Jazz Benefit April 4!

Join us for CLAIM’s

Annual Jazz Benefit

Dee Alexander

& her band

Friday, April 4

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

At Fizz

3220 N Lincoln

Chicago

Silent Auction ~ Hors d’Oeuvres ~ Cash Bar

Wenona Thompson Award for Youth Advocacy
Joanne Archibald Award
2008 Activist Award
CLAIM Volunteer Award
Poetry by Mama Brenda Matthews

Bronze
Patricia McMillen & Samuel Bader
Roger & Julie Baskes
Consumers Insurance, Inc.
Document Technologies, Inc.
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
Janet & Brian Hoffman
Levin & Schreder, Ltd.
Lincoln Property Co., Inc.
Carleen Schreder & Ralph Musicant
Novack & Macey LLP
Warady & Davis LLP

Honorary Committee
Sara Paretsky
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Congressman Rahm Emanuel
Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
Rep. Constance Howard
Nicole Hollander
Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University School of Law
Creasie Finney Hairston, Jane Addams College of Social Work, UIC
Joanne Archibald, Beyondmedia Education
Annette Wallace, WYCC-TV
Jody Raphael, DePaul University School of Law
Karen D. Barbee-Dixon, Habilitative Systems, Inc.
Jeanne Kracher, Crossroads Fund
Lisa Henry-Reid, M.D., Stroger Hospital
Wendy Cohen, Governor’s Office of Women’s Affairs
Bernardine Dohrn, Children & Family Justice Center
Affiliations for identification purposes only.

Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

If they gave a Most Valuable Player award for the Chicago Jazz Festival, this year's honor would have to go to the hardest-working woman in show business: vocalist Dee Alexander.

In addition to performing buoyantly with the Great Black Music Ensemble on Saturday night at the Petrillo Music Shell, she held forth brilliantly during late-night sets at the Velvet Lounge and HotHouse, singing, chanting, sighing, shouting and otherwise producing previously unencountered sounds.

Chicago Reader

All I want for Christmas is a new album by Dee Alexander... A true jazz diva in the mold of Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, and Dianne Reeves, Alexander has an innate theatricality and enough pure musicality to overwhelm most of the instrumentalists with whom she shares the stage.