Chicago jazz festival 2010-2014

32nd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival (2010)

Presented by CareFusion

Produced by the Mayor’s Office of Special Events and Programmed by the Jazz Institute of Chicago

Thursday, September 2

Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Jazz Presenters / Partnership

Umbrella Music: Bridging Improvised Music and Dance

Jodie Christian Quintet

The MIYUMI Project Big Band: “Trans-Rooted” featuring JASC Tsukasa Taiko

Jim Wagner & All Stars featuring Willie Pickens, Ari Brown, Jimmy Ellis,

Robert Shy, Frank Russell, Corey Wilkes and Maggie Brown

Friday, September 3

Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph

Randolph Café

Hector Silveira Septet

The Grilly Brothers Sextet

Claudia Cassidy Theater

James Dapogny: “Art of the Solo”

AACM Experimental Ensemble

Preston Bradley Hall

Tomeka Reid & Hear In Now Trio

Jim Cooper & Mallet Madness featuring Kathy Kelly and Carl Leukaufe

Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Lincoln Park High School Jazz Ensemble and Noteworthy: CPS Jazz Band Teachers

James Dapogny

Mike LeDonne Trio with special guest Eric Alexander

Nicole Mitchell & Black Earth Orchestra

Ramsey Lewis 75th Birthday Celebration

Saturday, September 4

Grant Park

Jazz on Jackson Stage

Douglas Ewart Nyahbingi Drum Choir

Paul Giallorenzo & GitGo

Maggie Brown: “Tribute to Abbey Lincoln”

Dana Hall Quintet with special gust Nicholas Payton

Presented by Close Up 2 and 87.7FM…

Corey Wilkes

Steve Cole

Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage

Chi-Arts Jazz Combo

Jazz Ambassadors Combo

Kenwood Academy Jazz Ensemble

Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School Jazz Ensemble

Lincoln Park High School Jazz Ensemble

Roosevelt University Jazz Ensemble

Jazz and Heritage Stage

West End Jazz Band

Cameron Pfiffner & Marco Polo

Nicole Mitchell & Sonic Projections

Petrillo Music Shell

Chuchito Valdez Afro-Cuban Ensemble

Rene Marie “High Maintenance” Quartet

Charisma: “A Lee Morgan Tribute”

The Either/Orchestra with special guests Mahmoud Ahmed and Teshome Mitiku

Sunday, September 5

Grant Park

Jazz on Jackson Stage

Paulinho Garcia Quintet

Nicole Mitchell & Black Earth Ensemble

Brad Goode Quartet

Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band

Presented by Close Up 2 and 87.7 FM…

Harlan Jefferson

Norman Brown

Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage

Northside College Prep Jazz Combo

Whitney Young Magnet High School Jazz Combo

Lakeview High School Jazz Ensemble

John Hersey High School Jazz Ensemble

University of Chicago Jazz X-Tet

Jazz and Heritage Stage

Bethany Pickens Trio

NOMO

Saalik Ziyad & 5 After 7 Project

Petrillo Music Shell

Brad Mehldau Trio

Ted Sirota & Rebel Souls

Henry Threadgill & Zooid

Kurt Elling Quintet with special guest Ernie Watts

33rd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival (2011)

Produced by DCASE and Programmed by the JIC

Thursday, September 1

Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph

Randolph Café

Rich Corpolongo Trio

Curtis Robinson Quartet/Quintet?

Claudia Cassidy Theater

Asian Improv Group/Shanghai Stories

Mwata Bowden: The Maze Factor

Preston Bradley Hall

Bob Dogan Quartet

Jim Gailloreto String Quintet

Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Made In Chicago: World Class Jazz

Randy Weston with the CJE

Friday, September 2

Millennium Park – Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Deep Blue Organ Trio with special guest Bobby Watson

Saxophone Summit featuring Joe Lovano, David Liebman and Ravi Coltrane

Saturday, September 3

Grant Park

Jazz on Jackson Stage

Brian O’Hern’s Model Citizens Big Band

Marquis Hill Black-tet

Jeremy Khan Quintet

Gerald Clayton Trio

Jazz and Heritage Stage

Petra van Nuis’ Recession Seven

Pat Mallinger / Bill Carrothers Quartet

Latin Inspiration

Petrillo Music Shell

Maurice Brown Quintet

Trio 3 + Geri Allen

Orbert Davis

Cassandra Wilson

Sunday, September 4

Grant Park

Jazz on Jackson Stage

Reginald Robinson

Matt Ulery’s Loom

Orbert Davis

Occidental Brothers

Jazz and Heritage Stage

Miguel de la Cerna Quartet

Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble

Joan Collasso (Jazz Unites) Quartet

Petrillo Music Shell

Loose Assembly / Sun Ra Tribute (Umbrella)

IRA Sullivan 80th Birthday Celebration

Miguel Zenon Quartet

Roy Hargrove

34th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival (2012)

Thursday, August 30

Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph

Randolph Café

Chris Madsen’s Bix Quartet

Hyde Park Jazz Society Presents “A Tribute to Jodie Christian” featuring the Ken Chaney

Claudia Cassidy Theater

Damon Short Quintet

Asian Improv Arts Midwest presents Yoko Noge’s Japanesque with special guest Dee Alexander

Preston Bradley Hall

Stu Katz / Willie Pickens Duo

Jim Gailloreto’s String Quintet

Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Made In Chicago: World Class Jazz

Exquisitely for Ella: A Songbook Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald with Jeff Lindberg’s

Chicago Jazz Orchestra featuring Frieda Lee, Spider Saloff and Dee Alexander

Friday, August 31

Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University

Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee

Millennium Park – Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble

Roy Haynes’ Fountain of Youth Band

Saturday, September 1

Grant Park

Jazz on Jackson Stage

Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan

Jason Stein Quartet

Frank D’Rone 80th Birthday Celebration

Ambrose Akinmusire

The Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage

Lakeview High School Jazz Combo

Saucedo Scholastic Academy Latin Big Band

Curie Metro Jazz Ensemble

Evanston Township High School Jazz Ensemble

Pritzker College Prep Ensemble

Northern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble

Jazz and Heritage Stage

Caroline Davis Quartet

Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilssen-Love

Marlene Rosenberg Quartet

Petrillo Music Shell

Billy Hart

Ken Vandermark’s Resonance Ensemble

Jerry Gonzalez Y El Comando De La Clave

Dianne Reeves

Sunday, September 2

Grant Park

Jazz on Jackson Stage

The Milton Suggs Philosophy

Jeremy Kahn Pepper Adams Project

Ken Vandermark’s Made to Break Quartet

Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts

The Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage

Chi Arts Jazz Combo

Kenwood Academy Jazz Combo

Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble

Downers Grove South Jazz Ensemble

Lincoln Park Jazz Ensemble

Jazz and Heritage Stage

Edwin Sanchez Project

Jeff Newell’s New-Trad Octet

Tito Carrillo Sextet

Petrillo Music Shell

Sarah Marie Young Quartet

Pierre Dørge and New Jungle Orchestra

Steve Coleman and Five Elements

Allen Toussaint’s “The Bright Mississippi” featuring and Marc Ribot and Don Byron

35th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival (2013)

Thursday, August 29

Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington

Randolph Square

Corylus

Fat Babies

Claudia Cassidy Theater

Larry Gray Trio

Harrison Bankhead Sextet

Preston Bradley Hall

Hinda Hoffman Trio

Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall

Hamid Drake’s Chicago Trio with Ernest Dawkins and Harrison Bankhead

Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz Jack DeJohnette: Special Legends Edition Chicago featuring

Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill

Friday, August 30

Millennium Park Von Freeman Pavilion (South Promenade)

Christopher McBride Quartet

Ben Paterson Organ Quartet

Miguel de la Cerna Quartet in partnership with the Hyde Park Jazz Society

Jazz and Heritage Pavilion (North Promenade)

Mike Smith Quartet

Hamid Drake with Michael Zerang, Eigen Aoki and Tsukasa drummers directed by Tatsu Aoki

“A Tribute to Ken Chaney”

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Geof Bradfield’s Melba!

Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers, performed by WLS’s Golden Quartet and Pacifica Red Coral with video artist Jesse Gilbert

Charles Lloyd Quartet with special guest Bill Frisell

Saturday, August 31

Millennium Park

Von Freeman Pavilion (South Promenade)

The Frank Russell Band

Hamid Drake Quartet with Kidd Jordan, William Parker and Cooper-Moore

Ernie Krivda Quartet

Satoko Fujii’s Orchestra Chicago

Jazz and Heritage Pavilion (North Promenade)

Nick Mazzarella Trio

Erin McDougald Quartet

Chévere de Chicago

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Stafford James String and Percussion Ensemble featuring M’BOOM

Gregory Porter

Rudresh Mahanthappa’s GAMAK

Jason Moran: Fats Waller Dance Party

Sunday, September 1

Millennium Park Von Freeman Pavilion (South Promenade)

Fast Citizens

Juli Wood Quintet

Evan Christopher

Atomic

Jazz and Heritage Pavilion (North Promenade)

The Engines

Fareed Haque and Tony Monaco

Papo Vazquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Jimmy Heath Quartet with Jeb Patton

Hamid Drake & Bindu: Reggaeology

Robert Glasper Trio

Donald Harrison and The Congo Square Nation with special guest Willie Pickens

36th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival (2014)

Thursday, August 28

Chicago Cultural Center

Randolph Square

Chris Foreman Trio

Erwin Helfer/John Brumbach Duo

Claudia Cassidy Theater

Keefe Jackson’s Likely So (Mars Williams, Waclaw Zimpel, Keefe Jackson, Marc Stucki, Dave Rempis, Peter A. Schmid, and Thomas K.J. Mejer)

David Boykin Expanse

Preston Bradley Hall

Paulinho Garcia Quintet

Judy Roberts/Greg Fishman Duo

Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall

Sun Ra Panel Discussion

Millennium Park - Jay Pritzker Pavilion – Final Made in Chicago Concert

Homage to Nelson Mandela: Ernest Dawkins’ Memory in the Center, an Afro Jazz Opera

Friday, August 29

Millennium Park

Von Freeman Pavilion (South Promenade)

Xavier Breaker’s Coalition

Xavier Breaker, drums; Marcin Fahmy, piano and keyboard; Joel Ream, guitar; Andrew Vogt, bass; Rajiv Halin, sax; Shaun Johnson, trumpet

Joshua Abrams Quartet

Clark Sommers (Ba)SH

Russ Johnson Quartet

Russ Johnson, trumpet; Jason Stein, bass clarinet; Anton Hatwich, bass; and Timothy Daisy, drums

Jazz and Heritage Pavilion (North Promenade)

The Howard Alden/Andy Brown Quartet

Howard Alden, guitar; Andy Brown, guitar; Joe Policastro, Bass; and Bob Rummage, drums

Paul Marinaro Quintet

Paul Marinaro, vocals; Ben Paterson, piano; Andy Brown, guitar; Joe Policastro, bass; Mikel Avery, drums

Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet

Wayne Wallace, trombone, musical director; David Belove, bass; Murray Low, piano; Michael Spiro, conga and percussion; Colin Douglas, trap drums

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

George Freeman/Mike Allemana Quartet

Rufus Reid

Rufus Reid, bass; Bobby Watson, alto sax; Derrick Gardner, trumpet; JD Allen, tenor sax; Steve Allee, piano; and Winard Harper, drums

Myra Melford

Terence Blanchard with Ravi Coltrane & Lionel Loueke

Terence Blanchard, trumpet; Ravi Coltrane, tenor sax; Lionel Loueke, guitar; Fabian Almazan, piano; Joshua Crumbl, bass; Kendrick Scott, drums

Saturday, August 30

Millennium Park

Von Freeman Pavilion (South Promenade)

Clif Wallace Quintet

Clif Wallace, drums; Justin Copeland, trumpet; Brent Griffin Jr., alto/tenor saxophone; Justin Dillard, piano; Christian Dillingham, bass

John Campbell Trio featuring Kelly Sill and Joel Spencer

John Wojciechowski Quartet

John Wojciechowski, sax; Ryan Cohan, piano; Dennis Carroll, bass; and Dana Hall, drums

Corey Wilkes Quintet

Corey Wilkes, trumpet; Justin Thomas, Vibraphone; Robert Irvin III, piano/fender Rhodes; Junius Paul, bass; Xavier Breaker, drums

Jazz and Heritage Pavilion (North Promenade)

Laurenzi/Ernst/Green

Dustin Laurenzi, tenor sax; Katie Ernst, double bass and voice; Andrew Green, drums

Chicago Underground Duo (Rob Mazurek…

Kurt Rosenwinkel

Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage (Harris Theater Rooftop)

Jones College Prep Jazz Combo

Pritzker College Prep Jazz Combo

Curie Metropolitan High School Jazz Ensemble

Elmhurst College Jazz Ensemble

Morgan Park Academy Jazz Ensemble

Kenwood Academy Jazz Ensemble directed by Gerald Powell

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Ari Brown Quintet

Gary Burton

Gary Burton, vibraphone; Julian Lage, Vadim Neselovskyi, Jorge Roeder and Henry Cole, drums

Tom Harrell Colors of a Dream

Tom Harrell, trumpet, flugelhorn; Johnathan Blake, drums; Wayne Escoffery, tenor sax; Ugonna Okegwo, acoustic bass; Jaleel Shaw, alto sax and Esperanza

Spalding, vocals and acoustic bass

Dave Holland, Kevin Eubanks, Craig Taborn and Eric Harland: PRISM

Sunday, August 31

Millennium Park

Von Freeman Pavilion (South Promenade)

Neal Alger’s Blue Note Quartet

Neal Alger, guitar; Scott Burns, sax; Matt Ferguson, bass; George Fludas, drums

Tammy McCann Quintet

Tammy McCann, vocalist; Laurence Hobgood, piano; Henry Johnson, guitar; John Sutton, bass and Sam Jewel, drums

Dennis Luxion + Michael Raynor Quartet

Chicago Yestet

Jazz and Heritage Pavilion (North Promenade)

Tomeka Reid Quartet

Sun Rooms

Tootie Heath Trio

Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage (Harris Theater Rooftop)

Chi Arts Jazz Combo

Jazz Links Youth Ensemble

St. Charles North Jazz Ensemble

Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy Jazz Ensemble

University of Illinois at Chicago Jazz Ensemble

Noteworthy Teachers’ Ensemble

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Bobby Broom Trio

Miguel Zenon Quartet

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Sun Ra Arkestra