Trumpeter, composer Orbert Davis is co-founder, conductor and artistic director of CHICAGO JAZZ PHILHARMONIC, a 55+ piece jazz-symphonic orchestra dedicated to multi-genre projects. Orbert is also ...

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One critical but oft-forgotten reason that live jazz flourishes in Chicago is the simple fact that there`s so much commercial studio work here. In other words, free-lance musicians pay the rent by ...

Music and life is a matter of study. It never ends. Orbert Davis is one of the most active trumpet players on the music scene, heard in tons and tons of contexts and not just by jazz fans. He's ...

Though every jazz trumpeter must come to terms with the vast musical legacy of Miles Davis, one Chicagoan has been particularly rigorous in doing so. In the 1990s, Chicagoan Orbert Davis (no relation) ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Orbert Davis is a classically-trained trumpet player who has enjoyed a successful performance and recording career. Now, he is shaking up the music world by combining two genres of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Award-winning Chicago musician Orbert Davis is best known as a world class jazz trumpet virtuoso, but he's also an educator who wants to keep music in schools. Davis, the founder of ...

Orbert Davis is no stranger to taking on big projects. The trumpeter and composer’s Chicago Jazz Philharmonic—a 50+ member ensemble exploring the “third stream” intersection of classical and jazz ...

For 11 years, the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic has been the only professional symphonic jazz organization in the country. Ahead of the premiere of a new set celebrating three jazz greats on April 29, ...

This was a productive year for fiercely individualistic recordings. Among the highlights: Henry Butler, Steven Bernstein and the Hot 9: “Viper’s Drag” (Impulse). Butler, one of today’s most leonine ...