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A peek into Prince's mind
CHANHASSEN, Minn.— Prince is rolling his eyes. "The hardest thing with musicians," he explains to a visitor to his Paisley Park recording studio, "is getting them not to play." The quintuple-threat singer-songwriter-producer-performer-multi-...
Tags: United Center, Chuck Berry, Count Basie, Havas, Soul (genre)
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CJO plays a lively, imperfect tribute to Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa probably would have been intrigued. The Chicago Jazz Orchestra's brave, often brilliant, sometimes thrilling, somewhat flawed Zappa tribute at the Park West on Saturday night gave his music a spotlight it does not routinely receive in the...
Tags: Frank Zappa, Count Basie, Charles Ives, Music, Arts and Culture
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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: Culture, Festive Events, Jazz (genre), Chicago Jazz Fest, Entertainment
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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: New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Jerome Kern, Festive Events, Allen Toussaint, Chicago Jazz Fest
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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: New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Electronics, Culture, Fred Anderson, 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: Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, Irving Park
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Jason Moran takes on the myths of Fats Waller
If Fats Waller is remembered at all by the public at large these days, it's as a caricature, with bug-eyes wide open, cigarette dangling from lip and eyebrows perpetually bobbing underneath a derby hat as he hams it up at the keys. But connoisseurs...
Tags: Hyde Park, Miles Davis, University of Chicago, Thelonious Monk, Theater
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Dave Brubeck: A jazz icon who reached a massive audience
Dave Brubeck changed the sound of jazz in profound ways, unexpectedly becoming something of a pop star in the process. Starting in the mid-1950s, in fact, he emerged as a symbol of jazz in America, and well beyond, gracing the cover of Time magazine...
Tags: Dave Brubeck, Civil Rights, Minority Groups, Justice and Rights, David Warren
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Excitement, writing and children
People often ask me what I write about in my first-Sunday-of-the-month-Lifestyle column. "Anything I darn well please," I answer. It's true. I appreciate the freedom editors give me. I've got a list of "evergreens" — topics that work any...Tags: Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Dance, Gaming, Science
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