David Murray returns to Chicago

David Murray
David Murray at the Promontory Hyde Park

Chicago felt like New York? No, it felt like Chicago when David Murray came into town blowing his sax with the force of Albert Ayler (who David used to sound like to me) and the lyrical sweetness of Billy Strayhorn at The Promontory Hyde Park. His wonderful stylized sound is always round and pregnant full of life expressing the gamut of emotions from happy to sad to passionate to melancholy. I love David’s music because it weaves all of whom we are as organic people expressed through this music we birthed called jazz. So you always feel a bit of funk, poetic melodies, blues, R & B, and classical GBM melded and grounded in full blown David Murray, sometimes mellow sometimes turbulent and controversial but always on the mark.  With him were Jaribu Shahid on bass and Hamid Drake on percussion.  David’s return to Chicago after a 20-year hiatus was prompted by Hot House curator Marguerite Horberg a long time presenter of progressive music.

The program, Old and New Dreams, a Hot House Festival weekend was an introduction to the AACM’s upcoming 50th year anniversary as well as to honor Don Cherry also showcased Lakha Khan a living legend and master of soon to be extinct instrument Manganiyar; Downbeat Critics award winning jazz soloist  Karl Berger with poet Ingrid Sertso;  each sounded their own music brand.

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