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Saxophone Summit - Friday, November 4, 2011 @7:00 p.m.
Saxophone Summit - Friday, November 4, 2011 @7:00 p.m.
Date Posted: October 25 2011
Written By: Chicago Jazz
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Chicago’s jazz scene has always been known for its incredible saxophonists, from Gene “Jug” Ammons and Johnny Griffin to Von Freeman and Fred Anderson. Every year we bring together Chicago’s top talent for a saxophone summit, and this year’s lineup shows that the Chicago Sound is alive and well as well as diversified. The summiteers will include James Perkins, Juli Wood, Kevin Nabors, Rajiv Halim, and Pat Mallinger.
As a saxophonist and woodwind player, James Perkins has played on over 250 albums, and his big sound has graced the stage with everybody from Ramsey Lewis and Buddy Guy to Nancy Wilson and Billy Higgins. He is one of Chicago’s best-kept secrets and performs too rarely. The classically-trained Juli Wood learned the ropes with R&B bands such as The R&B Cadets and Paul Cebar and The Milwaukeeans before catching the jazz bug. She has since led her own bands including a quintet featuring organ player Mel Rhyne. She is also a member of Jeru, a Gerry Mulligan tribute band, and SHE, an all-female jazz ensemble.
Kevin Nabors is one of those young musicians who honed their chops at Fred Anderson’s Velvet Lounge. He has received his main exposure as a member of Corey Wilkes’ Abstrakt Pulse and true to his generation he can also season his jazz with hip hop. While still in school–he enrolled in the Jazz Performance program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Rajiv Halim is already making a splash. In 2010, he won 1st place in Division II in The Union League Civic and Arts Foundation’s Jazz Improvisation Competition as well as an Outstanding Individual Musician Award at the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival. A Minnesota native, Pat Mallinger is one of the best known saxophonists in town. He is the co-leader of Sabertooth, a Green Mill mainstay, and a longtime member of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. Chicago Festival goers might have recently seen him during Labor Day weekend with his own quartet as well as in the horn section of Brian O’Hern’s Model Citizens Big Band.
Pianist Kirk Brown (saxophonist Ari Brown’s brother) has accompanied his sibling and others on piano. Junius Paul is a young bassist who has appeared with Dee Alexander, Corey Wilkes and many others. Clif Wallace is a young drummer who is a member of the Rajiv Halim Quintet and has been featured in oter JazzCity programs.
The opening act will be the Noteworthy Jazz Ensemble, a band of Chicago Public School Music teachers who began performing together in 2010.
JazzCity is a free concert series initiated in 1997 by the Jazz Institute in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, now in its 14th season of bringing people together form 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.
The 2011 JazzCity Season continues:
(All concerts begin at 7PM with the opening act performance)
Dec. 9 Hamilton Park 513 W. 72nd St
Blowin' in from Chicago: Ari Brown and Edward Wilkerson
Current tenor masters Ari Brown and Edward Wilkerson pay homage to Blowin’ in from Chicago, a classic Blue Note album featuring Chicago tenor giants Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore. With Ken Chaney on piano, Ernie Adams on drums and Harrison Bankhead on bass.
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