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41st Annual Chicago Jazz Festival at Chicago Jazz Festival at Von Freeman Stage Millennium Park
Courtesy of Jim Gailloreto | Posted on July 4, 2019
When
Fri, August 30, 2019
12:30 pm
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Musicians
Dee Alexander
vocalsJim Gailloreto
saxophoneRuss Phillips
tromboneBob Rummage
drumsDoug Scharf
trumpetDoug Bistrow
bass, acousticAbout
The Metropolitan Jazz Octet (MJO) is the reawakening of a group founded in the 1950s by saxophonist/arranger and De Paul University professor Tom Hilliard (1930–2006). In 1959, the original group recorded “The Legend of Bix,” a tribute to the artistry of cornetist/composer Bix Beiderbecke. Near the end of Tom Hilliard’s life, he bequeathed his life’s work of music to his former student, Jim Gailloreto.
In 2014, Jim began to explore Tom’s legacy with a monthly reading of the MJO library. The musicians involved—two former fellow DePaul students among them—likened the experience to an archaeological jazz dig, with each session unearthing a new layer of the original group’s creativity, thinking and performance practice. ...