Jim Gailloreto is an accomplished jazz saxophonist and composer. His jazz style is rooted in a modern post-bop approach. As a freelance musician he has performed with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, ...

You have to admire a jazz musician who dares to write a suite for soprano saxophone, four stringed instruments and 24-voice chorale. Only a brave or foolhardy soul would undertake such a task, and ...

“By looking not only to the past, but more so the future, the Jazz String Quintet aspires to create music that has depth and roots, but still sounds contemporary and fun." --Mark Turner, All About ...

Bassist Ken Haebich and saxist Jim Gailloreto, both veterans of several musical demimondes–mainstream Chicago jazz, classical chamber composition, and of course the wedding circuit–have come up with a ...

Chicago jazz composer and saxophonist Jim Gailloreto is the first performer to take over the Getty Villa’s Outer Peristyle Garden in nearly 20 years. And he’s mounting the West Coast premiere of his ...

Can the poetry of Emily Dickenson be set to jazz? And what about e.e. cummings and Robert Creeley – can their distinctive poetic voices sway to a jazz beat? Three noted Chicago artists think so, and ...

The Metropolitan Jazz Octet put a new spin on some of David Bowie’s classic songs such as “Let’s Dance,” “Space Oddity” and “Changes.” And here with more on how this all came together – Metropolitan ...