MJI PRESENTS: DAKARAI BARCLAY QUARTET
Sat, Jun 20
|bar centro
Chicago meets Milwaukee for a stellar night of jazz, featuring music by Paul Chambers, Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Elmo Hope, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver, Billy Strayhorn, and others.
Time & Location
Jun 20, 2026, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
bar centro, 804 E Center St, Milwaukee, WI 53212, USA
About the Event
MJI PRESENTS: DAKARAI BARCLAY QUARTET
Chicago meets Milwaukee for a stellar night of jazz, featuring music by Paul Chambers, Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Elmo Hope, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver, Billy Strayhorn, and others.
The Quartet features:
Dakarai Barclay - trumpet, Mark Davis - piano, Jeff Hamann - bass, Kyle Swan - drums
Dakarai Barclay is a trumpet player and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. With each performance, Dakarai seeks to pay homage to the origins of Black American music, in all its forms, and those whose legacies we are indebted to. Outside of leading his own projects, Dakarai has played with musicians such as Willerm Delisfort, Winard Harper, Marlene Rosenberg, Jarrard Harris, Ernest Dawkins, Emma Blau, and many more.