The premiere Front Row concert featuring a performance by the Lenard Simpson Quartet recorded on June 20, 2024.

Former Jazz Links Fellow Lenard Simpson enthralled a small invited audience with a performance of his original compositions at the Jazz Institute of Chicago's office on the fifth floor of the iconic Fine Arts Building. The Lenard Simpson Quartet is: Lenard Simpson on saxophone, Julius Tucker on piano, Samuel Jewell on drums, and Runere Brooks on bass.

Set List:
John 3: 16
David’s Dance
The Intercessor
Goodbye
Untitled tune

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Lenard Simpson is a saxophonist, composer and educator from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lenard was mostly selftaught through high school, but his natural ability and musicianship earned him accolades such as membership in the esteemed Grammy Camp Jazz Session, and an outstanding soloist award at the Mingus Jazz Competition in New York City. Lenard has had the opportunity to play and travel with artists such as pianist and composerBilly Childs, Kurt Elling, Marquis Hill, and Clayton Cameron. Lenard received a B.M in Jazz performance at Northern Illinois University. While studying at NIU, Lenard was awarded first place in Chicago’s esteemed Luminarts Jazz Competition.

Upon graduation, Lenard moved to Chicago and soon became one of the city’s top call saxophonists playing sideman to legendary local drummers, George Fludas and Charles Heath. Lenard’s trio has appeared at premier clubs and jazz festivals throughout the Chicago and Milwaukee area. Lenard recently graduated from the Thelonious Monk Institute Fellowship, which has since been renamed to the Herbie Hancock Institut where he was selected by a panel of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, James Newton and Ambrose Akinmusire.

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