Lou "Chip" Gdalman
Baritone Sax

Chip plays baritone saxophone and puts the bottom end on the horn section that holds us all up.

He's performed with Natalie Cole, Chuck Berry and Frankie Avalon to name a few and also on stage at the Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park. Chip's a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and received his Master of Music Education degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago.

He's currently the director of bands at Gompers Elementary School in Chicago. When asked about the name "Chip" he doesn't remember being called anything but that, and the name originated from the phrase "chip off the old block" when being compared to his father.

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