The Jazz Guitar of

Andy Brown

News

Updated February 2024

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!

I'm so lucky to have a full schedule of great gigs at the moment. Here are my steadies, thanks to so many of you who come by and make them special:

I feel very fortunate to have several great steady jazz gigs:

Thursdays - Solo Jazz Guitar at Chicago's famed Green Mill Cocktail Lounge. I play behind the bar for the cocktail hour show from 5PM - 7:15PM. No cover, tasty drinks, and I take requests. So many great friends come every week!

Sundays - Andy Brown Quartet at Andy's Jazz Club. Sets at 6PM and 8:15PM. With drummer Phil Gratteau, bassist Joe Policastro and pianist Jeremy Kahn. We've been extended at Andy's through 2024, come see how much fun the Swingin' Sundays are at this venerable club! This band has a new CD "Good Atmosphere" available for purchase on this site!

Wednesdays - Petra van Nuis/Andy Brown voice/guitar duo at Hemmingway's Bistro in Oak Park from 6PM-9PM. Hemmingway's is a fantastic restaurant and Petra and I are happy to perform for their Wednesday jazz night (I'll be absent 2/21 & 3/20).

Mondays - Joel Paterson and Friends at the Green Mill from 8PM - 12AM. Joel is a wonderful fellow guitarist and we explore a variety of genres from jazz/western swing/blues/country. With Beau Sample on bass and Alex Hall on drums (I'll be absent 2/26).

I'm regularly posting new video to my YouTube page.