CrowdMateThe standout destination for Chicago’s upcoming Thursday–Sunday run, October 22–25, is Ben Paterson Organ Trio featuring Bobby Broom at Winter’s Jazz Club on Saturday, October 24. The 7:30 p.m. engagement has an unusually clear premise: Paterson on organ and Broom on guitar arrive with a working partnership already captured on Paterson’s Live at the Jazz Showcase, alongside drummer Greg Artry. That recorded Chicago encounter makes this a chance to hear an established musical conversation in a close listening room, with the pleasure lying in the trio’s shared language as much as in any one player’s spotlight.[1][2][3]
Paterson is a pianist and organist whose Chicago years included regular work with saxophonist Von Freeman, an association that places his local history well beyond a passing tour stop. His own biography also identifies Broom among his notable collaborators, and his latest organ-trio release names Broom and Artry as the personnel. The useful detail here is the format: organ supplies bass movement, harmony, texture, and a physical rhythmic pulse; guitar can answer with single-note lines, chords, or clipped counter-rhythms; drums sharpen the joins. Such a group can turn a familiar tune into a compact exchange of choices made in real time.[2][3]
Broom gives the bill its own deep Chicago connection. After relocating to the city in the mid-1980s, the guitarist built an extensive straight-ahead career that includes work with Charles Earland, Miles Davis, Stanley Turrentine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dr. John. His history with organ groups is equally central: Broom formed the Deep Blue Organ Trio with organist Chris Foreman in 1999, a blues-steeped unit that made four albums. Paterson’s organ chair therefore meets a guitarist who knows how to make the trio format breathe, leave space, and carry a groove without crowding it.[4]
A reunion with a record behind it
Live at the Jazz Showcase offers the strongest clue to the character of the evening without pretending to prescribe a set list. Paterson describes the album as a live Chicago session by this organ trio, featuring Broom and Artry, with swinging standards alongside music by Stevie Wonder and the Beatles. That repertoire frame suggests a band comfortable moving across songbook material and popular-song architecture while retaining an improviser’s elasticity. For listeners, the draw is the way a working trio can make those sources feel less like repertory and more like a prompt: a melody, a pulse, a handoff between organ and guitar, then an open stretch of response.[3]
This also makes the concert a strong fit for Winter’s Jazz Club. The venue’s current calendar places the Paterson-Broom date within a four-night sequence that includes an Eric Jacobson quintet on Thursday and Abigail Riccards on Friday, then follows it with Bobbi Wilsyn & Company on Sunday. Winter’s Jazz Club is at 465 North McClurg Court, giving the Saturday set a downtown setting shaped around an active jazz calendar instead of a one-off presentation. The room’s programming context reinforces the value of choosing a focused trio encounter amid a week with many competing club bills.[1]
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Plan the Saturday night
Ben Paterson Organ Trio featuring Bobby Broom is scheduled for Saturday, October 24, at 7:30 p.m. at Winter’s Jazz Club, 465 North McClurg Court. The candidate listing identifies Broom as the featured guest, and Paterson’s current show listing confirms the Winter’s Jazz Club appearance on that date. Arrive with time for the first notes: organ-trio sets establish their internal balance quickly, and this pairing’s recorded Chicago history is the reason to hear the full arc live. Check Winter’s Jazz Club and the artists’ official pages again before heading out, since start times, seating, ticket availability, and personnel can change.[1][2][3]
These concerts happened on 24 October 2026
The next dates at these venues: Winter's Jazz Club
Sources
- Winter’s Jazz Club calendar — Winter’s Jazz Club
- Ben Paterson EPK — Ben Paterson
- Ben Paterson home and Live at the Jazz Showcase announcement — Ben Paterson
- Bobby Broom biography — Bobby Broom