ari brown quintet
Saturday, September 23
TIME: 1:00-2:00PM
VENUE: smart museum. 5550 South GREENWOOD AVE.
Man wearing glasses with eyes closed standing against a blue background playing a saxophone, followed by a black and white image of the Ari Brown Quintet playing on a stage, followed by man wearing glasses and a brown beanie hat standing playing a saxophone and [another instrument] at the same time, a man wearing glasses sitting at a gold table with a saxophone on the table.
ari brown
A Chicago native, Ari Brown is an internationally renowned saxophonist, flutist, and pianist, as well as a prolific arranger, composer, and teacher. He began his professional career in the 1960s, performing soul, rock, blues, jazz, and R&B throughout the Midwest and along the East Coast with such artists as Gene Chandler, B.B. King, and Chuck Berry. Since 1979, Brown has performed almost exclusively in the jazz idiom, playing across the U.S. and throughout the world with his own working band and with others, including the AACM Experimental Orchestra, Kahil El’Zabar, Roscoe Mitchell, and Pharoah Sanders. He graduated from Chicago’s Vandercook School of Music and has been active as an educator, teaching at Chicago Public Schools, Columbia College Chicago, the Chicago Conservatory of Music, and others.
The musicians:
Ari Brown - tenor saxophone
Kirk Brown - piano
Yosef Ben-Israel - bass
Dr. Cuz - congas
Kwame Steve Cobb - drums