The music coming out of the city originally became known for combining the Dixieland and Mississippi Delta styles with heavy guitar and bass, with its south side becoming a hub for jazz clubs in Chicago – something that continues, to some extent, to this day. Table of Contents Perhaps markin...
By Dan Emerson Pat Mallinger Home for a visit at Thanksgiving, Chicago-based tenor saxophonist-composer Pat Mallinger was walking in downtown St. Paul when he came across a new club he […] Continue Reading Jay Epstein: The Secrets of the Twin Cities Workingest Jazz Drummer November 23, 20...
The next kind of jazz to emerge during the 1920's was Urban Blues. This was played primarily in an area known as the "bucket of blood." This referred to an area along the South Side of Chicago. The clubs there were known to hire the "who's who" of blues musicians. The last major...
By Dan Emerson Pat Mallinger Home for a visit at Thanksgiving, Chicago-based tenor saxophonist-composer Pat Mallinger was walking in downtown St. Paul when he came across a new club he […] Continue Reading Jay Epstein: The Secrets of the Twin Cities Workingest Jazz Drummer November 23, 20...
By Dan Emerson Pat Mallinger Home for a visit at Thanksgiving, Chicago-based tenor saxophonist-composer Pat Mallinger was walking in downtown St. Paul when he came across a new club he […] Continue Reading Jay Epstein: The Secrets of the Twin Cities Workingest Jazz Drummer November 23, 20...
By Dan Emerson Pat Mallinger Home for a visit at Thanksgiving, Chicago-based tenor saxophonist-composer Pat Mallinger was walking in downtown St. Paul when he came across a new club he […] Continue Reading Jay Epstein: The Secrets of the Twin Cities Workingest Jazz Drummer November 23, 20...
the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Wolves Hockey, Blackhawks, Bears, Bulls, White Sox, Chicago Sting Soccer, Loyola and Northwestern Universities. He has also appeared at major functions and conventions across the country, as well as in concert and in smaller settings of jazz clubs and senior communities...
He told me that too many jazz bars/clubs in Tokyo cater to only one kind of audience (older/richer) and that he’s trying to bring in a different kind of crowd. The Friday ‘New York Jazz Room’ nights featuring a regular group of formerly NYC-based Japanese musicians...
” In addition to his own musical projects, Beshay has also served as musical director for both Winard Harper and his brother Philip Harper through tours at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, and the Omani Royal Opera House. ...
Kelly Carrol (Choreographer) began her dance training in Chicago and spent three years touring internationally with the Lenore Sutton acro-dance company. She came to New York and began a long career as a triple threat performing on Broadway, television, film, night clubs and international concert...