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A Celebration of Chicago's Creative Women in Jazz with Marlene Rosenberg and Jo Ann Daugherty! gram JAZZ PROMOTING AND NURTURING JAZZ IN CHICAGO MARCH 2020 WWW.JAZZINCHICAGO.ORG A CELEBRATION OF CHICAGO'S CREATIVE WOMEN IN JAZZ WITH MARLENE ROSENBERG AND JO ANN DAUGHERTY! SOUL TO SOUL: A CELEBRATION OF EDDIE HARRIS WOMEN OF CHICAGO JAZZ MARCH 6 AT 7 PM GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY JAZZCITY SERIES CONTINUES ITS YEARLONG celebration of Eddie Harris by tasking two artists who have made their reputations both as leaders and accompanists to tap into the Harris’ creative legacy for this year's annual Women of Chicago Jazz showcase. From Lil Hardin Armstrong and Dorothy Donegan to Patricia Barber and Dee Alexander, Chicago has been a wellspring of creativity for female jazz artists – strong- minded artists who have overcome the obstacles laid in their path by wrongful assumptions. Throughout the Jo Ann country and the world now, women are claiming their Marlene Rosenberg Daugherty time– not only as singers and instrumentalists but also as band leaders, composers, arrangers and trend-setters. If bassist Marlene Rosenberg is best known as an accompanist, it's because of the peerless roster of jazz greats she has played with. Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, Frank Wess, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, Roy Hargrove, Cedar Walton, among many. The Illinois native also toured with tenor saxophone legend Eddie Harris. But as Rosenberg demonstrates on her recent album, MLK Convergence, on which she teams with piano great Kenny Barron and acclaimed drummer Lewis Nash, she is a formidable leader. Produced by Rosenberg, the album (the letters stand for both Marlene Lewis Kenny and Martin Luther King) features several of her compositions and is rooted in civil rights themes. She likely will perform some of them with her ace band, including the invaluable guitarist Scott Hesse, young pianist Franchesca Romero and prolific drummer Xavier Breaker. Joining her on the bill is pianist Jo Ann Daugherty, who will perform with her regular trio-mates, bassist Joshua Ramos, drummer Ryan Bennett, and saxophonist Rajiv Halim. Daugherty's most recent album, Bring Joy, was included on DownBeat's list of the best albums of 2017. Wrote the DownBeat reviewer, "Daugherty’s playing always has kick, bounce and a structural precision that recalls the nimble smarts of Cedar Walton." Her inclusion of two songs by South African great Abdullah Ibrahim is an indication of both her taste and her willingness to go where few mainstream jazz artists go. n JazzCity is a free concert series initiated in 1997 by the Jazz Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Chicago Park District to bring 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. JAZZ IN CHICAGO MARCH 2020 2 WOMEN BUILT THE JAZZ INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO BY HOWARD MANDEL ©2020 [email protected] NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING FROM MEN WHO HAVE BEEN CRUCIAL to the development of the Jazz Institute of Chicago from it start and remain so. But it behooves us all -- because it’s true -- to proclaim proudly, loudly and not only during this Women's History Month (March) that determined, devoted, astute, practical and imaginative women gave birth to and have borne the organization all it's life, implementing its governance, vision and projects' realization for more than 50 years. Happily, several of those women are still with us today. Harriet Choice, for instance, who can claim to have been Chicago's first weekly jazz columnist, starting at the Chicago Tribune in the 1960s, instigated the Institute’s conception. She speaks as if it were yesterday about a phone call she had back then with pianist Art Hodes in which they commisserated about Chicago not having a “kitty hall” where musicians could play if only for tips, as New Orleans did. That call impelled her to contact the Chicago cornetist George Finola, who had become the New Orleans Jazz Museum's assistant director; he emphasized the Harriet Choice importance of jazz preservation through research and collections as well as performances. In short order Choice and Finola convened with attorney John Baker, early Chicago jazz expert John Steiner, and ten more local professionally-engaged activists/enthusiasts including Sue Koester, wife of Jazz Record Mart/Delmark Records principal Bob Koester, and Jeanne Jones, wife of drummer Wayne Jones (both hubbies were involved). Harriet was a primary nurturer of the Institute's first flowering of concert programs, and the very first of those events featured a true matriarch of jazz, Lil Hardin Armstrong. But she withdrew from Institute involvement in the mid '70s as her professional responsibilities grew (she became the Trib's arts editor, and later was at Universal Press Syndicate). In 2013, having retired from journalism, Choice resumed her formal engagement with the Institute, sitting for a term on the board of directors. At the 2019 JIC Gala, she spoke on behalf of the Institute's founders, and she currently drives the expansion of the Institute’s archives at University of Chicago by soliciting new collections and conducting historically-oriented video interviews with local jazz stalwarts. She is intent on plumbing musicians' memories while they are here to tell their stories. Perhaps not incidentally, she is personally responsible for the Institute’ own earliest memories, via her front page bylined article in The Jazz Sheet, Vol. 1 No. 1, March-April 1969 -- first newsletter of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, reproduced online at JazzinChicago.org/50th/history. As detailed in that JIC history timeline, a new circle of Chicagoans re-energized activities in 1974, under the leadership of drummer and former DownBeat editor Don DeMicheal. Among the "relaunchers" were Alene Valkanas, then public relations director of the Museum of Contemporary Art; jazz singer Helen Merrill, recently returned from residing in Japan, and Penny Tyler, who with then-husband guitarist John DeFauw (also a relauncher) was running regular jam sessions of traditional jazz at the Sari-S paddlewheel steamer docked at the Chicago River, Marina City and Andy's, among other venues. When DeMicheal began suffering from ill health, Penny took ever more responsibilities for the Jazz Institute. They were often assisted in a variety of support roles by a young Northwestern University student, writer and radio broadcaster Linda Prince, and in official capacity as Penny Tyler secretary of the board by Kit Perigo, soon to be Kit Kronberg. When in 1979 Chicago's first woman mayor Jane Byrne agreed to support a JAZZ IN CHICAGO MARCH 2020 3 seven-day Jazz Festival held in Grant Park, Penny stepped into the important position of liaison WOMEN IN THE JIC'S with the City's Office of Special Events. The initial Chicago Jazz Festival included a full night BOARD OF DIRECTORS curated by singer, theater artist and producer Geraldine de Haas, who had been presenting jazz (1969-2020) throughout the South Side; she also was a member of the JIC board. Kaye Britt Liz Giannini "Penny was a bulldog," says Chuck Nessa, record producer and another JIC board member Diane Chandler-Marshall of that era, who headed the Jazz Festival program committee while she negotiated relations Harriet Choice- President between the artists and diverse municipal offices. Tyler, who currently lives in New Orleans, was Merilee Clark elected JIC Executive Vice President in 1979. AACM vocalist Iqua Colson and Sharon Friedman, Iqua Colson who worked closely with saxophonist Fred Anderson, were on the board at that time. Geraldine DeHaas Lauren Deutsch Tyler became the JIC's President in 1982. With the Jazz Festival rapidly turning into the Roxana Espoz Institute’s most prominent activity, her paramount concerns became the need to present all Janis Lane Ewart styles of jazz at the Fest and protect the independence of the Institute's programming of the Sharon Friedman fest's performers. Those markers in the Chicago Jazz Festival's DNA have resulted in the unique Terri Gardner character of the free jazz celebration that's occurred in our downtown lakefront park every Beth Gallagher summer for the past 40 years, arguably leading to 2020 being recognized as the Year of Chicago Janice Gonzales Music, as the Jazz Fest was a model for the City's Blues Fest, Gospel Fest, House Music Fest, and Sonja Maia Hubert Harper so on. Since 1991 Penny has been Jazz Coordinator of Ravinia Festival, creating programs that Susan Markle – President complement the JIC’s. Helen Merrill Nicole Mitchell In '82 Dr. Susan Markle joined the JIC board. A highly respected psychologist and researcher Kit Perigo in behavioral sciences who had worked with B.F. Skinner at Harvard, she was also a music Bethany Pickens connoisseur who befriended members of the Duke Ellington orchestra, and had been in the Willinda Ringer crowd at its revivifying Newport Jazz Festival performance of 1956. A pioneer in recognizing Ruby A. Rogers the value of jazz on video for instructional and education purposes, she had accumulated a Lorrie Schneider vast number of high quality jazz video disks which she screened in public JIC programs very Judith Stein much like the JIC's Penny Tyler – President current "Digging Our Alene Valkanas Roots: Chicago's Greatest Jennifer Johnson Washington Hits" series. Eventually Judy Williams Dr. Markle ascended to WOMEN IN THE JIC'S the JIC presidency. She STAFF (1969-2020) generously willed a portion Nike Basurto of her investments to the Alex Betzel JIC when she died in 2008 Rozz Carlton at age 80. Diane Chandler-Marshall Lauren Deutsch – Executive Julie Smith – now Dr. Director Julie Smith, an Associate Coco Elysses Researcher in the Centre Katie Ernst for Women's and Gender Stacy Foster Studies at University of Nicole Gotthelf British Columbia – was Mashaune Hardy hired by the JIC in 1994 Meggy Huynh as its first professional Sheila Hobson Executive Director.
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