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Nicole Mitchell’s Malian Collaborations
Flutist Nicole Mitchell put new friends through changes for the 2024 album Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE), which she…
Dec 17, 2024 10:17 AM
Flutist Nicole Mitchell put new friends through changes for the 2024 album Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE), which she…
Apr 4, 2023 1:42 PM
Just as jazz today casts its own light on the nation’s cultural movements, the music played a similar role 50 years…
Dec 6, 2022 1:07 PM
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s bold and challenging images have gone from their origins in the streets of New York to…
Aug 30, 2022 3:01 PM
Trumpeter Jaimie Branch, whose music reflected a boundless imagination and remarkable technique, died Aug. 22 at her…
Aug 9, 2022 2:33 PM
Just before the COVID pandemic, bassist Bob Stroger’s touring itinerary took him around the world. He also recorded…
Jun 14, 2022 2:23 PM
When pianist Horace Tapscott saw a need for more performance opportunities in Los Angeles in 1961, he created the Pan…
May 17, 2022 1:38 PM
Trumpeter Marquis Hill speaks in quietly determined tones. Through a Zoom conversation from his college office in…
Feb 22, 2022 1:31 PM
The morning after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, trumpeter Charlie Sepúlveda looked around his town of…
Feb 15, 2022 1:17 PM
Back in January 2021, the world was in deep lockdown and the jazz trio Artifacts performed a concert to a nearly empty…
Jan 11, 2022 2:13 PM
About five years ago, Darius Jones decided to take a break. At the time, the New York-based saxophonist found himself…
May 25, 2021 11:26 AM
After almost 50 years, organist Doug Carn is having one of his biggest moments. A series of albums he recorded in the…
Nov 3, 2020 12:29 PM
Cellist Tomeka Reid remembers when she started telling people about her quartet. Not everyone was encouraging about…
Aug 14, 2020 1:54 PM
Few impresarios spent as many decades maintaining a home for jazz as Chicago’s Joe Segal, who died Aug. 10 at the age…
May 5, 2020 9:03 AM
Pianist Aaron Parks writes compositions that bring together jazz, rock and electronica, while his Little Big quartet…
Apr 7, 2020 8:54 AM
Chicago guitarists Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanovic started working together during the mid 1990s—just after Ivanovic…
Apr 21, 2020 11:31 AM
About 12 years ago, drummer Jeremy Cunningham had plenty of reasons to feel that his life was going great. He was…
Mar 12, 2020 5:13 PM
In terms of style, background, recognition and—perhaps, most famously—temperament, drummer Buddy Rich and…
Feb 7, 2020 9:29 AM
Now in its 91st year, the University of Wisconsin’s Summer Music Clinic in Madison has established a history of…
Nov 28, 2019 11:52 PM
One night in November 1955, a cooperative then known as The Jazz Messengers took the stage of New York’s Cafe…
Aug 4, 2019 6:30 PM
When Daniel Weltlinger was growing up in Sydney, Australia, he heard his grandfather Zoltan Fischmann’s stories of…
Jun 24, 2019 4:26 PM
Tony Bennett continues to find new ways to make time abide by his rules: After decades of concerts, he still declares…
May 15, 2019 10:15 AM
The Chicago Jazz Orchestra recently marked its 40th anniversary, and the ensemble commemorated the milestone with a…
Mar 21, 2019 10:18 AM
For more than four decades, percussionist Kahil El’Zabar’s vision has embraced tradition and the future, the local…
Jan 22, 2019 9:42 AM
Makaya McCraven uses various means to create and redirect energy, as evidenced on his latest album, Universal Beings…
Dec 5, 2018 9:26 AM
Saxophones surround multi-reedist Greg Fishman every time he walks into his Evanston, Illinois, studio and he’d never…
Dec 4, 2018 9:35 AM
Vocalist Lizz Wright has much to be proud of, including her latest accolade: Her latest release, Grace (Concord),…
Sep 4, 2018 9:40 AM
Angélique Kidjo traversed continents before she heard Talking Heads’ Remain In Light. But her Aug. 6 concert at…
Jul 26, 2018 9:21 AM
During Nellie McKay’s recent performance at the venue SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, her affability was refracted by a…
May 18, 2018 9:24 AM
Pianist Charles Joseph Smith always has used music to challenge limitations. When this world offered him only scant…
May 11, 2018 1:31 PM
A few years ago, singer Bettye LaVette was backstage at a festival in Italy and found herself walking about 50 feet…
Apr 3, 2018 11:12 AM
Dutch singer Fay Claassen’s assured sense of time and impeccable phrasing cover a wide terrain. On her recent, disc…
Jan 26, 2018 11:33 AM
Singer Julie London was her own harshest critic, but skepticism was not the feeling that came across when she…
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Drummer Makaya McCraven was in a jubilant mood during his quartet’s set at Chicago’s Thalia Hall on Dec. 2. “This…
Oct 20, 2017 6:15 PM
Singer Mavis Staples has offered a warm and uplifting voice through challenging times for more than 50 years. Her…
Aug 10, 2017 6:26 PM
Just after Tony Bennett jaunted onstage at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois, on Aug. 4, he sang the Gordon Jenkins…
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The exact dates the mysterious tapes rolled to capture Wes Montgomery and his group are unknown — it was probably…