About
Kevin Korschgen, the host of the Wheel Sessions, says: “The Wheel Sessions are an underground jazz performance series originally hosted at 'The Wheel' in West Greenville’s Arts District. The Wheel was a shared arts space that we were able to convert into a comfortable and intimate concert setting. It was a magical place that people loved. It was home to our first 41 sessions and will never really be duplicated. However, I think we have created a new and different vibe. It has really been the music and the people who are responsible for The Wheel Sessions’ success; that has not changed!”
Future Shows
Thursday, September 4, 2025
The Wheel Allstars
Wheel Session 114
Private Studio
1801 Rutherford Road
Greenville, SC 29609
Adults $25 Students Free
The Wheel Allstars are a collective of four musicians led by Wheel Sessions founder and drummer Kevin Korschgen. Each of the musicians represent the very best of what is happening in jazz in South Carolina's Upstate. The current edition with tenor saxophonist Peter Dimery, pianist Phillip Howe, bassist Nathan Lambertson, and Korschgen on percussion is fresh off of its performance at the 2025 Greenville Jazz Festival.
PETER DIMERY
Peter Dimery’s journey to becoming a gifted tenor saxophonist began thanks to his mother. “I’d wanted to play an instrument, but I didn’t know which one I was going to pick,” he says. “My mom said, ‘I like saxophone,’ so I gave it a shot, and I fell in love with it.” Specifically, Dimery fell in love with the versatility of the tenor sax and became skilled at handling contemporary classical music along with soul and jazz. Ultimately, jazz gained a slight advantage over the other genres because Dimery discovered John Coltrane in his teens. “Coltrane became THE thing I was grasping for,” he says. “The first couple of records I heard were Blue Train and Giant Steps, and I obsessed over those album for the longest time. I have a passion for improvised music, as the spontaneous composition mirrors the methods of Existentialism: assessing your surroundings and interlocutors, responding properly for the moment with an ear for reflection and an eye for the future, an acceptance of the “Now” and lauding it as most important. “What sets me apart stylistically may be easy enough to hear when compared, but what I believe sets me apart is my focus on the marriage of Art and Philosophy. I feel that I occupy more spaces than simply being a musician, and my diversity of interests makes my life more fulfilling and allows me to show up for others.”
PHILLIP HOWE
Phillip Howe is a Charlotte area pianist, saxophonist, and trumpeter. After starting his musical journey at the age of four, Phil has constantly pushed his pursuit for a further understanding of music. After 10 years of classical piano study, he shifted his horizons towards jazz. After years of showing up to the weekly jazz jam session at the Double Door Inn, Phil is now one of the Southeast’s leading jazz pianists.
NATHAN LAMBERTSON
Nathan Lambertson studied music theory, composition and performance intensely from 2001-2006, then focused my attention on working in as many different bands in every genre I possibly could. I toured the US and Europe, the former for 5 years straight with The Mike Dillon Band, and the latter with various traditional New Orleans Jazz bands. I recorded on dozens of albums with artists from Rickie Lee Jones to Brian Blade, and I played on the grammy nominated Treme Soundtrack Album with The New Orleans Jazz Vipers. My biggest takeaway from my time in music was the ability to work on and lead teams, as well as work hard and practice on my own to learn hard things.
As a composer, I have written, recorded, produced and engineered all of my own albums, totaling around 20 releases on my own label (Hillsdale Productions), distributed by Distro Kid on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Youtube Music, etc. I use notation software and digital audio workstations (NoteWorthy Composer, Logic Pro, Reaper, and Sound Forge) to program and send MIDI data to hardware synthesizers, which I can then record.
KEVIN KORSCHGEN
Kevin Korschgen, jazz drummer and music educator, first moved to Chicago in 1980 to join a band called Rush Hour. His teaching career began in 1983 at Notre Dame High School for Boys, where he led the school’s award-winning jazz ensemble. He later developed a dynamic multi-cultural Latin Jazz Ensemble at Lake View High School, in Chicago, and has instructed jazz combos at the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association, and at the Chicago High School for the Arts (Chiarts). During a three-year sojourn to Santa Fe, NM, Mr. Korschgen served as Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association, and as Director of Bands at Santa Fe High School. Upon returning to Chicago in 2007, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Chicago Public Schools All-City High School Jazz Ensemble, and later became jazz coordinator at Chiarts, the city’s magnet high school for the performing arts.
Mr. Korschgen has performed with many of Chicago’s finest jazz musicians: Chris Foreman, Jody Christian, Ryan Cohen, Rob Amster, Dennis Carole, Pat Mallinger, Von Freeman, Pharez Whittig, Victor Garcia, Neal Alger, and George Freeman to name a few. In addition, he has shared the stage with Jon Faddis, Wallace Rooney, John Fedchock, James Carter, Etienne Charles, Marcus Belgrave, and Lyle Mays.