Fri, June 28th - 7PM Doors - 8PM Show - $60 - TIX AVAIL AT DOOR!

We are thrilled to continue our tradition of hosting memorable concerts with Tim Ries, Bernard Fowler and special guests when the Rolling Stones are in town. This year, Tim and Bernard will be joined by legendary organist Bobby Floyd, Robert Hurst, Bob Palmieri, Reggie Jackson and very special guests as we celebrate the life of their long time bandmate, Charlie Watts. 

 As you probably well know, The Rolling Stones will be back in town for the first time in years, and it may be the last time. I don't know. This tour, as in all recent tours, The Stones will not be playing consecutive nights at the Soldier Field. So, as always, some of the guys are playing here at Martyrs' on their night off. In years past, Tim Ries, long time Rolling Stones sax man, along with other Stones sidemen: Bernard Fowler, Darryl Jones, Chuck Leavell, Michael Davis, and friends from New York including Larry Gouldings, have played here as The Rolling Stones Project. Don't miss Band 2 : Tim Ries & Bernard Fowler featuring organ master Bobby Floyd and special guests as we celebrate the life of Charlie Watts.

 Saxophonist, composer, arranger and producer Tim Ries's performing and recording credits include a who’s who of jazz, rock and pop icons: The Rolling Stones (touring from 1999 to the present), Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Donald Fagen, Michael Jackson, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Lyle Lovette, and many jazz greats including Chico Hamilton, Michael Brecker, Joe Henderson, Tony Bennett, and many many others. Tim has released seven records as a leader. His last two releasses, The Rolling Stones Project (Concord) and Stones World (Sunnyside), are his versions of Stones tunes arranged in the jazz and world music genres. Guest artists featured on these records include: all four Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Milton Nascimento, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette, Lisa Fischer, Bernard Fowler, Larry Goldings, Eddie Palmieri, Brian Blade, flamenco dancer Sara Baras and fado singer Ana Moura. Bernard Fowler is an arty guy, so when he makes an album of Rolling Stones covers, it’s going to be something out of the ordinary. Back in the day, he sang with the groundbreaking dub-electronic band Tackhead as well as downtown avant-funkers Material; along with iconic DJ Larry Levan, he was a founding member of the New York Citi Peech Boys, who emerged from Manhattan’s fabled early-‘80s house/garage scene. Blue-chip visionaries like Philip Glass, Yoko Ono and Ryuichi Sakamoto have him sing on their records; the guy is on Public Image Ltd.'s landmark 1986 Album and Herbie Hancock's hit mid-'80s electro-funk albums.Fowler has another gig too: he’s sung and played percussion with the Rolling Stones, on stage and in the studio, since 1988. At soundcheck somewhere along their 2015 Zip Code tour, he started riffing on a Stones song as dramatically delivered spoken-word — and the band dug it. “Mick said, ‘Bernard, I’ve heard Rolling Stones songs done a lot of ways but never like this,’” Fowler recalls. “I said, ‘Well, you know what? When the tour is over, I'm going to cut it.’ And he said, ‘You should.’ That’s all I had to hear. That was the green light.”