The Jazz Guitar of

Andy Brown

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Updated September 2024

Hope this finds you enjoying some late summer beauty. I have some cool gigs coming up that I thought you'd enjoy.

I'm lucky to play with a terrific quartet every Sunday evening at Andy's Jazz Club. This band is made up of three of Chicago's most accomplished and swinging jazz artists - Jeremy Kahn on piano, Joe Policastro on bass and Phill Gratteau on drums. We've been playing weekly at Andy's since 2012, and needless to say we love it! We do two 75 minute shows every Sunday, one at 6pm and one at 8:15pm. Excellent food and a great listening audience, reservations are strongly recommended. (I'll be absent 10/13).

I'll be at Winters Jazz Club with my trio featuring Clark Sommers on bass and Bob Rummage this Wednesday, September 18th. Each month I present a different theme at Winters, and this month's will be a ton of fun as we'll play songs from Hollywood and the silver screen. So many good tunes to choose from! Mancini, Kern, Johnny Mandel, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland...you get the picture! Sets at 6:30pm and 8:30pm

Solo guitar Thursdays continue at Chicago's legendary Green Mill weekly from 5pm-7:15pm. No cover or minimum, I take requests and the more you drink, the better I sound. What a deal! So many great folks come to listen at this historic venue, and we always have fun together. (I'll be absent 10/10).

Attention NYC area folks (or folks who are looking for a reason to visit): I'll be doing 5 gigs in NYC and New Jersey during the second week of October. On Tuesday, October 8th I'll be back at Mezzrow, my favorite club to play in NYC. I'll be doing two sets with bassist Neal Miner and drummer Ben Cliness, two stalwarts of the scene there. Ben and Neal will also be joining me at New York's newest and hippest cocktail lounge/jazz bar Midnight Blue on Wednesday, October 9th. I'll also be back at Midnight Blue on Saturday, October 12 with legendary saxophonist Harry Allen's quartet. Sunday, October 13 I'll be at Shanghai Jazz in Madison, New Jersey as part of fantastic vocalist Petra van Nuis' quartet. We'll have Harry Allen on saxophone and Neal Miner on bass. I finish up on Monday, October 14 as part of keyboardist Ehud Asherie's trio at Cellar Dog, Greenwich Village's super-jazzy pool hall/jazz spot.

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