Alyssa Allgood Quartet: From Here
($20-$30 tickets | 7pm & 9pm shows) Chicago-based Alyssa Allgood is a 2024 Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll “Rising Star Female Vocalist” who boldly weaves soulful storytelling and rich improvisational language through original compositions, captivating arrangements and a lyrical focus of self-love and human connection.
Alyssa makes her debut at The Century Room in celebration of her new album, “From Here.” The evening will feature music from this album as well as select standards.
**Alyssa Allgood**
***Alyssa Allgood is an award-winning jazz vocalist, composer, arranger and educator with a compelling voice in the modern jazz landscape. Described as “assured and daring” by Downbeat Magazine and “a model of sophisticated song interpretation” by the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago-based artist boldly weaves soulful storytelling and rich improvisational language through original compositions, captivating arrangements and a lyrical focus of self-love and human connection.***
***Allgood first made her name in such legendary Chicago clubs as the Green Mill and the Jazz Showcase, through residences at Winter’s Jazz Club — where she has delved into the songbooks of jazz’s classic divas (Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington) — and at the internationally renowned Chicago Jazz Festival. Appearances followed in New York’s Birdland, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai (China) and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (British Columbia).***
***Alyssa Allgood (vocals) Angelo Versace (piano) Scott Black (bass) Arthur Vint (drums)***