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6:00 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2018
BENNETT GORDON HALL
RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE
JAZZ GRANDSTAND
This evening’s concert showcases the musicianship and original compositions
of the participants in Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute Program for Jazz. The
participants’ and faculty’s biographies can be found in the RSMI program book
distributed at this concert.
7:30 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2018
PAVILION
JACKSON BROWNE
JACKSON BROWNE
Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne began his ca-
reer in the mid-’60s, performing and recording
a handful of his songs with the Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band. Signed to a publishing arm of Elektra Re-
cords, his reputation as a songwriter continued
to grow through the success such artists as Lin-
da Ronstadt and The Byrds had with his songs.
By the end of 1971, Browne had been signed to
David Geffen’s Asylum Records, and his epon-
ymous debut album was released the following
spring. Immediately “Doctor My Eyes” became
a top-10 hit, and shortly thereafter The Eagles
soared to popularity with “Take It Easy,” which
he co-wrote. His third album,
Late for the Sky
(1974), marked a significant expansion in his
audience, peaking at number 14 on
Billboard
’s
charts, where the previous two hadn’t broken
into the top 40.
The Pretender
(1976) climbed to
number five, and the follow-up live record
Run-
ning on Empty
rose to number three with the
hit singles “Running on Empty” and “Stay/The
Load-Out.” Browne’s next studio album,
Hold
Out
(1980), became his first number-one album,
and
Lawyers in Love
(1983) added further hit sin-
gles to his catalogue. That album began to show-
case a social consciousness that came to the fore
on
Lives in the Balance
(1986). His latest albums
of newmaterial are
Love Is Strange
(2010), which
renewed a longstanding collaboration with Da-
vid Lindley, and
Standing in the Breach
(2014),
and last December he released a new single,
“The Dreamer,” featuring the California-based
Mexican folk band Los Cenzontles. Browne was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 2004 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in
2007, and has also been the recipient of such
social justice awards as Duke University’s LEAF
Award, the John Steinbeck Award, and both the
Chapin-World Hunger Year and NARM Harry
Chapin Humanitarian Awards. Jackson Browne
made his first appearance at Ravinia in 1977 and
returns tonight for his seventh season.
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