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This video is from the Chicago Jazz Festival a couple of years ago and they are doing a great job of sounding like all the other seasoned jazz musicians at the festival.

They have performed not only at Orchestra Hall but also at the Chicago Jazz Festival and the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, as well as for neighborhood grade schoolers.

#MICHAEL GIBSON MUSICALITY SERIES#

Next up, we have the Kenwood Jazz Ensemble, part of an amazing program Howard Reich wrote about in a series for the Tribune, Kenwood’s Journey. Curie is an arts magnet/neighborhood school. Check out their youtube channel after you get a load of this.

These guys sound as amazing in person as they do here, in a video made by their director Michael Gibson. Props to the directors, many of whom volunteer their time, and without whom this music would not be happening.įirst up, Curie’s ensemble Musicality, who made waves on the past season of AGT. The ones I’m sharing with you are just the ones I’ve heard myself–and I know there are many, many more. These kids sing or play original arrangements, make their own videos, perform like pros–at the Chicago Jazz Festival or on a season of America’s Got Talent. The amazing–and I mean are you kidding me?! amazing–music in our high schools. In the face of the disheartening DeVos confirmation, in the shadow of some pretty mean presidential tweets about our city, and under the threat of yet more CPS budget cuts–this time smack in the middle of the school year–I want to share a few things with you about our city’s schools that you may not know. But there is a time and a place for all kinds of opinions, and right now, the time and the place requires a little positive energy about what we have here. Friends, you know my blog is pretty much devoted to exposing terrible things happening at the administrative level of Chicago Public Schools.

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