Jim Gailloreto Explained

Jim Gailloreto
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois
Genre:Jazz, Classical, Contemporary
Occupation:Saxophonist, Composer, Bandleader
Instrument:Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Associated Acts:Jazzformation, Jazz String Quintet, Metropolitan Jazz Octet
Website:http://www.jazzstringquintet.com

Jim Gailloreto (born 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer, and group leader from Chicago whose string arrangements were heard on Kurt Elling's Grammy Award–winning CD Dedicated To You.[1] [2] [3]

Biography

Rooted in modern post-bop, Jim Gailloreto has been active on the Chicago jazz and creative music scene since the 1980s. A prolific composer and arranger he has eight recordings as a leader to his credit with three instrumentally diverse groups, and has recorded as a sideman with several notable artists and record labels. Chicagojazz.com describes Gailloreto's compositions as "genre bending".[4]

On his Jazzformation and The Insider recordings, Gailloreto's tenor saxophone is heard with a more conventional small jazz ensemble of guitar, piano, bass, and drums while his Jazz String Quintet recordings feature his soprano sax improvisations backed by a string quintet. Each of these string quintet recordings features standout compositions by Gailloreto along with guest singers Kurt Elling, Patricia Barber, and Cheryl Wilson. Gailloreto's tenor sax also leads the Metropolitan Jazz Octet having taken the reins from Tom Hilliard, his former professor at DePaul University, 57 years after the group was founded. Hilliard left Gailloreto the group's music library when his health began to fail. The music sat in Gailloreto's basement for years before he resurrected the MJO in 2014.[5] The octet format of the MJO features a small big band, a standard jazz rhythm section of piano, bass, and drums with alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones, trumpet, and trombone. Gailloreto along with saxophonist John Kornegay added charts to the library, which was largely written by Hilliard from the 1950s through the 1980s, and recorded the first new MJO recording The Road to Your Place in 2018.

Chameleon-like as a player, Gailloreto is equally at home performing jazz, blues, fusion, funk, classical, and Latin. He's performed and recorded for singers Patricia Barber and Kurt Elling on Blue Note Records, performed the Chicago premier of Marc Anthony Turnage's Scorched with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and John Scofield,[6] recorded with New York Latinjazz vibraphonist Mike Freeman, guitarist John McLean, pianists Jeremy Kahn and Fred Simon, and vocalist Grazyna Auguscik. Gailloreto has performed five times at the Chicago Jazz Festival with various ensembles.[7]

Gailloreto graduated DePaul University in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in music composition having studied with George Flynn, and received a master's degree in music composition from Northwestern University in 1983 having studied with Alan Stout. He's a recipient of the New Works: Creation & Presentation Program Grant from Chamber Music America and was recognized in Jazziz Magazine's Woodwinds on Fire jazz select disc.

Gailloreto is an associate professor of music at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts.[1]

Discography

As leader

As featured side musician

Arranger

Compositions

They Fall, 2014, String Quartet, Soprano Saxophone, Bass & Voice

The Pythiad, 2014, String Quartet, Soprano Saxophone, Bass & Voice

Improvisational Suite (18 min.), 2013

"As of Yet" (6.0 min.), 2013, Cello, Soprano Saxophone & Voice

Sea Songs (40 min.) William Ferris Choral, 2011, String Quartet, Soprano Saxophone & Choir

American Complex (25 min.) Origin Classical, 2009

Origin Classical

Naim Label,

Arrangements

Paulinho Garcia (string quartet and rhythm)
Bossa Nova 50 Anniversary, 2010

Kurt Elling's Grammy Award-winning CD “Dedicated to You”

Origin Classical

Symphony Center

Naim Label

Hartstring

Chicago Jazz Festival

Rob Parton's Ensemble 9

Bill Russo's Chicago Jazz Ensemble

Escola de Samba, 2005

Ingrid Graudins and Kurt Elling, 2005

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faculty Profile Jim Gailloreto - Roosevelt University. Roosevelt.edu. 16 January 2019.
  2. Web site: Jazz String Quintet. Jazzstringquintet.com. 16 January 2019.
  3. Web site: Kurt Elling. 17 March 2014. Grammy.com. 16 January 2019.
  4. Web site: CD Review: Jim Gailloreto - The Pythiad. ChicagoJazz.com. 16 January 2019.
  5. Web site: Metropolitan Jazz Octet in Chicago. Metropolitanjazzoctet.com. 16 January 2019.
  6. Web site: CSO gets 'Scorched' with jazz -- well, maybe singed. Howard Reich. Chicagotribune.com. 23 May 2009 . 16 January 2019.
  7. Web site: 1979 Chicago Jazz Festival : Monday, August 27, 1979 – Chicago Jazz Panorama I. Jazzinchicago.org. 16 January 2019. 14 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190614061320/http://www.jazzinchicago.org/files/chicagojazzfestival1979-2008.pdf. dead.

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