Podcasts about chicago jazz philharmonic

Lil Hardin Armstrong, Mary Lou Williams and Nina Simone are notable singers of their time, but trumpeter, composer and director of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Orbert Davis, wanted to highlight their songwriting skills. In a new composition for the Philharmonic, Davis confronts the gender inequalities in jazz. Reset learns more about why Davis wanted to highlight each of the singer-songwriters with his new composition debuting this weekend.

Thaddeus Tukes is a multi-instrumentalist from Chicago, IL. He is the Jazz Big Band Director for After School Matters and the Vibraphonist for the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. He is a graduate from Northwestern University where he majored in Jazz, Music, and Journalism.  

Orchestras come in all shapes, sizes, and sounds, and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic is moving forward in its goal to offer a uniquely American aesthetic to as many listeners as it can. Garrett chats with the ensemble's Executive Director, Rhapsody Snyder and Artistic Director, Orbert Davis about the CJP's origins, the necessity of offering FREE concerts, and the concept of "Third Stream". Dalanie Harris from the Classically Black Podcast guest co-hosts and offers insights on the International Society for Black Musicians' inaugural conference, a widely overlooked album by Stevie Wonder, and more! Garrett and Dalanie spend the weekly TRILLOQUY engaging the conversation of respectability among some of the industry's Black musicians. Support for this opus of TRILLOQUY comes from HenselPushers: https://henselpushers.org Playlist: Tomas Adès - Violin Concerto perf. Adam Eccleston and Lydia Chung - Walter Piston Flute Sonata arr. Jasmine Pigott - "Lift Ev'ry Voice" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BASuTqikjQA) Stevie Wonder - "Same Old Story" Gamal Abdel-Rahim - "Variations on an Egyptian Folksong" Margaret Bonds - "Montgomery Variations" perf. Kebra-seyoun Charles - Giovanni Bottesini Bass Concerto Orbert Davis - "Vice Versa" Orbert Davis - "Diaspora" More: Classically Black Podcast: https://www.classicallyblackpodcast.com Chicago Jazz Philharmonic: https://www.chicagojazzphilharmonic.org Downbeat (Ahmaud Arbery Defense Requests 'No More Black Pastors': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_mDJL83do0 Justice for Ahmaud Arbery: https://www.runwithmaud.com All Classical Portland Wins National Honor: https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2021/11/all-classical-portland-wins-national-honor-for-its-work-to-diversify-playlists.html Alleged Diversity in Haydn's String Quartets: https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/diversify-the-world-of-classical-music-some-key-players-are-digging-in-their-heels The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69395/the-negro-artist-and-the-racial-mountain

Dr. Roosevelt Griffin III is the Owner and Operator of GI Music LLC, specializing in curriculum, program, and professional development. He is the Founder and CEO of the Griffin Institute of Performing Arts (NFP) where the transformative abilities of the arts are used to transform the lives of students and families throughout southern Cook County and beyond. In addition to the organizations that he lead, Dr.Griffin serves as band director for Harvey School District 152 and Chicago Jazz Philharmonic's Youth ensemble. He is also co-director and student mentor for VanderCook College of Music's One City Program. Dr. Roosevelt Griffin - website The Griffin Institute

matthew@axiombrass.com - Matt's email address for people to reach outwww.brasslegacy.com - home page for Brass Legacywww.brasslegacy.com/opus2number2 - newest publicationwww.brasslegacy.com/past-publications - past publications (including Matt's injury article in op. 2 no. 1)www.axiombrass.com - Axiom's website to donate or purchase CDsMatthew Bronstein, born and raised in Agoura Hills, CA, received his bachelor’s degree in Horn performance from Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he studied with Dale Clevenger, the long-time principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. A highly praised freelancer in the Chicagoland area, he spent two years as a regular member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and has performed with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Montreal, Milwaukee, and North Carolina, as well as the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra, and the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. His versatility has allowed him to perform with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble and Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, while also working on multiple jazz and pop recordings with such recording studios as Hinge Inc., Engine Studios, and Transient Sound Inc. His attended summer festivals include the Spoleto Music Festival, the Midsummer Chamber Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, the Music Academy of the West, and the Round Top Music Festival. Matthew is an avid sports fan and plays in the Midwest Suburban Baseball league on the Chicago River Bandits.Matthew performs exclusively with the Blackbinder automatic scroll app for iPads.Matthew performs exclusively on Mutec Mutes.Support the show (https://thatsnotspit.com/support/)

On this edition of The Arts Section, host Gary Zidek talks to some of the people working on a giant two-night streaming concert celebrating Cuban culture. The event has some strong Chicago connections, including HotHouse's Marguerite Horberg and Chicago Jazz Philharmonic's Orbert Davis. The Dueling Critics, Kerry Reid and Jonathan Abarbanel, join Gary to discuss the Broadway and now streaming sensation that's sweeping the nation, HAMILTON. And later in the program, Gary catches up with Chicago magazine dining editor Amy Cavanaugh to talk about the challenges still facing restaurants and bars in Illinois' Phase-4 and a new cookbook.

I got to sit down with one of my favorite people - Roosevelt Griffin. On this episode, Roosevelt talks about growing up in and teaching in low-income areas, strategies for reaching and advocating for students in your programs, tips and techniques for jazz programs, and his path to starting a community center, the Griffin Institute.FULL BIO from www.rooseveltgriffin.com and www.thegriffininstitute.org:Dr. Roosevelt Griffin III is the director of bands for Harvey School District 152 where he and his students have received international acclaim for excellence in music education. He manages music programs over seven locations with more than 250 students. He is also the elementary jazz band director for the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic; an instructor with Blues Kids of America, an interdisciplinary artist-in-residence program that helps students improve literacy through music; and the President/CEO of the Griffin Institute of Performing Arts.Some of his most notable performances as an educator include performances at the Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, Buddy Guy's Legends, Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinics, Jazz Education Network's International Conference, Auditorium Theater, ASCD International Conference, and the Chicago Jazz Showcase.Before becoming a full-time teacher, Dr. Griffin worked with some of the world's greatest musicians, including Luciano Pavarotti, Diana Ross, and Jimmy Heath. He is often invited to present at conferences and workshops for music education, including the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinics, The Jazz Institute of Chicago, The Jazz Educators Network, The Missouri Music Educators Association, Illinois Music Educators Association, The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Northern Illinois University, Columbia College, and Prairie State College. He and his students have also been featured in Downbeat and JazzEd magazines for obtaining an endorsement with Jody Jazz Mouthpieces. He recently co-authored the latest addition to GIA Publications TMTP series, “Teaching Music Through Performance: Beginning Jazz Ensembles”.Dr. Griffin's work has brought him several prestigious honors. The Recording Academy and the Grammy Foundation have most recently named him a Quarter-Finalist for the 2017 “Grammy Award for Music Educator”. In 2015, Dr. Griffin received the 2015 Most Outstanding Alumni Award from the Northern Illinois University Alumni Association as well as a Jefferson Award for excellence in teaching from the District 205 Ambassadors of the Jefferson Award Foundation. In 2014, He received the prestigious Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching from the Golden Apple Foundation. Later that same year, his hometown of Harvey, Illinois, honored him by renaming his childhood street “Roosevelt Griffin III Avenue”.Dr. Griffin earned a bachelor of music degree from NIU in 2001, master's degree in school leadership from Concordia University in 2011, Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Argosy University and currently holds the status of Scholar at Northwestern University.

Seven-time Emmy award winner, WTTW producer, and documentary filmmaker Dan Andries joins us in the Booth! He arrived at the studio having just toured the Hamilton Exhibition on Northerly Island. Sounds like something we need to visit. We recently discovered that Dan was creating a series of pieces for WTTW called "Stage Players." They are very short interview pieces honoring all of the kinds of people who make Chicago theatre great. They appear between other programs and are excellent. It's amazing how much they convey in such a short period of time.  We have had some of the same amazing guests. Check them out! Dan's career so far is pretty remarkable. He has been at WTTW since 2000. He was the series producer of Artbeat Chicago for 5 years, and did stories on the arts off and on for Chicago Tonight.  In 2005 he began working on documentaries, which included “Beauty Rises:  Four Lives in the Arts” (2006), “Cannot Live Without:  Illinois Artists at Work” (2014) and nine documentaries on architects, including Chicago architects Jeanne Gang and Tom Beeby and the amazing French architects Marc & Nada Breitman. Here he is in Paris with Marc and WTTW's Geoffrey Baer: Beauty Rises is a wonderful documentary highlighting Laura Wiley, the co-founder of Albany Park Theatre Project, Orbert Davis, who created the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, sculptor Dessa Kirk, and poet Alison Joseph. All moving and compelling stories. Other documentary projects include co-producing and co-writing “DuSable to Obama:  Chicago’s Black Metropolis” and “Out & Proud in Chicago” as well as 2 Geoffrey Baer tour shows (River and the Southwest Suburbs) and a show about the Irish (“Irish Chicago”).  Dan created the four-part series “Art & Design in Chicago” that aired in the fall of 2018. Since 2006, he has also "had the great privilege of producing a multi-camera documentation of the work of Albany Park Theatre Project." He does that work with his wife, Anne Northrup. One of those pieces, “Feast,” was broadcast on WTTW and won an Emmy. He comes from a family of arts journalists.  His mother, Dorothy Andries was a music critic on the North Shore for Pioneer Press and his aunt, Wynne Delacoma, was the classical music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times for a number of years. I'll Be Seeing You: John Singleton: In our regular segment celebrating the life of someone who has recently left us, Gary shares the story of filmmaker, John Singleton. He was a huge talent and contributed so much to our history of film making. Read his obituary from the Washington Post here

Artist, educator and composer Orbert Davis joins the podcast to share his story growing up in the jazz scene, making an impact as the Artistic Director of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic and embracing the power of mentorship to open opportunities for others. Learn more about Orbert's projects at http://orbertdavis.com/

Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Orbert Davis explores immigration through the music of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and we revisit a conversation about understanding the Holocaust through the technology of holograms. 

Yvonne Faddis-Stroud was born in Oakland, California, into a musical family with her brother, jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis. She played piano since three. Yvonee has an incredible ear for music and, when she hears a song, it goes straight to her fingers. Her repertoire contains countless compositions, including jazz, blues, classical, Broadway, R & B, Motown, movie and TV themes, spirituals, and even video games. She majored in visual art, however, Yvonne performed regularly with the college jazz band and composed and performed original music for theatrical productions. She secured her first gigs improvising accompaniment to silent movies and leading her own jazz quartet in the Oakland area. In Northern California, she was a musical director at Oakland Ensemble Theater, played solo piano at country clubs, restaurants, and boutiques, and became the house pianist for Nordstrom’s in Walnut Creek. She collaborated in the studios of Fantasy Records with the chart-topping R&B group the Whispers, among other local groups. Since moving to Chicago, she has performed with Make Music Chicago and played for receptions for Orbert Davis’s Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. She has a television show, Yvonne’s Piano, which airs on Chicago’s WJYS TV 62. She produced 23 half-hour episodes, featuring her arrangements of jazz and popular tunes in solo and trio settings featuring bassist Larry Gray and drummer Joel Spencer. Also joining her were Sylvia De La Cerna, violin; Josh Ramos, bass; and Charles Heath, drums. Yvonnespiano.com www.wijsf.org

Exploring new ways of leading that to foster creativity, collaboration and inspiration. Join us as we interview Orbert Davis, Emmy winning trumpeter, composer and co-founder of Chicago Jazz Philharmonic and creator of Collective Creativity Leadership. Lesley Picchietti has spent over 25 years doing what she loves with the constant being her addictive optimistic approach and desire to make a difference. Her career has spanned from local TV news to non-profit development, jazz vocalist and band leader, to a music educator.  Lesley believes the art of coaching/teaching, for any age, is through empowerment and engagement.  Using a unique blend of compassion, boldness and humor, she consistently shifts client and student energy from a place of hesitation to a more positive and constructive center. This productive shift ultimately allows individuals, groups and corporate teams to move forward with increased motivation and confidence. www.InspireBlissCoaching.com For over twenty years, Barb Heenan has been helping people turn obstacles into stepping stones for success. A former Occupational Therapist, Sales Manager, and Sales Consultant, she has a unique ability to inspire individuals to stretch out of their comfort zones both in work and play.  Barb helps busy professionals and entrepreneurs capture the power of connecting with their inner wisdom and natural talents using her positive energy and insight.  She holds degrees in Psychology and Occupational Therapy from the U of I and has successfully run two small businesses (an art business, and sales consulting).  Barb’s philosophy is that we each have the full capacity to create the life we really want. www.FreshCompanyCC.com

Founder and Artistic Director of Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Orbert Davis, chats with the Auditorium Staff about the upcoming Americana program on our Landmark Stage on November 11, 2016!