Ravinia 2019, Issue 2, Week 3

Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Joe Zawinul, Jack McDuff and Joey DeFrancesco, Al DiMeola, Mike Stern, Bucky and John Pizzarelli, Russell Malone, BusterWilliams, Anthony Jackson, Jim- my Haslip, John Clayton, Poncho Sanchez, and Glen Velez, among many others. He has played on over 100 recordings, including numerous television, radio, and movie soundtracks. Ad- ams is a drum/jazz professor at the University of Illinois–Chicago. Born in Harlem and raised on the Upper West Side of New York City, Bobby Broom took up guitar at 12, and five years later made his first appearance with Sonny Rollins at Carnegie Hall. He later toured and record- ed with Rollins during 1981–86 and 2005–10. Broom currently performs with the Bobby Broom Trio and the Bobby Broom Organi-Sa- tion, and he was also co-leader of the Deep Blue Organ Trio from 2000 to 2013. He has released over a dozen albums as a band leader, most re- cently My Shining Hour in 2014, and four with the Deep Blue Organ Trio. Throughout his ca- reer Broom has also been active as a jazz educa- tor. He continues to conduct lectures, clinics and master classes for colleges, universities, and jazz organizations nationally and sometimes abroad. Broom holds a master of music in jazz pedagogy from Northwestern University. Dennis Carroll has been playing bass professionally for over 30 years. Originally from Poplar Grove, IL, he has be- come a nationally sought-after bass- ist with deep roots in the Chicago jazz scene. For some two decades he has been a member of the Bobby Broom Trio, the Ron Perrillo Trio, and the Chicago Jazz Or- chestra. Carroll has been featured on record- ings by fellow Jazz Mentors, including Bobby Broom’s Plays for Monk and Pharez Whitted’s Transient Journey , both of which reached the top of the jazz charts and were received with much critical acclaim. Over the years Carroll has worked extensively with the next generation of musicians, including teaching students pri- vately, conducting clinics, instructing combos, teaching in the Chicago Merit Music Program, and also serving as jazz bass professor at North- western University. Eric Hines is ad- junct professor of percussion at Olivet Nazarene University and a professional per- cussionist and educator residing in Chicago. An accomplished per- former of classical, jazz, Caribbean, Brazilian, Mexican, and popular percussion, he maintains an active international touring schedule. As a bandleader, Hines appears regularly on the Chicago music scene directing his steel pan– driven Caribbean jazz ensemble Eric Hines & Pan Dulce. He is also the drummer and percus- sionist for Sones de México, a two-time Gram- my-nominated Mexican folk music ensemble. Specializing in Cuban folkloric music, Hines has studied in Havana and Matanzas with mas- ter rumba musicians Maximino Duquesne Mar- tinez, Francisco “Minini” Zamora Chirino, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, and Los Rumberos de Cuba. His dissertation “Recipe for a Guaguancó Sabroso: Understanding Quinto Improvisation in Cuban Rumba” was published in 2015. Pat Mallinger was born and raised in Saint Paul, MN, where he began playing the sax- ophone at age 11. He earned his jazz studies degree in 1986 from North Texas State Uni- versity, where he was awarded the One O’clock Lab Band Scholarship. Mallinger had regular gigs while residing in Los Angeles, Dallas, Bos- ton, and Japan before laying roots in Chicago in 1990. He has co-led the Sabertooth quartet on Saturday nights at the Green Mill since 1992. Mallinger is also heard around town performing with the Bobby Lewis Quintet, Art Hoyle Quin- tet, Eric Schneider/Pat Mallinger Quintet, and the Pat Mallinger Quartet. He has made five re- cordings under his name, the most recent being Elevate , which received a four-star review from DownBeat . Mallinger has been a member of the Ravinia Jazz Mentor Program since its inception in 1995. Audrey Morrison is director of jazz studies and jazz trombone faculty at the Music In- stitute of Chica- go. A performer and educator in both classical and jazz styles, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music. Morrison has been a member of the big bands of Clark Terry and Barrett Deems, the DIVA big band in New York City, and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. She also plays with the jazz sextet SHE, Bradley Williams’s 21st Century Revue, the Lake Forest Symphony, Ars Viva, and the Music Institute of Chicago Jazz All-Stars. She is on the faculties of Columbia College and North Park University. In the summer she teaches and performs at the Birch Creek Music Center in Door County, WI. Morrison is a frequent jazz festival clinician and adjudicator. Born in Pitts- burgh, Richard Johnson has strong territorial jazz roots. He was first introduced to the piano at age 5 by his father, a gospel pianist in the church. After graduating from the Berklee School of Music in just two years, Johnson entered the Boston Conservatory, where he earned a master’s de- gree in jazz pedagogy. He then completed an Artist Performance Diploma at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at New En- gland Conservatory under the direction of Ron Carter. Johnson became a member of Wynton Marsalis’s septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Cen- ter Orchestra between 2000 and 2003, and he has also played in the Russell Malone Quartet. He leads Johnson Works LLC, a company he founded that represents artists worldwide, and is currently the head jazz piano faculty profes- sor at the Peabody Conservatory in addition to teaching and living in Chicagoland. Pharez Whitted has performed throughout the United States and overseas, includ- ing gigs at the 1988 Presidential Inauguration, The Arsenio Hall Show , the Billboard Mu- sic Awards, Carnegie Hall and the MoTown Mu- sic Showcase. He has performed with such nota- ble jazz giants and popular musicians as Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, George Duke, Kirk Whalum, Elvin Jones, Slide Hampton, John Mellencamp, The Temptations, Roy Meriweth- er, The O’Jays, Lou Rawls, Ramsey Lewis, and former Tonight Show bassist and classmate Bob Hurst. Whitted’s most recent recordings, Tran- sient Journey and For the People , were critical- ly acclaimed and successful with jazz listeners. He directs the jazz program at Chicago State University. JUNE 17 – JUNE 23, 2019 | RAVINIA MAGAZINE 101