Chicago Jazz Series - Matt Shevitz Quartet CD Release Concert For “First Take! Live On WDCB” at Epiphany Center For The Arts

Since first arriving in Chicago over twenty years ago, Matt Shevitz has been an in-demand musician in the jazz, blues, and popular music scenes. Throughout his music career he has performed alongside such internationally renowned jazz musicians as Dick Hyman, Ignacio Berroa, Howard Levy, Frank Capp, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Byron Stripling, and Frank Wess along with blues/roots rock guitarist Eric Lindell. With these artists and others Shevitz has performed at such festivals and clubs as the Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, Lollapalooza, Jazz in the Park Festival (in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Waterfront Blues Festival (in Portland, Oregon), the Jazz Showcase, the House of Blues in Chicago, and as a featured artist for Oregon Festival of American Music (in Eugene, Oregon) and the Modlin Center for the Performing Arts (in Richmond, Virginia)....

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Since first arriving in Chicago over twenty years ago, Matt Shevitz has been an in-demand musician in the jazz, blues, and popular music scenes. Throughout his music career he has performed alongside such internationally renowned jazz musicians as Dick Hyman, Ignacio Berroa, Howard Levy, Frank Capp, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Byron Stripling, and Frank Wess along with blues/roots rock guitarist Eric Lindell. With these artists and others Shevitz has performed at such festivals and clubs as the Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, Lollapalooza, Jazz in the Park Festival (in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Waterfront Blues Festival (in Portland, Oregon), the Jazz Showcase, the House of Blues in Chicago, and as a featured artist for Oregon Festival of American Music (in Eugene, Oregon) and the Modlin Center for the Performing Arts (in Richmond, Virginia).

Shevitz is currently the Music Department Chairperson and Director of Jazz Ensembles at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL. He has received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Performance degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Music in Jazz Pedagogy from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science in Music from the University of Oregon.

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