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Orbert Davis with The NEIU Big Band
Saturday, March 10, 2012 4pm
NEIU Auditorium
Trumpeter, composer Orbert Davis is co‐founder, conductor and artistic director of CHICAGO JAZZ PHILHARMONIC. Winner of the 1995 Cognac Hennessy National Jazz Search, Orbert was chosen one of Chicago Tribune's "1995 Arts People of the Year." Chicago Magazine named him "Y2k Best Trumpeter in Chicago" and "Chicagoan of the Year for 2002".
Recording credits include projects for Atlantic, Capitol, CBS, Epic, MCA, and the Warner Brothers record labels.
Feature film credits include "A League of Their Own", starring Tom Hanks, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell for Columbia Pictures and "The Babe" starring John Goodman.
Orbert was jazz music consultant to Academy Award winning director, Sam Mendes, on the DreamWorks Pictures feature film "Road to Perdition", starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, where he also had a cameo appearance.
His most recent projects includes the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award winning public television documentary "DuSable to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis." Produced by WTTW Chicago, Orbert and business partner Mark Ingram also garnered an Emmy Award for the film’s sound‐track.
Orbert's 2004 CD release entitled "Blue Notes", was the follow‐up to his critically acclaimed "Priority" CD, which garnered an LA Times 4‐star review, hit Top‐50 "most played on national radio" Jazz CDs in 2002 and was named Top‐10 best Jazz CDs of 2002 by the Chicago Tribune. His latest audio disc, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic’s "Collective Creativity" (2009), an amalgamation of classical music and jazz, received rave reviews on the national stage as well.
This concert is part of NEIU’s Chicago Brass Festival March 9-10, 2012 For more details call 773-442-4978.
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