OPTION: Edward Wilkerson & Joe Morris

Recorded in the ESS garden on July 23, 2023 Saxophonist Edward Wilkerson brings guitarist Joe Morris to Chicago to perform a duo set together for the first time. About Edward Wilkerson Edward L. Wilkerson Jr. is an internationally recognized American jazz composer, arranger, musician, and educator based in Chicago. As founder and director of the cutting-edge octet 8 Bold Souls, and the 25-member performance ensemble Shadow Vignettes, Wilkerson has toured festivals and concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. His music can be heard on 14 recordings, including two film soundtracks and the critically acclaimed albums Birth of a Notion, and 8 Bold Souls, both on his own Sessoms Records label. One of the great saxophone and clarinet players on the Chicago scene, Wilkerson from the 1980s into the new millennium may have become best known as a bandleader and composer. He has also been a major presence in Chicago’s Association for the Advan