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    Apr 2, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Remembering the 'Little Giant,' jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin

    Ask anyone who loves jazz to the name the top tenor saxophonist of all time, and he or she probably will answer in a flash.
    Ask anyone who loves jazz to the name the top tenor saxophonist of all time, and he or she probably will answer in a flash. To many, it's Sonny Rollins, at 82 still a giant. Or Gene Ammons, the long-gone, soulful player from the South Side of Chicago....

    Tags: Fred Anderson, Colleges and Universities, Gene Ammons, Nat King Cole, France

    2. Mar 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. A rosy new stage for Sugar Blue

    These are very sweet days for Sugar Blue.
    These are very sweet days for Sugar Blue. In a few months, he'll be a father once more, his wife and bass player Ilaria Lantieri expecting their first child together in late May or early June. In the meantime, the two — who own a home in...

    Tags: Apollo Theater, Dexter Gordon, Music Industry, Tameka Cottle, James Cotton

    3. Feb 21, 2013 |Story| SFL

  3. Al Jolson tribute at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale

    <a href=&quot;http://www.jolson.org/" target="_blank">Al Jolson</a> can still pack them in the theater, 86 years after ushering in "the talkies" and 63 years after his death.
    Staff Writer
    Al Jolson can still pack them in the theater, 86 years after ushering in "the talkies" and 63 years after his death. At least that's the idea with the tribute by The Broward County Film Society (also called FLiFF) to the man billed as "The World’s...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Cab Calloway, Irving Berlin, Jackie Wilson, Red Buttons

    4. Jan 2, 2013 |Story| SFL

  4. The Go Guide Weekend Preview: This is not Del Boca Vista

    It's been nearly 20 years since Jerry Seinfeld began visiting Del Boca Vista, the fictional South Florida retirement community where parents Morty and Helen battled crotchety neighbors, ate dinner at 4:30 p.m., didn't run their AC much and reaffirmed the region's place in the national consciousness.
    It's been nearly 20 years since Jerry Seinfeld began visiting Del Boca Vista, the fictional South Florida retirement community where parents Morty and Helen battled crotchety neighbors, ate dinner at 4:30 p.m., didn't run their AC much and reaffirmed...

    Tags: Britney Spears, PBS (tv network), Bars and Clubs, Concerts, Charles Mingus

    5. Dec 18, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. DuSable High School a landmark with jazz as catalyst

    No high school in America did more to shape the sound of jazz than a magnificent edifice at 49th Street and Wabash Avenue, on the South Side of Chicago.
    No high school in America did more to shape the sound of jazz than a magnificent edifice at 49th Street and Wabash Avenue, on the South Side of Chicago. Singer-pianist Nat "King" Cole, master vocalist Johnny Hartman, piano whiz Dorothy Donegan and...

    Tags: DuSable Museum of African-American History, Nat King Cole, Pullman, Architecture, Students

    6. Jan 9, 2013 |Story| SFL

  6. To do today: Foreigner, Jon Faddis and "Weird Florida"

    <strong>Music</strong>
    Music Foreigner: Foreigner will let 'er rip 8 tonight at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. The group's album sales exceed 70 million, with multiplatinum songs that include "Cold As Ice," "Juke Box Hero," and "I Want To Know What...

    Tags: John F. Kennedy, West Palm Beach, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)

    7. Oct 26, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Chicago Humanities Festival: Let freedom swing

    How fitting that a festival exploring a theme as vast as &quot;America" should be playing stages across Chicago next month.
    How fitting that a festival exploring a theme as vast as "America" should be playing stages across Chicago next month. For no art form reflects the fundamentals of the American experiment more urgently than jazz, and no city has contributed more to the...

    Tags: Radio, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, PBS (tv network), Concerts, Music Industry

    8. Oct 23, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues

    Last May, during a conference on &quot;Race, Gender &amp; the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy.
    Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...

    Tags: Travel, Apollo Theater, Dexter Gordon, Dominican University, Blues (genre)

    9. Oct 18, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. 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.
    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, Arts, Grant Park, Culture, Music Industry

    10. Sep 6, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Fall music preview: Chicago jazz greats coming home

    Chicago always has produced jazz giants, larger-than-life figures whose art towers over that of mere mortals.
    Chicago always has produced jazz giants, larger-than-life figures whose art towers over that of mere mortals. Who are today's Chicago jazz giants? Following is an annotated guide to some of the titans who will be performing during the fall season: Art...

    Tags: Arts, Big Band (genre), Festive Events, John Abercrombie, Culture

    11. Sep 4, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Three-and-a-half decades covering Chicago Jazz

    Some gigs seem almost too good to be true: I&rsquo;ve been covering music for the Tribune for 35 years, since I started freelancing in 1977 and joined the staff in &rsquo;83.
    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: Entertainment Events, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Astor Piazzolla, Wynton Marsalis

    12. Mar 9, 2012 |Story| AM News

  12. All That Jazz: Jazz piano, tap dancing artist set for final Club Weisiger concert

    Centre College&rsquo;s Norton Center for the Arts will present Geri Allen &amp; Timeline, a group that has gained standing ovations throughout the country with its tight combination of jazz piano, bass and drums, and tap percussion. The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Weisiger Theatre at the Noron Center for the Arts.
    Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts will present Geri Allen & Timeline, a group that has gained standing ovations throughout the country with its tight combination of jazz piano, bass and drums, and tap percussion. The concert is set for 7:...

    Tags: Dance, Arts, Ornette Coleman, Concerts, International Travel

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