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Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 10, 2019
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Saxophonist Hunter Diamond debuts four free shows’ worth of new material at the Whistler

Plus: Matthew Rachman Gallery opens a new exhibit of Wesley Willis’s artwork, and Camp Smokey Bear returns with another free day of top-shelf local hip-hop.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Hunter Diamond, Nicole Mitchell, jazz, improvised music, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Whistler, Cameron Pfiffner, Katie Ernst, Nick Mazzarella, Dana Hall, Wesley Willis, art, drawings, sculpture, Ricky Willis, Project Onward, City of Many Dreams, Matthew Rachman Gallery, Paul Young, Chimeka, Camp Smokey Bear, Camp Smokey Bear Festival, South Holland, hip-hop, Camp Shabbona Woods, ZMoney, Queen Key, Kidd Kenn, Solo the Dweeb, Happy Birthday Calvin, Video

Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2018
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Sabertooth celebrate 25 years of nocturnal renditions

The Jazz Festival honors the Green Mill’s resident wee-hours organ quartet in broad daylight.
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Feature, Sabertooth, Sabertooth Jazz Quintet, Green Mill, 25th anniversary, 25 years, Dave Jemilo, Cameron Pfiffner, Pat Mallinger, Ted Sirota, Pete Benson, Jazz Bulls, Get Me High Lounge, Fangs for Listening Suite, Circle of Fans, Pure Cane Trio, Heavyweight Dub, Rebel Souls, Grateful Dead, George Freeman, Mike Allemana, organ, Video

Music, Music Feature Aug 31, 2016
The Reader’s comprehensive guide to the 2016 Chicago Jazz Festival

This year’s lineup captures the music’s proliferating diversity, with the Bad Plus, Anat Cohen, Erwin Helfer, Tarbaby, JD Allen, the Liberation Music Orchestra, and much more.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival, Millennium Park, Cultural Center, Von Freeman Pavilion, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Jazz and Heritage Pavilion, Young Jazz Lions Stage, Orbert Davis, Soul Migration, Great Migration, Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra, Bad Plus, Ornette Coleman, Science Fiction, Candido Camero, Charles Rumback, Erwin Helfer, George Fludas, Barry Altschul, 3Dom Factor, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Michael Zerang, Blue Lights, Anat Cohen, Eric Alexander, Harold Mabern, Cameron Pfiffner, Adolphe’s Ax, Brian Carpenter, Ghost Train Orchestra, Greg Rockingham, JD Allen, Nate Lepine, Tarbaby, Oliver Lake, Benny Golson

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jul 28, 2016
Ad Hoc [Home], As You Like It, and nine more new stage shows and revivals

About Face Theatre Youth Ensemble and Arc Theatre make more with less.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, About Face Youth Theatre Ensemble, Ad Hoc [Home], Da Shona Johnson, Arc Theatre, As You Like It, Mark Boergers, The Awake, Ken Urban, First Floor Theater, Theater on the Lake, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Onstage: A Most Reluctant Convert, Max McLean, The Dead Boy Scout Musical, Philmont Scout Ranch, Eagle Scouts, Bruce Phillips, The Annoyance Theatre & Bar, Desert Cool, Mark Denny, Caleb Fullen, John O'Toole, Raven Theatre, Direct From Death Row: The Scottsboro Boys, Mark Stein, Now. Here. This., Rivendell Theatre, Jeff Bowen, Brown Paper Box Co., The Portrait, Gustav Klimt, Cameron Pfiffner, Show & Tell, the Harold, long-form improvisation, iO Theater, Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), Will Eno, Jake Baker, Dear Stone Theater Company, Susan Padveen

Music, In Rotation Nov 4, 2013
In Rotation: Saxophonist Nick Mazzarella on John Coltrane in his own words

Plus: Drummer Frank Rosaly on three hours of Deathprod, the Reader's Peter Margasak on vintage dance music from northern Greece, and more
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: In Rotation, Christopher King, compilations, Greek music, violin, clarinet, R. Crumb, Sons of Kemet, Shabaka Hutchings, Oren Marshall, Tom Skinner, Seb Rochford, Unni Løvlid, Naim Jazz, Angry Mom, Heilo, folk music, jazz, reggae, funk, Håkon Thelin, Peter Magasak, Nick Mazzarella, Nick Mazzarella Trio, Cicada Music, Green and Gold, Frank Rosaly, Cameron Pfiffner, Cameron PFiffner's Debut in Blues, Chicago Review Press, John Coltrane, books, Chris DeVito, Eddie Gale, Blue Note, Elvin Jones, horns, guitar, bass, percussion, Deathprod, Rune Grammofon, Helge Sten, Roscoe Mitchell, Tyshawn Sorey, Skopje Jazz Festival, Toru Takemitsu, Virgin Classics

Blogs, Bleader Apr 2, 2013
City announces 2013 lineups for Downtown Sound, Loops & Variations, and Made in Chicago

What's scheduled for some of this summer's best free concert series.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Downtown Sound, Loops & Variations, Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz, Jack McLarnan, Carlos Tortolero, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Ribot, Sharon Van Etten, Speck Mountain, Glen Hansard, Daniel Lanois, Brokeback, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Angela James, Lee Fields, Theo Huff, Dawes, Cairo Gang, Fatoumata Diawara, Alasdair Roberts, Handsome Family, Azita, Dessa, Psalm One, Falty DL, Bill Kouligas, Matmos, Fonema Consort, ICE, Nosaj Thing, Dan Deacon, Eighth Blackbird, Glenn Kotche, Lesley Flanigan, Olaf Arnalds, Sarah Neufeld, Jeff Parker, Dee Alexander, Nels Cline, Dana Hall, Pat Mallinger, Cameron Pfiffner, Jack DeJohnette, Victor Garcia, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell

Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2011
Frank Rosaly and the Lost Sounds of Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons

Tonight at the Skylark, drummer Frank Rosaly debuts a new quintet that pays homage to the music of Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Frank Rosaly, Skylark, Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, jazz, Cameron Pfiffner, Nick Mazzarella, Tomeka Reid, Anton Hatwich

Music, Music Sidebar Sep 2, 2010
The Reader's Guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival

Featuring Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections, the Kurt Elling Quintet with Ernie Watts, the Ramsey Lewis 75th birthday celebration, and much more
- By Peter Margasak, John Corbett, and Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival guide, Jazz Institute of Chicago, Millennium Park, Pritzker Pavilion, Grant Park, Chicago Cultural Center, Nicole Mitchell, AACM, Umbrella Music, Michael Zerang, Blushing Poppy Dance Club, Jim Baker, Nate McBride, Mars Williams, Jason Roebke, Josh Berman, Brian Labycz, Jodie Christian Quintet, Miyumi Project Big Band, Jim Wagner's All-Stars, James Dapogny, Tomeka Reid, Mike LeDonne Trio, Black Earth Orchestra, Ramsey Lewis, Douglas Ewart, Paul Giallorenzo, Dana Hall, Nicholas Payton, Cameron Pfiffner, Corey Wilkes, Chuchito Valdes, Rene Marie, Getatchew Mekurya, Teshome Mitiku, Brad Goode, Brian Blade, Nomo, Brad Mehldau, Ted Sirota, Kurt Elling, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Petrillo Music Shell, Grant Park, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University

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Saxophonist Hunter Diamond debuts four free shows’ worth of new material at the Whistler

Plus: Matthew Rachman Gallery opens a new exhibit of Wesley Willis’s artwork, and Camp Smokey Bear returns with another free day of top-shelf local hip-hop.

Video
Sabertooth celebrate 25 years of nocturnal renditions

The Jazz Festival honors the Green Mill’s resident wee-hours organ quartet in broad daylight.

The Reader’s comprehensive guide to the 2016 Chicago Jazz Festival

This year’s lineup captures the music’s proliferating diversity, with the Bad Plus, Anat Cohen, Erwin Helfer, Tarbaby, JD Allen, the Liberation Music Orchestra, and much more.

Ad Hoc [Home], As You Like It, and nine more new stage shows and revivals

About Face Theatre Youth Ensemble and Arc Theatre make more with less.

In Rotation: Saxophonist Nick Mazzarella on John Coltrane in his own words

Plus: Drummer Frank Rosaly on three hours of Deathprod, the Reader's Peter Margasak on vintage dance music from northern Greece, and more

City announces 2013 lineups for Downtown Sound, Loops & Variations, and Made in Chicago

What's scheduled for some of this summer's best free concert series.

Frank Rosaly and the Lost Sounds of Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons

Tonight at the Skylark, drummer Frank Rosaly debuts a new quintet that pays homage to the music of Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons.

The Reader's Guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival

Featuring Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections, the Kurt Elling Quintet with Ernie Watts, the Ramsey Lewis 75th birthday celebration, and much more

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Plus: Matthew Rachman Gallery opens a new exhibit of Wesley Willis’s artwork, and Camp Smokey Bear returns with another free day of top-shelf local hip-hop.

The Jazz Festival honors the Green Mill’s resident wee-hours organ quartet in broad daylight.

This year’s lineup captures the music’s proliferating diversity, with the Bad Plus, Anat Cohen, Erwin Helfer, Tarbaby, JD Allen, the Liberation Music Orchestra, and much more.

About Face Theatre Youth Ensemble and Arc Theatre make more with less.

Plus: Drummer Frank Rosaly on three hours of Deathprod, the Reader's Peter Margasak on vintage dance music from northern Greece, and more

What's scheduled for some of this summer's best free concert series.

Tonight at the Skylark, drummer Frank Rosaly debuts a new quintet that pays homage to the music of Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons.

Featuring Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections, the Kurt Elling Quintet with Ernie Watts, the Ramsey Lewis 75th birthday celebration, and much more

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