Too Hot to Handle Tickets
  Stuff your stockings this year with tickets to one of the most incredible musical experiences that you will ever see. December 12 and 14 at the Auditorium Theater you can hear Handel’s Messiah as you’ve never heard it before. This holiday season, the Auditorium Theatre proudly produces and presents Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah. The performance features a full orchestra, eighteen-piece big band, a 150-person choir and three of the world’s most inspiring and accomplished vocalists.
 
The New York Post calls Too Hot to Handle “Perhaps the jazziest, most soulful reinterpretation of Handel’s Messiah you’ll ever hear.” 

Don’t miss Chicago’s new holiday tradition.
Auditorium Theater, 50 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago;
(312) 431-2357

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Perfect for the
Jazz Fan on
your list.

Poster size:
16 x 22

Poster
Price: $49
Sale: $39

Poster on
Foam Board
Price: $59
Sale: $49

Poster w/Frame
Price: $139
Sale: $129

Perfect for the
Jazz Fan on
your list.

Poster size:
16 x 22

Poster
Price: $85
Sale: $75

Poster on
Foam Board
Price: $95
Sale: $85

Poster w/Frame
Price: $175
Sale: $165

EarPlugs and HeadPhones  
  For 25 years Etymotic Research has designed innovative high-fidelity products to measure, improve and protect hearing.

Etymotic's products are used worldwide by professional and amateur musicians, recording engineers, scientists, hearing practitioners, hearing-impaired consumers, and others who insist on superior sound quality. Chicago Jazz Magazine writers use the ER-20 high fidelity earplugs at concerts throughout Chicago to protect their hearing and can't say enough good things about the product. The earplugs don't muffle the sound like other brands; they simply reduce the noise but keep the sound quality.

Other great products are the noise-isolating earphones by Etymotic Research. These earphones cut out all the sound around you and allow you to get deep inside the music. The ER-4, ER-6i, and their newest (fifth generation) hf5 earphones are three of the most incredible ways to listen to music.

Perfect for travel, recording and transcribing, the Etymotic isolator earphones will make every music lover on your holiday list happy. 
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New Music from Chicago Sessions
  Chicago Sessions, a new Chicago record label, is pulling from well known and unknown local talent in Chicago to create unique recordings that showcase the compositional talents of the musicians. Similar to a book of the month club, Chicago Sessions ships you a CD a month for an entire year.
  The first three recordings are ready to ship to the Jazz fan on your holiday shopping list:
 

Volume 1: Larry Gray Trio 

Volume 2: Marshall Vente Trio   

Volume 3: Steven Hashimoto's Mothra

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Chicago Jazz Philharmonic’s New CD
  Orbert Davis' Collective Creativity is the long awaited debut CD by Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (CJP), a barrier-breaking and genre-bending fifty-five-plus-piece orchestra that has the flexibility, instrumentation and talent to perform music ranging from big band classics to symphonic works. With a mastery of diverse stylist requirements, the CJP possesses the skills to perform in an exciting arena that bridges classical music and jazz.

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With two critically-acclaimed discs to their credit,
the jazz duo of Typhanie Monique
and Neal Alger release their third CD, YULETIDE GROOVE, a collection of Christmas and holiday favorites with jazz oriented arrangements.

The duo now continues to embrace tradition and modern ideas simultaneously but this time in the songbook of holiday ditties. In the holiday spirit of an inclusive 'musical family', YULETIDE GROOVE, the newest project from Alger and Monique, features many special guests including rising Hammond B3 organ star Tony Monaco. Monaco brings an infectious beat, a rock-solid swing, and warm vocals to the chestnut "Baby It's Cold Outside" while Monique revels in Monaco's vitality, turning in an inspired vocal performance. A horn trio of trumpet, sax, and trombone brings a lush but not overly sentimental flavor to Vince Guaraldi's "Christmas time is Here" and the classic "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree". The sultry sexiness of "Santa Baby" is beautifully enhanced by a cha-cha arrangement which features the contagious musical exuberance of latinos pianist Darwin Noguera and trumpeter Victor Garcia.

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