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Obama's next four years: Tune in to jazz
Any president's second term offers another shot at fulfilling dreams that got away the first time around. So while President Barack Obama is strategizing on immigration, unemployment, the deficit and, oh yes, the fiscal cliff, I'd like to add one more...
Tags: Charlie Parker, Music Industry, Music, Fiscal Cliff, Elections
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Larry Coryell storms the heavens at Jazz Showcase
Guitarist Larry Coryell has performed with drummer Paul Wertico and bassist Larry Gray so often that when they reunited Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, they sounded as if they were resuming a conversation in midstream. Coryell visits Chicago...
Tags: Music Industry, Music, Entertainment
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Jeb Bishop's 50th birthday celebration could feel like a mini-fest
Trombonist Jeb Bishop has been a key player on Chicago's avant-garde jazz scene for the past two decades, working prolifically with such similarly indispensable figures as reedists Ken Vandermark and Dave Rempis, guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Kent...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Jimi Hendrix, South Shore, Arts and Culture, Music
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PASSINGS: Lois Smith, John Tchicai
Lois Smith Longtime celebrity publicist Lois Smith, 85, a longtime New York City publicist who worked with celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford and Martin Scorsese, died Sunday from a brain hemorrhage after taking a fall during a trip to...Tags: Whitney Houston, New York City, Meryl Streep, Carla Bley, Robert Redford
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Jazz Scene: Jack DeJohnette in hometown to mark hitting 70
Drummer Jack DeJohnette is having a very good year. In January, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award, widely considered the country's highest jazz honor. Subsequent accolades from the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in February and...
Tags: Columbia College Chicago, Music Industry, Music, Arts and Culture, John Abercrombie
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Fred Hersch Trio to Play Firehouse 12 in New Haven on Oct. 26
The jazz world is a network of relationships, between musicians, recordings, traditions and eras, an insular universe where name-dropping is shorthand for a sound, not a way to brag about playing experiences or records you’ve studied. Pianist...
Tags: Music Industry, Music, Students, Education, Customs and Tradition
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Album review: Flying Lotus, 'Until the Quiet Comes'
RedEye Sound Board**** (out of 4) If this is your first time experiencing the work of Flying Lotus (real name: Steven Ellison), you might be in over your head. His new full-length “Until the Quiet Comes” subscribes to a different definition of mash-up. No,...Tags: Lotus (music group), Miles Davis, Sports Cars, Fall Out Boy (music group), Thom Yorke
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Ravi Coltrane leaves his band in the dust at Jazz Showcase
Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane has developed into such a distinctive voice that expectations ran high for his return to the Jazz Showcase. All the more because of his important work on his recent Blue Note Records debut, "Spirit Fiction," which showed Coltrane...
Tags: Ravi Coltrane, Music, Entertainment, Thelonious Monk
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Of pop & poetry
Jay-Z, Sonic Youth, Guns N' Roses, Ghostface Killah, Slayer, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Britney Spears, The New Pornographers, Mobb Deep, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Prefab Sprout, Pink, The Beatles, Van Halen, Big Star, Bob Dylan,...
Tags: Pink Floyd (music group), Bob Dylan, Steely Dan (music group), Music, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise
Wild Belle – built on the brother-sister duo of Elliot and Natalie Bergman -- has had quite a year so far. The band released a breezily enchanting single, “Keep You”; shopped a self-financed, self-produced album that attracted...Tags: Barrington, Music, Entertainment
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Review: Michael Chabon joyfully sets down on 'Telegraph Avenue'
Telegraph Avenue A Novel Michael Chabon Harper: 480 pp, $27.99 "Telegraph Avenue" is so exuberant, it's as if Michael Chabon has pulled joy from the air and squeezed it into the shape of words. A vibrant affection for a place, time and culture —...
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Von Freeman dies at 88; jazz tenor saxophonist with singular sound
Von Freeman was revered as a tenor saxophonist but was never a major star, worshiped by critics but perpetually strapped for cash. He seemed to purposely avoid commercial success. When trumpeter Miles Davis phoned Freeman in the 1950s looking for a...
Tags: Nat King Cole, Chicago Tribune, Music Industry, Miles Davis, World War II (1939-1945)
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