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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival reached new heights in 2023
The festival’s bustling constellation of world-class music included a greater diversity of styles than ever before.
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The mightiest double bill at the Chicago Jazz Festival
Two staggeringly prolific titans of the genre—saxophonist Chico Freeman and bassist Ron Carter—play back-to-back at Pritzker Pavilion.
Alexis Lombre brings her many-hued sound world to the Chicago Jazz Festival
The pianist, singer, composer, and producer will share vivid, genre-blurring songs from her forthcoming debut album.
The Chicago Jazz Festival plays it safe
This year’s solid lineup largely lacks the usual avant-garde artists, but plenty of daring satellite shows are still happening around town.
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival & Back Alley Jazz
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival returns to full flower
The crowd at the fest—activists, dancers, students, radio hosts, dog walkers, retired teachers, an ironworker in a tiara—is just as much fun as the top-shelf musicians on its stages.
The ‘new normal’ hangs over another summer of live music
As the pandemic grinds on, so do Chicago’s many music festivals. The Reader collects 16 of the biggest and best—though as usual, there’s little correlation between “biggest” and “best.”
Chicago’s Black musical visionaries charted paths for their communities in the 1950s and ’60s
Sun Ra, Phil Cohran, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians have influenced art and culture for more than half a century.
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