Bradley Young Entertainment

Chicago Blues Review™ is Chicago’s premier blues show for special events, corporate parties, galas, theme parties, festivals and concerts. Specializing in all forms of the blues: Chicago, Urban, Louisiana, plus Rock & Roll, disco, Chicago Party Music and more! A jazz trio or quartet can be included for cocktail and dinner music.

Featuring some of Chicago’s nationally known blues artists including: Cash McCall, Eldee Young, Jimmy Burns, Phil Guy, Roy Hytower, Eddie Shaw, Big Time Sarah, Katherine Davis, Judi Leavell, Sandra Hall, Howard Levy, Buzz Kilman and many more internationally renowned Giants Of The Blues.

Arranged, conducted and lead by Marshall Vente on piano, keyboard and MC, his nine piece band includes saxes, trumpet, trombone, drums, bass, guitar, male and female vocals. Offering authentic Chicago music as a soulful Chicago Wedding Band.

Is Chicago your destination? Remember, Chicago is the home of the blues!

Band Leader

Marshall Vente

Marshall Vente, an established Chicago based pianist/arranger, studied arranging in the 1980s with Gil Evans and David Matthews in NYC under two Jazz Apprentice grants from the National Endowment of the Arts. He has appeared at the Chicago Jazz Festival and many other regional festivals, on NPR’s Jazz Aliveand the American Jazz Festival’s nationwide New Year’s Eve broadcast. He has recorded ten albums, which showcase his compositions and arranging over diverse settings. In addition to four recordings with Project 9, Tropicale records his explosive acoustic/electronic group of the same name exploring the Brasilian, Caribbean and Latin trditions in jazz; Two is comprised of solo piano with Chicago vocalist Joanie Pallato; two other recordings, with steel pan master Neville York os St. Maarten, N.A., explores Caribbean influences on Sweet Salt and Jazz Flamboyant; and, on The Long and Short of Jazz, Eldee Young and Vente romp through blues and standards. Vente also hosts a weekly radio show in Chicago, Jazz Tropicale on WDCB 90.9 FM (”a jazz show with a few palm trees”) and produces an annual jazz festival each January in Chicago at the Jazz Showcase.