Alyssa Allgood Quintet

Saturday, September 27, 2025

TIME: 6:00pm-7:00pm

VENUE: Hyde Park Bank. 1525 East 53rd st.

Alyssa Allgood

Named a Rising Star Female Vocalist in the 2024 DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll and voted Best Individual Jazz Musician in the 2024 Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago poll, Alyssa Allgood has captured attention for her dynamic vocal command, sophisticated songwriting, and captivating performances. Showcasing modern sensibilities, Allgood is a fearless vocalist known for her confident musical interaction, fierce improvisation, and vulnerable expression. DownBeat has praised her “boldness, swagger, and surefooted musicianship,” while the New York City Jazz Record has recognized her “force, clarity and jazz integrity.”

A charismatic and engaging performer, Allgood regularly headlines the acclaimed Jazz Showcase, Green Mill, and Winter’s Jazz Club in her Chicago homebase. She tours frequently, having appeared at such esteemed venues as Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club; Birdland; Mezzrow in New York; Blues Alley in DC; Blue Llama in Ann Arbor; Jazz, TX in San Antonio; Rudy’s Jazz Room in Nashville; The Century Room in Tucson, and many others.

Allgood has released four albums as a leader. Her 2024 release, From Here, is a powerful collection of original music recorded with internationally renowned musicians Geoffrey Keezer, John Patitucci, Kendrick Scott, and Greg Ward. Two songs from the album were selected as finalists in the 2023 John Lennon Songwriting Contest and the 2023 International Songwriting Competition. 

Other notable honors include winning the inaugural Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Voice Competition in 2017 and being named “Best Jazz Entertainer” at the 2019 Chicago Music Awards.

The musicians:

Alyssa Allgood - voice

Greg Ward - alto saxophone

Julius Tucker - piano

Ethan Philion - bass

Jon Deitemyer - drums