City Life
City Life is a place where adults can come and let their hair down, relax, have a cocktail or two or more, and enjoy the great music, food, and atmosphere. Chatham 712 E. 83rd. Chicago, IL 60619 (773) 723-6700 Visit Us on Facebook LOCATION
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Umbrella Music Festival 2013 Day 2
Idyllic Sadism: Day Two of the Umbrella Music Festival While Seval is made of free improvisors––Sofia Jernberg on voice, Emil Strandberg on trumpet, David Stackenäs on guitar, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Patric Thorman on doublebass––and the songs are only loose forms, their music could easily be mistaken for mellow drumless pop. A typical moment of their concert featured melodic trumpet, minimally thumping bass, solemn cello,...
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Umbrella Music Festival 2013 Day 1
Visit the Impossibilities, Each One Individually: Umbrella Music Festival Day 1 Underneath the Tiffany stained glass dome of the Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center, this year’s Umbrella Music Festival began with Michael Zerang on one snare drum and assorted percussion, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Axel Dörner on trumpet and electronics. Dörner makes heavy use of the variety of breath tones as they flow through his brass tubing, resulting in a...
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Ken Vandermark: Six Dispatches From The Memory Bank
By John Corbett 1. Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love The Hideout, Chicago 2012 Most recent sighting. Ken Vandermark, playing super relaxed horn, teamed with Paal Nilssen-Love, the Norwegian whose father was a drummer before him. If blood is carried to and from the bodily extremities by means of a steady pulse, the Nilssen-Love bloodline bears that beat along with more erratic rhythms: swing time, pushy punctuation, scraped...
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