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Anat Cohen brings new -- and old -- sounds to the clarinet
Only one clarinetist on earth could have come up with the album "Claroscuro," its stylistic breadth expressing the singular esthetic of soloist Anat Cohen. That Cohen careens on this disc from original compositions to Brazilian fare, from historic...
Tags: Jazz Institute of Chicago, Benny Goodman, Israel, Music Industry, Theater
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Chicago Humanities Festival: Let freedom swing
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: Immigration, Artists, Festive Events, Music Industry, PBS (tv network)
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Celebrating Billy Strayhorn with a three-day soiree
The centennial of the inimitable jazz composer Billy Strayhorn doesn't come around until 2015, but, in a way, the festivities will begin this weekend in the Chicago area. A three-day Billy Strayhorn Jazz Festival organized by the Music Institute of...
Tags: Duke Ellington, Documentary (genre), Lana Turner, Festive Events, Music Industry
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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. 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: Michigan Avenue, Arts, Lionel Hampton, Festive Events, Music Industry
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A buoyant, stylistically wide-ranging weekend in Chicago jazz
Any doubts that the fall season has gotten fully underway should be swept aside by this weekend's nearly brisk lineup of jazz offerings: "Women of Chicago Jazz Piano": Jazz listeners tend to think of Chicago as a tenor saxophone town, and for good...
Tags: Jazz Institute of Chicago, Hyde Park, Old Town School of Folk Music, Wynton Marsalis, Gene Ammons
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Victor Garcia trumpets a new septet at emerging Logan Center
When Chicago trumpeter Victor Garcia picks up his horn on Friday night, he'll be making news in at least two ways. He'll be leading a new septet, and he'll be introducing listeners to a potentially major new room: the performance hall at the University...
Tags: Hyde Park, Festive Events, Music Industry, University of Chicago, Entertainment Events
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Jason Adasiewicz makes beautiful vibes
Chicago has a way of producing fabulously eccentric, fiercely individualistic jazz stars. From the free-ranging tenor sax solos of Von Freeman and Fred Anderson to the quirky songwriting of Patricia Barber to the explosive reed work of Ken Vandermark,...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Fred Anderson
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Attractive new scores from Geof Bradfield and Marquis Hill
It was a great weekend for jazz composition, as two noteworthy Chicago musicians showed their skills with a pen, as well as a horn. Saxophonist Geof Bradfield already had caught listeners' attention with "African Flowers," a 2010 recording of his...
Tags: Dizzy Gillespie, Music, Melba Liston, Entertainment, Music Industry
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How to awaken a sleeping jazz festival
Two months ago, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival made a bold move, presenting performances for the first time on the South Side of Chicago, in Ellis Park. Throngs turned out. Next month, the World Music Festival will take a bold step, for the first time...
Tags: Garfield Park Conservatory, Millennium Park, Jazz Institute of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music, Roosevelt University
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The soaring vocal art of Sheila Jordan
A phone rings in the background. A siren screams in the distance. And the indomitable jazz singer Sheila Jordan works those random events into the lyric of the song, as if they had been planned all along. The best jazz artists, of course, always create...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra
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Nonstop week of music surrounds Chicago Jazz Festival
Though the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival surely has its flaws, it generates tremendous energy and interest for America's greatest gift to the arts: jazz. The festival proper features major shows at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Aug. 31 at Pritzker...
Tags: Duke Ellington, Millennium Park, Festive Events, Pepper Adams, New Music Mondays Millenium Park
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Cornet player Josh Berman explores past, future with a host of bold collaborators
Fascinating music constantly bubbles up from the caldron that is Chicago jazz, the latest example coming from the horn and pen of Josh Berman. The very fact that he plays cornet, an instrument largely relegated to the history books, and collaborates with...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Music, Jazz (genre), Hyde Park, Invention and Innovation
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