Posts Tagged ‘jazz’
Monday, August 21st, 2017
In an intimate corner of Chicago’s Third Coast Café, Grammy Award Winning Jazz Vocalist Kurt Elling shared his thoughts on jazz, spirituality, the creative work process and being in the moment. Grab a snack and belly up as Kurt has some powerful things to say about the life of an artist and life on the Read more…
Tags: artist, award, chicago, elysabeth alfano, golden lady, grammy, jazz, kurt elling, music, musical, performance, vocalist, winning
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Monday, June 26th, 2017
How do you get your start in music? If you are Grammy-winning Saxophonist Frank Catalano, a gun, a stolen car, Miles Davis, a little luck and gobs of talent comes to mind. Enjoy this intimate conversation with musician-entrepreneur Frank Catalano as he explains how he got his start playing Sax in some of the coolest Read more…
Tags: award, chicago, dinner party, elysabeth alfano, Frank catalano, god's gonna cut you down, grammy, jazz, jimmy chamberlain, miles davis, music, nominee, ropeadope, saxophone, winner
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
As I mentioned last week, this year has brought a small sleighful of Christmas jazz discs (and we’ll get to some of them in the next week or so), and also a pretty full schedule of jazz performances for the holidaze. Here’s a look at some of the gigs that might warm your chestnuts in Read more…
Tags: chicago jazz, chicago music, christmas music, Espresso music, holiday performance, jazz, John McLean, Neal Alger, neil tesser, Phil Kline, Spider Saloff, Typhanie Monique, Unsilent Night
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