Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Southern California Fires Hit the Jazz Community
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
Chicago will play host to an evening of free outdoor Latin jazz at the JazzCity Latin Jazz Festival on Friday.
Performing in the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community at the open-air boathouse in Humboldt Park, the three bands taking the stage include the Afro-Cuban sounds of Richie Pillot’s Havana, the traditional Latin jazz of Conjunto and Darwin Noguera’s Evolution Trio, a group that brings contemporary jazz into Latin forms.
The event kicks off at 7:30 p.m. and is part of the city’s annual JazzCity series sponsored by the Chicago Park District and the Jazz Institute of Chicago.
For more details, see jazzinstituteofchicago.org.
Gerald and John Clayton at the family home in Altadena during a photo shoot for the June 2022 cover of DownBeat. The house was lost during the Los Angeles fires.
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