Ridgeway Studio Ensemble

press release: The sound of the vibes: nostalgia tinged, meditative, romantic, haunting, and yet capable of scintillating percussive crescendos! Pair it with lush, yet laconic guitar comping and underpinning it with a powerful, melodic bass line and you have the RIDGEWAY STUDIO ENSEMBLE. This instrumental trio has left the studio and has been exciting audiences around Chicago in the last year with performances of iconic standards from the Great American Song Book , Tin-Pan Alley, familiar Latin jazz tunes, and punctuated with Bebop and Modern Jazz excursions, plus original compositions.

The Ensemble aggregates 150 years of musical performing experience, with Bob Fahlstrom (Vibes, Piano), Matt Levinson (Guitar) and Bob Becker (Bass & Guitar) who have been working and jamming in the Chicago area for 5 decades.