Like fellow Chicagoan Mars Williams, Ted Sirota does not limit himself solely to jazz. The saxophonist Williams fronts the hip-hop funk freestyle band Liquid Soul and Sirota has assembled this ...

Chicago Jazz Drummer Ted Sirota hooks up with Dub Reggae Legend “"The Scientist" for an exciting new collaboration and a Kickstarter campaign. Chicago, IL: Ted Sirota, veteran Chicago drummer for ...

On his brand-new album, juggernaut Chicago drummer Ted Sirota leads his band, the Rebel Souls, through a tune that recalls Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (“Grendel”), two songs influenced by Herbie ...

Though the group proper is a relatively newbie on the Chicago front, its members -- particularly frontman Sirota -- are anything but rookies. Sirota’s been a sideplayer or bandleader in several groups ...

CD release parties can be trivial and self-congratulatory events, but the one that Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls played over the weekend at the Green Mill Jazz Club was quite the opposite. Here were five ...

The Rebel Souls, led by drummer Ted Sirota, play all around Chicago all the time–just not together. The quintet is made up of several of the city’s most provocative young jazzmen, including its newest ...

Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls infuses jazz with political statements and samples of historical figures. We listen to some of their sounds, which they perform regularly throughout Chicago. Ted Sirota's ...