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Volume 17 Issue 11
NOVEMBER 2020
Happy Thanksgiving!
Jazz Unlimited Board
David Miller President
Go on a ‘sonic journey’
DavidMiller@JazzUnlimitedMKE.org
Chris Peppas “CP”
with Jordan
Vice President By CP Christopher Peppas
Correspondent at Large
ChrisPeppas@JazzUnlimitedMKE.org
Yvonne ZarconeTreasurer
I f there was such a thing as a ‘Poster Boy’
for the Jazz Unlimited of Greater Milwau-
kee High School Scholarship Fund, then
Jordan earned a
couple of the scholar-
ships and the now
YvonneZarcone@JazzUnlimitedMKE.org
Jordan Rattner would most certainly qualify 23-year old used them
Bev Alper Secretary to be one. as stepping stones
BeverlyAlper@JazzUnlimitedMKE.org toward a career as a
Bill Seaman Sergeant-at-arms professional musician.
BillSeaman@jazzunlimitedmke.org Having been in the audience when he
auditioned, it can be said that this was no
Jennifer Rueth Editor giveaway. Rattner earned every penny.
JenniferRueth@JazzUnlimitedMKE.org One year, he helped with set up and accom-
Keith Watling panied almost all of the musicians that he
Administrator & Webmaster was competing against.
KeithWatling@JazzUnlimitedMKE.org
His largesse was not lost on the judges.
Neither was his considerable talent.
JU Board Meeting If you ever wondered where your donations
SECOND MONDAY at the Jazz Jams, your membership dues or
Joe's K Ranch • 6:30 pm other contributions go, wonder no more.
4840 S Whitnall Ave, Cudahy “It was amazing,” Jordan said of winning the
prizes. “I used them for a couple of pro-
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Inside This Issue
Jordan Rattner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 JAZZ UNLIMITED OPEN JAM EVERY 4TH SUNDAY
JU Jazz Jam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The music of Chris Peppas . . . 2 BARBARA STEPHAN QUARTET
and Ricky Orta, Jr. Jeff Stoll (keys), Joe Turano (sax),
Another giant lost. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Joe Zarcone (drums) & Barbara Stephan (vocals)
Who’s Gigging Where . . . . . . . 3
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grams. It allowed me to attend ‘Guitar Sessions’ at Berklee direction of jazz. And even
(College of Music in Boston) one year and a for five week stay as a teenager, he had an easy,
there the next year.” breezy style some musicians
“It was just an incredible opportunity. I got to play with a never attain.
group of Jazz All-Stars. It was a big deal,” Jordan said. The young Rattner has been
He didn’t have to go far to hear a guitar player. His father, doing a deep dive into the
Mark, has been playing jazz around town for years. genre and has been getting
into Bop.
Jordan took a rather circuitous route before landing on the
“I have been working
jazz genre. “I first got into
on that more recently,”
Beatles songs, Albert King and
Jordan said. “They say that
then into the harder rock like
when it comes to Bop, you
(Jimi) Hendrix and (Eric)
study it your whole life.”
Clapton,” he said.
Jordan is getting into the
His father and two of the area’s
60s, specifically artists like
best player/teacher/mentors,
Chick Corea that he has only
Neil Davis and Paul Silbergleit,
begun to “dip into.”
gently nudged him in the
Like most musicians, Rattner has been involuntarily fur-
loughed by the pandemic. He hasn’t played any live gigs since
early in 2020, only a few live streams.
But he hasn’t been idle that whole time. Jordan wrote a song,
“Lost & Found” and he recently recorded a music video for it.
It is scheduled to be released on December 4 on Spotify, Apple
Music and other platforms. It was done at “Electric Air
Studios” in his new home, Miami, Florida.
“When this pandemic winds down, I want to book more gigs
in 2021. That would be cool.”
Good music is good music and you can hear a lot of good stuff
across the spectrum of genres.
Rattner speaks to that when he said: “I want people to expand
their palate. Music is visceral, sensitive, reflective and rooted
in their experiences. I want to take them on sonic journeys.”
Needless to say, this is one talented young man who is worthy
of your time and attention when we can again gather together
and soak in the sheer bliss that is a live musical performance.
I can think of no one better to go on a sonic journey than
Jordan Rattner.
Another giant lost
The Milwaukee Jazz Community lost a giant talent and
fixture on the local scene when Lem Banks passed away
last month. Lem had a voice that was reminiscent of
many of the all-time jazz greats and unlike any other at
CP/R – the music of the same time.
Chris Peppas & Ricky Orta, Jr. He was the Pharaoh of Phrasing and had a vocal range that could scale
Mt. Everest.
Saturday, 11/14 • 8-11 pm
Most recently, Lem was playing third Saturdays at The Packing House as the
Mary’s Caddyshack frontman of Top Shelf with Jeff Stoll on keys, Alvin Turner on sax and Omar
1959 S. 124th St., New Berlin on drums. COVID-19 stopped his performing and lymphoma ultimately
262-788-5425 took his life. He will be missed.
NOVEMBER 2020 JAZZ UNLIMITED NEWSLETTER 3
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