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JIM RYAN - Piano
A professional musician since 1962, in
Los Angeles and Chicago, has done recording as a performer, and
writer/producer of commercial music for television and radio. Jim played
keyboards for AL JARREAU on his Grammy Award-winning album "ALL FLY
HOME".
He toured and recorded with a rock group called THE
MOB in the 1960’s. His piano artistry and musical sensitivity are well
known in the musical world. He performs regularly with his own groups
and as a soloist and with Bobby Lewis in concerts as a Jazz duo through
septet Jim has appeared on all of the BOBBY LEWIS CD
recordings for Southport records.
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PAT
MALLINGER - Alto & Tenor Sax
Hailed as one of the most talented musicians in
Chicago. Attended North Texas State University and was a member of
the outstanding One O’clock Lab Jazz Band. After touring with
ARTIE SHAW and WOODY HERMAN, he settled in Chicago in 1990, where
he performs at the Green Mill co-leading the Sabertooth
quartet, Saturday's at midnight for more than a decade. He
produced a CD recording of his compositions, titled MONDAY PRAYER
TO TUNKASHILA, and most recently released Sabertooth: Live at the
Green Mill.
Pat is a member of the Jazz Mentors Sextet
sponsored by the Ravinia Festival to develop and teach young jazz
musicians in Chicago’s inner-city schools. Pat continues to
perform around town with many groups including the Chicago
Jazz Ensemble.
Pat
Mallinger
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JEFF
STITELY - Drums
Jeff began his career as a jazz drummer in 1984,
building a reputation in Chicago by playing with such superb artists as
Chick Corea, Randy Becker, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Harris, Larry Coryell
Patricia Barber, Von Freeman and many others. The Jeff Stitely Quartet
has recorded three CDs, toured both the U.S. and Europe and was a
finalist in the Hennessey National Jazz Competition. Jeff studied and
performed African drumming with Gideon Foli Alorwoyie for five years,
and has been on faculty at Northern Illinois and Northeastern Illinois
Universities teaching percussion. Along with this he
is one of the busiest drummers in Chicago and travels often to perform
concerts and percussion clinics. Jeff has been a featured performer on
many of Bobby Lewis' CD's and is his first choice drummer for Jazz
concert appearances.
JSQ Music
Company
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Stewart
Miller
- Bass
Bassist
STEWART MILLER is a native of Louisville, KY, a graduate of music
programs at the University of Kentucky and Northern Illinois
University, and a regular in jazz clubs, recording studios, and
festivals in and around Chicago.
After
two years of touring with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the early
1980s Stewart worked in a wide variety of musical settings in the
Louisville-Lexington-Cincinnati area and eventually came to
Chicago in 1987.
He
can be heard on recent recordings by Chicago jazz artists such as
Orbert Davis, Russ Phillips, Bobby Schiff, and Judy Roberts, and
on Delmark Records 2004 release Up Jumped Spring by
legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller
He
is on the Faculty of UIC, Department of Performing Arts: STEWART
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