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The Manty Ellis Jazz Series
at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts presents
Juli Wood Quartet
Friday, August 4th, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Juli Wood - tenor sax and vocals; Paul Silbergleit - guitar; Mike Schlick - drums; Clay Schaub - bass;
The Juli Wood Quartet has been playing various clubs and restaurants in the Milwaukee area for several years. Their recording "Suomen Salossa", recorded in 2016, was inspired by Art Farmer's "To Sweden With Love", a recording of Swedish folk songs played in jazz styles. Because of Juli's Finnish heritage, she chose Finnish folk songs as the material.
The quartet is:
Juli Wood - tenor sax and vocals
Paul Silbergleit - guitar
Jeff Hamann - bass
Mike Schlick - drums
The group will play a few of their favorites from the "Suomen Saloss” (translation - in the Finnish woods ) recording, but most of the concert will be jazz standards and tunes by Thelonious Monk, Johnny Griffin, Benny Golson, Eddie Harris and others.
As recognition to Manty Ellis for his contributions to Milwaukee’s jazz history as a musician, educator and “chief encourager” of the city’s jazz community, the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts is naming an ongoing series of high-quality jazz performances after Manty. It is fitting tribute from this venue specifically because of the hundreds of occasions Manty Ellis performed on our stage, our focus on jazz as an art form with our listening room format, and the encouragement Manty often shared with our staff which helped keep us going through some challenging times.
To present this music in a venue worthy of its namesake, we are embarking on an effort to improve our stage and venue environment. This follows a successful pre-pandemic effort to install a world-class sound system fitting for a venue that presents diverse musical genres as artforms in themselves surrounded by visual art exhibitions.
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More dates coming soon…