Andy Brown is a guitarist based in Chicago. Born in New York City in 1975, he has played professionally for over twenty years. He has had a varied performing career that has included stints in Cincinnati and New York.
Since coming to Chicago in 2003, Andy has been fortunate to work at many of the area's finest jazz venues with his own bands, as well as playing his unique brand of solo jazz guitar. He has... read more →
"Inspiring music-making isn't necessarily loud, aggressive, self-aggrandizing or heavily promoted. Consider what happens early every Wednesday night at Andy's Jazz Club, where the superb but serenely understated Chicago guitarist Andy Brown leads a quartet. Like him, his band mates speak softly but poetically. Brown's pastel tones, softly stated melody lines and delicately rolled chords conveyed remarkable intimacy and the guitarist's solo on "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" made a strong, soulful case for melodic simplicity... read more →
It's been great seeing so many of you out and about digging live music this winter. I wanted to let you know about some really cool gigs I have coming up around the Chicago area.
Wednesday February 20th, I'll be playing at one of my favorite spots in town! I'll be at Winter's Jazz Club with two old friends and amazing musicians, bassist Jake Vinsel and drummer Mike Schlick. We'll be performing two sets of music composed by some of our favorite saxophone players, including Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. Early set times at 6:30 and 8:30
On Monday, February 26, I'll be doing double duty at my favorite Evanston venue SPACE. Opening the show will be myself with the sublime vocalist Petra van Nuis. We'll performing great tunes from our various duo CDs together as well as new (old) songs we've been working on together. The second part of the show I'll be joining the amazing mandolinist Don Stiernberg as part of his quartet (with Jim Cox on bass and Phil Gratteau on drums) and we'll be doing tunes from Don's brand new CD titled 'The Swingin'est." This should be a really fun musical night!
Fans of the Recession Seven, the great traditional jazz/swing band I'm a part of, are in luck! We have a bunch of great gigs coming up. Over the next few weeks we'll be at Andy's Jazz Club (Feb 23 and 24), Hey Nonny in Arlington Heights (Feb 27), and the Green Mill (March 15 and 16). Nothing beats this band when it gets cooking, come hear for yourself!
For booking info or to join Andy's monthly mailing list, please contact Andy at: andybrownguitar@yahoo.com or 773-396-1180