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Ernest Dawkins Quartet @ Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Chicago
ERNEST DAWKINS QUARTET + SPECIAL GUESTS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
TIME: 9:30-10:30PM
VENUE: INTERNATIONAL HOUSE. 1414 EAST 59TH ST.
ERNEST DAWKINS
Ernest Dawkins is one of the world’s premiere saxophonists and composers. He is the leader and founder of several ensembles, most notably the New Horizons Ensemble, Black Star Line, Chicago Trio, Aesop Quartet, Live the Spirit Residency Band, and the Chicago 12. He has recorded numerous CDs and his publishing company, Dawk Music, has seventeen releases to date.
Dawkins has created commissioned works for MacArthur Foundation, Live the Spirit Residency, The Joyce Foundation, Old Town School of Folk Music, The Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, Sons d’Hiver Festival, Banlieues Bleues Festival, Meet the Composers, The Jazz Institute of Chicago, and the King Arts Complex of Columbus Ohio, among others. Recently, he has composed Redefining Frederick Douglass (for Chamber Music America), Refound Connections (for South Arts), and a piece called The Incomparable Tim Black.
He has received a Joyce Award and a MacArthur Foundation International Connections grant, and been named Chicagoan of the Year twice by the Chicago Tribune. He has received a Meet the Composers grant and been awarded the State of Illinois Governors Fellowship award twice. He established The Englewood Jazz Festival, now in its 21st year, and founded Live the Spirit Residency, a not-for-profit arts organization committed to improving access to creative and improvised music for underserved communities within the city of Chicago.
He has worked with a myriad of music greats, including Marquis Hill, Maurice Brown, Kahil El Zabar, Hamid Drake, Harrison Bankhead, Dee Alexander, Nicole Mitchell, Corey Wilkes, Orbert Davis, Ari Brown, Ramsey Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Willie Pickens, Malachi Favors, Henry Threadgill, Amina Claudine Myers, Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Zim Ngqawana, Feya Faku, Nduduzo Makathini, Jack McDuff, Don Moye, Aretha Franklin, Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and The Dells.
Dawkins is the current Executive Director of Live the Spirit Residency and past Chairman of the AACM. His life’s goal is for his music and compositions to reflect the evolving collective cultural memory of American jazz.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
1414 EAST 59TH ST.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
7:00PM-8:00PM GUSTAVO CORTIÑAS’ DESAFIO CANDENTE
9:30PM-10:30PM ERNEST DAWKINS QUARTET + SPECIAL GUESTS
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Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble – The Prairie Prophet
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Artist: Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons EnsembleGenre: JazzRelated Tags: Ernest Dawkins, Isaiah Spencer, Jeff Parker, Junius Paul, Marquis Hill, Steve Berry
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Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble – The Prairie Prophet
Delmark DE 598
Compact Disc (2011)
Ernest Dawkins formed his New Horizons Ensemble in 1978 and on The Prairie Prophet, the group continues to create music that showcases their unique combination of jazz, bebop, swing, and avant-garde. The Chicago Tribune describes them as “a band with an uncommon versatility that erupts into new music bursts of dissonance and color. This band can enlighten an audience while enthralling it.” The Prairie Prophet is New Horizons Ensemble’s fifth Delmark CD and features Ernest Dawkins, saxophone; Steve Berry, trombone; Marquis Hill, trumpet, Jeff Parker, guitar; Junius Paul, bass; Isaiah Spencer, drums. Contains all new original Ernest Dawkins compositions. This CD is dedicated to Fred Anderson.
Delmark DE 5032 (2019)
Compact Disc
You won’t need to get very far into this disc – about 75 seconds, I’d say – to know why the Metropolitan Jazz Octet and Dee Alexander seem made for each other. After the rarely heard verse to “Ain’t Nobody’s Business,” Jim Gailloreto’s arrangement swirls the horns together into a bebop Dixieland of collective improvisation; and yet, each one emerges with high-def clarity. And so does Alexander when she re-enters; she becomes another instrument in the mix.
It’s Too Hot For Words is a multi-generational time capsule: sterling musicians of the 21st Century, building upon an octet sound crafted 60 years earlier, to revitalize songs that Holiday began recording in the 1930s. It also serves as a springboard for the one aspect of Holiday’s work that Alexander does mimic. Sutter puts it this way: “Dee does what 90 percent of singers don’t do: instead of just singing the song, she tells a story – like Billie.” And all the while, the MJO spins evocative stories of their own: wordless but equally literate narratives to complement the human instrument invited into their midst.
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