Jazz on the Terrace

Location: Memorial Union Terrace Date: June 17, 2023 Time: 1:00-10:30pm Admission: FREE

What's Going On?

Join us Saturday, June 17, 2023 on the Memorial Union Terrace for FREE jazz performances starting at 1:00pm and continuing throughout the evening. Grab a brat, a cold drink, and spend the afternoon and evening enjoying live jazz while overlooking Lake Mendota.

Approximate Schedule:*

    1:00 - 2:00 PM: MJF High School All Stars
    2:30 - 4:00 PM: Michelle DuVall/Doug Brown
    4:30 - 6:00 PM: Hanah Jon Taylor Artet
    6:30 - 8:00 PM: Kassa Overall
    9:00 - 10:30 PM: Richi y La Combi

*please note schedule is subject to change

Where Can I Get Tickets?

No need, it's a free event!

Doug Brown

Composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist Doug Brown has appeared at major music festivals in North America and Europe including the Cork Jazz Festival (Ireland), the Zelt Musik Festival (Germany), the Winnipeg Folk Music Festival (Canada) and the Festival of American Music at the Barbican Centre in London, England.

He has performed with Barbara K and Pat MacDonald of Timbuk 3, "string-swing" group Harmonious Wail, songwriter Ken Lonnquist and many others. His compositions have been heard at regional theaters especially American Players Theater where he was a resident musician and composer throughout the 80's and which in 1999 prominently featured his compositions for Pericles.

Doug has released two CDs with jazz singer Michelle Duvall, their first, Standards and Chillin' At The White Horse, a collection of original songs written about the people Doug and Michelle have met while performing at Madison's White Horse Inn. Other recordings... Read More

Michelle DuVall

Michelle DuVall has been called "a cross between Ella Fitzgerald and Bernadette Peters" by Madison Newspapers' Rhythm, and "a vocalist who can take a standard and make it shine" by Isthmus. DuVall and instrumentalist Doug Brown have gained a reputation a reputation in the Midwest for playing some of the most swinging and refined jazz around.

"My approach has always been keeping it pretty straight-ahead, keeping it true to form. I don't do a lot of scatting. I don't play with the melodies very much. But it still swings," DuVall explained to Isthmus.

Brown and DuVall's refreshing renditions of classic swing songs can be heard on their highly praised first CD, "Standards". Their second CD, "Chillin' At The White Horse" features the duo performing Brown's original jazz tunes with their "rock solid quintet".

Hanah Jon Taylor

Hanah Jon Taylor is arguably the preeminent saxophonist and flutist in Madison jazz and a leading catalyst, organizer and educator in inter-arts programming. Taylor was founder and director of The Madison Center for the Creative and Cultural Arts, which offered concerts and multi-arts classes. Taylor also directed Freedom Fest, which presented such world-class performers as Archie Shepp, Sonny Fortune, Richard Davis, Cecil McBee, Edward Wilkerson, acclaimed Chicago singer Dee Alexander, and Corey Wilkes and Roscoe Mitchell of the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago.

With a career spanning over 30 years, Mr. Taylor has appeared with songwriter/folk artist Richie Havens, percussionist Steve McCall, the Colson Unity Troupe, saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, pianist Jobic LeMasson, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, bassists Rafael Garrett and Malachi Favors, and the Great Black Music Ensemble of Chicago.

Taylor moved to Madison years ago from Chicago and has been a long-time member... Read More

Kassa Overall

Kassa Overall is a jazz musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer, a product of New York City’s jazz scene who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and hip-hop in unmapped directions, reflecting a panoramic musical background from West Coast G-Funk to the sounds of the New York underground.

In the past two years, Overall has released four critically acclaimed projects, GO GET ICE CREAM AND LISTEN TO JAZZ, I THINK I’M GOOD, SHADES OF FLU and SHADES OF FLU 2, gathering support from artistic visionaries including Virgil Abloh and Thom Yorke. Whatever the experiment, Overall remains faithful to the pocket of jazz drums in the tradition of his mentors, the late Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, with whom he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades... Read More

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