He’s released more than a dozen albums with Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman just in the past two years, and their Jazz Festival set is the first time they’ve played together in Chicago.
This year’s Jazz Festival aftershows include Mako Sica with Hamid Drake, Dee Alexander performing Nina Simone, and the traditional engagements by Ira Sullivan and Edward “Kidd” Jordan.
Ten of the year's best box sets—including 17 discs of Harry Nilsson, six decades of southeast Asian 78s, and every bit of Woody Guthrie's Library of Congress sessions
The fest moves to Millennium Park with its best lineup in five years—including Jack DeJohnette, Wadada Leo Smith, Atomic, Robert Glasper, Jimmy Heath, Satoko Fujii, and lots of Hamid Drake.