FITZGERALDS SIDEBAR PRESENTS: THE DAVE MILLER TRIO Combining major stints in both New York City and Chicago and numerous tours abroad, Dave Miller has cultivated a truly unique, exciting, and inviting approach to songwriting, improvisation, and the guitar. He has served as a consummate side person to such luminaries as jazz songwriter Patricia Barber (Blue Note Records), the Joe Policastro Trio, Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls (Delmark Records), Greg Ward’s Rogue Parade and Brazilian composer Clarice Assad, with whom he served as an artist in residence for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Local highlights include appearances at the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Green Mill, the Jazz Showcase, and the Chicago Symphony Center. Here, Miller will lead a new trio with John Tate (bass) and Kyle Swan (drums). “Miller’s guitar has a peculiar crackle to it, a spare way of playing that lets the strings truly resonate, almost making a listener feel inches from the guitar.” - Mark Keresman, New York City Jazz Record “I count Miller among my favorite modern guitarists.” - Grammy Award-winning music journalist Neil Tesser FREE SHOW!!