SCHEDULE
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SATURDAY, MARCH 10 - 8:00PM
GREEN MILL
4802 N. Broadway Street - Chicago
with special guest vocalist
CYRILLE AIMEE
Tel. 773-878-5552
www.greenmilljazz.com
SATURDAY, APRIL 7 - 7:30PM
PICK STAIGER
50 Arts Circle Drive - Evanston, IL
with special guest trumpet virtuoso
ARTURO SANDOVAL
This concert is part of
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall's annual spring Festival
Sounding: Celebrating Singular Voices in Music
Te. 847-491-5441
www.pickstaiger.org (click here to buy Tickets onlin)
PAST IMPORTANT PERFORMANCES
* Selected to open the first night of the First Annual Chicago Jazz
Festival in 1979.
* Has held post as resident orchestra for The Kennedy Center
Honors Gala for 23 years. The Orchestra was selected for this year’s
Gala on December 4, 2011.
* Recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2005-2006,
2006-2007, 2008-2009.
* Orchestra for the Washington National Symphony Gala (2004 –
the NSO’s 25th Anniversary Gala).
* Kennedy Center New Year’s Eve 2005 featuring Kurt Elling.
Performed with Elling also in 2006 at the Spoleto Festival USA. Elling
also appears on Charley Harrison/CJO CD, Keeping My Composure.
* Received 5-star CD review from Down Beat magazine for Clark
Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, George Gershwin’s “Porgy &
Bess” (Americana Music, 2004). Clark Terry and CJO CD Porgy &
Bess was nominated for “Album of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists
Association in 2005 and named “CD of the Month” by New York’s Jazz
@ Lincoln Center (Nov. 2004).
* Performances with national and local artists including: Joe
Williams, Jimmy Heath, Harold Jones, Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove,
Buddy DeFranco, Nicholas Payton, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Faddis, Benny
Golson, Brother Jack McDuff, Phil Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Quincy
Jones, Phil Woods, Ann Hampton Callaway, Eric Alexander, Eric
Schneider, Larry Combs, Charles McPherson, Orbert Davis, Kurt Elling,
Dee Alexander and others.
* CJO performances with Dee Alexander include: Exquisitely For
Ella: A Songbook Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald; and Tribute to Ray Charles
(Alexander featured as one of the “Raelettes”).
* Concert at Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall,
April 11, 2009, featuring CJO with Victor Goines, newly appointed
Director of the Northwestern University Jazz Studies Program and
current member of Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
* Participates in free public concerts through the City of Chicago
Cultural Affairs. Has performed in Chicago’s Pritzker Pavilion
(Millennium Park) in 2004 (featuring Kurt Elling), 2006 (Battle of the
Bands with the Count Basie Orchestra) and 2008 (Freddy Cole &
Audrey Morris in a Tribute to Nat King Cole).
* CJO in concert at Ravinia Festival—Ramsey Lewis Big Band
Jamboree (June, 2006).
* CJO appeared in concert with Ahmad Jamal as part of Jazz @
Symphony Center, April 18, 2008.
* CJO appeared in concert with McCoy Tyner as part of Jazz @
Symphony Center, December 11, 2009.
* CJO appeared in Millennium Park for Ahmad Jamal’s 80th
birthday celebration September of 2010
_______________________________________________________
SATURDAY, MARCH 10 - 8:00PM
GREEN MILL
4802 N. Broadway Street - Chicago
with special guest vocalist
CYRILLE AIMEE
Tel. 773-878-5552
www.greenmilljazz.com
SATURDAY, APRIL 7 - 7:30PM
PICK STAIGER
50 Arts Circle Drive - Evanston, IL
with special guest trumpet virtuoso
ARTURO SANDOVAL
This concert is part of
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall's annual spring Festival
Sounding: Celebrating Singular Voices in Music
Te. 847-491-5441
www.pickstaiger.org (click here to buy Tickets onlin)
PAST IMPORTANT PERFORMANCES
* Selected to open the first night of the First Annual Chicago Jazz
Festival in 1979.
* Has held post as resident orchestra for The Kennedy Center
Honors Gala for 23 years. The Orchestra was selected for this year’s
Gala on December 4, 2011.
* Recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2005-2006,
2006-2007, 2008-2009.
* Orchestra for the Washington National Symphony Gala (2004 –
the NSO’s 25th Anniversary Gala).
* Kennedy Center New Year’s Eve 2005 featuring Kurt Elling.
Performed with Elling also in 2006 at the Spoleto Festival USA. Elling
also appears on Charley Harrison/CJO CD, Keeping My Composure.
* Received 5-star CD review from Down Beat magazine for Clark
Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, George Gershwin’s “Porgy &
Bess” (Americana Music, 2004). Clark Terry and CJO CD Porgy &
Bess was nominated for “Album of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists
Association in 2005 and named “CD of the Month” by New York’s Jazz
@ Lincoln Center (Nov. 2004).
* Performances with national and local artists including: Joe
Williams, Jimmy Heath, Harold Jones, Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove,
Buddy DeFranco, Nicholas Payton, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Faddis, Benny
Golson, Brother Jack McDuff, Phil Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Quincy
Jones, Phil Woods, Ann Hampton Callaway, Eric Alexander, Eric
Schneider, Larry Combs, Charles McPherson, Orbert Davis, Kurt Elling,
Dee Alexander and others.
* CJO performances with Dee Alexander include: Exquisitely For
Ella: A Songbook Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald; and Tribute to Ray Charles
(Alexander featured as one of the “Raelettes”).
* Concert at Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall,
April 11, 2009, featuring CJO with Victor Goines, newly appointed
Director of the Northwestern University Jazz Studies Program and
current member of Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
* Participates in free public concerts through the City of Chicago
Cultural Affairs. Has performed in Chicago’s Pritzker Pavilion
(Millennium Park) in 2004 (featuring Kurt Elling), 2006 (Battle of the
Bands with the Count Basie Orchestra) and 2008 (Freddy Cole &
Audrey Morris in a Tribute to Nat King Cole).
* CJO in concert at Ravinia Festival—Ramsey Lewis Big Band
Jamboree (June, 2006).
* CJO appeared in concert with Ahmad Jamal as part of Jazz @
Symphony Center, April 18, 2008.
* CJO appeared in concert with McCoy Tyner as part of Jazz @
Symphony Center, December 11, 2009.
* CJO appeared in Millennium Park for Ahmad Jamal’s 80th
birthday celebration September of 2010
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