Booking Roster
Greg Pasenko - President/Manager
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Phone: 773-517-8336
Management and Booking
Blujazz supports a small roster of artists it manages and/or books. Our diverse range of artists cross multiple genres, are critically acclaimed and in demand internationally. They touch audiences hearts with their performances of all ages and backgrounds. Blujazz also books non-roster artists for small projects for a fee on a selective basis.
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Diane Delin (jazz & world)
Violinist, composer, recording artist and educator. Her jazz work has earned her the Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Poll “Rising Star” category four times.
Paulette McWilliams
You have already heard her voice. For a significant part of her career, its sound graced the recordings of Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Luther Vandross and Celine Dion, among others. A Woman’s Story, her most recent recording, brings her voice to the foreground – showcasing her brilliance as an interpreter of beautifully meaningful songs. Her incredible musicianship is enveloped by the arrangements and production of two-time Grammy winner, Kamau Kenyatta. Drummer Terreon Gully (Dianne Reeves, Stefon Harris and David Sanborn), harmonica player Grégoire Maret (Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny) and Grammy winning trumpeter Curtis Taylor (Gregory Porter and Billy Childs) also help to create an elegant musical environment for Paulette’s one-of-a-kind artistry. “A Woman’s Story” reimagines the music of Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway and Luther Vandross – all musical partners from Paulette McWilliams’ storied career. Among the other composers she interprets are Janis Ian and Phoebe Snow. Her exquisite and personal reading of their melodies and lyrics is not to be missed…
Chanda Rule
Soul stirring. Powerful. Sacred. Goose-bump inducing! These are just some of the words used to describe vocalist and interfaith minister Chanda Rule. With feet rooted in the gospel traditions of the South, a heart filled with soul, and a voice touched with jazz, Chanda has been weaving stories through song, humming melodies, and bending words since her childhood. Mesmerizing audiences around the world with her “liquid clear” song “bound to fill your spirit to its rim with musical serenity” and her uncanny ability to lead audiences of all backgrounds in harmonious song, Chanda loves to proclaim that music is a healing balm for the human spirit and uses music to honor the downright sacred wholeness of every being.
George Freeman (jazz)
You can count on two hands the number of musicians alive today who recorded with Charlie Parker. Brother of Von Freeman, uncle of Chico Freeman
Pascal Bokar - Afro Blue Grazz
American musical traditions of the South with the original 4 string Ngoni or banjo from Mali West Africa, Ngoni or banjo & the West African balafon in a rhythmic & multi sonic contemporary gumbo
Danny Lerman (jazz, smooth, contemporary)
Welcome to the dynamic world of contemporary saxophonist/composer/singer Danny Lerman. Welcome to the dynamic world of contemporary saxophonist/composer/singer Danny Lerman.
Michelle Coltrane (Jazz/R&B)
Michelle Coltrane was born in Paris, France, and is the only daughter of Alice and John Coltrane.
Nanette Frank (Jazz / R&B)
Chicago’s WGN radio called Nanette Frank “One of Chicago's jazz greats”. Nanette has toured with Miki Howard, Stanley Clarke, Herbie Hancock, Alex Bugnon, The Jazz Crusaders, Warren Hill, Jon Lucian and many more. She opened for Donald Byrd and jammed with the legendary Stevie Wonder. She is consistent demand at festivals like The Taste of Chicago, The African Arts Festival.
Southside Denny (Blues Rock, Roots)
Southside Denny, legendary bluesrocker & acoustic fingerstyle player with 10 CDs often shares the stage with Chicago Blues & Rock stars such as Luther Allison, Sugar Blue, Pinetop Perkins, Ray Charles, Lonnie Mack, Albert Collins, John Fogerty, Edgar Winter, BTO & Styxx.
Dave Lumsden (Blues)
David Lumsden is an American Electric Blues Guitarist, Songwriter, Vocalist, Song Arranger, Producer and Musical Director new album of David Lumsden & Friends “Hues of Blues”
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Milwaukee Jazz Orchestra
Jazz
Saxophonist/Composer/Vocalist Jerry Vivino
Jerry Vivino: A “who’s who” list of artists with whom he has performed or recorded with. Bruce Springsteen, Stanley Clark, Bette Midler, Tony Bennett, Frankie Valli, Dr. John, Ray Charles, Lyle Lovett, Keely Smith, Michael Jackson, Son Seals, Hubert Sumlin, Paul Shaffer, Al Kooper, Dion, Levon Helm, Phoebe Snow, Donald Fagen, Dr. John, Wynton Marsalis and Slash to name a few. For the past 2 decades Jerry has been a featured member of the house band for T.V. talk show host Conan O’Brien. To date the show airs on TBS and is led by Jerry’s guitar playing brother Jimmy Vivino. Jerry is also a member of the David Letterman show bassist Will Lee’s The Fab Faux and has a regular spot at LA’s world renowned progressive jazz club The Baked Potato.
Marieann Meringolo
A New Yorker who has been called “One of the circuit’s most powerful singers”. “If k.d. lang’s DNA were to get whipped together with Barbra Streisand’s in a genetics lab specializing in divas, the result might well be Marieann Meringolo” -Time Out New York.
Shea Welsh
Jazz, Contemporary, Pop
Moutin Factory Quintet
Jazz - Progressive
Boogie Kings
Boogie Woogie, Blues, Educational, Entertainment
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