Fresh off a 2021 release with electronic artist Seven Lions, composer and bassist Andrew Vogt (Chicago Soul Jazz Collective) teams up again with the all-female string quartet ATLYS, jazz vocalist Sarah Marie Young and spoken word artist Sharon Irving to create the brand new single “Dusk”. This track blends together elements of soul, hip-hop, jazz and chamber music to instill the comfort of having someone to come home to at the end of the day. Released in March to celebrate Women’s History Month and to recognize the impact they all have on our lives.
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. From Ernie Watts (Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Pat Metheny) to Isaiah Sharkey (John Mayer, D’Angelo) to Woody Goss (Vulfpeck) he is featured on almost 20 hours worth of music (over 30 albums) on Spotify from different collaborations and side projects.
Since 2016, Vogt has been a member of the electric jazz quartet Bonzo Squad, which performs every Thursday at their weekly residency ‘aliveOne’ in Lincoln Park. With three albums under their belt, the group has become a part of the historic 15 year residency with alumni such as Spare Parts, The Heard, Low Spark and Lubriphonic.
Awarded the Luminarts’ 2020 “People’s Choice” award for Solo Jazz performance at Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago, he has also been found 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.” Through this partnership, he also had the opportunity to arrange the music of hit-machine songwriter Tom Kelly (Cyndi Lauper, Phil Collins, Madonna, The Pretenders, The Bangles) for a performance with Kelly in Lafayette, Indiana. In winter of 2020, Vogt’s commercial music company 3MIX had featured placements on the full-length Hallmark Christmas movie “The Christmas Doctor.” In summer of 2021, Vogt worked again with ATLYS, and electronic artist Seven Lions to arrange hybrid string quartet covers for sold out performances at Red Rocks and The Gorge, which also resulted in a full album release called Opus in December of ‘21.
PLAYERS & INSTRUMENTS:
sarah marie young – vocals
sharon irving – vocals/spoken word
atlys (pronounced “atlas”) string quartet:
sabrina tabby – violin
jinty mctavish (pronounced “gin-tea “) – violin
rita andrade (pronounced “on-drah-day”) viola
genevieve tabby – cello
quentin coaxum (pronounced “cokes -um”)- trumpet
dustin laurenzi – tenor sax
stu mindeman – piano/rhodes
matt gold – acoustic guitar
hans luchs (pronounced “lucks”)- electric guitar
christian euman (pronounced “you—men”) drums
andrew vogt – upright bass (prounced vote)
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