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The best jazz concerts of 2012
2012 was a characteristically plentiful year in jazz performance, Chicagoans hearing a tremendous range of music. The best concerts, in chronological order: March 1: Tammy McCann at the Jazz Showcase. The majestic Chicago singer designed her four-...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Barbara Cook, Chicago Jazz Fest, Barbra Streisand, Entertainment
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Best jazz concerts of 2012
2012 was a characteristically plentiful year in jazz performance, Chicagoans hearing a tremendous range of music. The best concerts, in chronological order: March 1: Tammy McCann at the Jazz Showcase. The majestic Chicago singer designed her four-...Tags: Arts and Culture, Barbara Cook, Howard Reich, Chicago Jazz Fest, Barbra Streisand
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An illuminating start to Chicago Jazz Philharmonic's season
Trumpeter Orbert Davis has worked for years to train his Chicago Jazz Philharmonic in Third Stream techniques – that is, playing music that embraces both jazz and classical traditions. But during the CJP's season-opening concert Saturday night at...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Miles Davis, Culture, Jazz (genre)
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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. For though various bands play Third Stream repertoire — a term that loosely refers to jazz-meets-classical fare — the CJP immerses...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Howard Reich, Culture, Chicago Jazz Fest, Lionel Hampton
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Nonstop week of music surrounds Chicago Jazz Festival
Though the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival surely has its flaws, it generates tremendous energy and interest for America's greatest gift to the arts: jazz. The festival proper features major shows at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Aug. 31 at Pritzker...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Donovan, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Jazz Fest, Theater
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Jazz review: Woody Allen's New Orleans band at Royce Hall
Culture MonsterKirk Silsbee reviews Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band. A little bit of Gotham came west Thursday night, as Woody Allen’s New Orleans band played at UCLA. Los Angeles Times review.... -
The Arts on TV: Sister Wendy; Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett
Culture Monster“Grand Canyon Serenade” 8 p.m. Thursday KVCR: A visual tour of the Grand Canyon is set to classical music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Dvorak. “Globe Trekker” 8 p.m. Thursday and 7 p.m. Saturday KLCS; 9 p.m. Monday KCET: Amsterdam... -
Summer festivals in the Midwest
Bicycles and balloons, football and films, garlic and golf — disparate things, for sure. But they're all at the heart of festivals and other special events that promise to make this summer interesting in the Midwest.
Here's a sampling of what's...Tags: Arts and Culture, Garlic, Movies, Wars and Interventions, Clubs and Associations
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When scholarship meets Wikipedia
Jacket CopyMaybe you have to be something of a fan of early jazz to know coronetist Bix Beiderbecke -- he's in the picture above, horn pointed at the camera. Beiderbecke was an influential performer in the late 1920s, but he died...... -
Rubin 'Zeke' Zarchy dies at 93; big band trumpeter
![Rubin "Zeke" Zarchy, a trumpeter for a number of leading big bands who was best known for his association with Glenn Miller's orchestra in the 1940s, has died. He was 93.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-04/46341492-16210605.jpg "Rubin "Zeke\" Zarchy, a trumpeter for a number of leading big bands who was best known for his association with Glenn Miller's orchestra in the 1940s, has died. He was 93.")
Rubin "Zeke" Zarchy, a trumpeter for a number of leading big bands who was best known for his association with Glenn Miller's orchestra in the 1940s, has died. He was 93.
Zarchy died Saturday of complications from pneumonia at Kaiser Permanente...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Benny Goodman, Death, Tommy Dorsey, Health
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Midwest Events
Tribune reporterWisconsin If you're planning a trip to the Badger State next month, make it the weekend of March 13. You can celebrate St. Patrick's Day a few days early at Milwaukee's 43rd Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade (saintpatricksparade.org), which falls this...Tags: Iowa, Arts and Culture, Illinois, Wisconsin, Movies
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Our Mississippi
Tribune staff reporterYou'd think it would be easy to say where a river begins and ends. Just listen: The Mississippi rises in Minnesota's Lake Itasca and empties 2,350 miles to the south in the Gulf of Mexico. It sounds so authoritative, so final. But--and I've said this many...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Arts and Culture, State Parks, John Wayne, Movies
Dec 24, 2012
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Oct 21, 2012
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Oct 18, 2012
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Aug 23, 2012
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Dec 30, 2011
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Sep 8, 2011
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May 13, 2011
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Jan 15, 2010
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Apr 17, 2009
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Feb 15, 2009
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May 25, 2003
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