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Chi-Town Jazz Fest lineup out
Trumpeter Bobby Lewis, singer Tammy McCann, saxophonist Eric Schneider and guitarist John Moulder will headline the Fourth Annual Chi-Town Jazz Festival, running March 12-22. As always, the event will support hunger relief in Chicago, with musicians and...
Tags: Plymouth, Arts and Culture, Brad Williams, Entertainment Events, Religion and Belief
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Joan Curto celebrates the genius of Cole Porter
Cole Porter died nearly half a century ago – in 1964 at age 73 – yet his songs remain as ubiquitous today as they were then. Which helps explain why one of Chicago's top cabaret singers, Joan Curto, this week is launching an evening-length...
Tags: Peru, Arts and Culture, University of Chicago, Judaism, Geography
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Singer Frank D'Rone hits a high note late in his career
As his old friend Frank Sinatra might have put it, it was a very good year for Chicago singer Frank D'Rone. In April, D'Rone turned 80, and in June he overcame a series of health challenges to play a triumphant comeback engagement at the Jazz Showcase....
Tags: Jazz (genre), Chicago Jazz Fest, Entertainment Events, Music, Entertainment
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Corky Siegel still building bridges with his Chamber Blues
Twenty-five years ago, Chicago bluesman Corky Siegel unveiled a project that continues to obsess him. He called it Chamber Blues, and since its Midwest premiere in 1988 at the Paramount Arts Centre in Aurora, the project has blossomed into an ongoing...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Genres, Grant Park, Entertainment Events, Music Industry
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Patricia Barber delivers a most delicate 'Smash'
Very few musicians can bring the rambunctious Green Mill Jazz Club to a near hush, but Patricia Barber did it through most of her first set Friday night. Granted, the overflow audience clearly knew the significance of the occasion: Barber's debut...
Tags: Music Industry, Poetry, Music, Entertainment
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Patricia Barber: A reluctant star
At exactly two minutes before show time, Patricia Barber whisks into the Green Mill Jazz Club, says a quick hello to the guys on the bandstand, stretches the joints in her hands, places her iPad inside the grand piano, noodles on the keyboard for a...
Tags: University of Chicago, Breast Cancer, Entertainment Events, Music Industry, Glenn Gould
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Winter jazz preview: From Dianne Reeves to Sonny Rollins, a hot lineup
A buoyant winter season ahead includes: "Shadowgraph: Octets by Franz Schubert and George Lewis": The innovative thinkers at the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) perform major works by masters from two centuries and genres. The repertoire...
Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Arts and Culture, University of Chicago, Christian McBride, Ray Charles
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Guitarist Bobby Broom turns a page in life and music
The past year was a momentous one for the widely admired Chicago guitarist Bobby Broom. His first album made up entirely of original compositions, "Upper West Side Story" (Origin Records), won richly deserved critical accolades and considerable airplay,...
Tags: North Park, Irving Park, Music Industry, Upper West Side, Entertainment
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Fat Babies rekindle the Jazz Age in Chicago
Out on the dance floor, young couples are throwing off dance steps right out of the Roaring Twenties: the Charleston, the fox trot, the shimmy. Just inches away, up on the bandstand, youthful musicians you'd sooner expect to find covering Radiohead or...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Loyola University Chicago, Music Industry, Entertainment Events, Theater
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The best jazz concerts of 2012
2012 was a characteristically plentiful year in jazz performance, Chicagoans hearing a tremendous range of music. The best concerts, in chronological order: March 1: Tammy McCann at the Jazz Showcase. The majestic Chicago singer designed her four-...
Tags: Spider (music group), Music Industry, Barbara Cook, Human Interest, Entertainment
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Best jazz concerts of 2012
2012 was a characteristically plentiful year in jazz performance, Chicagoans hearing a tremendous range of music. The best concerts, in chronological order: March 1: Tammy McCann at the Jazz Showcase. The majestic Chicago singer designed her four-...Tags: Spider (music group), Music Industry, Barbara Cook, Human Interest, Entertainment
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Frank Catalano going strong
When it comes to playing through pain, Chicago tenor saxophonist Frank Catalano has more experience than most of his colleagues. Eighteen years ago, he severed the middle finger of his right hand while fixing his car, enduring surgery to reattach it and...
Tags: Smashing Pumpkins (music group), Irving Park, Hyde Park, Brian Eno, Scott Williams
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