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- Music, Music Feature Oct 1, 2020
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival takes it to the streets
With short sets from small groups in unexpected spots, the festival creates a communal experience that’s pandemic safe.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 10, 2020
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Jazz musicians turn an Old Town porch into a stage
When the pandemic shuttered Chicago’s music venues, pianist Danny Bauer improvised a solution—a nightly concert series right in front of his home.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2020
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Chicago’s September jazz festivals cope with COVID
The city is replacing its traditional huge outdoor affair with a slimmed-down online event, while the smaller, nimbler Hyde Park Jazz Festival plans to try pop-up in-person shows.
- Music, Music Review Jun 12, 2020
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Quin Kirchner merges eclectic sounds into transcendent jazz on The Shadows and the Light
- Music, Music Feature Sep 30, 2019
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Photos: The Hyde Park Jazz Festival
The south side’s own world-class jazz fest played host to dozens of shows and more than a hundred musicians.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2019
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Trumpeter Russ Johnson dances along a fine line
The Wisconsin composer and bandleader strikes a perfect balance between mainstream and vanguard.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 22, 2018
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The complete schedule of the 2018 Chicago Jazz Festival
All 68 sets in Millennium Park and the Cultural Center, including Maceo Parker, Jaimie Branch, Jason Stein, Diane Reeves, Greg Ward & 10 Tongues, and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 5, 2018
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Chicago musical polymath Ben LaMar Gay breaks even his own shape-shifting mold on his solo debut
Ben LaMar Gay took seven years to make Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun, which fuses R&B, funk, jazz, electro, Brazilian music, and more.
- Music, Concert Preview Dec 29, 2017
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Chicago reedists Jason Stein and Greg Ward front a dynamic collective with New York’s Eric Revis and Jim Black
- Music, Music Feature Sep 27, 2017
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Chicago bass clarinetist Jason Stein isn’t kidding around
Not even arena gigs with his famous sister, comedian Amy Schumer, can tempt him from his drive to make better jazz.
- Music, Music Feature May 31, 2016
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Saxophonist Greg Ward returns to Chicago on Mingus wings
A multidisciplinary project inspired by The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady helped lure him back from New York—and it could make for his biggest album yet.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 16, 2015
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Jazz grows under Ernest Dawkins's feet
By staying put in his hometown, this Chicago saxophonist has nurtured generations of musicians—and a south-side festival that's now in its 16th year.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2014
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Jazz bassist Jason Roebke brings together unexpected sounds in his edgy quartet, Combination
On the sonic confusion of the ubiquitous bassist and his quartet
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2012
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The rise of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival
The sixth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival opens up its artistic parameters
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 1, 2012
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Helping hands: Greg Ward and Marcus Strickland
Saxophonists Greg Ward and Marcus Strickland roll into Chicago to play with Makaya McCraven
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2011
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Mike Reed's PPT closes out the tenth year of Sunday Transmissions
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things plays the final concert in the yearlong tenth-anniversary celebration of the Sunday Transmission series at the Hungry Brain.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2011
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The sound streams of Jason Roebke's Combination
Bassist Jason Roebke's quartet the Combination gives one of its infrequent performances on Wednesday at the Hideout.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2011
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Guitarist Dave Miller leaves town for Brooklyn
Guitarist Dave Miller split Chicago for Brooklyn earlier this summer, but he's back in town for a handful of gigs.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2010
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Greg Ward's New York Sound
Chicago native Greg Ward moved to New York last year, and a new interview and performance with a killer new trio shows what he's been doing there.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 15, 2010
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Blame Obama!
A tribute to the president brought together Chicago's Occidental Brothers Dance Band International and their new front man: African superstar Samba Mapangala.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 18, 2009
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Fred Anderson Feted in Millennium Park on Thursday
