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    Apr 2, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Remembering the 'Little Giant,' jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin

    Ask anyone who loves jazz to the name the top tenor saxophonist of all time, and he or she probably will answer in a flash.
    Ask anyone who loves jazz to the name the top tenor saxophonist of all time, and he or she probably will answer in a flash. To many, it's Sonny Rollins, at 82 still a giant. Or Gene Ammons, the long-gone, soulful player from the South Side of Chicago....

    Tags: Music Industry, Gene Ammons, University of Chicago, John Coltrane, Physical Conditions

    2. Mar 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. A rosy new stage for Sugar Blue

    These are very sweet days for Sugar Blue.
    These are very sweet days for Sugar Blue. In a few months, he'll be a father once more, his wife and bass player Ilaria Lantieri expecting their first child together in late May or early June. In the meantime, the two — who own a home in...

    Tags: Count Basie, Music Industry, Tameka Cottle, James Cotton, James Stewart

    3. Dec 18, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. DuSable High School a landmark with jazz as catalyst

    No high school in America did more to shape the sound of jazz than a magnificent edifice at 49th Street and Wabash Avenue, on the South Side of Chicago.
    No high school in America did more to shape the sound of jazz than a magnificent edifice at 49th Street and Wabash Avenue, on the South Side of Chicago. Singer-pianist Nat "King" Cole, master vocalist Johnny Hartman, piano whiz Dorothy Donegan and...

    Tags: Gene Ammons, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Cab Calloway, Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools

    4. Oct 26, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Chicago Humanities Festival: Let freedom swing

    How fitting that a festival exploring a theme as vast as "America" should be playing stages across Chicago next month.
    How fitting that a festival exploring a theme as vast as "America" should be playing stages across Chicago next month. For no art form reflects the fundamentals of the American experiment more urgently than jazz, and no city has contributed more to the...

    Tags: Music Industry, Europe, Culture, U.S. Navy, Radio

    5. Oct 23, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues

    Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy.
    Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...

    Tags: Count Basie, Rentals, Music Industry, Tameka Cottle, The Rolling Stones (music group)

    6. Oct 18, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Orbert Davis, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic swing into a new season

    No other orchestra in America looks, sounds or acts quite like Orbert Davis' Chicago Jazz Philharmonic.
    No other orchestra in America looks, sounds or acts quite like Orbert Davis' Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. For though various bands play Third Stream repertoire — a term that loosely refers to jazz-meets-classical fare — the CJP immerses...

    Tags: Duke Ellington, Music Industry, Arts, University of Chicago, New Products

    7. Sep 6, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Fall music preview: Chicago jazz greats coming home

    Chicago always has produced jazz giants, larger-than-life figures whose art towers over that of mere mortals.
    Chicago always has produced jazz giants, larger-than-life figures whose art towers over that of mere mortals. Who are today's Chicago jazz giants? Following is an annotated guide to some of the titans who will be performing during the fall season: Art...

    Tags: Music Industry, University of Chicago, Arts, Englewood, Lincoln Center

    8. Jan 23, 2012 | Chicago Tribune

  8. Jazz greats to appear at 9th annual ETHS Jazz Festival

    TribLocal - Evanston
    Jazz trumpeter Orbert Davis and saxophonist-clarinetist Victor Goines will perform in Evanston during the 9th annual Evanston Jazz Festival at Evanston Township High School. Goines, …...
    9. Nov 4, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Vibes player Roy Ayers returns, DJ Anthony Valadez unveils mixtape

    Pop & Hiss
    Vibraphone player Roy Ayers returns to Los Angeles for a gig on Nov. 17....
    10. Aug 17, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Influences: Trumpet player, bandleader, composer Terence Blanchard

    Culture Monster
    Influences: Trumpet player, bandleader and film composer Terence Blanchard by Nate Jackson...
    11. Mar 11, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  11. Headliners, lineup announced for Riverjazz festival, June 22-26 at SteelStacks

    Lehigh Valley Music
    A multi-generational lineup of musicians who came together to explore the legacy of Miles Davis’ 1970 masterpiece “Bitches Brew” and one of the most commercially successful jazz fusion acts of all time will headline Riverjazz, a five-day...
    12. Feb 3, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  12. Thursday Morning Coffee: The POTUS Among Us.

    Capitol Ideas with John L. Micek
    Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. President Barack Obama is in State College today for the ninth trip to Pennsylvania of his presidency. The POTUS is expected to pick up the threads of his pick up the threads of his #SOTU......
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