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    Apr 1, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Millennium Park jazz season announced

    Drummer Jack DeJohnette, singer Dee Alexander and drummer Dana Hall will headline the annual “Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz” series this summer at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, near Randolph Drive and Michigan Avenue.
    Drummer Jack DeJohnette, singer Dee Alexander and drummer Dana Hall will headline the annual “Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz” series this summer at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, near Randolph Drive and Michigan Avenue....

    Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment Events, Millennium Park, Chicago Jazz Fest, New Music Mondays Millenium Park

    2. Nov 1, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Jazz Scene: Jack DeJohnette in hometown to mark hitting 70

    Drummer Jack DeJohnette is having a very good year.
    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: Music Industry, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Music, Entertainment

    3. Sep 2, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. 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 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: Prince (music artist), Music Industry, Fred Anderson, Entertainment Events, Music Theater

    4. Aug 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Von Freeman, Chicago jazz legend, dead at 88

    Revered around the world but never a major star, worshipped by critics and connoisseurs but perpetually strapped for cash, the towering Chicago tenor saxophonist Von Freeman practically went out of his way to avoid commercial success. When trumpeter Miles Davis phoned Freeman, in the 1950s, looking for a replacement for John Coltrane, Freeman never returned the call.
    Revered around the world but never a major star, worshipped by critics and connoisseurs but perpetually strapped for cash, the towering Chicago tenor saxophonist Von Freeman practically went out of his way to avoid commercial success. When trumpeter Miles...

    Tags: Horse and Harness Racing, Jazz (genre), Music Industry, Fred Anderson, Dining and Drinking

    5. Jun 18, 2010 |Column| Chicago Tribune
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    6. Dec 19, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Louis Armstrong moves to Chicago

    At 11:30 p.m. on this date, the Illinois Central train from New Orleans eased into Chicago's 12th Street Station carrying an unknown, 21-year-old trumpeter who soon would turn the city-- and the rest of the world--on its ear. "When the conductor came through the train hollering, `Chicago, next stop' . . . a funny feeling started running up and down my spine," Louis Armstrong recalled later. "I was all eyes looking out of the window. . . . Anybody watching me closely could have easily seen that I was a country boy."
    Tribune staff reporter
    At 11:30 p.m. on this date, the Illinois Central train from New Orleans eased into Chicago's 12th Street Station carrying an unknown, 21-year-old trumpeter who soon would turn the city-- and the rest of the world--on its ear. "When the conductor came...

    Tags: Gene Ammons, Louis Armstrong, Chicago, Jazz (genre), Music Industry

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