Jazz and Hot Chocolate Cafe

Enjoy smooth winter jazz by Chicago artist Matt Shevitz and the Rasmussen Room turned into a hot chocolate cafe. Come for casual conversation and enjoy hot chocolate provided by Pilot Pete's Coffee and Treats. Drop by and socialize in our little pop-up winter wonderland.

Matt Shevitz is an in‐demand musician in the jazz, blues, and popular music scenes of the Chicago area. He has performed alongside internationally renowned jazz musicians such as Dick Hyman, Ignacio Berroa, Howard Levy, Frank Capp, and Frank Wess, along with blues/roots rock guitarist Eric Lindell and Ropeadope Records artists Spare Parts. Shevitz has performed at Jazz in the Park Festival (Milwaukee), Waterfront Blues Festival (Portland), Chicago Blues Festival, Lollapalooza, and House of Blues in Chicago. 

Shevitz has been a contributor to DownBeat Magazine since 2009 with articles analyzing transcriptions of jazz solos as well as jazz theory and effective practice habits. He is featured regularly on WDCB, Chicago’s public radio jazz station, both as an interviewee and a performer, and has released two albums as a bandleader, Forward Motion (2018), and First Take! Live on WDCB (2022). Shevitz is a professor and the Director of Jazz Ensembles at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL.

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