ONLINE: Isaiah Collier, Micah Collier, Kevin Carnes
Cafe Coda has kept up a steady pace of excellent online offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this livestream is a great way to wrap up the year by experiencing music from a young jazz prodigy. Saxophonist Collier is an alum of the Jazz Institute of Chicago and ChiArts and is a go-to player in the avant-garde scene. If you missed him last February in person, here’s another chance, as part of Cafe Coda's Night of the Improvisor series. Following this concert, Coda plans to take the month of January off to recharge.
press release: The monthly 'Night of the Improvisor' brings a special guest, Isaiah Collier, who’s an alumnus of the Jazz Institute of Chicago and ChiArts. He has been playing around the Chicagoland area for the past 4 years. Isaiah has played with a plethora of artists, such as Stefon Harris, Roy McCurty, Carmen Bradford, Ernest Dawkins, Bennie Maupin, Ari Brown, Robert Irving III, and many more. Playing at festivals such as The Hyde Park Jazz festival, International Jazz Day fest, Englewood Jazz Festival, and Monterey Jazz Festival. Isaiah Collier has been described as a young talent with an old soul, or a musical virtuoso in the truest sense of the phrase.
https://news.wttw.com/2019/09/26/isaiah-collier-emerging-chicago-talent-jazz-and-blues
https://www.chicagojazzmagazine.com/post/saxophonist-isaiah-collier
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