SEPTEMBER 28 & 29 WELCOME TO THE 13TH ANNUAL HYDE PARK FESTIVAL We hope you enjoy this free two-day celebration of jazz, creativity, and community on the South Side of .

DAVID BOYKIN: ABEEKU whose name honors the great composer of the 20th Welcome to the 13th Annual Hyde Park Jazz SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 3:30–4:30PM century, is one of the leading string quartets in Poland. Festival. We hope you enjoy this free two-day Little Black Pearl This project is co-presented with: Jazztopad Festival/ National Forum of Music in Wrocław in cooperation celebration of jazz, creativity, and communi- ABEEKU, one of the latest facets of the artistic with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and with support ty on the South Side of Chicago. expression of composer, saxophonist, and bandleader from Polish Consulate in Chicago. /// The musicians: DAVID BOYKIN, combines electro-soul, golden-era hip- The Hyde Park Jazz Festival was created in Amir ElSaffar – composition, , vocals; Ksawery hop production, and spiritual jazz into a sensuous blend late 2006 when cultural leaders on the South Wójciński – double bass; Wacław Zimpel – clarinet; of Afro-electronic bliss. /// The musicians: David Boykin – Side met with the Hyde Park Jazz Society to Lutosławski Quartet:; Robert Kwiatkowski – 1st violin; drum machines, digital samplers, synthesizer, sax, vocals; develop an annual event that would bring new Marcin Markowicz – 2nd violin; Artur Rozmysłowicz – Emelda Lawson – keyboards; Adam Zanolini – bass audiences to Hyde Park and celebrate jazz’s viola; Maciej Młodawski – cello great legacy and bright future on Chicago’s South Side. The ’s Office AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE TRIO featuring ANDY OBERHAUSEN’S of Civic Engagement stepped up to assist this KRIS DAVIS and NASHEET WAITS BREADWINNERS grassroots effort. The Festival now includes more SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 8:00–9:00PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1:30–2:30PM than 34 programs in a dozen venues across the & 9:30–10:30PM Oriental Institute neighborhood. We are tremendously grateful to Logan Center Performance Penthouse all of our sponsors, donors, and venue partners ANDY OBERHAUSEN’S BREADWINNERS is a dynamic AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE is on a quest for new for their continued support. original music project existing somewhere between the paradigms, weaving inspiration from various genres, The concerts/programs in the 2019 Hyde Park fluid intersection of jazz, rock, and experimental music. arts, and experiences into bold, new, and unflinching Jazz Festival represent the creative diversity Led by saxophonist Andy Oberhausen, this Chicago- yet graceful forms. Pianist-composer KRIS DAVIS is the in Chicago jazz and feature some of the most based quartet melds complex composition, effects, and Associate Director of Creative Development at Berklee compelling emerging and venerable artists free-wheeling improvisation into a powerful creative for the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. She runs on the national and international scene, all statement which defies expectations at every turn. presented in more than a dozen of the most her own contemporary jazz and improvisation label, /// The musicians: Kurt Lubbe – drums; Andy distinctive settings anywhere. and has been voted both Rising Star Artist and Rising Oberhausen – alto sax and effects; Patrick Mulcahy – Star Pianist in Downbeat. Drummer and music educator In addition to performances and other programs, bass; Tim Stine – guitar the Festival includes local cuisine, artisan pop- NASHEET WAITS is a New York native and son of up shops, picnic areas, a story share booth, legendary percussionist Frederick Waits. He has played ANGEL BAT DAWID’S and an outdoor dance floor. The Festival has as a member of M’BOOM and several Antonio Hart also expanded its support of artists in the ensembles. /// The musicians: Ambrose Akinmusire – REQUIEM FOR JAZZ development of special projects. This year in trumpet; Kris Davis – piano; Nasheet Waits – drums SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1:00–2:00PM collaboration with the Logan Center, we are Logan Center Performance Hall pleased to commission Chicago composers, AMIR ELSAFFAR’S AHWAAL, featuring In the film, The Cry of Jazz, Chicago-born composer, Angel Bat Dawid and Isaiah Collier. In addition, we KSAWERY WÓJCIŃSKI, WACŁAW filmmaker, and writer Edward Bland declares: “Jazz is are extremely excited to welcome six musicians dead.” And in her 12-part, orchestrated funeral mass from Poland, who will perform with Chicago- ZIMPEL, and LUTOSŁAWSKI QUARTET REQUIEM FOR JAZZ, born composer and trumpeter Amir ElSaffar in SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 11:00PM–MIDNIGHT service avant-garde composer, the Rockefeller Chapel for what promises to be Rockefeller Chapel clarinetist, and singer ANGEL BAT DAWID responds. Drawing on themes from the film, as well as on the an extraordinary listening experience. Amir ElSaffar presents the Chicago premiere of musical healing work of spirituals and hush harbors, The Hyde Park Jazz Festival would not be AHWAAL, a program mixing different musical worlds Requiem for Jazz explores and memorializes the death possible without the support of our nearly 300 and blurring intercultural borders. Ahwaal is an and ongoing life of jazz, and features Chicago-based volunteers. If you ever want to know what keeps important concept in Sufism, describing the states of and Chicago-influenced musicians, dancers, and visual the Festival Team going, it’s the support and consciousness (including joy, fear, ecstasy, intoxication, artists. /// The musicians: Vincent Davis – percussion; enthusiasm that come from a community of and intimacy) that define spiritual progression toward individuals willing to contribute their time and Dr. Charles Joseph Smith – piano; Dr. Adam Zanolini – the divine, and transcendence of the ego-self. energy to make the Festival happen. All of the flute; Xristian Espinoza – tenor saxophone; Isaiah The states are said to arise and vanish, as flashes of artists who have agreed to share their work with Collier – soprano saxophone; Jayden Berkman – tenor lightning. One of the most sought-after jazz double you are extraordinary. I invite you to consider the saxophone; Sam Trump – trumpet; Julian Otis – tenor; bassists in Poland, KSAWERY WÓJCIŃSKI activates significance of this event for Chicago and the Phillip Armstrong – baritone; Aquarius Ester – dance; his gift of lightness, easiness, and musical erudition opportunity you have to help us keep it FREE. Viktor Le Givens – dance; Norman W. Long – electronics; to switch between guises and stylistics — from jazz We would like to be here for everyone well Jonathan Woods – visuals; J’niya Blunt – violin; Jeremiah in its more accessible form, through avant-garde, to into the future. We sincerely appreciate your Hunt – bass; Tramaine Parker – soprano; Monique Polish folk music. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and contributions at the venues of $5 — or perhaps Golding – alto; Hannah Washington – clarinet; Fred $13 for 13 years — to help us keep going! producer WACŁAW ZIMPEL is inspired by electronics, Jackson Jr. – alto saxophone; Michelle Manson – viola; minimalism, and roots music from across the world, Thank you and ENJOY! Liz Gomez – visual artist; Dajour Smith – violin in addition to jazz. He applies endless possibilities of Artistic and Executive Director Kate Dumbleton, electronics and loops to his oeuvre to create a whole new musical language. The LUTOSŁAWSKI QUARTET, ANGELO HART TRIO in music. Former Artistic Director of the Chicago Jazz JOEY BRINK SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 4:00–5:00PM Ensemble, Hall is currently a Professor of Jazz Studies and SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1:00–2:00PM Hyde Park Bank at DePaul and Director of the DePaul Rockefeller Chapel Carillon Jazz Studies program. /// The musicians: Geof Bradfield College friends ANGELO HART (a pianist) and JOEY BRINK is the official University Carillonneur at – saxophones, bass clarinet; Victor Garcia – trumpet; BEN DILLINGER (bassist) recently teamed up with the University of Chicago, where he performs twice – drums/cymbals; Clark Sommers – bass; John saxophonist JAKE WARK, and the musical connection daily on the 72-bell Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and Wojciechowski – alto and tenor saxophones, flutes was instantaneous. Now a dynamic trio, they explore directs the University of Chicago Guild of Carillonneurs. the vast possibilities of composition and improvisation, GREG WARD’S ROGUE PARADE /// The musicians: Joey Brink – carillon and the ways in which one is rooted within the other. /// The musicians: Ben Dillinger – bass; Angelo Hart – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 4:00–5:00PM JUAN PASTOR’S CHINCHANO Wagner Stage at Midway Plaisance & Woodlawn Ave. piano; Jake Wark – tenor saxophone SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 5:00–6:00PM Considered one of the most versatile saxophonists of his West Stage at Midway Plaisance & Ellis Ave. QUINTET generation, bandleader, composer, and arranger GREG Drummer/percussionist and composer JUAN PASTOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1:30–2:30PM WARD is proud to present his new, innovative group finds himself caught between two homes: his native Wagner Stage at Midway Plaisance & Woodlawn Ave. ROGUE PARADE, which uses a unique exploration of Lima, Peru, and Chicago, where he has lived for the two-guitar instrumentation to blend the sonic worlds A Chicago native, ARI BROWN is an internationally past thirteen years. The uniquely impassioned sound of acoustic and electric. /// The musicians: Matt Gold – renowned saxophonist, flautist, and pianist, as well as a of his ensemble, CHINCHANO, draws life from both guitar; Quin Kirchner – drums; Dave Miller – guitar; Matt prolific arranger, composer, and teacher. He began his sources — blending nostalgic Peruvian melodies and Ulery – bass; Greg Ward – alto saxophone professional career in the 1960s, performing soul, rock, electrifying South American percussion rhythms with blues, jazz, and R&B with such artists as B.B. King and IRVIN PIERCE QUARTET North American Jazz harmonies and the Chicago blues Chuck Berry. Since 1979, Brown has performed almost aesthetic. /// The musicians: Juan Pastor – drums and exclusively in the jazz idiom, playing across the U.S. and SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 3:45–4:45PM cajon; Stu Mindeman – piano; Patrick Mulcahy – bass; throughout the world. /// The musicians: Yosef Ben- Wagner Stage at Midway Plaisance & Woodlawn Ave. Rich Moore – alto saxophone; Tito Carrillo – trumpet; Israel – bass; Ari Brown – tenor saxophone; Kirk Brown Saxophonist IRVIN PIERCE has played the Chicago Special Guest: Victor Gonzalez – congas – piano; Dr. Cuz – percussion; Aveeayl Ra – drums Jazz Festival, Taste of Chicago (alongside Nico Segal), Pitchfork (with Chance the Rapper), and others. KARUNA: HAMID DRAKE AND ADAM BILL MACKAY / KATINKA KLEIJN DUO player JOEL ROSS is known not only for RUDOLPH DUET SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 5:00–6:00PM his technical skill and virtuosity, but also for the way he SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 3:00–4:00PM Augustana Lutheran Church moves audiences. Bassist IVAN TAYLOR is a Juilliard Augustana Lutheran Church grad who has played with the All-State Jazz Band BILL MACKAY and KATINKA KLEIJN met through and The Grammy Band, as well as with Chicago Jazz The HAMID DRAKE AND ADAM RUDOLPH DUET mutual friends and noticed an immediate creative bond, masters and Orbert Davis. Commonly began with a chance encounter between two fourteen- as well as a shared interest in varied music styles and year-old aspiring percussionists in a downtown referred to as a “beat scientist,” MAKAYA McCRAVEN the possibilities inherent in improvisation. MacKay, a melds jazz, hip-hop, rock, and global rhythmic traditions. Chicago drum shop. Since that fateful day, Drake and guitarist, composer, and Drag City recording artist, and Rudolph’s shared interest in rhythms of the world /// The musicians: Makaya McCraven – drums; Irvin Kleijn, a classical cellist and veteran of the Chicago Pierce – saxophone; Joel Ross – vibes; Ivan Taylor – bass and music’s relationship to matters of the spirit has Symphony Orchestra and International Contemporary taken them around the world. The name of their duet, Ensemble, formed an unlikely yet perfect pair, and ISAIAH COLLIER AND THE CHOSEN KARUNA, reflects the duo’s ongoing research into the have spent the ensuing years joining forces regularly, FEW: THE STORY OF 400 YEARS connection of the inner life to musical expression, and exploring influences as disparate as avant-rock, folk, the idea of creative action as a gesture of compassion. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 9:30–10:30PM jazz, and chamber music. /// The musicians: Katinka /// The musicians: Hamid Drake – , vocal, frame Kleijn – cello; Bill MacKay – guitar Logan Center Performance Hall drums, bata, tabla, percussion; Adam Rudolph – handrumset An alumnus of ChiArts and the Jazz Institute of (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba), thumb pianos, sintir, BILL MCFARLAND Chicago, ISAIAH COLLIER has been playing in Chicago multiphonic vocal, percussion, electronic processing & THE CHICAGO HORNS for about four years. His latest work — THE STORY OF SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 3:00–4:00PM 400 YEARS — sonically illustrates the African Diaspora, PANEL DISCUSSION: LADIES AND West Stage at Midway Plaisance & Ellis Ave. serving as a reminder not only of the cruel origins of GENTLEMEN OF JAZZ America, but also of the role that people of African BILL McFARLAND & THE CHICAGO HORNS, whose SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2:00–3:00PM descent have played in originating much of its culture. sound has been described as smooth as Jazztet, Logan Center Screening Room /// The musicians: Isaiah Collier – sax; Brent Griffin Jr. – energetic as , manage to create alto saxophone; Angel Bat Dawid – clarinets; Norman In the mid-1950s, Jazz in the Alley emerged as a weekly, a big band sound with just seven musicians. /// The Palm – trombone; Matthew Davis – trombone; Bobby self-organized community gathering in a Bronzeville musicians: Kenny Anderson – trumpet; Felton Cruise – Cooper – trumpet; Randy Price – trumpet; Jeremiah alley, convening DJs, musicians, and neighbors to enjoy bass; Kirk Brown – piano; Hank Ford – saxophone; Hunt – bass; Vincent Davis – drums; Frank Menzies – music, food, drink, and community. When Jazz in the Jeremiah Collier – drums; Bill McFarland – trombone; piano; Kennedy Banks – choreographer; Sydney Shearer – Alley closed after nearly 30 years, Alley DJs and, later, Will Crosby – guitar dancer; Jayda Perry – dancer; DeSean Townsend – dancer; members of the now inactive “Jazz Junction,” kept its spirit alive by spinning jazz records at neighborhood DANA HALL’S SPRING Ahmad Hill – dancer; Indya Gray – cello; J’Niya Blunt – violin; Celeste Coleman – viola; Dajour Smith – violin; establishments. Other iterations of the original concept, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 6:15–7:15PM Jayda Perry – dancer; DeSean Townsend – dancer; most notably Universal Jazz Alley, continue today. Join Wagner Stage at Midway Plaisance & Woodlawn Ave. Ahmad Hill – dancer some of the original Alley DJs, including the first women DJs, to discuss the significance of these much-celebrated Drummer, percussionist, composer, bandleader, educator, convenings. Panelists include EMMA MACHEN, LEDA and ethnomusicologist DANA HALL has been a consequential musician in the international music scene THOMAS, MAXINE PARSON, MICHAEL EVANS, and Moderating will be artist and since 1992, when he left aerospace engineering for a life JAMES TAYLOR. community historian MAGGIE BROWN. MAGGIE BROWN GROUP NOTEWORTHY JAZZ ENSEMBLE BAND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2:00–3:00PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 5:00–6:00PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 6:00–7:00PM Wagner Stage at Midway Plaisance & Woodlawn Ave. West Stage at Midway Plaisance & Ellis Ave. Wagner Stage at Midway Plaisance & Woodlawn Ave. Described as “one of the most fiercely committed artists Quite possibly the only band of its kind in the country, Currently the Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony in Chicago,” MAGGIE BROWN is an accomplished NOTEWORTHY JAZZ ENSEMBLE is comprised entirely Orchestra’s Jazz Orchestra, performer, educator, singer, songwriter, stage director, producer, and of CPS music teachers, many of whom are also their composer, producer, and clinician PHAREZ WHITTED educator. Whether she is presenting with her own schools’ jazz band directors. Formed as an outgrowth has performed throughout the U.S. and overseas, trio, with Orbert Davis’ full 60-piece Chicago Jazz of the Jazz Institute of Chicago’s Jazz Links Teachers’ including at Presidential Inaugurations, on The Billboard Philharmonic Orchestra, or singing blues, gospel, Advisory Council, Noteworthy provides a way for Music Awards, at Carnegie Hall, and in major jazz pop, or rap, Miss Brown is a true entertainer who teachers to “practice what they teach.” It also acts as festivals. He is Coordinator of the Chicago division of embodies a powerful and passionate performance. a model for music teachers around the country, and the Jazz and Democracy program; /// The musicians: Maggie Brown – vocals; Miguel de la serves as a living platform for jazz advocacy and support a Clinician for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Cerna – piano; Ivan Taylor – bass; Kenari Allison – drums; for arts education in public schools. The Jazz Institute Ellington Program; Jazz Mentor for the Jazz Scholar Sam Moshing – guitar; Isaiah Collier – saxophone is proud to partner this initiative. /// Conductor: Program; and a member of the Board of Directors for Madeleine Mollinedo; Saxophones: Dale Craine, the Jazz Education Network. /// The musicians: Eddie MARLENE ROSENBERG TRIO Talib Dauda, Brandon Harding, Tyrone Hines, Gerard Bayard – tenor sax; Runere Brooks – bass; Andrew SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 5:30–6:30PM Matthews, Shemeka Nash; : Mark Coulter, Toombs – piano/keys; Xazavian Valladay – drums; Pharez Hyde Park Bank William McClellan, Madeleine Mollinedo, Phillip Whitted – trumpet Moore; Trombones: Lawrence Cooper, Christopher MARLENE ROSENBERG has emerged as one of the Dixon, Michael McCain, Dean Thornton; Rhythm: PROJECT TOOL most talented and multi-faceted bassists on the scene Henry Bardwell – guitar, Saundra Brown – piano, today. She has played professionally throughout the SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 6:00–7:00PM Philip Castleberry – bass, Ronald Dennis – drums, U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Japan. Meanwhile, Sweet Water Foundation Bobie Knight – piano, Shelly Samuels – percussion, Rosenberg also teaches jazz bass studio and coordinates PROJECT TOOL is a dance and movement performance Eric T. Scott – drums the Jazz combo program at Northern Illinois University, choreographed to enable the dancers to explore the and is Instructor of Bass as an applied artist lecturer at OCCIDENTAL BROTHERS relationship between mind, body, and tool — in part Roosevelt University. She plays regularly with her own DANCE BAND INT’L through the process of building their own dance floor ensemble, MRQ. /// The musicians: Marlene Rosenberg – as part of the performance. As the dancers build, they bass; Luther Allison – piano; Xavier Breaker – drums SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 7:15–8:15PM collaborate with tools as partners to the body. The West Stage at Midway Plaisance & Ellis Ave. actual, real-time making of the floor through sawing, PANEL DISCUSSION: AN AFTERNOON THE OCCIDENTAL BROTHERS’ blend of high-energy hammering, sanding, and nailing has the effect of WITH AUTHOR NATALIE Y. MOORE soukous, rootsy Ghananian Highlife, and African Jazz unearthing an improvisational aural and visual landscape SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 3:00–4:00PM conjures the sound of the golden age of the African guitar in which tasks, tools, and body all work together. The Logan Center Screening Room band. Founded in Chicago, the group has collaborated sound, designed by Damon Locks, likewise engages with musicians from Ghana, Congo, and Zambia. tools — drum machines, sampler, synths, and effects — In this program, award-winning journalist, Chicago Bandleader and guitarist NATHANIEL BRADDOCK was to bend sound, form sculpture, and effect time through Sun-Times columnist, and WBEZ’s South Side Reporter a faculty member at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk the air. /// Artistic Director: Onye Ozuzu; Performers: NATALIE Y. MOORE will explore some of the central Music for ten years and is a veteran of Chicago’s indie Aaliyah Christina, Keyierra Collins, Keisha Bennett, themes from her book, The South Side: A Portrait of rock scene. /// The musicians: Nathaniel Braddock – Jessica Marasa, Onye Ozuzu; Floor Designer Steve Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 guitar; Greg Artry – drums; Joshua Ramos – bass guitar; Silber; Sound Designer Damon Locks; Videographer Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction. Moore’s Greg Ward – alto saxophone Jovan Landry; Projection Designer Simon Rouby; enterprising reporting, tackling topics such as race, Dramaturg Brianna Alexis Heath; Visual Designer Petra segregation, housing, food injustice, and violence, has ORBERT DAVIS SEXTET: Probstner; Wood and Fabrication Consultant Bryan been published in Essence, Ebony, Chicago Tribune, New Saner; Fabricators: Keisha Bennett, Keyierra Collins, York Times, The Guardian, and others, and broadcast on IN THE SPIRIT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2:30–3:30PM Jessica Marasa, Onye Ozuzu, Sweet Water Foundation, the BBC, NPR’s Morning Edition, and elsewhere. Joining Anna Martine Whitehead Moore will be Yvonne Moore (the author’s mother) and Hyde Park Union Church Brandi Kenner-Bell (the author’s friend), both of whom Emmy-Award-winning trumpeter, composer, and RICHARD JOHNSON (SOLO) were central to the book’s narrative and formation. educator ORBERT DAVIS is co-founder, conductor, and SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 3:30–4:30PM artistic director of Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, a 55+ Logan Center Performance Penthouse NICK MAZZARELLA QUINTET piece symphonic jazz orchestra dedicated to bringing SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 4:15–5:15PM together audiences of diverse backgrounds through RICHARD D. JOHNSON has cultivated a rich jazz Hyde Park Union Church multi-genre projects. He is widely respected as a leader resume, including studies with legendary musicians at in Chicago’s arts and culture community, and for his esteemed institutions, and performances with some of The NICK MAZZARELLA QUINTET features some distinctive ability to use his musical talents to make the field’s best. Johnson has also offered opportunities of the most active and versatile musicians working in positive impacts on society. For this performance, Davis to others. He started the Reach Afar program, to Chicago’s vibrant jazz and improvised music scenes has convened a special group to pay tribute to the great educate young people about elements of jazz in hip- today. The project is dedicated to exploring the Chicago pianist , who played regularly hop. As a representative of the U.S. through the State intersection between the blues and the avant-garde, for Sunday services at the Hyde Park Union Church. Department, he was named Musical Ambassador — through an extensive repertoire of Mazzarella’s original /// The musicians: Orbert Davis – trumpet; Rajiv Halim – completing six state department tours and performing compositions and arrangements of classic material. alto saxophone; John Moulder – guitar; Stewart Miller – in more than 76 countries. Recently, he became a /// The musicians: Nick Mazzarella – alto saxophone, bass; Ernie Adams – drums; Reggie Thomas – Ambassador for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Here in compositions Nate Lepine – tenor saxophone, flute; Tim Chicago, he teaches piano for the Ravinia Jazz Program. Stine – guitar; Matt Ulery – bass; Quin Kirchner – drums /// The musicians: Richard D. Johnson – piano DJ SADIE WOODS THE ALEXANDER/MCLEAN PROJECT TIA FULLER’S DIAMOND CUT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 9:15–10:30PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 7:00–8:00PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 8:15–9:15PM West Stage at Midway Plaisance & Ellis Ave. International House Wagner Stage at Midway Plaisance & Woodlawn Ave. SADIE WOODS has held deejay residencies throughout DEE ALEXANDER is one of Chicago’s most respected TIA FULLER has been featured on the cover of Chicago for over a decade. Beginning as a curator at female vocalists. She has received the Chicagoan of Saxophone Today, Jazz Education Journal, Downbeat, the arts nonprofits Marwen and Gallery 718 in Pilsen, the Year in Jazz award and the 3Arts Award for Music, and JazzTimes, and received Downbeat’s Rising Star Woods used her skills to create sound installations presented her own Jazz Institute of Chicago commission designation—two years in a row—for soprano sax, alto for her exhibitions. In 2007, she co-founded the at the Pritzker Pavilion, and performed with a who’s who sax, and flute. She has toured the world with megastars deejay collective, White Label, with DJ Madrid, of Chicago’s jazz elite. She has also toured extensively including Erykah Badu, Janelle Monáe, Aretha Franklin, focusing on deejay performance and music curation. and leads her own quartet, as well as the Evolution and Beyoncé (twice), with stops at the BET Awards, She has showcased her talents everywhere from Ensemble. Guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, American Music Awards, Grammy Awards, and the academia and museums to nightclubs and boutiques. bandleader, and educator JOHN McLEAN has toured Obama White House. Her own quartet has performed /// The musicians: Sadie Woods – turntables and led clinics throughout the world, and appeared on worldwide, including at Lincoln Center’s prestigious over fifty recordings./// The musicians: Dee Alexander – Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. Fuller is a professor at the SAM TRUMP QUARTET vocals; Charles Heath – drums; Jeremiah Hunt – bass; . /// The musicians: Tia Fuller – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 5:00–6:00PM John McLean – guitar; Steve Million – keyboard/organ alto saxophone; Andrew Renfroe – guitar; Endea Owens – Little Black Pearl bass; Joe Dyson – drums THE GREG ARTRY QUARTET Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist SAM TRIO MOKILI TRUMP is widely known as a band leader, sideman, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1:00–2:00PM mentor, and music curator. Co-Founder of ChiBrations, Smart Museum SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2:30–3:30PM West Stage at Midway Plaisance & Ellis Ave. a social platform that highlights soul singers in Chicago, A recent transplant from the city of , GREG Trump is also an original member of the long-standing ARTRY has formed his quartet from the best of the best TRIO MOKILI play roots and jazz-inflected arrangements hip-hop/soul/jazz band, Sidewalk Chalk. Deemed a that Chicago has ever seen. With passion, sensitivity, of music from across Africa, and spiraling into deep “Renaissance Musician” by Chicago Tribune, Trump is and beauty, the goal of this band is to groove hard and improvisations informed by other works. NATHANIEL known for bringing a sophisticated, soulful vibe with sing from the heart. /// The musicians: Greg Artry – BRADDOCK is a well-known practitioner of African him wherever he goes. /// The musicians: Sam Trump – drums; – guitar; Dennis Carroll – bass; guitar styles, and collaborates extensively with musicians vocals/trumpet; Justin Dillard – keyboards; Jeremiah Greg Ward – alto saxophone; special guest: Bobbi from Mali, Ghana, Zambia, and Congo. MAKAYA Hunt – bass; Jonathan Marks – drums Wilsyn – vocals MCCRAVEN is known as a star of the new jazz and for his chart-topping records, Universal Beings and In the SHANTA NURULLAH TRIO OCCIDENTAL BROTHERS DANCE Moment. JUNIUS PAUL brings profound groove and SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 3:30–4:30PM BAND INTERNATIONAL dazzling improvisational intuition to create a rootsy and Oriental Institute SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 7:15–8:15PM riveting live experience, invoking both the golden age of African guitar music and the experimentation of the SHANTA NURULLAH has distinguished herself as West Stage at Midway Plaisance & Ellis Ave. avant-garde. /// The musicians: Nathaniel Braddock – a sitarist and bassist exploring African-American THE OCCIDENTAL BROTHERS’ blend of high-energy guitar; Makaya McCraven – drums; Junius Paul – bass improvisational music. She teaches at Chicago’s Old soukous, rootsy Ghananian Highlife, and African Jazz Town School of Folk Music. ALEX WING is a guitarist, conjures the sound of the golden age of the African guitar WILLIE JONES III SEXTET FEATURING bassist, oudist, and creative musician living on the south band. Founded in Chicago, the group has collaborated RENEE NEUFVILLE side of Chicago. FRED JACKSON, JR. currently works with musicians from Ghana, Congo, and Zambia. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 5:00–6:00PM as an educator, and composes and performs both avant- Bandleader and guitarist NATHANIEL BRADDOCK was garde and traditional jazz. /// The musicians: Fred a faculty member at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Logan Center Performance Hall Jackson, Jr. – saxophones; Shanta Nurullah – sitar, mbira, Music for ten years and is a veteran of Chicago’s indie One of jazz’s most sought-after drummers, WILLIE spoken word; Alex Wing – guitar, oud, bass rock scene. /// The musicians: Nathaniel Braddock – JONES III leads an all-star, straight-ahead ensemble guitar; Greg Artry – drums; Joshua Ramos – bass guitar; to celebrate the music of the late, great . SYLVIE COURVOISIER & MARY Greg Ward – alto saxophone Jones, who for nearly ten years performed in Hargrove’s HALVORSON DUO best-known quintets and the powerhouse RH Factor, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 7:00–8:00PM THE REGULATORS honors the trumpeter whose groundbreaking work Logan Center Performance Hall SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2:30–3:30PM influenced musicians across genres. The sets, featuring alumni from Hargrove’s groups, will include RH Factor’s The debut recording of SYLVIE COURVOISIER AND Smart Museum Crazy Race; sextet tunes including the up-tempo MARY HALVORSON was described as a “meeting of came together for the purpose of THE REGULATORS Public Eye; and Never Let Me Go, one of Hargrove’s two of the brightest minds on the edgier side of jazz developing free grooves—but when they noticed favorite ballads. /// The musicians: Gerald Cannon – today.” Pianist and composer SYLVIE COURVOISIER that most of the odd-meter experiments in jazz lacked a bass; Tadataka Unno – piano; Giveton Gelin – trumpet; has performed and recorded extensively — solo; in depth of pocket, they dedicated themselves to restoring Willie Jones III – drums; Renee Neufville – vocals; Justin duo with Mark Feldman; in trio with Kenny Wollesen the funk. Grounded in the rhythmic frameworks of Robinson – alto saxophone and Drew Gress; and in her own and other ensembles. funky New Orleans styles and musical traditions that go Guitarist and composer MARY HALVORSON has been beyond 4/4 meter, the trio experiments with a host of described as “a singular talent,” and been celebrated sounds and rhythms to produce pieces that might be as guitarist, Rising Star Jazz Artist, and Rising Star based in 17-, 23-, or 37-beat structures, although you Composer of the Year. Their duo presents adventurous probably wouldn’t notice because they groove so hard.. and intricate music, featuring original compositions by /// The musicians: Mike Allemana – guitar; Gerald both musicians. /// The musicians: Sylvie Courvoisier – Dowd – drums; Matt Ferguson – bass piano; Mary Halvorson – guitar Enter/Exit TH ST Lake Shore Drive CHICAGO LOOP Metra Augustana LITTLE BLACK 7 MILES PEARL Lutheran Church TH ST 5500 South Woodlawn Avenue E G DR E E D I S O R C Exit Lake

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INFO BOOTH REFRESHMENTS: Light refreshments are offered FREE BUS SERVICE: The Midway PARKING: All University of Chicago surface at many venues. Enjoy a variety of foods and Plaisance will serve as the transportation lots are free and open to the public for the Jazz beverages to satisfy all tastes on the Midway. Beer hub for the Festival. Buses will service all Festival. The majority of festival venues are located DIVVY BIKE STATION and wine available. Open Saturday venues during performance hours. Route in close proximity to each other. Attendees are 1:00pm–10:00pm and Sunday 1:00pm–7:00pm. information will be posted on buses and encouraged to park and then walk to the venues The Midway will also feature a variety of artisans, available at venues. Many venues are of interest. The Parking Garage at 55th & JAZZ PASS ELIGIBLE VENUES merchants and non-profit vendors for your enjoyment. within walking distance of each other. Ellis/Greenwood will be open at a nominal charge. *last bus departs Sweetwater to Midway at 7:15

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is free but a minimum donation of www.hydeparkjazzfestival.org $5 per person is appreciated so we can keep it that way! Please consider making a contribution at any of the Festival venues. #hydeparkjazzfest 2019 HYDE PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 VENUES 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00

Willie Jones III Sylvie Courvoisier Isaiah Collier & The LOGAN CENTER Angel Bat Dawid’s Sextet & Mary Halvorson Chosen Few: The PERFORMANCE HALL Requiem for Jazz featuring Renee Duo Story of 400 Years 1:00 – 2:00 pm Neufville 915 E. 60th Street pm pm 5:00 – 6:00 pm 7:00 – 8:00 9:30 – 10:30 LOGAN CENTER Ambrose Ambrose Akinmusire Trio Akinmusire Trio PENTHOUSE featuring Kris Davis featuring Kris Davis 915 E. 60th Street & Nasheet Waits & Nasheet Waits 8:00 – 9:00 pm 9:30 – 10:30 pm An Afternoon LOGAN CENTER The Ladies and with Author SCREENING ROOM Gentlemen of Jazz Natalie Y. Moore (Panel Discussion) (Panel Discussion) 915 E. 60th Street pm 2:00 – 3:00 3:00 – 4:00 pm

Irvin Pierce Dana Hall’s Tia Fuller’s Maggie Brown Greg Ward’s Pharez Whitted WAGNER STAGE MIDWAY Ari Brown Quintet Quartet Spring Diamond Cut Group Rogue Parade Band 1:30 – 2:30 pm Plaisance & Woodlawn Ave. 3:45 – 4:45 pm 6:15 – 7:15 pm 8:15 – 9:15 pm 2:00 – 3:00 pm 4:00 – 5:00 pm 6:00 – 7:00 pm

Occidental Noteworthy Jazz Bill McFarland & Juan Pastor’s WEST STAGE MIDWAY Trio Mokili Brothers Dance Ensemble DJ Sadie Woods The Chicago Horns Chinchano 2:30 – 3:30 pm Band International. 9:15 – 10:30 pm Plaisance & Ellis Ave. 5:00 – 6:00 pm 3:00 – 4:00 pm 3:00 – 4:00 pm 7:15 – 8:15 pm

HYDE PARK Orbert Davis Nick Mazzarella Sextet: UNION CHURCH In the Spirit Quintet 4:15 – 5:15 pm 5600 S. Woodlawn Ave. 2:30 – 3:30 pm Amir ElSaffar’s ROCKEFELLER Ahwaal featuring CHAPEL Ksawery Wójciński, Joey Brink Waclaw Zimpel, 1:00 – 2:00 pm 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Lutosławski Quartet 11:00 pm – 12:00 am Greg Artry SMART MUSEUM The Regulators Quartet 2:30 – 3:30 pm 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. 1:00 – 2:00 pm

INTERNATIONAL The Alexander/ HOUSE McLean Project 1414 E. 59th St. 7:00 – 8:00 pm ALSO HAPPENING SUNDAY IN HYDE PARK SWEETWATER ASE 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERTS: FOUNDATION Project Tool “STORY WALKIN’ & RHYTHM TALKIN’” 6:00 – 7:00 pm 5749 S. Perry Ave. STORY TENT ON THE MIDWAY Sunday, September 29, 3pm Karuna: Hamid Adults $20, Children $5 AUGUSTANA Bill MacKay/ Drake and Adam Saturday, September 28, 2:45 – 5:45pm LUTHERAN CHURCH Katinka Kleijn Duo Logan Center Penthouse, 915 E. 60th St. Rudolph Duet 5:00 – 6:00 pm Great Chicago storytellers share their best music stories. 5500 S. Woodlawn Ave. 3:00 – 4:00 pm Featuring: ASE Youth, Kucha Brownlee, Baba Mondrea, 2:45 – 3:15 Toni Asante Lightfoot Emily Lansana, Babu Atiba, Enoch ORIENTAL INSTITUTE Andy Oberhausen’s Shanta Nurullah 3:15 – 3:45 Khari B 1155 E. 58th St. Breadwinners Trio HAITIDANSCO PRESENTS SEEKING: 1:30 – 2:30 pm 3:30 – 4:30 pm 3:45 – 4:15 Gwendolyn Hilary IN SEARCH OF WATER 4:15 – 4:45 Dorothy “Mama Sunshine” Lyles Marlene Sunday, September 29, 1–3pm // FREE HYDE PARK BANK Angelo Hart Trio 4:45 – 5:15 Maggie Brown Rosenberg Trio 4:00 – 5:00 pm Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone 1523 E. 53rd St. 5:30 – 6:30 pm 5:15 – 5:45 Performance Duo In the Spirit: Emily Hooper-Lasana and Zahra Baker; Co-produced with Emily Hooper-Lansana Produced and presented by Links Hall.

LITTLE BLACK PEARL David Boykin: Abeeku Sam Trump Quartet 5:00 – 6:00 pm 1060 E. 47th St. 3:30 – 4:30 pm

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