Multi-instrumentalist, composer and Roulette Van Lier Fellow Morgan Guerin will present new music.
Alexis Lombre keyboards/vocals
Mike King keyboards
JK Kim drums
Milena Casado trumpet/vocals/percussion
Keenyn Omari flute/vocals/percussion
Morgan Guerin saxophone/EWI/bass/bass clarinet
+ Special Guests
J. Hoard vocals
Zacchae’us Paul vocals
Kokayi vocals
Chase Guerin vocals
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube. (Not available until Guerin’s album release – May 10, 2024).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFJvv12XLI
Born into a family of musicians right outside New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, and learning drums and saxophone before he reached double digits, Louisiana and later Atlanta, Georgia native, Morgan Guerin has a profound musical pedigree. Now 25 years old, Guerin holds a master’s degree in Jazz and has studied at both the prestigious New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and Berklee College of Music. He’s performed on stages around the world, working with luminaries like Terri Lyne Carrington, Russell Gunn, Tyshawn Sorey, and Esperanza Spalding. He’s contributed work to two GRAMMY award-winning albums. He’s released a series of acclaimed albums of his own (The Saga Trilogy), and he’s already been dubbed a “wunderkind saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist” by The New York Times.
Milena Casado is a composer, flugelhorn & trumpet player from Spain, currently based in New York. During the course of her career, Milena has performed and recorded with such renowned artists as Jorge Rossy, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Kenny Werner, and Bill McHenry, among others; at noted venues and festivals around the world, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, and Marciac Jazz Festival, among others. She has also been focusing on composing her own music which portrays a process of self-discovery and self-acceptance, and performing it in different settings, including the Milena Casado trio, quartet, sextet and nonet. Milena recently completed her Master’s degree at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute.
Alexis Lombre is a pianist, vocalist, composer, and producer from Chicago. She discovered early that the true essence of music is not just about what you hear but how music makes you feel. Her musical mission is to keep the ‘Soul’ in music alive. Lombre recently released her single “Come Find Me” which she describes as “lyrically, a gospel song; harmonically, a jazz song and rhythmically, a hip-hop/R&B song. I didn’t create the song with any borders”. As JazzTimes puts it “Lombre realized early on that by refusing to be constrained by convention— whether so-called “jazz” or otherwise—she’d be honoring, rather than defiling, the rich heritage she’d come to embrace.” She has toured nationally all over the United States, and internationally in Canada, Cuba, Brazil, France, and South Africa with artists such as Jon Batiste, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Marcus Miller, Endea Owens & The Cookout, J Hoard, Dan Wilson, Vuyo Sotashe, Nicole Mitchell, Jamila Woods, Tia Fuller, DJ D Nice, and the Miles Davis Electric Band. Alexis Lombre was granted the Inaugural 2022 New Music Next Jazz Legacy Award and the 2023 Luminarts Award.
Virtuosic pianist Michael King, a Chicagoan native began playing drums in his local church band at the early age of four. This fortuitously melodic schooling nurtured an undeniable affinity to the piano and organ, the very seat that he began to occupy, by ear, at age fourteen. Mr. King is an alumni of Lincoln Park High School and the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory. He was selected to attend the Thelonious Monk Institute and The Ravinia Jazz Scholars program on merit scholarships. Michael has performed with Bobby Watson, Kevin Eubanks, Dave Liebeman, Gary Bartz, Billy Hart, Joel Frahm, Rufus Reid, & Antonio Hart, among others. Currently you can catch Mr. King touring internationally with: The Mike King Trio, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Robin Eubanks, Marquis Hill, Theo Croker, Soul Understated, Melissa Aldana, & Marcus Printup.
JK Kim – Jongkuk Kim is an Award-winning Billboard nominated Drummer, improviser, composer, and electronic musician from Incheon, Korea who has become an integral voice in the contemporary Jazz and improvised music scene in his home city and a rising star in the worldwide Jazz community. Jongkuk’s name has appeared in the Grammy, Billboard and Vogue magazine.
