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The Jazz Showcase 806 S. Plymouth Court | Chicago, IL
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The Chicago Human Rhythm Project welcomes you to our annual Holiday Rhythms concert at the iconic Jazz Showcase! This year's program features our Artistic Director Jumaane Taylor and Keyana Latimer with the Eric Hochberg Trio and very special guest, Jazz Diva - Dee Alexander! Other featured guest artists include Flamenco dancer Wendy Clinard, Alto-Sax phenom Brent Griffin Jr., Bodhran virtuoso Mike Austin and CHRP Founding Director, Lane Alexander.
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Song List
December 9th:
- Eric Hochberg Trio
- Jumaane Taylor – "Greensleeves" by John Coltrane
- Keyana Latimer – "This Christmas" by Warren Wolf
- Mike Austin & Jumaane Taylor – "Little Drummer Boy"
- Clinard Dance & David Chiriboga – "Flamenco Tangos"
- Eric Hochberg Trio
- Dee Alexander
- Sam Thousand & Jumaane Taylor – "Christmas Song"
- Sam Thousand, Jumaane Taylor & the Eric Hochberg Trio – "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
- Lane Alexander – "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
- Dee Alexander
- Jumaane Taylor & Dee Alexander – "Sleigh Ride" by Ella Fitzgerald
- Everyone – "Jingle Bells" by Ella Fitzgerald
- Eric Hochberg Trio
December 16th:
- Eric Hochberg Trio
- Jumaane Taylor – "Christmas Time is Here"
- Keyana Latimer – "This Christmas" by Warren Wolf
- Trinity Irish Dance Company
- Jessica Chapuis Bronson & Marty Bronson
- Eric Hochberg Trio
- Dee Alexander
- Brent Griffin, Jr. & Jumaane Taylor – "We Three Kings"
- Lane Alexander – "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
- Dee Alexander
- Jumaane Taylor, Brent Griffin, Jr., the Eric Hochberg Trio & Dee Alexander – "My Favorite Things"
- Everyone – "Jingle Bells" by Ella Fitzgerald
- Eric Hochberg Trio
Who's Who
Creative Team
Lane Alexander
Founding Director
Jumaane Taylor
Artistic Director
Canisha Russ
Arts Education Manager
Derek Layne
General Manager of Marketing and Development
Yvonne Burnett
Arts Education Coordiator
Jordyn Murry
Performing Arts Administrative Intern
Dominique Atwood Hamilton
MAC Facilities Manager and Production Manager
Fredric Brewer
Marketing and Graphic Design
Ledgers Inc. Custom Accounting Solutions
Business and Financial Management
Christopher W. Frerichs
Development Consultant
Be/Phore
Website Development
Pope Coaching & Consulting
Database Management
Meet the Company
Lane Alexander
Founding Director
Lane Alexander’s (Founding Director) career as an artist, administrator, and advocate spans over 40 years. As an artist, he performed with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall and co-directed the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, “JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance.” His choreography and performances have been acknowledged with two Illinois Arts Council Choreography Fellowships, the Chicago Dance Coalition’s Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field in 2000, the Gus Giordano Legacy Award (2019), and an NEA American Masterpieces award among others.
Jumaane Taylor
Artistic Director
Jumaane Taylor, a Chicago native, has been tap dancing since the age of 7. In 2014 Jumaane created his first full-length work, Supreme Love. A dance production honoring John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ and the art of tap with live musicians. In 2018 he presented The Jazz Hoofing Quartet, a solo dance performance using improvisation to continue the explorations of live jazz and tap. Jumaane has received the Chicago Dancemakers Forum 2017 Lab Artist Award, and 3Arts 2019 Award. Since 2021 Jumaane has also been the artistic director of the Chicago Human Rhythm Project.
Dee Alexander
Vocalist
Born on Chicago’s west side, Dee Alexander is one of the city's most gifted and respected vocalist/songwriters. Her talents span every music genre, from Gospel to R&B, Blues to Neo-
Soul. Yet her true heart and soul are experienced in their purest form through Jazz. Growing up in a household steeped in recordings of Dinah Washington; Ms. Alexander names Sarah
Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Chicago saxophonist Henry Huff among her major influences.
Thus, setting her on the path to becoming one of the most accomplished voice improvisers in the world today. Ms. Alexander is currently a WFMT Jazz Radio host.
Keyana Latimer
Tap Dancer
Keyana Latimer is an African American actress, singer and dancer. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Keyana began her dance training at The Academy of Dance Arts. At the age of nine, she started choreographing dances for young teen girls in Chicago’s North Lawndale community. She made her professional debut in 2009, as a Junior Luvabulls and Bulls Kidz for Chicago’s NBA team. She later was selected to be dancer for the memorable band Pink Floyd. In her early adolescent years, she devoted much of her time and talent while in middle and high school. She became head choreographer for many school plays and musicals. She was also a writer and composer for the musical, Train performed at Trinity High-school.
Sam Thousand
Trumpeter
Sam Thousand (formally known as Sam Trump) is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/writer, producer/composer and a 3Arts and Walder Platform Award Recipient with 15+ years of experience in live performance art, curation, and self management. Since picking up the trumpet at age 7, his artistry has allowed him the opportunity to perform in all corners of North America as well as overseas.
Mike Austin
Bodhrán Player
Bodhrán player Mike Austin comes from a family with a professional musical tradition that spans at least four generations to his bandleading great-grandfather, a personal friend of John Phillip Sousa. Austin’s first drum teacher was his father, who co-founded the Joliet American Legion Band, the most celebrated concert and marching band of its kind in the nation. On bodhrán, Austin has performed at major music festivals and venues in the United States and abroad, including Ireland's Ennis Traditional Music Festival and Chicago's Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center. A two-time finalist in the world championship of Irish traditional music, the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, he is also a writer has received support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Wendy Clinard
Flamenco Dancer
After completing a BFA at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1993, Wendy Clinard embarked on a rigorous apprenticeship with flamenco dancer Edo Sie and augmented her studies in Spain with notable teachers such as: Juana Amaya and Hiniesta Cortez. In 1999 Clinard’s personal and global heritage found themselves in living Technicolor as she began choreographing original dance theatre. They have created five full evening works (Quest of Theseus, Shifting Landscapes, Unraveling Rhythms, Jondo Portraits, and From the Arctic to the Middle East: Broken Narratives by an American Flamenco Dancer) and several smaller choreographic works since 1999. Unraveling Rhythms toured India in 2005 and the Midwest in 2006/2007 and excerpts of Jondo Portraits were shared in Syria in summer 2009.
David Chiriboga
Guitarist
Hello! I’m a Spanish Guitarist, based in Chicago. For the last two decades I’ve specialized in Spanish Guitar. I’ve performed well over 1,000 concerts, weddings and luxury events. I’ve loved every minute of this musical journey and am grateful that I get to entertain people for a living. Sometimes my role is to take the audience on a journey and transport them during a concert, while other times my role is to create a unique vibe and atmosphere for my clients at private events. I enjoy both ends of the spectrum as a performer. I not only play traditional Spanish Guitar classics, but I love adapting popular music into my repertoire. It’s always fun to see peoples reactions when they hear some of their current favorite songs, played instrumentally on a Spanish Guitar with a new twist.
Eric Hochberg
Bass Player of Eric Hochberg Trio
A mainstay of the Chicago music scene for more than 40 years, Eric Hochberg has lent his bass work, both upright and electric, and an occasional trumpet, keyboard and vocal lick to a variety of projects across the realms of jazz, folk, rock and blues. He has performed and/or recorded with the likes of musical greats Bobby McFerrin, Pat Metheny, Barbra Streisand, Cassandra Wilson, Dave Leibman, Sam Rivers, Von Freeman, Ken Nordine, David Baker, Steve Kuhn, Jon Faddis, Joshua Redman, Johnny Frigo, Bob Mintzer, Howard Levy, Kurt Elling, Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Chevere de Chicago, The Chicago Jazz Orchestra, and many others.
Ernie Adams
Drummer for the Eric Hochberg Trio
Vijay Tellis-Nayak
Pianist for the Eric Hochberg Trio
Tim Mulvenna
Drummer of the Eric Hochberg Trio
Trinity Irish Dance Company
Irish Dancers
Trinity dazzles audiences with hard-driving percussive power, lightning-fast agility, aerial grace, and the awe-inspiring precision of its dancers. It also offers something profoundly more significant - the transcendence of craft to art and a dance legacy that is rooted in tradition yet forward looking and ever evolving. The result is a thoroughly fresh, engaging, and integrity filled vision that goes beyond the source without losing touch with its essence.
Jessica Chapuis Bronson
Tap Dancer
Jessica Chapuis began tap dancing at age 8 in her hometown of St. Louis, MO and has since performed and studied with master teachers at tap festivals throughout the Midwest. She has had the privilege to study and share the stage with such tap greats as Savion Glover, Jimmy Slyde, Dianne Walker, Derick Grant, Jason Samuels Smith and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards. Jessica attended Boston University on a full scholarship and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in biology. While in college, Jessica choreographed for and performed with the student-run organization BU on Tap. She served as President of the group and organized the first annual Mass Rhythm, a show featuring BU on Tap, along with other area college tap ensembles and professional soloists. In 2006, Jessica appeared in the world premier of Imagine Tap!, a dance musical directed and choreographed by Derick Grant. In addition to BAM, Jessica is part a new tap ensemble, Jus’LisTeN, with Tre Dumas, Lisa LaTouche, and Nico Rubio. Jessica also teaches workshops, private tap lessons and classes.
Marty Bronson
Tap Dancer
Marty Bronson is a choreographer, teacher, and performer who has studied under Mark Yonally and CHRP's Lane Alexander He has also been influenced by the works of Martin Dumas III. Martin began his training at his family’s dance school in St. Louis, Missouri under the tutelage of his older sister, and continued his education at tap festivals in St. Louis, Chicago, and New York City. "Martin performed with Diva La Tap in St. Louis, Chicago Tap Theatre co-founded The Tapmen tap company, and performed with and served as Rehearsal Director of Chicago Human Rhythm Project's BAM! He received the Artist in Resonance Grant for creation of new tap works in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Brent Griffin Jr.
Saxophonist
Brent first arrived on the Chicago music scene in 2011 when he began his music education studies at DePaul University. He wasted no time getting involved, cutting his teeth with different musicians in various musical contexts to gain valuable experience. Brent currently teaches at Stevenson High School, Griffin Institute of Performing Arts (no relation), and Midwest Young Artist Conservatory. He is devoted to using his experiences and sharing the knowledge that was passed to him to all of his students.
Lane Alexander
Founding Director
Lane Alexander’s (Founding Director) career as an artist, administrator, and advocate spans over 40 years. As an artist, he performed with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall and co-directed the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, “JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance.” His choreography and performances have been acknowledged with two Illinois Arts Council Choreography Fellowships, the Chicago Dance Coalition’s Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field in 2000, the Gus Giordano Legacy Award (2019), and an NEA American Masterpieces award among others.
Jumaane Taylor
Artistic Director
Jumaane Taylor, a Chicago native, has been tap dancing since the age of 7. In 2014 Jumaane created his first full-length work, Supreme Love. A dance production honoring John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ and the art of tap with live musicians. In 2018 he presented The Jazz Hoofing Quartet, a solo dance performance using improvisation to continue the explorations of live jazz and tap. Jumaane has received the Chicago Dancemakers Forum 2017 Lab Artist Award, and 3Arts 2019 Award. Since 2021 Jumaane has also been the artistic director of the Chicago Human Rhythm Project.
Canisha Russ
Arts Education Manager
Canisha Russ (Program Coordinator, Outreach and Arts Education) graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2018 with a Bachelor of Music Business degree and a minor in African American Studies. While in college, she joined the Women in Jazz Leadership Initiative of the Jazz Institute of Chicago where she was appointed the head of the marketing team for Ella Fitzgerald’s Centennial concert. In her senior year, Canisha was inducted as a Marie Nesbitt Promise Prize Scholar for Change Create Transform and subsequently brought on as a member of the Ambassador Cabinet. Her work with CHRP has involved social media marketing, artist management, festival management, education outreach programs, and general administrative duties.
Derek Layne
General Manager of Marketing and Development
Derek Layne (General Manager) started his career with CHRP a year and a half ago as an intern while finishing his schooling. In 2023, he graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelor’s degree in music business and a focus on vocal performance. He has been performing throughout his life, whether as a guitarist and singer in rock bands, an actor in local musicals and operas, or as a featured soloist in University showcases. He now works at CHRP, where he handles behind-the-scenes administration, marketing and social media, board member and donor support, website management and more.
Yvonne Burnett
Arts Education Coordiator
Jordyn Murry
Performing Arts Administrative Intern
Dominique Atwood Hamilton
MAC Facilities Manager and Production Manager
Dominique Atwood is an ARTrepreneur. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Howard University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political science & Pre-law. Her performance career has led her to tour nationally and internationally as a professional artist, while simultaneously working with several organizations as an arts administrator and fundraising consultant. Ms. Atwood is the Founder and CEO of Dance Connect Worldwide LLC., a resource hub and community of creatives that support and connect people through dance, art, and culture.
Fredric Brewer
Marketing and Graphic Design
Ledgers Inc. Custom Accounting Solutions
Business and Financial Management
Christopher W. Frerichs
Development Consultant
Be/Phore
Website Development
Pope Coaching & Consulting
Database Management
Mike Pope is a Chicago-based Nonprofit Consultant and Leadership Coach. He is experienced in nonprofit board development; communications; organizational planning and operations; as well as
strategic fundraising with a proven track record of raising millions in support for education, social services, and arts organizations. Mike has a strong passion for working with small and midsized nonprofits to maximize their effectiveness and raise resources for their work to better our community.
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