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Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2018
Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise

She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.
- By John Corbett
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival, jazz, Nicole Mitchell, flute, Mandorla Awakening, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds, Black Earth Ensemble, FPE Records, UC Irvine, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, Tomeka Reid, Tatsu Aoki, Alex Wing, Mamapolis, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Ulysses Jenkins, Reneé Baker, Kojiro Umezaki, Jovia Armstrong, Avery R. Young, Damon Locks, Sun Ra, Lisa E. Harris, Earthseed, Octavia Butler, Iridescent, Christina Wheeler, Maroon Cloud, Fay Victor, Aruan Ortiz, Val Jeanty, Imani Uzuri, Afrofuturism

Music, Music Feature Sep 6, 2017
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The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival

This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, World Music Festival, World Music Festival 2017, World Music Festival Chicago, Salif Keita, Mdou Moctar, Bharath Symphony, Betsayda Machado, Betsayda Machado y la Parranda El Clavo, Eva Salina, Seun Kuti, Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Afrobeat, Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko: Bamako*Chicago Sound System, Nicole Mitchell, Ballaké Sissoko, Bitori, Trio Da Kali, L. Subramaniam, Saban Bajramovic, Ragamala, ragas, Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park, Tanmoy Bose, Mahesh Krishnamurthy, Debashish Bhattacharya, Ambi Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam, Bindu Subramaniam, India, Mali, Venezuela, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Talé, Philippe Cohen Solal, Roots Manuva, Esperanza Spalding, Bobby McFerrin, Mamane Diabaté, Aboussi Cissoko, Lema Lema: Eva Salina Sings Saban Bajramovic, Romani, Jalopy Chorus, Sousume Tamachek, Tuareg, Anar, Music From Saharan Cellphones, Sahel Sounds, Christopher Kirkley, Niger, Rain the Color Blue With a Little Red in It, El Clavo, Barlovento, cumbes, cumbe, La Parranda El Clavo, Loé Loá: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree, Odelia, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Mamadou Kouyaté, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyaté, Tiken Jah Fakoly, AfroCubism, Lucy Duran, World Circuit, Kronos Quartet, Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet, Victor Tavares, funaná, Analog Africa, accordion, Bitori Nha Bibinha, Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands, Chando Graciosa, At Peace, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Taj Mahal, Liu Fang, Vincent Segal, Ludovico Einaudi, Driss El Maloumi, Fassery Diabaté, Fatima Kouyaté, Black Earth Ensemble, Jeff Parker, Joshua Abrams, Mankwe Ndosi, Jovia Armstrong, Struggle Songs, Robert Glasper, Video

Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2013
Thursday and Friday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers

Jack DeJohnette, Wadada Leo Smith, Hamid Drake, and others highlight the first two days of Jazz Fest.
- By Peter Margasak, John Corbett, and Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Feature, 35th annual Chicago Jazz Fest, T.S. Galloway, Dudley Owens, Irvin Pierce, Rajiv Halim Orozco, Mwata Bowden, Corey Wilkes, Larry Bowen, Pharez Whitted, Audrey Morrison, Norman Palm, Willie Woods, Larry Gray, Robert Irving III, Geof Bradfield, 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival, Melba!, Ryan Cohan, Joel Adams, Mike Allemana, Clark Sommers, George Fludas, Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Golden Quartet, Pacifica Red Coral, Jesse Gilbert, Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, Pheeroan Aklaff, Randolph Cafe, Alison Bjorkedal, Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell, Chicago Cultural Center, Corylus, Mankwe Ndosi, AACM, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Darius Savage, JoVia Armstrong, Fat Babies, Beau Sample, Alex Hall, Jake Sanders, Paul Asaro, Dave Bock, John Otto, Andy Schumm, Jon Doyle, Randy Weston, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Larry Gray Trio, John Moulder, Charles Heath, Harrison Bankhead Sextet, Preston Bradley Hall, Hinda Hoffman Trio, Ron Perrillo, Dennis Carroll, Garland Room, What Is This Thing Called "Jazz"?, Paul Wertico, The Rhythm Method, Roosevelt University, Hamid Drake's Chicago Trio, Ernest Dawkins, Jack DeJohnette, Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Von Freeman Pavilion, George Freeman, Christopher McBride Quartet, Marquis Hill, Jeff Swanson, Michael Lough, Xavier Breaker, Ben Paterson Organ Quartet, Hammond B-3, George Fludas, Kyle Asche, Victor Garcia, Miguel de la Cerna Quartet, Hyde Park Jazz Society, Ari Brown, Avreaayl Ra, Mike Smith Quartet, Jordan Baskin, Jeff Hamann, Brian Ritter, Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, Eigen Aoki, Tsukasa Taiko, Tatsu Aoki, Ken Chaney, Young-Holt Unlimited, Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago Cultural Center, Randolph Cafe, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Garland Room, Chicago Cultural Center

Blogs, Bleader Oct 4, 2011
3Arts names 12 winners

3Arts awards cash prizes to a dozen Chicago artists.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Visual Art, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, 3Arts, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kareem Bandealy, Lisa Lindvay, Norman Long, Nicole Mitchell, Ami Saraiya, Alison Siple, Jacqueline Williams, JoVia Armstrong, Regin Igloria, Mirtes Zwierzynski

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Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise

She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.

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The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival

This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.

Thursday and Friday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers

Jack DeJohnette, Wadada Leo Smith, Hamid Drake, and others highlight the first two days of Jazz Fest.

3Arts names 12 winners

3Arts awards cash prizes to a dozen Chicago artists.

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Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise

She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.

Video The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival

This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.

Thursday and Friday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers

Jack DeJohnette, Wadada Leo Smith, Hamid Drake, and others highlight the first two days of Jazz Fest.

3Arts names 12 winners

3Arts awards cash prizes to a dozen Chicago artists.

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The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival