Deleatrice "Dee" Alexander is an American jazz singer. She is a member of the AACM and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2013. [1]
Alexander is the host of Sunday Jazz with Dee Alexander, a radio show on WDCB and the WFMT Radio Network. [2]
As leader or co-leader
With the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective
With Ernest Dawkins
With Hamid Drake and Bindu
With Douglas Ewart
With Ramsey Lewis
With R. Kelly
With Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
With Malachi Thompson
Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute. During the 1960s, Lake worked with the Black Artists Group in St. Louis. In 1977, he founded the World Saxophone Quartet with David Murray, Julius Hemphill, and Hamiet Bluiett. Lake worked in the group Trio 3 with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille. Lake has appeared on more than 80 albums as a bandleader, co-leader, and side musician. He is the father of drummer Gene Lake. Lake has been a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.
Eric Alexander is an American jazz saxophonist.
James Henry “Jimmy” Dawkins was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He is generally considered to have been a practitioner of the "West Side sound" of Chicago blues.
Malachi Richard Thompson, was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Thompson was known for his work in the brass ensemble led by fellow trumpeter Lester Bowie.
WDCB (90.9 MHz is a non-commercial public FM radio station licensed to Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It largely airs jazz programming and is owned by the College of DuPage. Most shows are locally-hosted but some select programs come from National Public Radio and the Public Radio Exchange. WDCB is listener-supported and seeks donations on the air and on its website. Funding also comes from grants and corporate sponsorships. The studios are on Fawell Boulevard on the DuPage campus.
Robert Broom Jr. is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator. He was born and raised in New York City, then moved to Chicago, which has been his home town since 1984. He performs and records with The Bobby Broom Trio and his organ group, The Bobby Broom Organi-Sation. While versed in the traditional jazz idioms, Broom draws from a variety of American music forms, such as funk, soul, R&B, and blues.
Kahil El'Zabar is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records.
Ari Brown is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and pianist.
George Freeman is an American jazz guitarist and recording artist. He is known for his sophisticated technique, collaborations with high-profile performers, and notable presence in the jazz scene of Chicago, Illinois. He is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Von Freeman and drummer Eldridge "Bruz" Freeman, and the uncle of tenor saxophonist and trumpeter Chico Freeman.
Ernest Dawkins is an American jazz saxophonist, principally active in free jazz and post-bop.
Dave Specter is an American Chicago blues and jazz guitarist.
Delmark Records is an American jazz and blues independent record label. It was founded in 1958 as Delmar Records and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The label originated in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1953 when then owner, and founder, Bob Koester released a recording of the Windy City Six, a traditional jazz group, under the Delmar imprint.
Karen Lynn Carroll was an American blues singer. She was born to Mack Carroll and Alberta Simmons Carroll.
Tomeka Reid is an American composer, improviser, cellist, curator, and teacher.
Joshua Abrams is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who plays the double bass and guimbri.
Harrison Napoleon Bankhead III was an American jazz double-bassist.
The Metropolitan Jazz Octet (MJO) was a group created in the 1950s by Chicago saxophonist and arranger Tom Hilliard that was revived in 2014 under the direction of Hilliard's student Jim Gailloreto.
47th Street is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, released by the Delmark label in 1998. The album formed part of Thompson's efforts to revitalize the Sutherland Hotel one of the last remaining links to the 47th Street Jazz Scene in Chicago.
Diane Delin is an American jazz violinist, recording artist, composer, producer and educator based in the Chicago area.
Songs My Mother Loves is an album by Chicago-based jazz vocalist Dee Alexander. It was recorded at Tone Zone Recording in Chicago, Illinois, and was released in 2014 by the Blujazz label. On the album, Alexander is accompanied by a core group consisting of pianist Miguel Delacerna, double bassist Harrison Bankhead, and drummer Yuseff Ernie Adams, plus six guest artists: cellist Tomeka Reid, guitarist Scott Hesse, double bassist Junius Paul, saxophonists Ari Brown and Oliver Lake, and trumpeter Corey Wilkes.