Classical Jazz, with John Dorhauer’s Heisenberg Uncertainty Players

by Jo Anne | Dec 17, 2024

    CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE TICKETING. Big band jazz meets classical favorites in “Classical Jazz.”  Enjoy jazzy, big band versions of symphonic movements from works of Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, and Copland as arranged and performed by John Dorhauer and his...

Rhapsody in Blue at 100 and the Great American Songbook: Shout Section Big Band with Pianist Jeffrey LaDeur

by Jo Anne | Dec 6, 2023

    CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE TICKETING. In January 1924, George Gershwin reportedly learned from a newspaper article that he was meant to be writing a “jazz concerto” for a concert of new American music to be performed a month later by the popular dance band...

Pete Ellman Big Band

by Jo Anne | Jun 14, 2023

CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE TICKETING. If you enjoy great Big Band and jazz classics, you’ll love the Pete Ellman Big Band (PEBB), featuring 18 of the Chicago area’s finest jazz musicians. Join us for a lively evening of standards and new pieces – plus some...