Bonzo Squad is a collective musical effort featuring music written by all four members of the band. The music ranges from heavy fusion to delicate classical music. Each musician weaves in and out of the foreground creating an exciting instrumental musical experience for the listener.

Tickets for tonight are $25 each (a $2 per ticket processing fee will be added to your purchase).

Featuring:

Corbin Andrick - saxophones
Andrew Lawrence - keyboards
Andrew Vogt - bass
Zack Marks - drums

This event will also be livestreamed on BOP STOP's Youtube Channel at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations are encouraged and directly support the band.

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Chicago based freelance saxophonist Corbin Andrick is a dynamic voice in the Second City music scene. Originally from Decatur, IL, Corbin moved to Chicago in 2007 to attend DePaul University. There he studied improvisation privately with Mark Colby, Bob Palmieri, Ron Perillo, and Kelly Sill, as well as composition with Tom Matta. These led to performances with Jeff Hamilton, Phil Woods, Tim Ries, Denis DiBlasio, Ira Sullivan, John Fedchock, Randy Brecker, and Jimmy Heath. After achieving his Bachelor of Music degree in 2011, Corbin pursued a Master’s degree in Jazz Composition from DePaul. Andrick has recorded and released two albums of original compositions: “Accidently On Purpose,” and “Olmstead’s Whistle,” which featured the 2014 Thelonious Monk Competition winner Marquis Hill.

Andrew Lawrence is one of the top-call pianists and keyboardists for live performances and recordings in the Chicago-area. A native of Chicago, Andrew started classical piano studies at the age of five. After being selected to the Ravinia Jazz Scholars program in 2003-2005, and receiving the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award in 2005, Andrew attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH, where he studied both jazz and classical piano. He was accepted into Oberlin’s top jazz ensemble, the Oberlin Jazz Septet, which toured and played such venues as Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in NYC. He graduated with a BA in Jazz Performance in 2009.

Andrew Vogt is an accomplished musician and composer from Chicago who, in addition to writing, producing and performing his own original music, collaborates and performs regularly with singers and songwriters from all genres of music. He has written and arranged over 200 pieces of music and has recorded over 300 songs (60 albums) as a performer. Awarded the Luminarts' 2020 "People's Choice" award for Solo Jazz performance at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago, he has also been found recently collaborating in the writing and arranging of music for the ATLYS string quartet. Since 2018, Vogt and ATLYS have released numerous singles including wildly successful covers of “A Day in the Life” and “Imagine.”

Zack Marks is a highly regarded top call live and session drummer in the competitive city of Chicago music scene. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Jazz Studies from prestigious DePaul University in Chicago, where he studied under some of the finest musicians and educators in the world. He studied drums and percussion with Bob Rummage, Joel Spencer, Fred Selvaggio, Mike Green (Lyric Opera), and Al Payson (Chicago Symphony Orchestra). He also studied arranging and composition with Bob Palmieri and Tom Matta, and jazz pedagogy with Bob Lark. Zack is also an accomplished educator in his own right, having taught all over the Chicagoland area.