Capital Jazz Society Presents: Bass Meets Voice

Jazz vocalist Jackie Allen and bassist Hans Sturm have been making music together for over 35 years. They first met at UW Madison as undergraduates and began performing as a duo in speakeasies and coffee shops. After drifting apart for a few years, the duo reconnected and began to perform again–appearing at the opening night of Chicago’s Symphony Center and at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence, Frank Proto, heard the duo in Scotland and produced the duo’s first recording Landscapes: Bass Meets Voice for the Red Mark label. Their second recording, The Nebraska Project (2021), features a suite of homages to great historic Nebraska musicians, including Fred Astaire, Neil Hefti, Ann Ronnell, and more.