John Bany
Vanessa Melero
November 24, 2013
Musi 128
Concert Assignment
Andy’s Jazz Jam with John Bany Earlier this afternoon, I went to Andy’s Jazz Club on 11 East Hubbard Street in Chicago, and watched John Bany perform. John Bany is said to be one of Chicago’s most creative bass players. Bany was born and raised in Ohio, but has had the privilege of calling Chicago his home for a little over thirty years. John Bany studied bass with Charlie Medcalf, Harold Roberts and Richard Topper, whom all just so happen to be bassists with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and he also holds a degree in music from the Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. John Bany won the United States Air Force Worldwide Talent Contest in 1964, and then he went out on the road with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and successively served as the jazz editor for the International Society of Bassists Magazine, from 1984 through 1988.
His bass playing, and occasionally his unique vocal stylings, have overjoyed audiences all over the world. John Bany has played at so many different Jazz based festivals, including the original Big Horn in Ivanhoe, Illinois, the Chicago Jazz Festival, where he has made nine appearances, the Mid-American Jazz Festival in St. Louis, Elkhart Jazz Festival where he has made about thirteen appearances and the Atlanta World Music Fest. John Bany has recorded with Joe Venuti, Bud Freeman, Eddie Higgins, Bonnie Koloc, Chuck Hedges and Don DeMichael. His music can also be heard on the Grammy nominated album, The Real Bud Freeman from 1984, which by the way, received four and a half stars in DownBeat. His music can also be heard on the Grammy Award winning album, A Tribute to Steve Goodman as well.
Largely as a result of his love for the jam session, John Bany has performed with a list of local and national luminaries too long to name. John Bany has said that he feels the jam session represents the height of jazz communication, an opinionin which he had formed at a
November 24, 2013
Musi 128
Concert Assignment
Andy’s Jazz Jam with John Bany Earlier this afternoon, I went to Andy’s Jazz Club on 11 East Hubbard Street in Chicago, and watched John Bany perform. John Bany is said to be one of Chicago’s most creative bass players. Bany was born and raised in Ohio, but has had the privilege of calling Chicago his home for a little over thirty years. John Bany studied bass with Charlie Medcalf, Harold Roberts and Richard Topper, whom all just so happen to be bassists with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and he also holds a degree in music from the Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. John Bany won the United States Air Force Worldwide Talent Contest in 1964, and then he went out on the road with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and successively served as the jazz editor for the International Society of Bassists Magazine, from 1984 through 1988.
His bass playing, and occasionally his unique vocal stylings, have overjoyed audiences all over the world. John Bany has played at so many different Jazz based festivals, including the original Big Horn in Ivanhoe, Illinois, the Chicago Jazz Festival, where he has made nine appearances, the Mid-American Jazz Festival in St. Louis, Elkhart Jazz Festival where he has made about thirteen appearances and the Atlanta World Music Fest. John Bany has recorded with Joe Venuti, Bud Freeman, Eddie Higgins, Bonnie Koloc, Chuck Hedges and Don DeMichael. His music can also be heard on the Grammy nominated album, The Real Bud Freeman from 1984, which by the way, received four and a half stars in DownBeat. His music can also be heard on the Grammy Award winning album, A Tribute to Steve Goodman as well.
Largely as a result of his love for the jam session, John Bany has performed with a list of local and national luminaries too long to name. John Bany has said that he feels the jam session represents the height of jazz communication, an opinionin which he had formed at a