New Trier Alumni Bring the Jazz Back Home
A jazz band stops by New Trier to play for their alma mater before heading to Jazz Fest this weekend.
Nearing the end of a month long tour that will culminate this weekend at the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Fatum Brothers Jazz Orchestra played for a smaller yet no less significant audience: students from New Trier High School (NTHS). Watch the Video: New Trier Alumi Swing by School Before Chicago Jazz Fest The big band, which entails saxophones, brass and a rhythm section, traveled across the country to take the Gaffney Auditorium stage on Thursday afternoon, where they played original music and favorites by jazz forefather Duke Ellington. "How did you do that?" one student, microphone in hand, asked the orchestra from his seat in the stands. "A lot of these tunes were played on the road for three weeks," said John Fatum, a drummer and …
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