Greg Spero Quartet

5:00–6:00pm | Hyde Park Art Center

GREG SPERO began playing professionally at fourteen with the Chicago-based blues group, The Slack Daddies. In high school, he participated in and directed several musical ensembles, ranging from jazz to rock to heavy metal. He has written music for plays and has composed film music for Joe Burgess’s The Perfect Breakup; he also produces R&B/hip-hop music. His performance on Frank Catalano’s Mighty Burner spent 20 weeks on the Billboard jazz charts and became a best-selling jazz album for 2006. Joining Greg are Mike Arnopol, bass; Melvin Butler, sax; and Makaya McCraven, drums.

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