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Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2019
The Reader’s guide to the 2019 Chicago Jazz Festival

Its sprawling cross section of the genre includes world-changing explorers the Art Ensemble of Chicago, trad band the Fat Babies, venerable guitarist George Freeman, and restless experimenter Rob Mazurek.
- By John Corbett
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival 2019, Millennium Park, Chicago Cultural Center, jazz, Constellation, Elastic Arts, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, Ernest Dawkins, Live the Spirit Residency, Transition East, South Side Jazz Coaltion, Birdhouse, Fred Anderson, jazz festivals, free festivals, Christian McBride, Ambrose Akinmusire, Eddie Palmieri, Latino-America Unida, Migue Zenon, Antonio Sanchez, Melissa Aldana, David Virelles, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Freddy Cole, Ben Sidran, Young Jazz Lions, Anton Hatwich, Ben LaMar Gay, Jeremy Cunningham, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Russ Johnson, Rob Mazurek, Fat Babies, Dave Rempis, George Freeman, Billy Branch, Mike Reed, Jazz Institute of Chicago

Music, Music Feature Aug 22, 2019
The Jazz Festival’s orbit bustles with too much music for one weekend

Its ten days of neighborhood concerts, satellite shows, and aftersets include Kidd Jordan, Angel Bat Dawid, Jeff Parker, Marc Ribot, and Ben Sidran.
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, aftershows, satellite shows, neighborhood concerts, Dog/Days, Constellation, Hungry Brain, Jazz Showcase, Ira Sullivan, Angel Bat Dawid, Resavoir, Kidd Jordan, Preservation of Fire, Elastic Arts, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Ernest Dawkins, Live the Spirit Residency, Transition East, South Side Jazz Coalition, Fred Anderson, Birdhouse, JD Allen, Marc Ribot, Cooper-Moore, Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Akenya, Akenya Seymour, Bill MacKay, Jeff Parker, Paul Giallorenzo, Ben Sidran, Douglas Ewart, Jim Baker, Kent Kessler, Mike Reed

Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 11, 2018
Honoring Englewood’s musical history with a cast of hundreds

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Quantum Englewood, Ernest Dawkins, Rahul Sharma, Old Town School of Folk Music, Live the Spirit Residency, Music Moves Chicago, Joyce Foundation, Lindblom Academy, Ben LaMar Gay, Maggie Brown, Funkadesi, AACM, Live the Spirit Jazz Ensemble, Fernando Jones’s Blues Kids, Soul Children Gospel Choir, Bucket Boys, Devin Shaffer, Yarrow, Cluster, Manic Static, Cut Worms, Max Clarke, Hollow Ground, At Home, Jagjaguwar, Dumpster Tapes, Schubas

Music, Music Feature Sep 16, 2015
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Jazz grows under Ernest Dawkins's feet

By staying put in his hometown, this Chicago saxophonist has nurtured generations of musicians—and a south-side festival that's now in its 16th year.
- By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Ernest Dawkins, New Horizons Ensemble, Yosef Ben Israel, Jeff Parker, Avreeayl Ra, Marquis Hill, Memory in the Center, an Afro Opera: Homage to Nelson Mandela, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, Maurice Brown, Corey Wilkes, Nicole Mitchell, David Boykin, Aaron Getsug, Greg Ward, Norman Palm, Isaiah Spencer, Englewood, Hamilton Park, Alexis Lombre, James Wenzel, Isaiah Collier, Jeremiah Collier, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Kahil El'Zabar, Englewood Jazz Festival, Live the Spirit Residency, Live the Spirit Big Band, Bobby Dawkins, Regal Theater, Black Artists Group, James Johnson, Vandercook College of Music, Von Freeman, South Side Street Songs, Fred Anderson, Washington Park, Video

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The Reader’s guide to the 2019 Chicago Jazz Festival

Its sprawling cross section of the genre includes world-changing explorers the Art Ensemble of Chicago, trad band the Fat Babies, venerable guitarist George Freeman, and restless experimenter Rob Mazurek.

The Jazz Festival’s orbit bustles with too much music for one weekend

Its ten days of neighborhood concerts, satellite shows, and aftersets include Kidd Jordan, Angel Bat Dawid, Jeff Parker, Marc Ribot, and Ben Sidran.

Honoring Englewood’s musical history with a cast of hundreds

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.

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The Reader’s guide to the 2019 Chicago Jazz Festival

Its sprawling cross section of the genre includes world-changing explorers the Art Ensemble of Chicago, trad band the Fat Babies, venerable guitarist George Freeman, and restless experimenter Rob Mazurek.

The Jazz Festival’s orbit bustles with too much music for one weekend

Its ten days of neighborhood concerts, satellite shows, and aftersets include Kidd Jordan, Angel Bat Dawid, Jeff Parker, Marc Ribot, and Ben Sidran.

Honoring Englewood’s musical history with a cast of hundreds

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.

Video Jazz grows under Ernest Dawkins's feet

By staying put in his hometown, this Chicago saxophonist has nurtured generations of musicians—and a south-side festival that's now in its 16th year.

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Jazz grows under Ernest Dawkins's feet