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A Month of Wes Montgomery in April

3/20/2015

This April, the Jazz Record Art Collective will feature the music of Wes Montgomery, one of the most influential jazz guitarists and one of the most musical jazz musicians of all time. Each Wednesday in April a different group will perform a Wes Montgomery album live as a showcased visual artist does a live painting of the band.

All performances will be held at Fulton Street Collective, 2000 W. Fulton St.
Chicago. All Shows are 8:00 Doors/9:00Show. The Month's lineup is as follows:

Wed. Apr. 1 Tom McCarthy Trio – Wes Montgomery Trio

Tom McCarthy – Guitar
Vijay Tellis Nayac – Organ
Kelton Norris – Drums
Arthur Wright – Featured Artist

Wed. Apr. 8 Dave Miller Sextet – Tequila
Dave Miller- Guitar
Ben Boye - Keys/Synths
Matt Ulery - Bass
Quin Kirchner - Drums
Juan Pastor - Percussion
Ben Laskov – Featured Artist

Wed. Apr. 15 Tim Fitzgerald Group – 625 ALIVE, The Music From BBC-TV’s JAZZ 625
Tim Fitzgerald - Guitar
Victor Garcia - Trumpet
Brent Griffin – Alto Sax
Chris Madsen – Tenor Sax
Tom Vaitsas - Piano
Christian Dillingham - Bass
George Fludas - Drums
Yvonne Doll – Featured Artist

Wed. Apr. 22 Mike Pinto Trio – Boss Guitar
Mike Pinto - Guitar
Paul Mutzabaugh – Organ
Bob Rummage – Drums
Lewis Achenback – Featured Artist

Wed. Apr. 29 Neal Alger Quintet – Full House
Neal Alger- Guitar
Chris Madsen - Tenor Sax
Tom Vaitsas - Piano
Larry Kohut- Bass
George Fludas – Drums
Cameron Pfiffner – Featured Artist

Jazz Record Art Collective
Presents
A MONTH OF WES MONTGOMERY
Wednesdays in April
Fulton Street Collective
2000 W. Fulton St.
Chicago, IL 60612
773-852-2481
8:00 Doors
9:00 Show
$10 Suggested Donation
$5 with Valid Student ID
18+
www.jazzrecordartcollective.com
https://www.facebook.com/jazzrecordartcollective

The Regulators Perform Wayne Shorter

3/11/2015

The Regulators perform Wayne Shorter's 1967 album Schizophrenia in it's entirety Wednesday, March 18 at 9pm. The evening will also feature a solo exhibit from artist Dujuan Austin who'll be doing a live painting of the band's performance.
The Regulators are:
Mike Allemana - Guitar
Matt Ferguson - Upright Bass
Gerald Dowd - Drums

Jazz Record Arts Collective
Presents
The Regulators
Performing Wayne Shorter’s Schizophrenia
Showcased Artwork by Dujuan Austin
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Fulton Street Collective
2000 W. Fulton St.
Chicago, IL 60612
773-852-2481
8:00 Doors
9:00 Show
$10 Suggested Donation
$5 with Valid Student ID
18+
www.jazzrecordartcollective.com
https://www.facebook.com/jazzrecordartcollective

Wayne Shorter's Schizophrenia, a 1967 release, is a classic from the Blue Note catalogue. It features the lineup of Wayne on tenor, Ron Carter on bass, Herbie Hancock on piano--all three of them members of Miles Davis' "2nd great quintet"--and is rounded out by Curtis Fuller on trombone, James Spaulding on alto and flute and Joe Chambers on drums. It's not a working band but certainly not a pick-up date either. These players all have history together (though not ALL together), via recordings and performances with Miles, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Lee Morgan and others. The interplay is strong throughout even if the often challenging compositions seem under-rehearsed in a few spots. The songs are all composed by Wayne except Kryptonite, which is by Spaulding and has a melody which sounds like it could have been plucked out of Sun Ra's book--the Arkestra being Spaulding's musical training ground. Wayne's compositions on Schizophrenia run the gamut from groove-tune-boogaloo (Tom Thumb) to pretty bossas and waltzes which feature unconventional harmonies (Go and Miyako), to chaotic medium/up-tempo swingers (Schizophrenia and Playground). Schizophrenia is generally considered to be an amalgam of Wayne's hard-bop roots and the expressive free-improvisation he was getting into with Miles' band and beyond; now 48 years later the Regulators are going add still more to the mix, incorporating the rock, funk and metric explorations which have so transformed the contemporary musician's approach to jazz.
~ Matt Ferguson (March, 2015)