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Saxophonist Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few


  • Jazz Showcase 806 S Plymouth Ct Chicago United States (map)

April is Joe Segal month. Dedicated to the life and music that he loved.

ISAIAH COLLIER is a Chicago-based writer, educator, arranger, and composer. An alumnus of the Jazz Institute of Chicago and The Chicago High School for the Performing Arts, Collier has worked and played with Chicago legends such as Willie Pickens, Delores Scott, Ernest Dawkins, Ari Brown, Dee Alexander, Maggie Brown, Robert Irving III, and Charles Heath IV, in addition to national and international artists such as Rene Marie, Chance the Rapper, Stefon Harris, Roy McCurty, Carmen Bradford, Carl Allen, Bennie Maupin, Bobby Broom, Quincy Phillips, Lisa Henry, Wyclef Gordon, Lewis Nash, and the AACM. Collier draws influence from saxophone masters such as John Coltrane,Ari Brown, Roscoe Mitchell, and Gene Ammons. He has had many mentors, including Antonio Hart,Joan Collaso, Ari Brown, Willie Pickens, Ernest Dawkins, Bennie Maupin, James Perkins, Charles Heath, Bobby Watson, and others. Collier and his band " The Chosen Few just recently returned from Europe. Collier is fascinated with sounds. He believe the stage to be a lab where he can experiment and explore with sounds. To make a new statement.

Face masks are required for this show unless seated. Temperature will be taken upon arrival. Social guidelines will be enforced.


TICKETS


— $20 general admission —

— $40 VIP preferred seating —

Earlier Event: April 1
Vocalist Dee Alexander Quartet