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34th Jazz Festival closes with victories and defeats
Some of the best music of the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival played during its finale on Sunday night. But so did some of the worst. Several performances at the Petrillo Music Shell projected quite clearly from the acoustically challenged venue. But...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Chicago Jazz Fest, Duke Ellington
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What to hear at the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Now that the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival is fully underway – having kicked off Thursday night at Millennium Park – Chicagoans can focus on figuring out what to catch this weekend. Following is an annotated guide to some of the most...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Millennium Park, Festive Events, Chicago Jazz Fest
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Wynton Marsalis plays homage to Von Freeman
Just moments after Wynton Marsalis took the stage of Orchestra Hall on Tuesday night he addressed a subject on many people's minds: Chicago tenor saxophonist Von Freeman, who died earlier this month at age 88. "He was a legend," Marsalis told a crowded...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Wynton Marsalis, Music Industry, Lincoln Center
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Jazz resolutions for a New Year
A new year brings new hopes for music in Chicago. Here are key resolutions for 2013: Create a concise Cultural Plan. After months of town hall meetings, the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events last fall came up with a 48-page wish...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Millennium Park, Festive Events, DuSable Museum of African-American History
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Obama's next four years: Tune in to jazz
Any president's second term offers another shot at fulfilling dreams that got away the first time around. So while President Barack Obama is strategizing on immigration, unemployment, the deficit and, oh yes, the fiscal cliff, I'd like to add one more...
Tags: Wynton Marsalis, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Bobby McFerrin, Frank Sinatra
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Nonstop week of music surrounds Chicago Jazz Festival
Though the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival surely has its flaws, it generates tremendous energy and interest for America's greatest gift to the arts: jazz. The festival proper features major shows at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Aug. 31 at Pritzker...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Millennium Park, Charlie Parker, Festive Events
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Cornet player Josh Berman explores past, future with a host of bold collaborators
Fascinating music constantly bubbles up from the caldron that is Chicago jazz, the latest example coming from the horn and pen of Josh Berman. The very fact that he plays cornet, an instrument largely relegated to the history books, and collaborates with...
Tags: Human Interest, Old Town School of Folk Music, Music Theater, Hyde Park, Chicago Jazz Fest
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Puerto Rican music meets Chicago jazz in Frank Rosaly's premiere
For anyone intrigued by Chicago jazz, Thursday night's concert at Millennium Park stands as one of the most intensely anticipated event of the summer. But for the widely admired Chicago drummer-composer Frank Rosaly, who will lead the performance, it's...
Tags: Millennium Park, Music Industry, Pies and Tarts, Howard Reich, New Music Mondays Millenium Park
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Jazz Fest lineup announced Thursday
Jazz lovers, mark your calendars! Some pretty big names are coming to town. Backed by a smooth jazz band, Indy Jazz Fest rolled out its lineup Thursday. The week long festival will include performances by Brian Culbertson, Stanley Clarke and George...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Asian-American jazz takes a moment in the spotlight
Jazz in Chicago encompasses many overlapping scenes, and one of the most distinctive of them will launch its yearly celebration this weekend. The city's Asian-American community has contributed immeasurably to the richness and range of music in Chicago,...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Howard Reich, Fred Anderson
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Richard Lewis: The soul of a jazzman
The performer bounds onto the stage, and even before the applause has died down he's standing in front of the microphone, riffing freely. As his solo takes flight, he picks up the tempo, his thoughts rushing out in a torrent. Quickly, he develops...
Tags: Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Carnegie Hall, Miles Davis
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Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Ninety Miles ignite Cuban jazz
The music of Cuba stands at the very root of jazz, its rhythms and song forms intermingling with sounds that emerged in New Orleans as the 19th century slipped into the 20th. Today, when we think of Cuban jazz, we tend to look nostalgically back to...
Tags: Concerts, Cuba, Dizzy Gillespie, Music Industry, Music
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