFÉ LOGAN, (915 E. 60th Street) Free Music Monday: Inner City Studies, 700 E. Oakwood Blvd, 773-752-3955 March 19: Eric Schneider & Jeremy Kahn Second Monday of the month: 7pm-10pm (doors open at 6:30pm). ILLIANA CLUB OF TRADITIONAL JAZZ...... The Glendora House, Hosted by Joan Collaso and WVON Radio personality Cliff Kelley 102nd and Harlem, Chicago Ridge/708-672-3561, 2-5pm MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO...... Nicholas Concert Hall * $18 in advance; * $20 at door. Students with ID – free admission 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston/ 800-838-3006 / musicinst.org/jazz-festival www.illianajazz.com *Prices will vary according to band. MYOPIC BOOKS...... 1564 N. Milwaukee/773-862-4882 JAZZ COMMUNITY BIG BAND....www.jazzcommunitybigband.com Mondays: 7:30pm, Improvised Jazz Series And EVERY 4th Tuesday of the month: 119 N. York St., Elmhurst – NIRVANA WINE & GRILLERIE...... 701 N. Milwaukee, Ste. 280, free parking lot off back alley, 7pm, Pritzker College Prep Jazz Band Vernon Hills/847-918-7828, Fridays: 7pm, Matt Persin Acoustic JAZZY MONDAYS AT THE CENTER, A JCI/ICD PRODUCTION. NORMAN’S BISTRO...... 1001 E. 43rd/773-966-5821 700 E. Oakwood Blvd, Chicago/Reservations: 312-808-0005 Sundays: 9pm-midnight, Open Jam Sessions featuring Ernest Hosted by Joan Collaso & WVON’s Cliff Kelley, every 2nd Monday Dawkins with Dennis Luxion, Michael Lough, and Isaiah Spencer of the month! 6:30-9:30pm. Doors open 6pm. PETE MILLER’S...... 1557 Sherman, Evanston/847-328-0399 and JAZZ RECORD ART COLLECTIVE..1821 W. Hubbard/773-852-2481 412 N. Milwaukee, Wheeling/847-243-3700 Mon.-Sat. evenings: Live jazz www.jazzrecordartcollective.com. Wednesdays at Fulton Street Collective. All shows: 8pm Doors/9pm Show. $10 Suggested dona- PIANO FORTE...... 1335 S. Michigan Ave/312-291-0000 tion/$5 with valid student ID. All ages. Cash only. PHYLLIS’ MUSICAL INN...... 1800 W. Division/773-486-9862 March 6: Jazz Record Art Collective, Alex Beltran Quintet performs POPS FOR CHAMPAGNE...... 601 N. State/ 312-266-7677 Ammons and Stitt's 1961 release Boss Tenors, 9pm Sunday-Tuesday: 9pm, Joe Policastro Trio March 9: So Far Sounds, 7:30pm THE PROMONTORY...... 5311 South Lake Park Ave. March 13: Jazz Record Art Collective, Nick Mazzarella Quintet West Chicago (Hyde Park) promontorychicago.com performing Ornette Coleman’s 1972 release Crisis, 9pm March 21: a·pe·ri·od·ic, 7pm Doors, 7:30 Show THE RHYTHM ROOM...... 1715 Maple Ave. Evanston, IL March 23: Jennifer Wilhelms Duo, 1:30pm Doors, 2pm Show Friday and Saturday: 7pm-11pm, live jazz March 27: James Cook Quartet w/Carrier Trio, 8pm Doors, 8:30 Show SABOR A CAFE...... 2435 W. Peterson Ave./773-878-6327 March 28: Jazz Record Art Collective, Alysha Monique/Morgan .saboracaferestaurant.com. Live music Thurs to Sat. 9 & 10:30pm sets Pirtle Quintet perform the 1987 release Carmen McRae/ SERBIAN VILLAGE...... 3144 W. Irving Park Betty Carter Duets, 8pm Doors, 9pm Show Mondays: 9pm-1am, Pro Jazz Jam, Tom Muellner, piano, Jim Cox, March 30: Andrew Rathbun Quintet CD Release Tour, 8:30 Show bass, and Phil Gratteau, jam session JAZZ SHOWCASE...... 806 S. Plymouth Ct./312-360-0234 SKYLARK...... 2149 S. Halsted/312-948-5275/10pm Visit www.jazzshowcase.com for weekday JIC member discounts!  Monday Night: Improvised Music Series JIC member card required. Two sets: 8 & 10pm & Sun.matinee at 4pm. Two sets at 8pm & 10pm & Sunday matinee at 4pm. SLATE ARTS...... 3203 W. North Ave./ 847- 312-1527 March 1-2: Guitarist Andy Brown with Jeremy Kahn-piano, Joe SOME LIKE IT BLACK CREATIVE ARTS BAR..4259 S Cottage Grove Policastro-bass & Phil Gratteau-drums, 8pm & 10pm Ave/773-891-4866 March 3: Guitarist Andy Brown with Jeremy Kahn-piano, Joe Every 4th Wed. at 7pm: Young Lions Open Jam ft. Jeremiah Collier Policastro-bass & Phil Gratteau-drums, 4pm, 8pm & 10pm WATER HOLE...... 14th & Western Ave. March 4: Roosevelt University Jazz Ensemble, 7:30pm Wednesdays: 8-11:30pm, Weekly jam sessions on Thursdays – March 5: Flugelhornist Steve Schneck Quartet, 8pm & 10pm Velvet Sounds Series: A Tribute to Fred Anderson, house band: March 6: Vocalist Suneetha Vaitheswara Quartet, 8pm & 10pm Scott Hesse, guitar, Michael Lough, bass, Justin Thomas, vibes. March 7-9: Columbia College presents saxophonist Donny McCaslin Every last Friday of the month is Jazz Night and the Columbia Jazz Ensemble, 8pm & 10pm March 10: Columbia College presents saxophonist Donny McCaslin WHISTLER...... Logan Square/773-227-3530 and the Columbia Jazz Ensemble, 4 and 8pm Mondays (9pm): The Whistler Jam Featuring Matt Ulery and Quin March 11: Bob Lark & his Alumni Big Band, 8pm & 10pm Kirchner. Every Tuesday: 9:30pm, Relax Attack Jazz Series March 13: Jazz Links Jam Session 5pm-7pm (Free Concert), Saxo- WINTER’S .....465 N. McClurg Court (on the promenade) phonist Brian Gephart group, 8pm & 10pm 312.344.1270, www.wintersjazzclub.com, [email protected] March 14-16: Saxophonist Steve Wilson &The Analog Band, 8 & 10pm Sets: Tues. - Thurs. 7, 8:30, 10pm, Friday and Saturday 8, 9:30, 11pm March 17: Saxophonist Steve Wilson and The Analog Band, 4pm, March 1: Emmet Cohen Trio | March 2: NIU Faculty Quartet 8pm & 10pm March 3: Chicago Jazz Orchestra Quintet | March 5: Paul Marinaro March 19: Saxophonist Isaiah Collier and the Chosen Few, 8pm & Quartet | March 6: Pocket Change | March 7: Elaine Dame Trio 10pm March 8: Johnny O'Neal Quartet | March 9: Johnny O'Neal Quartet March 20: axophonist Mark Colby Quartet, 8pm & 10pm March 10: Fumeé Gypsy Project | March 12: Richard Johnson & Co. March 21-23 Pianist Chuchito Valdes Trio, 8pm & 10pm March 13: Neal Alger's Brazilian Trio | March 14:Jeremy Kahn Trio + March 24: Pianist Chuchito Valdes Trio, 4pm, 8pm & 10pm Spider Saloff | March 15: Chris Madsen + Alyssa Allgood March 25: Roosevelt University Jazz Ensemble, 7:30pm March 16: Chris Madsen + Alyssa Allgood | March 17: Chicago Jazz March 27: NIU Jazz Ensemble Fundraiser, 7pm until Orchestra | March 19: Paul Marinaro Quartet | March 20: Bourbon March 28-30: Alto sax Justin Robinson Quartet, 8pm & 10pm Street Quartet | March 21: Eric Jacobson Quartet | March 22: March 31: Alto sax Justin Robinson Quartet, 4pm,8pm & 10pm Gypsy Rhythm Project | March 23: Emily Braden Quartet | March JIMMY’S WOODLAWN TAP...... 1172 E. 55th/773-643-5516 24: Fumée Gypsy Project | March 26: Richard Johnson & Co. | Sundays: 9pm, Curtis Black Quartet/Jam Session Second Set March 27: Abby Riccards Quartet | March 28: Rajiv Halim Trio March 29: Pharez Whitted + Opal Staples | March 30: Pharez Whit- LE PIANO...... 6970 N. Glenwood/773-209-7631/lepianochicago.com ted + Opal Staples | March 31: Chicago Jazz Orchestra YASSA AFRICAN RESTAURANT...... 3511 S. King Drive/773-488-5599

JAZZ IN CHICAGO MARCH 2019 6 FROM THE ARCHIVES Jazz Sheet, Spring 1969

THE FIRST STEP by Larry Kart

The sun came out for The Jazz Institute's first concert, Sunday, March 16, at the Field Museum, and its warmth was met more than halfway by the warmth that flowed between musicians and audience. More people came out to hear jazz than any of us had expected (Museum officials estimated that more than 2,000 regrettably had to be turned away). The 1,150 listeners who were able to get in heard a concert that negotiated the history-of-jazz theme with unusual depth. The story began with the A.A.C.M. ensemble performing field hollers and work songs. The performance was not a re-creation, but an attempt at something more ambitious and honest--a view of the past through the eyes of today. J. B. Hutto and Lil Armstrong gave us the next two chapters, the country blues and ragtime, and then Franz Jackson and his Original Jass All Stars played selections associated with the musicians of New Orleans. Jackson's tribute to Jimmie Noone on Apex Blues was a highlight. Art' Hodes' group was scheduled to represent Chicago-style jazz, but the music also reflected later trends. Outstanding were the ball-bearing smooth rhythm team of bassist Rail Wilson and drummer Hillard Brown, and the trumpet work of guest Nap Trottier. After intermission, J.B. Hutto and his Hawks presented the electrified and electrifying blues of Chicago today. Although he was somewhat handicapped by the absence of his drummer, Hutto's music still came through powerfully. Next, altoist and flugelhornist Art Hoyle, with a rhythm section composed of A.A.C.M. members, performed two standards of the bop era, Groovin' High and Billie'sBounce. Like Hodes, Green and Co. incorporated the music of today in their trip backwards. Finally, the A.A.C.M. ensemble brought the story up to date. It was striking to hear how their music echoed the field hollers and work songs that had begun the Dan Morgenstern, Richard Abrams and Bob Koester plan JIC's first concert concert. Flugelhornist Leo Smith, like Nap Trottier earlier, made his horn sound like a man singing. John Stubblefield (of the A.A.C.M.) and Franz Jackson After the concert, a party-jam session was held at the (who played up a storm), and a rhythm section of pianist Club Tejar, and those fortunate enough to attend heard Richard Abrams (of the A.A.C.M.), bassist Truck Parham, more remarkable music. At one point the participants and drummer Wayne Jones (of the Original Salty Dogs). included flugelhornist Hoyle, cornetist George Finola (of Here were musicians of many eras finding a common Hodes' group), altoist Grady Johnson, tenor saxophonists ground. And that is what The Jazz Institute is all about. n

JAZZ IN CHICAGO MARCH 2019 7 JAZZLINKS PROGRAMS UPDATE JAM SESSIONS – NEW TIME & LOCATION! WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019 | 5-7PM JAZZ SHOWCASE | 806 S. PLYMOUTH CT. | FREE! Monthly jam sessions provide students with an opportunity to connect with other student musicians and perform with world-class professional Robert Irving III, Katie Ernst, Marcus Evans and Jarrard Harris in the Jazz Links house band. Hosted in partnership with the Jazz Showcase, the jam sessions provide everyone with a chance to see young talent develop right before their eyes and ears. photo by Lauren Deutsch

HUBERT LAWS AT STUDEBAKER THEATER Hubert Laws and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra will be presenting a concert in partnership with the Jazz Institute of Chicago on Thursday, March 14th at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building (410 S Michigan Ave). Laws is a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and one of the most respected flautists in the history of jazz music. Throughout his more than 50 year career, he has been nominated for 3 GRAMMYS and has performed and recorded with hundreds of musicians including , Mongo Santamaria, George Benson, Paul McCartney, and . The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (SMJO) presents concerts featuring transcribed works, new arrangements, commissioned works and programs that illuminate the work of jazz masters who contributed to the development of American jazz and defined the music’s character. More information about the SJMO can be found by visiting their website (americanhistory.si.edu). Tickets for the show start at $15 and can be purchased in advance by visiting our website www.jazzinchicago.org or calling the box office at 312-566-9800.

JAZZGRAM FORUM continued from page 3 A monthly newsletter published by the Jazz Institute of Chicago for its members. The Jazzgram represents the views of the authors, and unless so designated, does not reflect official policy of the Jazz Institute. We on in Washington these days, and a gentleman stood up welcome news and articles with differing opinions. and said, ‘We don’t want to hear that! Shut up and play Editor: Jason Koransky | Managing Editor: JIC Communications Design: Letterform | Production: Barbara Ciurej Design your music!’” Other attendees came to O’Farrill’s defense Correspondents: Rahsaan Clark Morris, Corey Hall, David Whiteis Board of Directors: while he played the song. After the verbal confrontation President: David Helverson Vice Presidents: Timuel Black, Warren Chapman, Brian Myerholtz, William Norris escalated and moved through the club, management Secretary: Howard Mandel ejected the man who had interrupted O’Farrill, along Treasurer: Darryl Wilson Emeritus Director: Joseph B. Glossberg with his disruptive friends. Executive Director: Heather Ireland Robinson Board Members: David Bloomberg, Miguel de la Cerna, Dan Epstein, Rajiv Halim, Afterwards, O’Farrill thanked the owner for supporting Jarrard Harris, Bill King, Jason Koransky, Terry Martin, Ted Oppenheimer, Bethany Pickens, Keyonn Pope, Mike Reed, Kent Richmond, Harold Rogers, Judith E. Stein, him. The owner responded by directing his attention to Conrad Terry, Neil Tesser the area directly behind the club. Founded in 1969, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, promotes and

nurtures jazz in Chicago by providing jazz education, developing and supporting musicians, “These people were outside screaming, ‘Heil Hitler!’ building Chicago audiences and fostering a thriving jazz scene. and giving the Nazi salute,” O’Farrill recalled. “They 410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 500, Chicago IL 60605 | 312-427-1676 • Fax: 312-427-1684 • JazzInChicago.org stood outside and yelled ‘Heil Hitler!’ for half an hour. The Jazz Institute of Chicago is supported in part by The Alphawood Foundation | The Francis Beidler This is no joke; this is survival, people. This is the most Foundation | The Chicago Community Trust | A CityArts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events | Crown Family Philanthropies | The Philip Darling Foundation | The important thing we have to deal with in our lives.” Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation | The Arts Council Agency | Lloyd A. Fry Foundation | The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince | The National Endowment for the Arts | The Oppenheimer Rene Marie agreed. “We just can’t coddle the music Family Foundation | The Polk Bros. Foundation | The Benjamin Rosenthal Foundation | Wells Fargo Foundation and expect anything to change.” n DATED MATERIAL

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