CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE

The Music of Charlie Parker with Strings

BIRD IN FLIGHT: THE MUSIC OF CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS
Featuring Miguel Zenón (saxophone)

The Chicago Jazz Ensemble concludes its 2011-2012 Harris Theater performance season with a program featuring Grammy-nominated Puerto Rican saxophonist Miguel Zenón in a celebration of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s rich musical legacy. Selections from the classic Parker recording Bird with Strings will be performed along with a guest string ensemble. Zenón was one of the founding members of the SFJAZZ Collective, and in 2005 he was honored by Billboard magazine as one of the “Faces to Watch - 30 Under 30: Top Young Acts." In 2008 he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and later that year he received a coveted MacArthur Grant, aka the “Genius Grant." He was a 2011 nominee for Alto Saxophonist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.

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