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On a younger note ...
Thoughts of teen bands might turn to rock, punk, metal, nu metal, hardcore, industrial, emo, screamo or even two-tone rudie ska.
But jazz?
Alec Watson, Ethan Parcell and Eric Windmeier, all 15-year-olds from Geneva, make up the jazz combo Sketches Trio, a band that is more Miles Davis than Johnny Rotten.
The three, who will be Geneva High School sophomores this fall, will play Friday at Taste of Chicago.
“We will be playing a tune of mine, a tune of Eric’s, and some old favorites of ours,” Parcell said. “We’re going to play some Thelonious Monk, some Miles.”
Their show will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Fox Chicago Bandstand.
“It’s going to be a fun gig,”Windmeier said. “Our biggest one yet.”
In addition to the normal travails of being in
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