Jo Ann Daugherty

Jo Ann Daugherty, given birth to in 1974 in rural Missouri, began performing piano by hearing at an extremely early age. At age group five she started her research with her remote control area’s only traditional piano instructor, and was compelled after that to create music. She paid attention to nation music on the air and Xmas music in the home for the holiday season, and started hearing pop music at age group 11. Getting some 100 mls from any main city, she paid attention to whatever recordings she could get. By age group 15 she started playing at restaurants in the encompassing small cities, and uncovered jazz. It had been at Truman Condition School in Kirksville, MO, while seeking a qualification in traditional piano functionality, that she became interested in jazz, learning with tenor saxophonist Rick DiMuzio, who eventually going for Boston to instruct on the Berklee College of Music. There is no jazz piano trainer at Truman Condition, so Daugherty discovered modern and intensifying jazz components through DiMuzio’s like of John Coltrane and Joe Henderson. She after that implemented through in graduate coursework at DePaul School in Chicago, tutored with the well-known jazz pianist Larry Novak. Her affects were then even more pronounced, including Wynton Kelly, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, and Stevie Question. After college emerged a two-year stint being a citizen of Kansas Town, where she started gigging frequently, leading her very own trio and using many other groupings. In 1998 Daugherty transferred back again to Chicago to keep her musical development. Since then, she’s maintained a timetable of performing being a head and accompanist, in addition to traveling through the entire U.S. with different musical and theatre functions. In 1999 Daugherty was selected to perform within the Chicago Jazz Exchange Quartet for 14 days of concerts in Giverny, France. She’s collaborated numerous experienced and revered music artists, including Randy Brecker, John Abercrombie, Howard Levy, among others. In 2000 Daugherty released her first trio Compact disc, Debut, accompanied by the small-ensemble day Flexibility, both for the Blu Jazz label. She is constantly on the play at metro Chicago night clubs, concerts, and celebrations, is really a founding person in the Chicago Jazz Composers Collective, frequently presents her unique music in the Green Mill nightclub, and shows up regularly in the Bandera Cafe. Other engagements possess included appearances using the U.S.O. of Illinois, and she conducts treatment centers and lecture/shows at several region schools.