Jazz Up Glen Ellyn: July 10, 2021!
Located in downtown Glen Ellyn on Main between Duane and Hillside
TICKETS
Reserved Seating
We are offering 10 paid squares for reserved seating that are approximately 10 x10. Paid seating will be offered in the first 2 rows in front of the stage. These squares are $100 each with a maximum capacity of 4 people. Please bring your own tables and chairs. No tents or umbrellas allowed. You may also bring in your own food and alcohol. You may also purchase food and alcohol from restaurants in the perimeter of the event and bring it to your seat! You may occupy your square after 1:00pm on July 15th.
Free Seating
First come first serve open seating occupies the entire length of the street behind the row of squares to Hillside. Please bring your own tables and chairs. No tents or umbrellas allowed. You may also bring in your own food and alcohol. You may also purchase food and alcohol from restaurants in the perimeter of the event and bring it to your seat! You may begin to set up after 11am on July 15th.
Masterclass
This year’s festival promises to be a fantastic journey through Chicago’s jazz panorama!
Jazz Up Glen Ellyn 2023 is back and better than ever!
This year’s festival focuses on the ‘Chicago Sound’, with a wide selection of styles and sounds associated with our great city.
Vocalist Paul Marinaro headlines with his group and artistic director Fareed Haque will pay tribute to the late, great Ramsey Lewis. Gus Freidlander will play a set of King Oliver’s Chicago style traditional jazz and an all-star group from the AACM will represent the Chicago’s modern jazz scene.
In addition to these Chicago luminaries, Jazz Up Glen Ellyn and Bellas Artes School of Music will host a number of student groups on stage, as part of the Bellas Artes Jazz camp.
And as usual the festival will continue at night in local venues, so the music doesn’t stop!!
Produced by the Alliance of Downtown Glen Ellyn, with support from The Bellas Artes School of Music and WDCB Jazz Radio.
Meet the Artists
Artistic Director Fareed Haque
This year Fareed and his cohorts pay tribute to the legendary pianist/educator/radio and tv personality. Ramsey Lewis. Lewis passed in Sept of 2022. Known for his many groups and collaborations, Ramsey burst onto the jazz scene with his funky, grooving hit ‘The In Crowd’.
GUS FRIEDLANDER
Gus Friedlander, on banjo, is the founder of The Prohibition Orchestra dance band, has played with the Swing Shift Orchestra, also leads the Whiskey Hollow Bluegrass Band and plays traditional Irish music. He plays four and five string banjos, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, fiddle and bass and teaches these instruments in private lessons.
AACM group featuring Ugochi Nwaogwugwu
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu is a multidisciplinary creative. An internationally renowned poet, writer, musician and founder of Spirit Speaks, Inc., Ugochi has executive produced, written and co-arranged three album projects; African Buttafly, A.S.E. and Love Shot. Ugochi’s poems and essays have been published in international anthologies as well as nationally in USA. Ugochi has created an original Pan African poetry form called Ike, (pronounced EE-kay) #Ikepoem, paying homage to her Igbo culture of Nigeria. Ugochi is also a playwright, activist, TRHT practitioner, member of the AACM & Recording Academy/GRAMMY.
GEORGE FREEMAN/MIKE ALLEMANA QUARTET
Mike Allemana is a Guitarist, Composer, Improviser, Arranger, Accompanist, Teacher, Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and Director of Jazz Ensembles at the University of Chicago.
Legendary guitarist George Freeman is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Von Freeman and drummer Eldridge “Bruz” Freeman, and the uncle of tenor saxophonist and trumpeter Chico Freeman. He is known for his sophisticated technique, collaborations with high-profile performers, including Charlie Parker, Ben Webster and Groove Holmes, and is a notable presence in the Chicago jazz scene.
Allemana joined forces with George Freeman in 2013 to form the George Freeman/Mike Allemana Quartet.
This band was captured live in 2015 for the 2017 release ‘Live at the Green Mill’ on Ears & Eyes Records.
PAUL MARINARO GROUP
Vocalist Paul Marinaro, dubbed as having “one of the most beautiful vocal instruments in the business today” by Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune, is a modern classic. With Chicago as his home base, Paul has become one of the most in-demand and respected male vocalists and has “taken his place among the top five male jazz singers active today.” (Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene)
Refreshments
Glen Ellyn businesses are ready to serve you during the event!
Be A Sponsor
Jazz Brunch
Start your morning off right!
Location:
Nobel House Glen Ellyn
419 N Main Street, Glen Ellyn, IL
Featuring a Brunch Menu
RSVP Kevin at kevin@baschoolofmusic.com
Entertainment:
- Bellas Artes Student Combos
- Downers Grove South High School Jazz Combo
- The Bellas Artes Jazz Faculty