Wed, Jan 24 - 8pm - $10

 Bonzo Squad is an instrumental ensemble formed in Chicago, IL. The group formed as the house band of a jam session at Lilly's in 2014. Member of Bonzo Squad include Corbin Andrick (Bonzo) on saxophones and flute, Andrew Lawrence on keyboards and synthesizers, Andrew Vogt on bass, and Zack Marks on drums. For all intents and purposes, lets call them Corbin, Lawrence, Vogt, and Marks.  The story starts when Corbin met Marks while playing in Bumpus, a funk/soul band in Chicago. The two travelled all over the country with this group and collaborated on several songs for Corbin's first two releases. Corbin then found Vogt on a golf course at LaGrange Country Club and ended up asking him to do the house set at Lilly's, where he stayed until the present. Finally, Lawrence came into the picture when Corbin and Zack went to Multi-Kulti. Lawrence was running the Tuesday night Multi-Kulti jam session at the time when he and Corbin collided again.  Corbin needed a sub for Lilly's and Lawrence gladly accepted. These four recorded 22 tracks in two days at IV Labs studios, performed an all David Bowie Tribute, an all Prince Tribute, a Mozart tribute, and a full blown Christmas production.

 "No band has taught me more emphatically the importance of humor and sarcasm in music..." So says Neil Carson, resident expert on all things Dan and leader of a 12-piece band formed especially for the performance of Steely Dan's classic fifth album, The Royal Scam.  Released in 1976, The Royal Scam documents Steely Dan in transformation: from an elegant, but somewhat unpolished, radio-friendly rock band on their debut album Can't Buy a Thrill to a studio-exclusive, jazz- and funk-flavored compositional vehicle that came into full bloom on 1977's Aja. Featuring a laundry list of the finest session musicians in the industry--from audacious hero guitarist Larry Carlton on "Kid Charlemagne" to the Purdie-Shuffle's namesake drummer Bernard Purdie on "The Fez"--Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Walter Becker surrounded themselves with the best, and got the best results.  Dripping in sarcasm packaged into the nastiest funk, saxophonist and vocalist Neil Carson's Day-Glo Freaks pays loving tribute to this seminal album with meticulously-crafted arrangements loyal to the record, loads of history taken from liner notes and interviews with Becker and Fagen over the years, and simply the best musicians Chicago has to offer.