$15 / 6pm doors / 6:20 start / seated
Allan Chase Quintet
Allan Chase - alto & soprano saxophones
Allan Chase is a saxophonist and composer who has performed jazz and improvised music since 1974 with his own groups and as a member of the Lewis Nash-Allan Chase Duo (1979-80), Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet (1981-2018), Prima Materia with Rashied Ali (1992-2000), the Steve Lantner Quartet with Joe Morris and Luther Gray, the Bruno Råberg Quartet and Tentet, and the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra. He appears as a soloist on over sixty jazz and improvised music recordings, several rock and classical recordings, and several movie scores.
Chase began teaching at Berklee in 1981 and served as chair of Ear Training there (2008-21). He has also taught at Tufts and NEC, where he served as chair of Jazz Studies, dean of faculty, and chair of Contemporary Improvisation, and continues to teach jazz history courses.