WDCB hosts free Lakeside Pavilion concerts at MAC!
WDCB is pleased to announce its 2016 Summer Music Series at The MAC! All three concerts will be held at the Lakeside Pavilion, starting at 7:30pm each evening, and are FREE!
Thursday, August 4: Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters
Thursday, August 11: Organissimo with Brian Charette & Fareed Haque
Thursday, August 25: Marquis Hill Blacktet with special guest Bobby Broom
The Pavilion opens at 6:30pm. Bring a blanket and/or chairs and enjoy a picnic on the lawn. Beer, wine and other concessions will be available for sale. No outside alcoholic beverages permitted; concession stand available for ages 21+. Click here for more information.
ABOUT WALTER "WOLFMAN" WASHINGTON
Walter “Wolfman” Washington has been a mainstay on the New Orleans music scene. His guitar style combines rhythm and blues, New Orleans funk, and modern jazz in a way of playing that is uniquely his. His singing is emotional and heartfelt.Washington cut his teeth backing up some of the best singers and performers in New Orleans history before putting together his long time band The Roadmasters who have been burning down and burning up local and national stages since their first gigs in the 1980s with their own soulful originals and then tackling some great unsung covers such as Johnny Guitar Watson’s “You Can Stay But That Noise Got To Go,” Otis Redding’s “Nobody’s Fault But Mine,” andBill Withers’ “Use Me.”
ABOUT ORGANISSIMO
The 15 year old Michigan-based trio organissimo, featuring Jim Alfredson (Hammond B3) Larry Barris (guitar) and Randy Marsh (drums), is known for fusing elements of funk, gospel, blues, progressive rock, and Latin rhythms into a solid foundation of jazz. Shifting meters, deep grooves, melodic finesse and tight ensemble interplay are hallmarks of the organissimo sound.
New York City organist/pianist BRIAN CHARETTE, a Grammy Award-nominated, Hammond B3-endorsed artist, has established himself as a leading voice in modern jazz. He placed 4th in The 2015 Critic’s Poll in the main Organ category. In 2015 he was honored with The Hot House Magazine Fan’s Decision Jazz Award for Best Organist in New York.
FAREED HAQUE is a modern guitar virtuoso. Steeped in classical and jazz traditions, his unique command of the guitar and different musical styles inspire his musical ventures with tradition and fearless innovation. Born in 1963 to a Pakistani father and Chilean mother, Fareed’s extensive travels, with especially long stays in Spain, France, Iron, Pakistan, and Chile exposed Haque to different musics from a very early age. This natural eclecticism has become the hallmark of Haque’s music, but it was repeated visits to Von Freeman’s Chicago jam sessions that gave Haque the grounding in the Chicago blues and jazz tradition. The 1981 recipient of North Texas State University’s Jazz Guitar Scholarship, Haque spent a year studying with renowned jazz guitarist and pedagogue Jack Peterson. Fareed’s growing interest in the classical guitar led him to transfer to Northwestern University, where he completed his studies in classical guitar under David Buch, John Holmquist and Anne Waller.
ABOUT MARQUIS HILL
Trumpeter and composer Marquis Hill is widely recognized as one of the preeminent voices on the instrument of his generation. Raised in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood his introduction to music was made by taking up the drum kit in the fourth grade. However, after being inspired by a cousin his focus soon shifted to what was to become his primary instrument, the trumpet. A frequent participant in Ravinia programs, awards include winning such competitions as the International Trumpet Guild jazz competition (2012) and most recently the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition (2014), widely regarded as the most prestigious in its field.
In a career spanning three decades, preeminent guitarist BOBBY BROOM has embodied the truism that it’s the player not the tune that makes for a memorable performance in jazz. After years as an elite sideman with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Stanley Turrentine, and Dr. John, Broom reintroduced himself to the jazz world with Stand! (2001), a brilliant foray into the pop music he grew up hearing in the 1960s and ’70s. In his subsequent releases he’s demonstrated a keen ear for rarely played material, a gift for composing evocative tunes, and impressive facility with the knotty rhythmic puzzles of Thelonious Monk, which is what makes his new album My Shining Hour such an unexpected revelation. The luxuriantly melodic session features Broom’s working trio focusing on beloved American Songbook standards.
