WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
WFIU Public Radio and the Department of Jazz Studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music are partnering to co-host Swing in September, a free outdoor concert series featuring a variety of musical acts from swing bands to jazz vocalists and more. WFIU hosts David Brent Johnson and William Morris will emcee the concerts.
About the Swing in September artists:
Palonegro’s music spans from South American Andean styles to Afro-Caribbean rhythms and Latin jazz and features the original compositions and arrangements of the band’s director Sergio Ospina Romero. Palonegro’s journey began in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2009. Between 2014 and 2019 Palonegro was based in Ithaca, New York, where they recorded their first album Two Minutes Apart. After another season in Colombia, Sergio relocated to Bloomington and Palonegro became a Latin jazz quartet with Sergio Ospina Romero on piano, Jacob Smith on bass, Michael Wimer on congas, and John Maruri on drums.
The Big Push is a quintet based in Bloomington that performs a mix of original music and arrangements of jazz standards. The band is named after Wayne Shorter’s composition “The Big Push” from his album The Soothsayer. In addition to Shorter, influences include Joshua Redman, Brian Blade, Joe Henderson, and Art Blakey. This band loves to swing! The group is comprised of Caleb Robinson on tenor saxophone, Nadia Reist on trumpet, Dan Ventura on piano, Alex Hoberty on bass, and Tate Sherman on drums and cymbals.
The Postmodern Jazz Quartet has played regularly at venues around Bloomington since its formation in 2004, including Tutto Bene Wine Bar, Player’s Pub, Café Django, Topos, Bear’s Place, C3, and Morgenstern’s Books and Café, where the band currently holds a monthly jazz salon. The group’s set list features jazz standards and hard bop classics. The band includes Jeff Isaac on piano, Pat Harbison on trumpet, Jonathan Elmer on trombone, Dave Bruker on bass, and Dan Deckard on drums.
