Internationally renowned for unparalleled contributions to modern music, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Inc. (AACM) has been an inspirational leader within the cultural community since 1965. A non-profit organization chartered by the State of Illinois , the AACM is a collective of musicians and composers dedicated to nurturing, performing, and recording serious, original music. This collective of dynamic and visionary artists formed the AACM to meet their emergent needs to expose and showcase their original compositions and to create an outlet for the development and performance of their music.

www.aacmchicago.org

The Jazz Institute of Chicago was founded in 1969 by a small band of jazz fans, writers, club owners and musicians who came together to preserve the historical roots of the Chicago's music and to ensure that opportunities for the music to be heard would not be lost in a time when rock was subsuming cultural economics. Among the founding members were trad pianist Art Hodes, Muhal Richard Abrams, who a few years earlier had also co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Harriett Choice, then music writer for the Chicago Tribune, Joe Segal, whose Jazz Showcase has kept the flame for bebop lit for 50 years, Bob Koester, owner of Delmark Records, Don DeMicheal, drummer and editor of Downbeat magazine, jazz promoter and supporter Penny Tyler and several other devoted souls.

www.jazzinchicago.org/ 

The Chicago Illinois area band "Swing Assembly" was established in January of 2009. 
Swing Assembly is a 10 piece Big Band + Vocals. Instrumentation: 2 Trumpets, Trombone, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Bari Sax, Drums, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Piano.
They play Big Band, Blues, Dance, Swing, Latin, Horn Band Rock, Funk, R&B


www.swingassembly.com


 

Many of these great pictures on this website have been taken by Lorenzo Henandez.

www.photolorenzohernandez.com/