Apr 29, 2025 11:53 AM
Vocalist Andy Bey Dies at 85
Singer Andy Bey, who illuminated the jazz scene for five decades with a four-octave range that encompassed a bellowing…
CHICAGO, ILL.—The “Made In Chicago: Home Cooked Jazz” concert series will feature local artists paying tribute to jazz legends at one of the city’s hottest outdoor music venues.
The program features five Thursday evening concerts at Milennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion, to run July 26–Aug. 23. A sixth concert, on Aug. 27, kicks off “Jazz Week,” culminating with the Chicago Jazz Festival, which takes place Aug. 30–Sept. 2.
Featured concerts at the “Made In Chicago” series include the Great Black Music Ensemble’s “Tribute to Fletcher Henderson,” Dave Specter’s Chicago Blues/Jazz Summit, and Muhal Richard Abrams and Reginald Robinson’s “Legends and Lions: Ragtime and Beyond.”
The series is being presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Millennium Park and the Jazz Institute of Chicago. For more information, visit millenniumpark.org.
“It kind of slows down, but it’s still kind of productive in a way, because you have something that you can be inspired by,” Andy Bey said on a 2019 episode of NPR Jazz Night in America, when he was 80. “The music is always inspiring.”
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