Emma Dayhuff's Phoenix Ensemble

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

TIME: 5:30-6:30PM

VENUE: HYDE PARK BANK. 1525 East 53RD ST.

EMMA DAYHUFF’S PHOENIX ENSEMBLE featuring COREY WILKES + VINCENT DAVIS

Bassist Emma Dayhuff has followed her musical curiosity to experiences beyond what she could have imagined while growing up in Bozeman, Montana. She is the most recent bassist to graduate from the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance in Los Angeles and the fifth woman ever to participate in the prestigious program. She has performed around the world, including at the Newport Jazz Festival, the Sant’Anna Jazz Festival in Sardinia, and Dizzy’s Jazz Club in New York. 

After graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2009, Dayhuff moved to Chicago, where she worked in the Chicago blues scene, started a funk band, toured with a bluegrass band, became a recording engineer for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and was embraced by Chicago’s avant-garde jazz community through her mentors Vincent Davis and Robert Irving III. In 2015, she moved to New York, where she studied with Gerald Cannon and Ron Carter, performed regularly with the Victor Goines Quartet, and shared the stage with Herbie Hancock, David Murray, Kahil El’Zabar, Jeff Parker, Dee Alexander, Robert Irving III, Isaiah Collier, Patricia Barber, Gretchen Parlato, Nicole Mitchell, and Willie Pickens. She has now returned to Chicago to reconnect to the uniquely creative community that first helped her grow into a solid, versatile, and passionate artist. 

The musicians:

Emma Dayhuff – bass

Corey Wilkes – trumpet

Vincent Davis – percussion