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Winter jazz preview: From Dianne Reeves to Sonny Rollins, a hot lineup
A buoyant winter season ahead includes: "Shadowgraph: Octets by Franz Schubert and George Lewis": The innovative thinkers at the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) perform major works by masters from two centuries and genres. The repertoire...
Tags: Sonny Rollins, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Billie Holiday, Culture, Michigan Avenue
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McNair and Cole set the stage for Chicago Humanities Festival
The Chicago Humanities Festival will explore the theme of "America" this year, so it was wholly appropriate that its Gala Benefit Evening featured two musicians well equipped to take on distinctly American music. The 23d annual festival hasn't officially...Tags: Festive Events, Hyde Park, Chicago Humanities Festival, Arts and Culture, Music
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Prince at the United Center more fizzle than sizzle
Prince’s concert Monday at the United Center didn’t really finish, it fizzled. The singer spent two hours working his band and the nearly full house, including an encore, and then walked off stage with a smile and a wave. The lights stayed...Tags: Prince (music artist), Concerts, Sarah McLachlan, Michael Jackson, Music
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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: Hyde Park, Concerts, Human Interest, Culture, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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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: Hyde Park, Concerts, Human Interest, Culture, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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World Music Festival nurtures exotic sounds in kick-off weekend
The 14th annual World Music Festival made a bit of history over the weekend, presenting all its shows for free and, better still, tapping unconventional venues deep inside the neighborhoods. Never before had the festival staged performances at Austin...
Tags: Festive Events, Concerts, Human Interest, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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Dave Douglas' 'Be Still' sounds weak at Green Mill
No doubt there's a certain spiritual appeal to "Be Still," the most recent recording of trumpeter Dave Douglas. As he has explained in interviews and on the recording's brief liner notes, the hymns on the album were suggested by his mother and performed...
Tags: Donovan, Green Mill (club), Music, 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: Concerts, Jerome Kern, Ella Fitzgerald, Michigan Avenue, Music
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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: George W. Bush, Joe Williams, Elections, Music Industry, Music Theater
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Asian-American jazz takes a moment in the spotlight
Jazz in Chicago encompasses many overlapping scenes, and one of the most distinctive of them will launch its yearly celebration this weekend. The city's Asian-American community has contributed immeasurably to the richness and range of music in Chicago,...
Tags: Culture, Fine Artists, Fred Anderson, Michigan Avenue, Music
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Chicago singer Tony Adriacchi loved performing
In the 1980s, Tony Andriacchi was almost as famous in Chicago as his heroes Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra were around the world. Audiences queued up to hear one of the most lustrous male voices to come out of this city, an instrument that Andriacchi...
Tags: Harry Connick Jr., Lionel Richie, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Phil Collins
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Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain
Here’s an hour-by-hour rundown of how Day 1 of the seventh annual Pitchfork Music Festival went down Friday in Union Park, with contributions from my colleague Bob Gendron (BG) and yours truly (GK): 3:15 p.m.: Midafternoon downpour dissipates. The...
Tags: Weather, Naked Raygun (music group), Feist, Electronics, Weather Reports
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