Casey Nielsen

LINT TRIO with the great Kyle Swan on drums and the ever creative and swinging bassist John Sutton. Currently, I’m raising funds to record LINT TRIO. Join my Patreon!

The Lint Trio.

SMALL GROUP

Casey has played and recorded as a jazz bandleader and sideman in various groups throughout the USA. His other projects include the organ trio, Illegal Smile, focusing on arrangements of John Prine’s music.

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Photo by Mark Sheldon

SOLO & CLASSICAL

Casey performs solo recitals throughout the Chicago area. He has given solo and chamber music concerts for the North Shore Baptist church, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Baker Memorial Church, the Northbrook Library, the Elgin Library and Geneva's Fabian Park Japanese Garden series.

Lapis Trio "The Travellers" www.caseynielsen.com Recorded and filmed at The Musical Offering in Evanston, IL. www.themusicaloffering.org Lapis Trio is; Casey Nielsen - Guitar Dan Thatcher - Bass Rich Stitzl - Cajon Filmed and edited by Nathan Peterson and Assunta Babusci

Illegal Smile Organ Trio

Illegal Smile is Casey’s project arranging the music of John Prine for Organ Trio

Illegal Smile is a jazz organ trio that re-imagines the music of singer songwriter John Prine. Bandleader and guitarist, Casey Nielsen, has been captivated by Prine’s music since childhood when his parents regularly listened to Prine’s iconic 1971 debut album on family road trips. Though Prine is not a jazz musician, organ and guitar are featured prominently on his recordings and his evocative songs offer an open landscape fertile for new stylistic possibilities. With Illegal Smile, Nielsen inhabits these sonic landscapes, making them his own with new arrangements and improvisations, while paying tribute to the original mood of Prine's recordings that have long captivated his imagination.

Illegal Smile is: Casey Nielsen, Guitar and arranging; Dan Chase, Organ; Lucas Gillan, Drums

 

Casey Nielsen Guitar Trio

No Frills, no program. Guitar trio’s the perfect configuration for a free flowing session where musicians can call tunes and blow.

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INQUIRIES:

caseynielsen80@yahoo.com

 

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