Pharez Whitted Quintet
saturday, september 28
TIME: 7:00pm-8:00pm
VENUE: International House. 1414 east 59th st.
Pharez Witted wearing glasses, a grey suit jacket, and black shirt, and holding his trumpet against a light grey background. Followed by a photo of Witted facing the camera and wearing a black suit jacket and white button-down shirt against a light grey backdrop. Followed by a photo of Witted wearing a black suit jacket and white button-down shirt, he is looking downwards at the trumpet in is hands. Photos by Janet Miami Takayama.
Pharez Whitted
Pharez Whitted is a performer, educator, composer, producer, and clinician who has performed throughout the United States and overseas, including at presidential inaugurations, on The Arsenio Hall Show, at The Billboard Music Awards, in Carnegie Hall, and at major jazz festivals throughout the country. He studied music at DePauw University and went on to earn a master’s degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has taught at Wabash College, The Ohio State University, and, most recently, Chicago State University.
Whitted has performed with such notable musicians as Branford Marsalis, George Duke, Elvin Jones, Kirk Whalum, John Mellencamp, Nancy Wilson, Meshell Ndegeocello, Chaka Khan, and Slide Hampton. He has released two CDs on the MoTown jazz label and four on other labels. He has been nominated for Independent Jazz Artist of the Year (2011), named Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz (2016), inducted into the Shortridge High School Hall of Fame (2017), and awarded an Alumni Citation from DePauw University (2018).
He is currently Professor of Jazz Trumpet at Northern Illinois University, Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYSO) Jazz Orchestra, Coordinator of the Chicago Division of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Let Freedom Swing program, a clinician for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Program, a Jazz Mentor for the Jazz Scholar Program as part of the Ravinia Reach, Teach, Play Program, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Jazz Education Network (JEN).
The musicians:
Pharez Whitted — trumpet
Edwin Bayard - tenor/soprano saxophone
Andrew Toombs – piano
Runere Brooks - bass
Xazavian Valladay - drums