Tribute To F-R-E-D

It’s a hot summer evening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Inside, patrons enjoy a new exhibit featuring the work of Alexander Calder. Outside, on the museum’s terrace, it’s Tuesday, so that means a packed house to hear live jazz.
(Photo: Frank Alkyer)

For the past several summers, the MCA has hosted its Tuesdays on the Terrace series, a fine combination of a free jazz concert, the ambiance of the museum’s beautiful backyard sculpture garden and internationally themed cuisine from Puck’s Cafe. The terrace has been the place to hear a variety of the city’s top jazz artists, everyone from trumpeter Corey Wilkes to AACM stalwart Mwata Bowden to local radio DJ and baritone saxophonist Barry Winograd.

On Tuesday, July 27, the MCA featured one of Chicago’s up-and-comers, tenor and soprano saxophonist Kevin Nabors, who’s been making a name for himself as a sideman with the likes of Wilkes, Ernest Dawkins and Ari Brown. Nabors led his own quartet through a crisp set of post-bebop standards before launching into an inspired suite of tunes, titled “F-R-E-D,” that he wrote a few months back to honor one of his musical mentors, Fred Anderson, the legendary Chicago saxophonist and club owner who passed away in late June.

Upcoming MCA Tuesdays At The Terrace shows include:
Aug. 3: Fred Lonberg-Holm
Aug. 10: Robert Irving III
Aug. 17: Jason Adasiewicz
Aug. 24: Fred Anderson tribute with Tatsu Aoki
Aug. 31: Charles Heath
Sept. 7: Barry Winograd
Sept. 14: Tomeka Reid
Sept. 21: Josh Berman
Sept. 28: World Music Festival
For more info go to mcachicago.org

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