Joining Andy and PETRA WILL BE ROB ALLGEYER ON PIANO AND DAN DREES ON
TENOR SAXOPHONE. Andy Brown is a guitarist based in Chicago. Born in
New York 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 City.
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 backed visiting
jazz names at places including The Jazz Showcase and the Harris
Theater. Currently he plays solo guitar every Thursday at The Green
Mill and leads his quartet every Wednesday at Andy's Jazz Club.
As a sideman he has performed with internationally know jazz musicians
including Scott Hamilton, Howard Alden, Harry Allen, Warren Vache, Ken
Peplowski, Hod O’Brien, Anat Cohen, Kurt Elling, as well as many
others. He has also worked with many names on the Chicago jazz scene
including Russ Phillips, Don Stiernberg, Chris Foreman, Eric
Schneider, Bobby Lewis and Judy Roberts.
Petra van Nuis is a jazz vocalist described inDownbeat Magazine as
having “a light, gorgeous, and fairly delicate voice…a gift for
melody and plenty of rhythmic confidence.” In addition to regular
Chicago appearances, Petra appears nationally at festivals including
the Cleveland Classic Jazz Party, the Roswell Jazz Festival and the
Chautauqua JazzParty with such swing luminaries as Dan Barrett, Nicki
Parrott, Ken Peplowski, John Di Martino and Rossano Sportiello.
Petra's twenty year musical collaboration with her husband, guitarist
Andy Brown, has been documented on “Lessons Lyrical” and “Far
Away Places” two critically acclaimed albums re-issued on the
Japanese label Muzak and used as in flight entertainment by All Nippon
Airways,Japan's largest airline. Petra has fronted her popular
Chicago-style Recession Seven band for a decade. Featuring veteran
horn-men Eric Schneider, Russ Phillips and Bob Ojeda, the classic
swing collective has been featured at regional jazz societies, the
Chicago Jazz Festival and on their 2012 recording “Live In
Chicago.”
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