1st Set With Michele Thomas

Showtimes:  6pm-7:15pm & 8:15pm-9:30pm

Jazz singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and educator Michele Thomas is a suave innovator. With silken grace she eases in her formative background in gospel, and her love of R&B, soul, and neo-soul, into a musical language that shows a dedication and a passion for jazz, spanning all of its defining eras. Michele’s restless creativity reflects jazz’s improvisatory spirit—for jazz, like life, is a journey and not a destination.

Michele has garnered favorable comparisons to powerful African-American singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, and Anita Baker, but she also draws inspiration from composer-artists like Kurt Elling, Jon Hendricks, James Taylor, and Sting. She has earned the praise of Warner Bros. recording artist Kevin Mahogany, and Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Yusef Lateef who commented, “(She) has her own vocal sound, which is beautiful by the Grace of God.”

Over 20 years, Michele has become a local and regional fixture in the Midwest, appearing live as a respected jazz artist at a variety of venues, and recording with Chicago’s finest session musicians. An onstage milestone was an invitation to be a featured artist at the Chicago Jazz Festival. Here she performed a complete solo set with her own band in front of a diverse audience from around the world.

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