Dale Alexander, Gary Raynor, Jay Epstein

The group complements the musettes with swing, ballads, cha chas, rumbas, and cumbias to create a wonderfully varied show. CAO is led by DAN NEWTON on accordion and vocals, with ERIC MOHRING on mandolin, violin and vocals, ERIK LILLESTOL on bass and vocals, and JOE STEINGER on percussion.

In Person/Live Stream Available The Freier Department will be performing some of the songs from their recent album, "Dysfunktion", along with other funk, jazz, salsa, and rock songs in their book. Please join us for a musical adventure in all things funky!   Featuring: Ethan Freier: composer, arranger and Trombone Rich Manik: Saxophones Adam Rossmiller: […]

Pat Mallinger was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota and began playing the saxophone at 11 years of age. He received his Jazz Studies degree from North Texas State University on a “One O’clock Lab Band” Scholarship. He lived and performed in Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, and Japan, before establishing Chicago as his home […]

Creative Jazz from Kansas City

DeCarlo Jackson and Richard Haneman met in 2015 and connected over their mutual interests involving music and art. With the addition of guitarist Evan Slack and bassist Megan Mahoney “HEYARLO” was formed. Using original compositions, HEYARLO elevates any setting into an intimate experience for each listener. With each members individual sound and musical approach elements of rock, funk and jazz can […]

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8:00pm Paul Harper Quartet Paul Harper – Saxophones / woodwinds Phil Aaron – Piano Tom Lewis – Bass Nathan Norman – Drums The Paul Harper Quartet plays jazz compositions written by many of the greats from jazz history (Chick Corea, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, John Abercrombie, etc.) as well some original compositions from […]

After a beginner-friendly lesson with the internationally renowned teachers from Uptown Swing, get ready to turn up the heat with The Red Hot Django Peppers as they burn up the Hot Club Swing style popularized by Django Reinhardt. Dinner and drink specials are available and predinning at our Uptown Lobby is always available or we […]