Friday 22
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It’s Battle of the Saxes time again at the Green Mill. Tonight and tomorrow two local young contenders face off: Eric Alexander placed second in the 1992 Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition and has a couple of records about to be released. Chris Potter was a third-place winner in the 1991 Monk competition and plays around in the Red Rodney Quintet and Paul Motion’s Electric Be-Bop Band. The pair will take each other on at 9 tonight and 8 tomorrow at the club, 4802 N. Broadway. Cover is $7; call 878-5552 for details.
Saturday 23
Antiwar songs, Old English ballads, Irish fiddle tunes, gospel songs, mountain music, and other musicological excursions are in store as the Old Town School of Folk Music presents Jeff Warner and Jeff Davis today at 4. It’s $8, at 909 W. Armitage. Call 525-7793 for more.
James Hugunin, a School of the Art Institute instructor on photo history and contemporary theory, will provide a context for The Photographic Order From Pop to Now, an exhibit of more than 50 multiple-image photographs now showing at Northwestern’s Block Gallery, 1967 South Campus Dr. in Evanston. His free talk, which starts at 11:45 today, includes a guided tour of the show. Call 708-491-4852 for more.
Joseph Fernandez, chancellor of the New York City schools and the author of the modestly titled Tales out of School: Joseph Fernandez’s Crusade to Rescue American Education, speaks at 5:30 today in the Sullivan Room at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan. It’s $10, free if you’re a schoolteacher. A reception follows; call 341-3510 for more.
