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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: Entertainment Events, Howard Reich, Entertainment, New Products, Lincoln Center
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Judith Stein is the hardest-working woman in jazz
If you've ever attended a major jazz event in Chicago, there's a good chance you've met Judith Stein. She's the enthusiastic woman perpetually doling out postcards for the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, urging everyone to come to the South Side for what has...
Tags: Entertainment Events, University of Chicago, Festive Events, Jazz Institute of Chicago, Hyde Park
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34th Jazz Festival closes with victories and defeats
Some of the best music of the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival played during its finale on Sunday night. But so did some of the worst. Several performances at the Petrillo Music Shell projected quite clearly from the acoustically challenged venue. But...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Festive Events, Entertainment, Concerts, Culture
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Three-and-a-half decades covering Chicago Jazz
Some gigs seem almost too good to be true: I’ve been covering music for the Tribune for 35 years, since I started freelancing in 1977 and joined the staff in ’83. I sometimes get emails from great musicians traveling the world who tell me...
Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Entertainment Events, Dave Brubeck, Astor Piazzolla
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Highs, lows and turbulent turns at the Chicago Jazz Festival
The Chicago Jazz Festival really ought to be marketed as a roller-coaster ride, its thrilling musical highs counterbalanced by its sudden, plummeting lows. The 34th annual event, which ends Sunday night in Grant Park, careened freely between the two...
Tags: Muhal Richard Abrams, Prince (music artist), New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Music Theater, Dizzy Gillespie
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Jazz Fest launches with a warm tribute to Ella Fitzgerald
The pleasant, populist program that opened the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival on Thursday night certainly had a great deal going for it. Three top Chicago vocalists. The splendid Chicago Jazz Orchestra. And the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park,...
Tags: Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Spider (music group), Entertainment Events
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How to awaken a sleeping jazz festival
Two months ago, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival made a bold move, presenting performances for the first time on the South Side of Chicago, in Ellis Park. Throngs turned out. Next month, the World Music Festival will take a bold step, for the first time...
Tags: Green Mill (club), Chicago Cultural Center, Finance, Festive Events, Entertainment
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What to hear at the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Now that the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival is fully underway – having kicked off Thursday night at Millennium Park – Chicagoans can focus on figuring out what to catch this weekend. Following is an annotated guide to some of the most...
Tags: Chicago Loop, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Entertainment Events, Howard Reich, Electronics
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'Genius grant' winner Ken Vandermark gets nod from Chicago Jazz Festival
The most intriguing work at this year's Chicago Jazz Festival, running Thursday through Sunday, may come from the horn of MacArthur "genius grant" winner Ken Vandermark. As this year's artist-in-residence, the hyperinventive Chicago reedist-bandleader-...
Tags: Concerts, Entertainment Events, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Grant Park, Festive Events
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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: Green Mill (club), Donovan, Chicago Cultural Center, Music Theater, Spider (music group)
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Cornet player Josh Berman explores past, future with a host of bold collaborators
Fascinating music constantly bubbles up from the caldron that is Chicago jazz, the latest example coming from the horn and pen of Josh Berman. The very fact that he plays cornet, an instrument largely relegated to the history books, and collaborates with...
Tags: Green Mill (club), Invention and Innovation, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Chicago Jazz Festival preferred seating for Trib Nation
The organizers of the Chicago Jazz Festival have made available some preferred seating for a few of the annual Festival's bigger acts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The festival kicks off Thursday, Aug. 30 and continues through Sunday, Sept. 2. Here's a...
Tags: New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Services and Shopping, Politics, Entertainment Events, Tribune Tower
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