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Four Planet Flippo Programs

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PROGRAM SAMPLER

Music for all ages. innovative and fun arrangements give classic tunes a cool twist. 

PROGRAM SAMPLER

A celebration of the many grooves and styles of jazz, mixing standards with modern favorites. 

Giraffe Trek - Dave Flippo

Dave Flippo's compositions and arrangements blend jazz with styles from the world over creating, fresh new sounds and grooves 

Useful - Dave Flippo

Dave Flippo sings his settings of the inspiring and relevant Chinese writings of the "Tao Te Ching"  The music and the text cover a wide range of moods and styles including swing, Latin, ballad Indo-jazz and funk. .
Jazz from the Generations
The Ensemble can perform as a quartet or trio.  All performances include Dave on vocals
and melodica. The trio can appear as piano/bass/drums  or piano/bass/saxophone-flute. 


Band members include: Dave Flippo-keys/vocals/melodica, Donn De Santo-bass, 
Heath Chappell-drum set, Dan Hesler-saxophones and flute. 

 

Jazz for the Generations

Dave Flippo's innovative arrangements include tunes by Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Radiohead,
Joni Mitchell, Amy Winehouse, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Cole Porter, Flaming Lips, Dave Brubeck, Lenon/McCartney, Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan and more.  (This program can also be performed as a duo.)

 
Rehab - 
Amy Winehouse
If Six Was Nine -
Jimi Hendrix

Karma Police - Radiohead

Bye Bye Blackbird - Henderson/Dixon

I'll Be There-
Gordy, Hutch,
West, Hutch

Up From the Skies- Jimi Hendrix

God Only Knows- Brian Wilson
(Beach Boys)

Superstition-
Stevie Wonder

 

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Street Fest!

Street Fest!

Jazz From Planet Flippo's program mixes energetic and inventive Flippo originals with upbeat arrangements of pieces by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, Lennon/McCartney, 
Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix and others great writers.

 
Life on Mars - 
David Bowie

Too High - Stevie Wonder

Third Eye Open - Dave Flippo

Finch House -
Flippo

 
Rehab - 
Amy Winehouse

Take Five -  Paul Desmond

Norwegian Wood-
Lenon / McCartney

Superstition-
Stevie Wonder

 
FESTIVALS:    Taste of Chicago  / South Shore Jazz Fest /  Chicago Symphony "East Meets West Festival" Navy Pier World Jazz Fest / Jazzin' at the Shedd​​​​​​ / Northwestern University "Lunch on the Lake Series" 
LIBRARIES:    Algonquin / Barrington / Bloomingdale / Brookfield / Deerfield /  Forest Park / Fremont  Gail Bordon / Grayslake / Helen Plum / Highland Park / Homewood / Morton Grove / Naperville Newberry / Orland Park / Riverside / River Grove /  Prospect Heights /Park Ridge /Rolling Meadows  Skokie /  Wauconda / Wilmette / Woodridge​​​​

STREET FESTS / CONCERT SERIES:  Evanston Summer Art Fair and  Ethnic Festival / Lincoln Park Cultural Center Art Fair / Ravenswood Manor Street Festival /  Oak Park Summer Series Concerts /  

Buffalo Grove Rotary Green Concerts / Libertyville "Out to Lunch" Concerts / Brookfield Zoo Summer

Concert Series / Northwestern University "Lunch on the Lake" Series /Concordia College Summer

Concert Oakton Community College "Jazz at Lunch" Concert Series

PAST PERFORMANCES:
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Past Performances

Tao for The Now

Dave Flippo's love for the Tao Te Ching inspired him to set 18 texts called "Tao Tunes," which cover a wide variety of styles including swing, Latin, funk, ballad, jazz waltz, Indo-jazz and rock.  These ancient messages are inspiring and give the listener striking glimpses of how the world works and they ways that people interrelate. 
 
Paradox- 
Dave Flippo

Useful - Dave Flippo

Third Eye Open - Dave Flippo

Stop!  
Dave Flippo

Distractions -  Dave Flippo

Nature Boy -
Eden Ahbez

Worthy 
Dave Flippo
Trouble 
Dave Flippo
Tao Tunes
Globaljzz

Jazzin' 'Round the World

When the band formed back in 1992, the focus was  on Dave's compositions and arrangements that blended a wide array of world music styles with jazz to result in some exciting and unique grooves and sounds which resulted in our first two CD's.
 

Giraffe Trek - Dave Flippo

Third Eye Open - Dave Flippo

Buddha's Siesta 
Dave Flippo
The Jig's Up
Dave Flippo
Zimbabalupi
Dave Flippo

Cool Ali-  Dave Flippo

Syrtotic-
Dave Flippo

Camel Trot
Dave Flippo
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