Joe Marcinek’s latest release, The Groove Sessions, is a collection of jazz-funk tunes that will gently fry your mind with music at the highest intellectual level while never speaking down to you. This iteration of the Dead Funk Summit includes the amazing Greg Spero on keys, the Sanchez brothers—Ronnie (bass) and Manny (drums)—providing the rhythm section, Tracy Silverman on violin, Howard Levy on harmonica, and the incomparable Jesus Molina on piano.

During the holidays, we come together to celebrate another year and share stories of our adventures. This year, Joe Marcinek has brought his extended family together to share the love of music and laughter. Calvin Rodgers, Sharay Reed, John Hanrahan, Pennal Johnson, and Rick King formed this year's Dead Funk Summit at Lincoln Hall, delivering a night of marvelous music performed by some of Chicago's preeminent musicians.

Winter has finally arrived in the Windy City. As the temperature drops, the streets come alive with the colors of the impending holidays, while brightly colored toy soldiers stand guard over shiny ornaments. The first celebrations of the season have reached the city, but the biting wind keeps shoppers and revelers moving quickly, seeking refuge indoors. What better time to take in a concert?

Susie Blue & the Lonesome Fellas Sultry New Video "How Could I Help but Love You" - A Tango with Howard Levy

Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas has just released a sultry new video  "How Could I Help but Love You" featuring harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy, from their new release BLUE TRAIN

Anyone that knows anything about soul music knows that it’s not a genre or a categorization, but a feeling. Sometimes Rhythm and Blues, Motown, or Funk will all get associated with soul music, but usually isn’t a defining element of a specific sound or mode of playing. It is what it describes: coming from the soul. So when you take an artist like Victor Wooten, soul would not be the first “buzz word” that comes to mind. Virtuoso, multi-instrumentalist, genre bending, five time Grammy Award Winner.