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beginning in 2012, the ratchet series aims to provide an outlet for
bright voices in the chicago jazz and improvised music community to
create new compositions. we dedicate one month twice a year to a
composer's residency (one in the spring/summer, one in the fall/winter)
at our weekly monday night series at the skylark.
Cameron Pfiffner Quartet Monday May 7
Cameron Pfiffner, Reeds
Steve Doyle, Guitar
Joshua Ramos, bass
Makaya McCraven, drums
Marco Polo May 14th
Cameron Pfiffner: Leader, Tenor and Soprano Saxes, Flute, Oboe
Marquis Hill, Terry Connell: Trumpets
Steve Horne: Trombone
Nick Mazzarella: Alto Saxophone, Alto Clarinet
Juli Wood: Baritone Saxophone
Alejandro Urzagaste: Guitar
Tom Vaitsas: Piano
Daniel Thatcher: Bass
Tim Daisy: Drums
Tim Mulvenna: Percussion
Cameron Pfiffner Quartet Monday May 7
Cameron Pfiffner, Reeds
Steve Doyle, Guitar
Joshua Ramos, bass
Makaya McCraven, drums
Marco Polo May 14th
Cameron Pfiffner: Leader, Tenor and Soprano Saxes, Flute, Oboe
Marquis Hill, Terry Connell: Trumpets
Steve Horne: Trombone
Nick Mazzarella: Alto Saxophone, Alto Clarinet
Juli Wood: Baritone Saxophone
Alejandro Urzagaste: Guitar
Tom Vaitsas: Piano
Daniel Thatcher: Bass
Tim Daisy: Drums
Tim Mulvenna: Percussion
we're also having a house concert on may 15th featuring swedish trumpeter emil strandberg and chicago cellist fred lonberg-holm. click for more details.
Adolphe'S Ax May 21st
Cameron Pfiffner, Leader: Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Anthony Bruno, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Nick Mazzarella, Alto Saxophone
Caroline Davis, Alto Saxophone
Nate LePine, Tenor Saxophone
Juli Wood, Baritone Saxophone
Marco Polo May 28th
Cameron Pfiffner: Leader, Tenor and Soprano Saxes, Flute, Oboe
Marquis Hill, Terry Connell: Trumpets
Steve Horne: Trombone
Nick Mazzarella: Alto Saxophone, Alto Clarinet
Juli Wood: Baritone Saxophone
Alejandro Urzagaste: Guitar
Tom Vaitsas: Piano
Daniel Thatcher: Bass
Tim Daisy: Drums
Tim Mulvenna: Percussion
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cameron pfiffner bio:
Mr. Pfiffner has worked on the jazz scene in Chicago for 25 years. He has performed with Truck Parham, John Wright, Marshall Thompson, Eldee Young, Earma Thompson, Willie Pickens, Sonny Seals, John Watson Sr, Tim Daisy, and Keefe Jackson, among others.
For five years Pfiffner played lead tenor with Alan Gresik’s
Swing Shift Orchestra, specializing in authentic big band music of the 1930s
and ‘40s.
Pfiffner was the musical director and resident composer of The
58 Group, an interdisciplinary ensemble led by choreographer and former
Hubbard Street dancer Ginger Farley, which was dedicated to creating new works
of dance accompanied by live music.
For the past twenty years Pfiffner, with fellow saxist Pat
Mallinger, has led the band Sabertooth late night Saturdays at Chicago’s famous
Green Mill Lounge.
Pfiffner currently leads the 11-piece ensemble Marco Polo,
which performs his own original compositions as well as his arrangements of
music from many different places and time periods, focused through the idiom of
jazz.
A current project is the saxophone ensemble Adolphe’S Ax,
which pays tribute to the musician and
instrument designer Adolphe Sax, inventor of the the saxophone.--
