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Most of the original bebop masters may be gone, but they're surely not forgotten, as an innovative series of performances will be proving throughout this month.
Each Wednesday evening at the Fulton Street Collective, on West Hubbard Street, a different Chicago jazz band will pay homage to one of the greatest drummers who ever lived: Max Roach. The chameleonic musician died in...READ MORE... |
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Jazz, lofts, and art have gone together for decades, and Fulton Street Collective, a communally held loft space, continues the tradition with the Jazz Record Art Collective, a monthly event in which a local jazz musician is asked to perform a classic jazz album while a visual artist creates a new work. Its latest iteration, featuring Jackie McLean’s Action (Blue Note, 1964), looks especially promising. READ MORE...
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"Musicians, Visual Artists Unite for Chicago Concert Series"
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Chris Anderson is best known to jazz fans in Chicago as the tall, laconic announcer and level-headed manager of all-hours jazz haunt the Green Mill, but his support of the local music and arts scene far exceeds that nocturnal responsibility.
“The idea was sparked when Joe Lanasa, the curator of the Fulton Street Collective [a shared studio space for musicians and visual artists], took a chance on my concept of a music series,” recalled Anderson. “I wanted to assemble a program combining several mediums: live musical performance, visual art and an illuminating experience of jazz.” READ MORE... |
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"A Month of Coltrane at Jazz Record Art Collective"
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It’s been a year since Chris Anderson initiated his Jazz Record Art Collective, a monthly series in partnership with the Fulton Street Collective (an arts incubator that combines rental studios with an exhibition gallery). On the third Wednesday of each month, Anderson invites a local jazz musician to re-create – and, to some extent, to re-imagine – a classic jazz recording influential in his or her career. The shows have provided inventive showcases for a variety of artists, and have steadily built a small buzz and increased audiences – not to mention some of the past year’s most memorable concerts.
This month, to celebrate the first anniversary, the series encompasses all of October, with each Wednesday devoted to a different album (or albums) in the extensive discography of John Coltrane. READ MORE... |
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"Dana Hall Channels Charles Lloyd"
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Dana Hall’s quartet will pay homage to Charles Lloyd’s 1966 disc Of Course, Of Course, by offering new versions of the album’s nine tracks (and three tracks recorded in tandem but not released on the original album). They’ll play as part of the Jazz Record Art Collective, a series of concerts built on a winning conceit: each month, a different leader chooses a recording influential to his own development and presents the material from that album, in the order it originally appeared on disc. In effect, the artists perform the album “live”; they emphasize fealty to the source recording, but of course make room for individualized solos and interpretation. READ MORE....
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