Sanctuary Sessions featuring Ricardo Jimenez

Sanctuary Sessions featuring Ricardo Jimenez

Date: Sunday, May 18th, 2025

Doors & Sign-Up: 7PM

Showtime: 8PM

Tickets: Free admission! RSVP BELOW

About Sanctuary Sessions:

Join us for the Sanctuary Sessions Series; a free jazz jam session at Epiphany Center for the Arts hosted by Ricardo Jimenez. Whether you’re a seasoned player, a budding artist, or a jazz enthusiast looking to hear some tunes, we welcome any and all!

Sign up starts at 7pm

Music starts at 8pm

To be featured in the open jam, sign up is on a first come first serve basis.

About Ricardo Jimenez:

(224) 406 - 0520 | [email protected] | https://www.ricardojimenezmusic.com/

“A musician in the truest sense”, internationally recognized trumpet player, and vocalist, Ricardo Jimenez captures “the essence of humanity in his art” ~Sean Roldan. A storyteller, communicator, and innovator, he defies boundaries through mission, music, and education. A recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Ricardo traveled the world looking at the intersectionality of self and society through music. He has been welcomed as an artist on five continents, having shared music in Austria, England, Germany, India, Italy, Senegal, Spain, Brazil, and Japan. Some highlights of his travels are performing in Coca-Cola Studio Tamil’s Season One debut, Bollywood productions studio single soundtrack “Chill Makka”, and working with children teaching music throughout Senegal, helping to found the non-profit “Langusik”.

Born and based in Chicago, Downbeat and Jeff ensemble award-winner, Ricardo Jimenez performed with the stage band in Porchlight Theater's award-winning production of "Blues In The Night", featuring legends such as Felicia P. Fields, Maulty Jewell IV, and Donica Lynn. He worked as an on-stage musician in Ron O.J. Parson’s and Felicia P. Fields’ Jeff-nominated, original production “Pearls: Rollin’ with the Blues.” Ricardo has also worked and performed with many groups and artists at home and abroad such as “Cosimo and the Hot Coals,” “Paganin Soatnquartett,” “Afrika Groove,” Joe Locke, Tim Garland, Geoffrey Keezer, John Harmon, Gene Bertoncini, Hermann Haertel, Simon Wascher, Julia Siedl, Tunico, Matú, Khatija Rahman ,Arivu, and Sean Roldan.

As a global educator, Ricardo strives to enable his students to become whole artists, with a focus on decolonizing the mind, liberating the spirit, and becoming at ease in multiple genres and unafraid to tap into their creative potential. Ricardo currently works throughout Chicago teaching a variety of music programs in Chicago’s public schools, as well as teaching online lessons to students of all ages across the globe.

Host or Publisher Epiphany Center for the Arts