At this week’s Improvised Music Series we’re excited to host the album release party for Paul Giallorenzo Trio’s new album Play on Delmark Records! This long-standing group features Paul on piano/keyboards, Joshua Abrams on bass, and Mikel Avery on percussion. They’ll be joined by special guest Josh Berman on cornet for some tunes. Come celebrate!

8:30PM Paul Giallorenzo Trio

Paul Giallorenzo - piano
Joshua Abrams - bass
Mikel Patrick Avery - drums
+ special guest Josh Berman - cornet

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door

Artist Bios

Originally from Long Island, NY, Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, producer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, keyboards, and electronics in a diverse range of contexts with a wide array of Chicago and international musicians in improvised, avant-jazz, experimental, and electro/acoustic music, performing regularly locally and throughout North America and Europe.

Giallorenzo’s work has been praised for its “inside-out” nature – his ability to push the boundaries of “conventional” jazz toward more freedom but also, on the other side, to bring a measure of structure to more avant-garde material. Writing in the online journal P_oint Of Departure, John Litweiler said, “His solos and aggressive duets are gems of after-Bop, after-Bley melody,” while AllAboutJazz.com_ lauded music that “smudges the lines between the tradition and the avant-garde.” 

With promotional support by WDCB 90.9 FM, Chicago's Home for Jazz