Switch to the mobile version of this page.

- Newsletters
Follow us
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Instagram
- RSS
- Mobile

- Username
- View Profile
- Edit Profile
- Log Out
- Log in
- Create Account

The Chicago Reader

Articles

Loading...

Music, Pitchfork Jul 1, 2016
Jazz returns to Pitchfork

The two acts on this year’s bill—Kamasi Washington and the Sun Ra Arkestra—are the first since the festival’s dabblings in 2006 and 2007.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival, 2016, Kamasi Washington, Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen, Craig Taborn’s Junk Magic, Fred Lonberg-Holm’s Lightbox Orchestra, William Parker Quartet, Ken Vandermark’s Powerhouse Sound, 8 Bold Souls, Chicago Underground Duo, Jeff Parker/Nels Cline Quartet, Mike Reed, Tomeka Reid, Sun Ra, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Donny McCaslin, Albert Ayler, The Epic, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jun 7, 2016
Saxophonist John Gilmore played with Sun Ra for 40 years

If John Gilmore hadn't been so committed to the spaceways, he might've influenced avant-garde jazz as profoundly as Coltrane.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, John Gilmore, saxophone, jazz, Summit, Mississippi, Captain Walter Dyett, DuSable High School, Sun Ra, Herman Blount, Earl Hines, Myth Science Orchestra, Solar Orchestra, Clifford Jordan, Blowing in From Chicago, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane, Chasin' the Trane, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Paul Bley, Astro Infinity Arkestra, Blue Universe Arkestra, emphysema, Marshall Allen

Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2014
Celebrating the Sun Ra centennial

Two new releases contribute to the ongoing celebration of the quirky genius.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Sun Ra Arkestra, centennial, The Sun Ra Arkestra Live in Nickelsdorf 1984, "Love in Outer Space, " In the Orbit of Ra, "Plutonian Nights, " Chicago Jazz Festival, Marshall Allen, John Szwed, John Corbett, Art Hoyle, Art Yard, Saturn Records, Trost, John Gilmore, Danny Thompson, Peter Dennett, Strut Records

Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2011
Umbrella Music Festival announces its 2011 program

This year's Umbrella Music Festival features Franz Hautzinger, Ab Baars, Sten Sandell, Tim Berne, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, and Mary Halvorson.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Umbrella Music Festival, free jazz, improvised music, Hans Peter Pfammatter, Gerard Lebik, Franz Hautzinger, Sophia Domancich, Ab Baars, Jan Maksimowicz, Ramon Lopez, Francesco Bigoni, Sten Sandell, Thomas Heberer, John Butcher, Nick Mazzarella, Tim Berne, Mike Reed, Jeff Parker, Jason Stein, Odean Pope, Marshall Allen, Matt Wilson, Mary Halvorson

Browse by Issue

Other Searches

Copyright © 2019 Chicago Reader

Powered by Foundation