2010 Chicago Jazz Festival features Ethiopia's Teshome Mitiku
The 2010 Chicago Jazz Festival features Ethiopian artists Getachew Mekurya, Teshome Mitiku, and Mahmoud Ahmed.
The Festival is spread out for a few days in different venues and then comes together September 4th and 5th in Grant Park.
The evening performances at the Petrillo Music Shell will introduce audiences to the Cambridge-based ensemble The Either/Orchestra in collaboration with Ethiopian artists Mahmoud Ahmed and, celebrate the vocal artistry of René Marie and pay tribute to trumpeter Lee Morgan.
Pianist Brad Mehldau makes his first Chicago Jazz Festival appearance and Henry Threadgill returns home with his Zooid band and the festival will close with Grammy winner Chicago vocalist Kurt Elling.
Full schedule:
Thursday, September 2
Millennium Park – Jay Pritzker Pavilion
12:00 – 12:50 Umbrella Music: Bridging Improvised Music and Dance
1:05 – 1:55 Jodie Christian Quintet
2:10 – 3:00 The MIYUMI Project Big Band: “Trans-Rooted” featuring JASC Tsukasa Taiko
3:15 – 4:00 Jim Wagner’s All Stars featuring Willie Pickens, Ari Brown, Jimmy Ellis, Robert Shy, Frank Russell, Corey Wilkes and Maggie Brown
Friday, September 3
Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph
Randolph Café
12:00 – 1:00 Hector Silveira Septet
1:30 – 2:30 The Grilly Brothers Sextet
Claudia Cassidy Theater
12:15 – 1:15 James Dapogny: “Art of the Solo”
1:45 – 2:45 AACM Experimental Ensemble
Preston Bradley Hall
12:30 – 1:30 Tomeka Reid’s Hear In Now Trio
2:00 – 3:00 Jim Cooper’s Mallet Madness featuring Kathy Kelly and Carl Leukaufe
Millennium Park – Jay Pritzker Pavilion
4:00 – 4:50 Lincoln Park High School Jazz Ensemble and Noteworthy
5:00 – 5:50 James Dapogny
6:00 – 6:55 Mike LeDonne Trio with special guest Eric Alexander
7:10 – 8:10 Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Orchestra
8:30 – 9:30 Ramsey Lewis 75th Birthday Celebration
Saturday, September 4
Grant Park
Jazz on Jackson Stage
12:00 – 12:55 Douglas Ewart Nyahbingi Drum Choir
1:10 – 2:05 Paul Giallorenzo’s GitGo
2:20 – 3:15 Maggie Brown: “A Tribute to Abbey Lincoln”
3:30 – 4:30 Dana Hall Quintet with special gust Nicholas Payton
6:00 – 7:30 Corey Wilkes
8:00 – 9:00 Steve Cole
Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage
12:00 – 12:30 Chi-Arts Jazz Combo
12:45 – 1:15 Jazz Ambassadors Combo
1:30 – 2:10 Kenwood Academy Jazz Ensemble
2:25 – 3:05 Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School Jazz Ensemble
3:20 – 3:50 Lincoln Park High School Jazz Ensemble
4:05 – 4:50 Roosevelt University Jazz Ensemble
Jazz and Heritage Stage
12:30 – 1:30 West End Jazz Band
2:00 – 3:00 Cameron Pfiffner’s Marco Polo
3:30 – 4:30 Nicole Mitchell’s Sonic Projections
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 – 5:50 Chuchito Valdez Afro-Cuban Ensemble
6:00 – 6:55 Rene Marie “High Maintenance” Quartet
7:10 – 8:10 Charisma: “A Lee Morgan Tribute”
8:30 – 9:30 The Either/Orchestra with special guests Getachew Mekurya and Teshome Mitiku
Sunday, September 5
Grant Park
Jazz on Jackson Stage
12:00 – 12:55 Paulinho Garcia Quintet
1:10 – 2:05 Nicole Mitchell‘s Black Earth Ensemble
2:20 – 3:15 Brad Goode Quartet
3:30 – 4:30 Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band
6:00 – 7:30 Harlan Jefferson
8:00 – 9:00 Norman Brown
Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage
12:00 – 12:30 Northside College Prep Jazz Combo
12:45 – 1:15 Whitney Young Magnet High School Jazz Combo
1:30 – 2:10 Lakeview High School Jazz Ensemble
2:25 – 3:05 John Hersey High School Jazz Ensemble
3:30 – 4:05 University of Chicago Jazz X-Tet
Jazz and Heritage Stage
12:30 – 1:30 Bethany Pickens Trio
2:00 – 3:00 NOMO
3:30 – 4:30 Saalik Ziyad’s 5 After 7 Project
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 – 6:00 Brad Mehldau Trio
6:15 – 7:05 Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls
7:20 – 8:15 Henry Threadgill’s Zooid
8:30 – 9:30 Kurt Elling Quintet with special guest Ernie Watts
