Mark Madsen is a singer, composer, musician (guitarist and pianist) based in Chicago. Mark has appeared for an eclectic group of performers including Frank Sinatra, Gloria Estafan, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Allen, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme, and others. He has worked many of Chicago’s noted nightclubs including Andy’s Jazz Club, Jilly’s Bistro, Cafe Luciano, The Pump Room, Pops For Champagne, Green Dolphin Street, The Metropole, The Moulin Rouge, The Green Mill, and the campy Underground Wonder Bar.

Mark has appeared and performed at the Petrillo Band Shell in Grant Park for Taste of Chicago in ‘The City Of Chicago’s Tribute to Frank Sinatra’ with the 40 piece ‘City Lights Orchestra’, with which he still regularly appears, taking him to venues throughout the United States.

From rock to pop, to blues, to swing, his performances are truly products of the Chicago melting pot. His association with the late great Bill Evans, who worked with Mark’s father Bob during the fifties, continued throughout the rest of Mr. Evan’s life. He was the earliest and most profound influence on Mark’s music.

Singer/Songwriter
Singer/Pianist
Vocals, Keys & Tunes

Grammy award winning drummer/percussionist/composer Mark Walker started his career in Chicago, playing in a variety of settings and becoming a first-call session musician before moving to New York in 1995. 

 Since then, he has worked extensively with Paquito D'Rivera, Oregon, Michel Camilo, Lyle Mays, Andy Narell, Patricia Barber and the Caribbean Jazz Project.  He has also toured and/or recorded with Eliane Elias, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Ivan Lins, Rosa Passos, Arturo Sandoval, Sakesho, Jovino Santos Neto, Lord Relator, the Trinidad All Stars and Diane Schuur.

He has been teaching labs and private lessons at Berklee since 2001 and has recently been appointed professor of percussion.  He is the author of a forthcoming instructional book entitled "World Jazz Drumming" (Berklee Press/Hal Leonard).  He has played on five Grammy award winning records, and was nominated for best instrumental composition in 2008 for his tune "Deep Six".  He now lives in the Boston Metrowest area, teaching, recording and touring.  

“Ever since she recorded her debut album in 2019, The Night We Couldn’t Say Good Night, Angela Verbrugge has emerged as one of the top jazz singers on the scene.” — Jazz Critic Scott Yanow 

The westcoast Canadian started touring in 2021 after she won the JazzTimes’ Readers Poll for “Best Female Vocalist. Her music is inspired by vintage musicals, the American songbook, and bebop.

She has performed in Japan, Taiwan, Europe, Türkiye, the UK, and coast to coast in Canada - all since her international debut in 2021. In 2024, she was nominated for Jazz Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards and won the All About Jazz poll. 

“No maybes, for Verbrugge, now is definitely the time.”— JazzTimes

Verbrugge’s 2nd album with top-flight Vancouver musicians was critically-acclaimed for its originality and chosen as a top albums of the year by renowned Downbeat/La Jazz Journal critic, author Scott Yanow. Origin Records released her 3rd album in 2024. Her new autumn 2025 album, In the Wonder of the Night, is her most intimate and vulnerable work to date with NYC veteran pianist Ray Gallon.

Angela was born in Kingston, Ontario, and grew up playing piano and acting before moving west to Vancouver, and almost being killed in a head-on collision on a mountain road. She pursued a business career including doing marketing for e-learning, symphonies and arts organizations. After almost drowning in Belize, and beating a surprise cancer diagnosis while she had three young children, she decided to follow her passion to the stage to write and perform vocal jazz.

WSJ-writer Will Friedwald proclaims that Verbrugge possesses, "a vocal sound that's full of depth and nuance”. Angela has charted on JazzWeek, been number one for multiple weeks on Earshot, and enjoyed airplay on leading programs including CBC, NPR, and JazzFM.

George Harris at JazzWeekly describes, "she’s hip and a hoot, wispy and romantic and, writes very witty lyrics!” Her songwriting has been praised by leading jazz journals around the world (JazzWise, JazzTimes, JAZZIZ, Couleurs, Syncopated Times, Jersey Jazz, many blogs) and she was a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting competition. She has co-written with leading jazz musicians of today including Caity Gyorgy, Ray Gallon, Ken Fowser, Neal Miner, and Nick Hempton, with whom their original has amassed 700,000 listens on Spotify. 

Angela’s longer bio can be found on her website
https://angelaverbrugge.com/bio

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