Casey Nielsen: Lapis Trio

In support of their new album, The Travelers, Chicago-based Lapis Trio will perform at ALL on Friday, March 1, 2019 at 8pm. The Travelers is an album merging jazz, classical guitar and world music being released February 2019 by Shifting Paradigm Records. Lapis Trio is an acoustic group featuring the compositions of Chicago based jazz guitarist Casey Nielsen. The unique instrumentation of classical guitar (Casey Nielsen) upright bass (Dan Thatcher) and percussion (Tim Mulvenna) provide a richly dynamic acoustic setting.

Tickets are $10 in advance at https://lapistrio.bpt.me and $15 at the door. Student tickets are $5 off with valid school ID. Advance tickets are available online until 1 hour before the show. Doors open at 7:30pm.

The ALL Jazz Series is sponsored in part by Alchemy, Dobhan, and Tex Tubbs Restaurants, WORT 89.9FM, Heid Music, and HotelRED. Student ticket discount made possible by Grant Samuelsen Real Estate.

Casey Nielsen

Casey was 12 when he began to study classical guitar with Paul Henry of Roosevelt University, adding lessons with Chicago jazz guitarist Neal Alger at 14. He earned a BM in Jazz Studies from NIU, studying both genres with internationally renowned Fareed Haque and three more years, post graduation, with classical guitarist Denis Azabagic, also at Roosevelt. Casey performs solo recitals throughout the Chicago area and is a jazz bandleader and sideman in various groups throughout the USA. As a classical guitarist, solo concerts throughout the Chicago area including Baker Memorial Church, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, North Shore Baptist Church, Elgin Public Library, Northbrook Public Library, Fabyan Park Japanese Garden series, and Musical Offering’s Music on Madison concert series. As a jazz guitarist, most of Chicago’s jazz venues including Andy’s, Fulton Street Arts Collective, Green Mill’s Composer Collective, Jazz Showcase, Merriman’s Playhouse, and The Whistler. Since forming in... Read More

Daniel Thatcher

Daniel Thatcher is a singular Chicago based bassist and composer, whose solid and supportive presence has been felt and heard among the city's richly varied and vibrant musical communities for the last 10 years and counting. His sensibilities encompass the broader spectrum of traditional and modern music, which allows him to move freely between the worlds of jazz and improvised music, contemporary classical, ragtime, and experimental rock music. This allows him to perform and collaborate regularly with many local greats and lesser-knowns, such as Charles Rumback, Cameron Pfiffner, Dave Miller, Caroline Davis, Marc Riordan, Tim Daisy, John Kregor, Tim Mulvenna, James Davis, Rob Clearfield, Jon Deitemyer, Jeb Bishop and many more. He has also had the opportunity to share the stage with the late Von Freeman and James Moody, Billy Hart, Dave Bryant, Steve Coleman, Danilo Perez, and Perry Robinson (alongside ears&eyes bassist and director, Matthew Golombisky, out on Cadence Records... Read More

Tim Mulvenna

Tim Mulvenna has been performing and teaching for the last three decades in Chicago, as well as playing festivals and touring in the USA, Canada, Japan, Europe, Thailand, and Brazil. He has worked with many international artists including the Eternals, Robbie Fulks, Ken Vandermark, Smog, Fareed Haque, Fred Anderson, Lin Halliday, Jarek Smietana, Jeb Bishop, Ritchie Cole, the Smothers Brothers, Roscoe Mitchell, Rob Mazurek, Ella Leya, Jeff Parker, Ken McIntire, Liquid Soul, Michael Urbaniak, Peter Brotzmann, Larry Novak, John Abercrombie, Mike Frost Project, Tommy Dorsey Orch., Ryan Cohan, Brahm's 3rd Racket, James Falzone's Allos Consort, Bob Newhart, Grazyna Auguscik, Portastatic, the Metropolis Orchestra, Issa Boulos, Pete Cosey, Joan Rivers, Frank Quinn & the Holy Hour House Band, Solomon Douglas, the Gypsy Rhythm Project, and My Brightest Diamond. His playing is represented on over 115 recordings on labels as diverse as Blue Note, Drag City, Delmark, Atavistic, Okka Disc,... Read More

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Casey Nielsen: Lapis Trio

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