Music Under the November Moon

A perfect way to end the Thanksgiving holiday with wine, cheese, conversationa and a jazz quintet featuring guest jazz vocalist Typhanie Monique with her ensemble of jazz heavyweigts. Let the energy of Eric Wanger's piano playing, the mellowness of Nora Williams' viola and Typhanie's sumptuous jazz quartet get your holiday season under way-- under that big beautiful November Moon.

Ticket options include a Name-Your-Own-Price ticket which is perfect for the big-spending philanthropist or the thrifty music-lover. Come one, come all!

The Performers

The moody late autumn weather and the start of holidays are a perfect combination to gather, wrap yourself in sultry jazz and stare at the moon. And, you just might find yourself breaking into an impromtu moondance...

Eric Wanger, piano

Still glowing from his Carnegie Hall debut performance for a Holocaust Remembrance concert, Eric Wanger is currently occupied with composing and performing music. He has studied piano, clarinet, saxophone, and flute, and has played keyboards and woodwinds in a variety of jazz, rock, and classical settings. A Chicago native, Eric received a Mathematics degree from the University of Illinois, and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School. He played lead tenor saxophone in the University of Illinois Jazz Band under Ray Sasaki. His interests include the use of computers in the composition, performance, and production of both traditional acoustic and fully electronic music.

Nora Williams, viola

Nora Williams is the Artistic Director at Ossia Musical Forum, executive producer of the short dance film Prohairesis, premiering in 2024, founder and violist with the contemporary string quartet, Red Riding Hood, guest soloist with the South Loop Symphony, and past principal viola, soloist with the Bach and Beyond Chamber Orchestra and past principal viola with the Highland Park Strings. Nora' s latest projects include co-producing a chamber music series at The Golden Triangle antique shop and booking live chamber music all over Chicago. She is a native of the San Francisco Bay area and received a bachelor’s degree in music from Stanford University and continued with two years of graduate study at Indiana University.

Typhanie Monique is a performer, educator and recording artist whose four critically acclaimed, independently produced albums have captured the ears of Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich and thousands of dedicated fans. She has shared the stage with jazz’s elite, including Joe Lovano, Chris Potter,The Manhattan Transfer and Mavis Staples to name a few. She has enthralled audiences and brought enthusiastic crowds to their feet at major outdoor festivals like the Chicago Jazz Festival, Vogue Design Festival in Moscow, Russia, SummerFest, Taste of Chicago, Isthmus Jazz Festival and Third Ward Jazz Festival.

An adjunct professor since 2012, Typhanie mentors the next generation in voice science, contemporary singing styles and techniques and artist development. She embodies a whole self approach to body, mind, spirit development.

Joshua Ramos makes a busy career out of teaching music at various locations and performing. He has been on television numerous times in the United States Europe and Central America. Music has taken him all over the world. He has toured Taiwan, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago; Lima, Peru; Nicaragua; Moscow, Russia; Kitzbuhl, Austria, New York and the East coast, California and the West coast, The Rocky Mountains, Toronto Canada and Montreal Canada. Joshua keeps busy with The Occidental Brothers, Zara Zaharieva (Wife and Virtuoso Violinist,) Liquid Soul, The Chicago ?Jazz Institute, Ernie Adams, Ken Chaney, The Awakening, Liam Teague and Robert Chappel in Panoramic, Darwin Noguera, We Tree, Life Christian Center worship Team, Victor Garcia and CALJE, Skinny Williams, Samba Mapangala, Dariwn Noguera's Evolution Group (Recently on the Grammy Ballot,) Tito Carillo, Andrew Salgado, PowerPlay and countless others. To his credit he can list performing with Jimmy Bosch, Dave Valentin, pianist Edwin Sanchez and even Tim Robbins. This list is just the beginning as Joshua forsees a life full of nonstop music.

Joshua has opened for Stevie Wonder, Spyro Gyra and Vernon Reid with Liquid Soul. With the Occidental Bothers band he ha sperformed at Licoln Center, Kennedy Center the Montreal and Toronto Jazz Festivals he has shared the bill with Cindy Blackman, Lonnie Plaxico, BenAllison Vijay Ayer, Jason Moran, Andrew Byrd.

Jon Deitemyer has established himself as a unique and versatile voice in modern jazz drumming. After graduating from the esteemed University of North Texas where he studied with Ed Soph and Lynn Seaton, Jon settled in Chicago and quickly became a fixture in the city's expansive creative music community.

Jon has been a member of Greenleaf artist Matt Ulery’s various ensembles since 2006, and currently performs with ArtistShare recording artist Patricia Barber. In addition, Jon has performed and recorded with Zach Brock, Phil Markowitz, Ben Paterson (MaxJazz), Grazyna Auguscik (EMI), Renee Fleming, Lynne Arriale, and American Public Media’s “Prairie Home Companion”.

Jon is also an active educator, with positions at Northwestern University) and Loyola University.

Pianist, conductor, musical director, recording artist, composer and arranger Jo Ann Daugherty loves making all kinds of music. She recently returned to Chicago after touring the US as Music Director/Conductor of SIX the Musical first national tour.

Her work in the jazz world has included performing at clubs and festivals throughout the US including the Chicago Jazz Festival, Dizzy’s Club and Smoke in NYC, Satchmo Fest in New Orleans, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, and Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba. As a solo artist, her jazz trio album Bring Joy earned a 4-star review from Downbeat Magazine (January 2017) and was listed as one of their “Best Albums of 2017.” Her larger band, Better Together, performs regularly at Winter’s Jazz Club in Chicago, presenting shows of the music of Al Jarreau, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, and so much more.

Her work as a music director and keyboardist has led to conducting and playing with touring Broadway productions (SIX, Jersey Boys, Motown the Musical and more); arranging, directing, and performing concert specials for PBS with Under the Streetlamp; playing productions with Lyric Opera of Chicago (Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story); music-supervising and playing on the orchestral soundtrack of the wildlife documentary To The Ends of the Earth; and music-directing and playing on tour with An Unforgettable Nat King Cole Christmas.

This is the second appearance in the WW salon series for pianist Tom Gilson, and his first live appearance with us. Tom and Eric made their performing debuts in 4th grade at the Central School talent show. They played spirited renditions of Jada and Sunny Side of the Street, with Tom on piano and Eric on clarinet. Tom’s musical journey included a stint at The Juilliard School, where he practiced a lot, performed at Lincoln Center, and took a musical theater class with Marvin Hamlisch. He practices law in Phoenix where he rocks out in a cover band on weekends. He is happy to be playing in this Salon!

Special thanks to the Stanford Club of Chicago for co-sponsoring this event.