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Dennis Carroll
has been playing bass profes-
sionally for over years. Originally fromPoplar
Grove, IL, he has become a nationally sought-af-
ter bassist with deep roots in the Chicago jazz
scene. For some two decades he has been a
member of the Bobby Broom Trio, the Ron Per-
rillo Trio, and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra. Car-
roll has been featured on recordings 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 privately, conducting clinics,
instructing combos, teaching in the Chicago
Merit Music Program, and also serving as jazz
bass professor at Northwestern University.
Eric Hines
is adjunct professor of percussion
at Olivet Nazarene University and a profes-
sional percussionist and educator residing in
Chicago. An accomplished performer of clas-
sical, jazz, Caribbean, Brazilian, Mexican, and
popular percussion, he maintains an active in-
ternational 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 percussionist for Sones
de México, a two-time Grammy-nominated
Mexican folk music ensemble. Specializing in
Cuban folkloric music, Hines has studied in
Havana and Matanzas with master rumba mu-
sicians Maximino Duquesne Martinez, Francis-
co “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
.
Pat Mallinger
was born and raised in Saint Paul,
MN, where he began playing the saxophone at
age . He earned his jazz studies degree in
fromNorth Texas State University, where he was
awarded the One O’clock Lab Band Scholarship.
Mallinger had regular gigs while residing in Los
Angeles, Dallas, Boston, and Japan before lay-
ing roots in Chicago in
. He has co-led the
Sabertooth quartet on Saturday nights at the
Green Mill since
. Mallinger is also heard
around town performing with the Bobby Lewis
Quintet, Art Hoyle Quintet, Eric Schneider/Pat
Mallinger Quintet, and the Pat Mallinger Quar-
tet. He has made ve recordings 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 Pro-
gram since its inception in
.
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