Matt Ulery/Matt Shevitz
Jazz Quartet
& Harvey Tillis
Sunday
December 11, 2022
2:30 pm
Chicago, IL
Wednesday
December 14, 2022
5:30 pm
Dixon, IL
Friday
December 16, 2022
7:00 pm
Lake Forest, IL
Matt Ulery/Matt Shevitz Jazz Quartet
Matt Ulery, bass | Matt Shevitz, saxophone
December Jazz!!! Rendezvous wants to help you relax and take a break from the rush of the holiday season while enjoying music by the Matt Ulery/Matt Shevitz Quartet! Their music will be perfectly paired with the unique Batik art of Anne Hanley—her pieces perfectly reflect the colors and shifts that take place during the perfect jazz solo! This is a pairing not to be missed!
Chicago-based bassist/composer and bandleader, Matt Ulery, has developed an instantly recognizable sound. Known for his sweeping lyricism, unconventional phrase structures, and expressionistic emotionalism, Ulery’s music—from small, diverse chamber ensembles to full orchestras—is informed by the entire spectrum of jazz, classical, rock, pop, and folk—specifically American, South American, Balkan, and other European folk styles. He has been performing for 25 years on upright, electric, and brass basses. Ulery has produced and released 11 albums of all original music under his name.
Matt has performed with his own groups at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, NYC Winter Jazz Festival, Chicago Orchestra Hall, Millennium Park Pritzker Pavillion, Chicago Cultural Center, The Krannert Center, Jazz Showcase, The Metro, Chicago Jazz Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Chicago World Music Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Guimaraes Jazz Festival, and countless other fine music listening rooms. In addition to performing, recording, and writing, Ulery is on faculty at Loyola University Chicago and gives masterclasses and clinics nationwide and beyond.
Since first arriving in Chicago almost twenty years ago, Matt Shevitz has been an in-demand musician in the jazz, blues, and popular music scenes. Throughout his music career, he has performed alongside such internationally renowned jazz musicians as Dick Hyman, Ignacio Berroa, Howard Levy, Frank Capp, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Byron Stripling, and Frank Wess along with blues/roots rock guitarist Eric Lindell, and Ropeadope Records artists Spare Parts. With these artists and others, Matt has performed at such festivals and clubs as the Jazz in the Park Festival (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), the Waterfront Blues Festival (Portland, Oregon), the Chicago Blues Festival, Lollapalooza, the Jazz Showcase, the House of Blues in Chicago, and as a featured artist for Oregon Festival of American Music (Eugene, Oregon) and the Modlin Center for the Performing Arts (Richmond, Virginia).
Harvey Tillis
Photographer
I grew up on the original black & white LIFE magazine, fascinated by new picture stories every week, strongly influenced by photos of people and places, by light and graphic design. That's where my concept of photography formed and where my desire grew to become a photographer even though my studies and direction were toward business. I held marketing, management, financial and technology positions in other professions, yet nothing meant as much to me as creating well crafted meaningful images. So I changed direction
I have been a self-taught freelance photographer for over 40 years. Commercially, I apply my photojournalistic style and fine art sense of design to the capture of environmental portraits, events, and documentary projects for a variety of nonprofits, corporate clients, and government agencies who value my eye and the way I approach their assignments. I consider myself a partner with clients, helping them to maximize the strategic power of pictures. My images are used for communications, image building, PR, marketing, and income development.
I have always created original photo art with 35mm, 2 1/4, and view cameras, first using a wide variety of black and white, color, and infrared films, paper stocks, and darkroom techniques, then with digital technology which I love! My prints are for sale from my studio, my web site, and through a few select online galleries.
