Jazz Walk 2010

5:30-7:30pm
Meadowbrook Park
Free

You're in for a special evening of great live music you can only experience in the Wandell Sculpture Garden in Meadowbrook Park.

Several Jazz combos and soloists will play alongside the district's collection of large outdoor sculptures at this free family event.

Parking is available at the Race Street entrance of the park or next door at Stone Creek Church at the corner of Windsor Road and Race Street.

This event will be rescheduled for the next night in the event of rain.

Thanks to our event sponsor: Clark-Lindsey Village

Performer Biographies
Bossa Nuevo
Formed in the fall of 2009, and based in Urbana, IL, Bossa Nuevo features current and former students of the University of Illinois School of Music. The group's repertoire focuses around the styles developed and popularized in South America by notable performers and composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Edu Lobo, Gilberto Gil, Joao Gilberto, Elis Regina, Tania Maria, Djavan, Astor Piazzolla, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. The self-titled debut album by BOSSA NUEVO will be released by Oregonian label Teal Creek Music - TC 2021 - in September 2010. The project was produced by bassist and leader Karim Yengsep, Grammy winning saxophonist, arranger and educator Chip McNeill, and recording engineer Mark Rubel of Pogo Studio in Champaign, IL.

Andrew Dixon
Andrew Dixon is on a quick stop home between Tokyo and New York City. For the last year, though primarily a tenor player, he played all reeds in jazz groups in Japan and seven times a week with the Cirque du Soleil. For two years before that, after graduating from U of I Jazz, he played and studied in Paris and Europe when not sailing around the world a few times leading groups on Cunard’s Queen Victoria. He is a native of C-U, having trained in groups at Edison, Central, Parkland, and U of I as well as The Iron Post, Zorba’s, the jazz and blues clubs of Chicago and with Candy Foster and the Shades of Blue.

Erik Lund, Armand Beaudoin & Dorothy Martirano
Armand Beauvoir - bass & cello - has worked as a sideman with several jazz greats, including Mary Lou Williams, Charlie Byrd, Moose Allison & Sheila Jordan. Presently, he enjoys working with many fine artists in the vibrant community of Champaign-Urbana. Erik Lund - composer/trombonist - is a member of the composition faculty at the University of Illinois School of Music. His compositions have been performed and recorded internationally, and he has performed in big band and jazz combo groups in the Champaign area for the past 28 years. Interests range from the Great American Songbook of jazz standards to experimental jazz and free improvisation - elements that have often figured prominently in his compositional work. Dorothy Martirano - violin - has performed internationally for many years. Concertmaster of the CUSO for 21 years, she is a violinist for several local groups. She specializes in contemporary music, and premiered three new works for violin during 2009. She has recorded for Centaur, Polydor, New World Records, Hal Leonard, Paramount Pictures, Einstein Records, the Korean Broadcasting Corp, CUCD, and Pogo Studios, among others.

Katie Flynn & Sam Hasting
Katie - I have always loved to sing and am so happy I can sing some tunes at the Meadowbrook Park Jazz Walk! I have been in Champaign-Urbana for a year now for my husband Dane to attend U of I Law School. Together we have a two year old son named Walter who is my favorite person on the planet. I sing most Fridays at V.Picasso in Urbana and at private parties from time to time. I also wait tables at Seven Saints in downtown Champaign. I spend the rest of my time with my wonderful family, training for the Illinois Marathon and having some laughs with friends. Sam Hasting is a guitarist in his senior year at the University of Illinois. Currently, he holds the guitar spot in the Concert Jazz Band. Over the past three years, he has been fortunate enough to study with great teachers through the school, including pianist Chip Stephens and guitarist Shawn Purcell. Sam can be heard around the Champaign-Urbana area playing with many different groups.

Mark Smart
Mark Smart is an electrical engineer who has been active on the Champaign/Urbana music scene for many years playing various styles on several instruments. For the Jazz Walk, Mark will be using a laptop-based setup to perform as a one-man jazz orchestra.

Bruiser & the Virtues
The house of blues has a lot of nooks and crannies after all these years, and Bruiser and the Virtues live in the party room. Shunning the power-trio fad, the band returns to earlier, bigger forms: jump blues, hot swing, and all the other dance-oriented genres that flowed into what was then called “race music.” Performing a mix of original compositions and classic tunes from Americans icons such as Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker, Bruiser and the Virtues are guaranteed to get the crowd off their rear and onto the dance floor. Their debut CD, From Vice to Virtue (and Vice Versa), showcases Bruiser’s writing talents and the band’s considerable musical talent. With ten original songs and touches of everything from jump to jazz, mambo to Mississippi blues, it’s guaranteed to please.

Peter & the Wolves
Although Peter and the Wolves still play a lot of standard jazz, they are playing more original compositions by leader Peter Deal. A fairly new group, these players have been playing local (and non- local) gigs for many years already, including most of their high school careers. Although this particular combination of players only unites during summers, "Peter and the Wolves" still plays on throughout the entire year, so please join them in a future show!

David Brandwein
Dave Brandwein has been playing the drums since he was 11 years old. In 8th grade he started playing jazz and has done so ever since. Dave is currently studying Jazz Performance at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois under the instruction of Professor Dana Hall. Dave's musical career has given him the opportunity to play in many prestigious situations such as opening for and working with the Maynard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau Band, working with jazz saxophonist Mark Colby, Northern Illinois University Jazz Festival, Texas State University Clinics, Disney Movie Music Clinics, Mundelein Jazz Festival, and many more.

Jonathan Beckett & Young Kim
Jonathan Beckett has been a professional saxophone player for more than 26 years. He earned a Master of Music degree from the University of North Texas in 2006, and is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Performance from the University of Illinois. He was a featured soloist and clinician with the One O’clock Lab Band at North Texas, as well as the Dallas Jazz Orchestra. Mr. Beckett has performed with Harry Connick Jr., Rosemary Clooney, Steve Allen, Jimmy Heath, the Temptations, Kenny Rogers, and many others. He has been active in the Champaign-Urbana area playing with his band and other local musicians, as well as teaching music privately. Mr. Beckett has been awarded a graduate assistantship at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Young Kim is originally from Seoul, Korea, & currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies at the University of Illinois.

D R Dixie Band
The D R Dixie Band was formed four years ago to have fun playing music people have fun hearing. We’re eight people playing seven instruments – trombone, tuba, trumpet, banjo, piano, drums, and two clarinets. Total musical experience in the band adds up to about 300 years performing (nope, no PlainSong jazz). In New Orleans style, we do Dixieland tunes and pre-30’s traditional jazz. They’re old favorites (the songs – the members are just old). Remember Bill Bailey? Saint Louie Blues? Sheik of Araby? Dare you to walk past (without at least a wiggle)! Have fun. We do.

The Parkland College Early Jazz Ensemble
Parkland Early Jazz ensemble is dedicated to exploring and preserving the roots of Jazz music. We encourage people to dance and sing along with us. Our motto is having good fun in an old-time style.