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    Chief Adjuah performing at this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival.

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    Sonny Rollins’ A Night At The Village Vanguard was the first album documenting the saxophonist as a bandleader in live performance.

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    “Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet on record, that was it!” said Freeman of his early influences.

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    “Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet on record, that was it!” said Freeman of his early influences.

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    The organic nature of Helfer’s artistry is genuine, developed over a lifetime of apprenticeship, appreciation and practice.

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    Helfer has long given children and adults lessons in the living room of his home.

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    Greg Tate not only wrote about music and culture, he became an active participant, too.

    Dec 28, 2021 6:46 PM

    In Memoriam: Greg Tate 1957–2021

    The death of cultural critic and practitioner Greg Tate in New York City on Dec. 7 unexpectedly cut short the career of…

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    Julia A. Miller, owner of Delmark Records

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    Herbie Hancock, and his keytar, drew standing ovations during his Chicago homecoming concert.

    Sep 14, 2021 1:35 PM

    Herbie’s Chicago Homecoming

    As Herbie Hancock demonstrated in his recent return to performance, he is a musician of multitudes. The youthful…

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    Yusef Lateef, 2021 Veterans Committee choice for the DownBeat Hall of Fame

    Aug 17, 2021 12:50 PM

    Yusef Lateef: Never Done Before

    Yusef Lateef came out of the jazz continuum to pursue a career driven by his curiosity and desire to move beyond…

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    The Chicago Cellar Boys provide the musical backdrop to this trip into the 1920s.

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    Sylvain Leroux helms L’Ecole Fula Flute, an alternative school in Guinea that aims to teach students from ages 6 to 20 academic fundamentals, as well as music.

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    Pianist Kris Davis with two of her collaborators on Diatom Ribbons: turntablist Val Jeanty (left) and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington

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    Dee Alexander explores the more obscure songs of Billie Holiday on her latest Delmark release.

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    Miguel Zenón and Melissa Aldana perform Sunday at the Chicago Jazz Festival with Latino-America Unida, a new collective that also included drummer Antonio Sánchez, bassist Ricky Rodriguez and pianist David Virelles.

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    Jamaaladeen Tacuma (center) produced the most recent album for The Last Poets, a collaborative effort called Transcending Toxic Times.

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    Improvising cellist Tomeka Reid’s most recent recording is The Mouser (Relative Pitch), a collaboration with drummer Filippo Monico.

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    Cannonball Adderley (left), Ira Gitler and Dave Brubeck circa 1967

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    Artifacts — Nicole Mitchell (left) Tomeka Reid and Mike Reed — perform at Edgefest in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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    Pianist Ramsey Lewis performs at the Chicago Jazz Festival on Sept. 1.

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    Jamaaladeen Tacuma (left) and Denardo Coleman perform April 29 at the Outsiders Improvised and Creative Music Festival in Philadelphia.

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    Pianist Bethany Pickens (left), bassist Junius Paul, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, drummer Charles Heath and trumpeter Marquis Hill pay tribute to Willie Pickens at an April 18 memorial concert at Chicago’s Studebaker Theater.

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    At Chicago’s Jazz Showcase, trumpeter Russell Gunn will lead Columbia College Chicago students through charts from his forthcoming Get It How You Live.

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    Roscoe Mitchell (foreground) and Fred Berry perform at the Chicago Jazz Festival on Sept. 3.

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    John Dorhauer (center) leads the Heisenberg Uncertainty Players in a performance of “We Tear Down Our Coliseums” at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois, on April 1.

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    Lawrence Brownlee as the title character in Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD

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    Balázs Bágyi (right), president of the Hungarian Jazz Association, performs with his New Quartet during the Hungarian Jazz Showcase and Talent Exchange, which ran Feb. 3–5.

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    Dave King, drummer for the trio The Bad Plus, performs at the Chicago Jazz Festival on Sept. 3.

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    Chick Corea (left) performs with Stefon Harris during a tribute concert to the 2016 NEA Jazz Masters at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on April 4

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    Linda Oh (left, with bass), Jimmy Heath, Lakecia Benjamin and Karriem Riggins perform at the NEA Jazz Masters ceremony in Washington, D.C., on April 4.

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