Englewood Jazz Festival 2011

George Freeman

Englewood Jazz Festival 2010

The Women of the AACM, featuring Dee Alexander, Coco Elysses, Ann Ward, and Renee Baker

Greg Penn and Crosswind

Ernest Dawkins Straight Ahead Quartet, featuring Corey Wilkes, Junius Paul, Jumaane  Taylor

Ernest Dawkins and Junius Paul

Ernest Dawkins, Isaiah Spencer, Junius Paul

Renè McLean, with Junius Paul and Willie Pickens

Renè McLean, together with Ernest Dawkins, Corey Wilkes, Willie Pickens, and Junius Paul

Renè McLean, with Junius Paul

Ernest Dawkins presents The Spirit of Jazz Award to Von Freeman at the New Apartment Lounge

The 2010 festival featured:

A Tribute to Von Freeman and the 45th Anniversary of the AACM

Special Guest Renè McLean

His music, in his own words, “transcends socio-political and cultural boundaries – it’s a Universal Language”.

Born in New York City, Renè Profit-McLean (a/k/a Muhammad Al-Amien Abdul Kariem) world renowned Multi-reed Instrumentalist (Alto, Tenor, Soprano saxophone, Flutes, Ney, Shakuhachi), Composer, Band leader, Educator and Producer, began his musical training at the age of nine under the tutelage and guidance of his father, world renowned alto saxophonist and educator Jackie McLean. Renè recounts: “My father began giving me the saxophone in stages beginning with the mouth piece then the neck and finally the horn”. As an adolescent, the young McLean was already performing with local Jazz, R&B, Calypso, Latin and other bands of varied musical traditions, making his debut with Jackie McLean’s band in the early-1960’s as well as leading his own bands.

Renè McLean, will be joined by Chicago’s very own masterful pianist Willie Pickens, Ernie Adams on drums, and Junius Paul on bass.

Final Festival program also includes

Women of the AACM

A truly on-of-a-kind performance by a group of supremely talented women in tribute to Fred Anderson and the 45th Anniversary of the AACM.

Featuring: Dee Alexander, Coco Elysses, Ann Ward, and Renee Baker

Greg Penn and Crosswind

Ernest Dawkins Straight Ahead Quintet

Featuring: Marquis Hill / Trumpet, Ben Patterson / Piano, Isaiah Spencer /

Drums, Junius Paul / Bass

Englewood Jazz Festival 2009

Guitto Gargle

Creative SuperGroup featuring Ernest Dawkins, Ari Brown, Dee Alexander, Junius Paul, and Avreeayl Ra

Houston Person Quartet featuring Willie Pickens, Junius Paul, and Ernie Adams

Ernest Dawkins

Ernest Dawkins and Junius Paul