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Summer Jazz at UICQuick Contacts
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Ernie Adams is a very experienced, high profile all-styles drummer, who has performed and recorded with many of the worlds greatest musicians. He is known for his perfect timing, solid groove, and brilliant technique that he combines with great musical taste and a wonderful personaity. He has performed, recorded, and toured with the likes of Ramsey Lewis, AI DiMiola, Joe Williams, Billy Dickens, Arturo Sandoval, Steve Cole, Dianne Reeves, Stanley Turrentine, Ahmad Jamal, Richie Cole, James Moody, Joe Zawinul, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Orbert Davis, the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and the list goes on. Having graduated as Jazz major from
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Popular tenor saxophonist/pianist, Ari Brown is an important member of the
His technique and traditional jazz chops are excellent and highly expressive on both of his instruments. Chicago Reader critic Peter Margasak calls Brown "A terrific saxophonist with a deep understanding of both bop's complex rhythms and the wild expressionism of free jazz." Ari blends two traditions; the
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Nicole Mitchell has been celebrated for bringing a exciting new approach to flute improvisation. Co-president of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Mitchell is the founder of the critically acclaimed Black Earth Ensemble and Black Earth Strings. #1 in Downbeat magazine's critic's poll for "Rising Star Flutist 2005, 2006 and 2007," Nicole Mitchell is one of few African American women to take the path as a creative instrumentalist, composer, band leader and an educator. With her ensembles and as a featured flutist, she has been a highlight at art venues and festivals throughout Europe, the
Bassist Stewart Miller is a native of
After two years of touring with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the early 1980s, Stewart worked in a wide variety of musical settings in the Louisville-Lexington-Cincinnati area and eventually came to
He can be heard on recent recordings by
Dr. Zvonimir Tot is a jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger with a style deeply rooted in the jazz tradition but flavored by his European origin. As a jazz musician, Tot has performed and/or recorded in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Serbia, the Czech Republic , Romania , and Croatia. He has performed with many world-renowned artists, including saxophonists Scott Hamilton, Billy Harper and Peter King, organist Joey DeFrancesco, violinists Johnny Frigo and Stefan Milenkovich, drummers Ernie Adams, Paul Wertico and Byron Landham, bassists Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, John Clayton and Hein Van de Geyn, trumpeter Orbert Davis, pianists Larry Novak and Larry Vuckovich, guitarists Philip Catherine, Henry Johnson and Paulinho Garcia, vocalists Jackie Allen, Carmen Lundy and Deborah Carter, and Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. Tot is the founder and owner of Groove Art Records, as well as full member of ASCAP, GRAMMY, The National Association for Music Education and American Composers Forum. As a bandleader, he has recorded three CDs for Groove Art Records: “Unspoken Desire” (2007), “Blue Quest” (2007), and “Travels and Dreams” (2004), as well as several CDs as a sideman for various labels. Since 2005, Zvonimir Tot’s biography has been included in Who’s Who in America, published by Marquis Publishing. He is an endorsing artist for Godin Guitars and Acoustic Image Amplifiers. Zvonimir Tot holds a doctorate from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University, as well as bachelor’s degrees from Franz Liszt Academy of Musical Arts (Budapest, Hungary) and Amsterdam Conservatory (The Netherlands). For more iinformation, go to www.zt-music.com. For more information, email Kimberly Watson at JazzAcademy@uic.edu. |
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