The Little Hills Jazz Quartet

The Little Hills Jazz Quartet is: Dave Cheli, tenor saxophone; Gene Carroll, bass guitar; Tony Chambers, Guitar; Todd Luerding, drums.

Dave Cheli is a bona fide jazz player, and has sat in with Serapis on several gigs. He has played with top players in the area, and one of his bands - the now defunct "Tribal Chicken", with Doug Carson and Dave Sweet on bass and drums respectively, was a heck of a good listen.

A couple of occasions lately have called for a small jazz combo, and so The Little Hills Jazz Quartet was created. We played at the Chemin de Fer fete at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles, and one of the Cancer walks at St. Charles West High School.

Miles Davis, Coltrane, Monk, Sonny Rollins...a couple standards, some bop and post-bop. Dave's bread-and-butter, we were still dusting of the chops.

But, man, is that fun.