The Real Deal with Orbert Davis

11/10/2024

It's Time!
For 3 hours of mind-full bliss...

The Real Deal with Orbert Davis
90.9 FM / wdcb.org
WDCB Listener-Supported Jazz & Blues
7-10 PM CST

Relax...
Be Cool...
Repeat...

Featuring...

Hoaxer
Neil Swainson
Josh Rzepka
Chris Pasin
Terence Blanchard
Terry Vosbein
Mike Allemana
John Moulder
Delfeayo Marsalis

Scott Robinson
Chip White
Dave Kisoski
Oliver Nelson
Charlie Parker
Lester Young
Jay Saunders
Daniela Soledade
Julian Gerstin Sextet
Kenny Dorham
John Coltrane
Joshua Redman
Cory Weeds
Herlin Riley
Dan Carillo
The Andrews Sisters
Sonny Stitt
John Beasley
Cannonball Adderley
Steve Khan

Be Cool...
Relax...
Repeat!

13/09/2024

A statement from the United Fatm Workers:

“We organize with Haitian-origin farm workers in We organize with Haitian-origin farm workers in NY. They’re as American as the apple pie their work makes possible, but right wing racists are spreading dehumanizing lies.

Haitians are not eating pets.
They’re feeding America.

The anti-Haitian bigotry we’re seeing is repulsive. NY. They’re as American as the apple pie their work makes possible, but right wing racists are spreading dehumanizing lies.

Haitians are not eating pets.
They’re feeding America.

The anti-Haitian bigotry we’re seeing is repulsive.”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZIrNtAq-t8w

25/03/2024

Toast and JAM!!!!!!

From the 2019 American Pianists Awards Gala Finals. Finalist Kenny Banks Jr. performs with Kurt Elling (Dee Dee Bridgewater emcee). Recorded April 6, 2019 at...

25/10/2023

Please join me on November 3 in support of this amazing organization.
WE are Chicago!
WE are the world!
WE can be agents for change in Chicago
and the World!

04/09/2023

Why we do what we do!

Don't just take our word for it, hear what our Jazz Academy has to say!

"I felt nervous in the beginning. In the end, it was fun for me communicating with another person through music and playing off one another." -Jazz Academy Student

Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to not only master an instrument, but to build positive experiences that a student can carry with them for the rest of their life.
Register here: https://buff.ly/3rnlWeX

15/08/2023

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Well this is a surprise!
I am extremely happy for and so proud to work with Jorge Amado Molina!!!

2022-2033 JEFF AWARDS NOMINATIONS
Original Music in a Play
Matthew Chapman, Marvin Quijada, Elliot Taggart and Ethan T. Parcell – "The Dream King" – Teatro Vista
Orbert Davis and Jorge Amado Molina – "Measure for Measure" – Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Mikhail Fiksel and Jeffrey Levin – "Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express" –
Drury Lane Productions
Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter – "Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol" – Writers Theatre and
Manual Cinema
Christopher Kriz – "Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley " – Northlight Theatre

20/05/2022

Orbert will be presenting his critically acclaimed work entitled "SOUL MIGRATION" at 7:30pm. Though the flyer says Qinitet, Orbert will be joined by the incomparable Maggie Brown and eight of Chicago's finest musicians. You don't wanna miss Chicagoland's first Arts Festival of the year!