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The Chicago Jazz Orchestra
The Chicago Jazz Orchestra
Date Posted: May 06 2008
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Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra (CJO) wraps up its Tenth Annual Subscription Series on Sunday, May 18, at 3 pm, with "Jazz Goes Hollywood" and "A Tribute to Saxophonist Stanley Turrentine." The CJO will perform TV and movie music from the fifties, sixties, seventies and beyond, including themes from The Danny Thomas Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mannix, Mission Impossible, and many, many more.
The second half of the program will feature tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander in a tribute to the late Stanley Turrentine, one of jazz's most distinctive tenor sax players. Known for his big warm sound, "The Sugar Man" found inspiration in the blues and turned it into a hugely successful career with a Number One hit and four Grammy nominations, first in R&B and then in jazz.
Eric Alexander, a native of Galesburg, Illinois, has been called the "thirty-four year old colossus-on-the-rise" in major music circles. At last count, Alexander had been featured on roughly seventy albums with major veterans of the craft. He has been able to establish his own voice within the bop-based jazz tradition. Alexander and the CJO will perform Oliver Nelson and Duke Pearson's masterful arrangements that were originally recorded by Stanley Turrentine.
The concert will take place at Thorne Auditorium, 375 East Chicago Avenue (Northwestern University Law School Campus at Lake Shore Drive). Tickets are priced from $35 to $15, and may be purchased by calling (312) 409-3947 or on-line at the CJO website: chicagojazzorchestra.com. Jazz Institute of Chicago members also receive a 15% discount per member. Discount parking tickets are available as well at Thorne performances for the parking garage at 222 E. Huron (entrance also at 221 E. Superior Street).
Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra was founded in 1978 (as the Jazz Members Big Band) by Jeff Lindberg and the late Steve Jensen. Comprised of Chicago's top musicians, the CJO is Chicago's oldest professional jazz orchestra in continuous operation and one of the oldest jazz repertory orchestras in the country. Conductor and Artistic Director Jeff Lindberg is one of the foremost transcribers in jazz. As a result, the Orchestra's repertoire draws upon his vast library, which includes the works of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Benny Carter, Oliver Nelson, Ray Charles, and many others.
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