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Since 2011, the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts (JGCA) has presented music at its historic venue on East Center Street. Once the site of the Milwaukee Jazz Gallery, it hosted countless jazz luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, the Marsalis Brothers, Chet Baker, and McCoy Tyner. Since music has been back at the venue, we’ve become a critical nonprofit voice in the region’s music scene, hosting jazz, hip hop, experimental and indie folk music.  We present music as an art form in a listening room atmosphere.  We’re now embarking on a fundraising effort to install a sound system worthy of that approach.

Sunday, November 8, 2020, Kick Off Live Streaming Event.  Our effort will be launched by a concert of two of Milwaukee’s finest jazz pianists:

Mark Davis: An accomplished pianist and an influential educator who has performed with jazz luminaries Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Benny Golson, Slide Hampton, Tom Harrell, Jimmy Heath, Brian Lynch, Charles McPherson, Frank Morgan, and Phil Woods, among others. 

He is the founder of the Milwaukee Jazz Institute and serves as artistic director. He also teaches privately and is on the music faculty of Alverno College.  Mark is the author of two top-selling books, the Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method and the Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method Book 2. 

Theo Merriweather: A Milwaukee-based keyboardist whose main musical background is Jazz. He studied at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and counts pianists Herbie Hancock, Ramsey Lewis, and organists Don Patterson and Jimmy Smith as the main of many influences. 

Being well versed in various musical genres affords him the opportunity to play with excellent musicians and also keeps him in demand for session work. He has performed on stage with saxophonists Ronnie Laws and Wilton Felder of the Crusaders. Writing and production are also part of Theo’s contribution to the numerous projects he participates in.

Join us to RAISE A NEW SOUND!   Sunday November 8th, 7:00 PM CDT at 

www.facebook.com/JazzGalleryCenterfortheArts 

https://www.twitch.tv/jazzgallery  

jazzgallerycenterforarts.org/youtube

The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization that provides opportunities to create, present and experience the arts. We believe community is strengthened by creativity, and welcome artists and musicians of diverse backgrounds, emerging and experienced, to participate. We’re an inclusive home to exhibit space, performance space, and community programs, and we invite art makers and art appreciators of all walks of life to join us and get involved.

Learn more at ​jazzgallerycenterforarts.org