Chicago Jazz Guitar Hang & Jam
Chicago Jazz Guitar Hang & Jam is a monthly feature of Chicago's most talented jazz guitarists.
Hang:
The HANG portion will include the featured jazz guitarist who will play a set of music with our house rhythm section and guitar host Tony do Rosario. We will also have a little Q & A to get to know our featured guests.
Jam:
The JAM portion of the night is the second set where the featured guest will invite some of their students to play alongside them to have a musical dialogue on the stage at the world famous Jazz Showcase.
This months feature: Dave Miller
Guitarist and composer Dave Miller (Greg Ward’s Rogue Parade, Dustin Laurenzi’s Snaketime, Joe Policastro Trio, Algernon, Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls), has been a prominent fixture in the Chicago music scene for nearly two decades. His last record, Old Door Phantoms (ears&eyes Records), hailed by Audiophile Audition as “the multi-genre instrumental album of the year”, as well as “a complex and beautiful piece of work” by New City, explored themes of nature, spirituality, and the human condition through the lens of an instrumental psychedelic garage rock band.
Echoes of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse and guitarist Marc Ribot continue into Miller’s new album, DAVE MILLER, though he has expanded his focus to now include detailed arrangements and more refined production techniques. With the opening of Miller’s new recording studio, Whiskey Point Recording (co-run with ace pianist/engineer, Dan Pierson (V.V. Lightbody)), Miller’s music has become even more alive and exploratory. Beautiful mellotrons collide with fuzzed out guitars over swampy drums and non-ironic bongos, as if Brian Wilson got into a bar fight with The Meters and Link Wray before realizing they were kindred spirits, with Miller composing the score. Miller’s music, above all, aims to create its own utopic universe where all the cool music coexists.
TICKETS
General Admission $20
VIP $30
Student Tickets $15
Available at the door ONLY with valid student ID
