SEPTEMBER 28 & 29 WELCOME TO THE 13TH ANNUAL HYDE PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL We hope you enjoy this free two-day celebration of jazz, creativity, and community on the South Side of Chicago. 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, trumpet, 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 University of Chicago’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 Ethnomusicology 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 Dana Hall – 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. ARI BROWN 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