Sat April 29, 2023
FITZGERALDS Presents
JAZZ BRUNCH: The Music of Cole Porter w/ Petra Van Nuis Quartet

Petra Van Nuis

Show: 12:00 pm Doors: 11:00 am
FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB
FREE
All Ages
Additional Info

FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB PRESENTS:
JAZZ BRUNCH: The Music of Cole Porter w/
PETRA VAN NUIS seen HERE

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Brunch By BABYGOLD BARBECUE

The pairing of jazz vocalist Petra van Nuis and guitarist Andy Brown is one of those rare combinations where all parts seem to fit. Germany's Jazzpodium Magazine hails their twenty-four year musical collaboration as "a magical musical dialogue, which can only partially be described as blind understanding."  As high school sweethearts at a performing arts school in Cincinnati Ohio, Petra and Andy grew up together as artists.

 

Living in Chicago since 2004, Petra and Andy regularly play the prominent area venues including the Jazz Showcase, the Green Mill, Andy's Jazz Club,  Fitzgerald's Nightclub and Winter’s Jazz Club. Nationally, the couple plays jazz festivals and clubs. With several European tours and six of their CDs re-released in Japan, Petra and Andy continue to spread their swinging sounds to music lovers far and wide.

 

Rounding out the quartet are the swinging rhythm section of bassist Joe Policastro and drummer Phil Gratteau. Together they will explore the music of their favorite composer/lyricist Cole Porter!

Petra exhibits interpretive savvy, light-and-silvery vocals and better still, a saucy manner of delivery that emphasizes the art of the double entendre."

-Chicago Tribune


"Andy Brown manages to wrap his rich harmonic style in a unhurried feel that calls to mind the spirit of George Van Eps with a current harmonic understanding."

-All About Jazz


Russ Phillips - now robust, now sweet, now silky, now turbulent...like a compendium of all the best elements of trombone style since jazz was born.”

-The Mississippi Rag

 

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***PARKING***

There is rather limited street parking in the area, we recommend arriving by rideshare, bicycle, or rickshaw.  

 
Artists
Petra Van Nuis