Alyssa Allgood, Jazz Quartet Perform May 18 at Baker Community Center

St Charles, April 24, 2024 – Chicago-based jazz vocalist Alyssa Allgood and a quartet of Chicago jazz all-stars close out the Spring season of “Saturday Night Lights” concerts at 7:30 p.m., May 18.

The concert series is produced by the Norris Cultural Arts Center and presented at the historic Baker Community Center, 101 S. Second Street (Rt. 31), St. Charles. For tickets and more information, visit https://norris-cultural-arts.ticketleap.com/alyssa-allgood-jazz-quintet/. Tickets include three complimentary beverages.

Allgood's program, "Come What May: Songs of Hope and Love," includes songs from her newly released CD of original music, featuring internationally acclaimed musicians John Patitucci, Kendrick Scott, Geoffrey Keezer and Greg Ward. Her previous albums, What Tomorrow Brings (Cellar Music 2021), Exactly Like You (Cellar Music 2018), and Out of the Blue (Self-released 2016), garnered praise for lyrical expression, instrumental approach, and accomplished scat and vocalese singing.

About Alyssa Allgood

DownBeat Magazine describes Allgood as “assured and daring,” and the Chicago Tribune calls her a “model of sophisticated song interpretation.” Alyssa brings a modern approach to the jazz tradition with her original compositions, captivating arrangements, and lyrical focus of self-love and human connection.

Allgood has established herself as a leading voice in Chicago’s vibrant jazz scene and beyond. She has appeared at such distinguished venues as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Club in Shanghai, Birdland Jazz Club, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Green Mill, the Jazz Showcase, Winter’s Jazz Club, the Jazz Estate and Noce Jazz Club.

She won the Inaugural Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Voice Competition (2017) and the David Baker Memorial Scholarship through the Jazz Education Network (2022). She was also named Best Jazz Entertainer in the Chicago Music Awards (2019), a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Jazz Improvisation Fellow (2016), and a Semifinalist in the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition (2015), where she performed for a jury presided by jazz legend Al Jarreau.