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- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2020
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Chicago’s September jazz festivals cope with COVID
The city is replacing its traditional huge outdoor affair with a slimmed-down online event, while the smaller, nimbler Hyde Park Jazz Festival plans to try pop-up in-person shows.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2018
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Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa emerges as a dynamic bandleader on two recent albums
Lisa Mezzacappa takes inspiration from noir fiction for a gritty sextet album and from the writings of bold 19th-century female explorers for a dense big-band recording.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 29, 2017
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Drummer Allison Miller animates her ambitious jazz with crowd-pleasing groove
Her sextet Boom Tic Boom reached new heights last year on Otis Was a Polar Bear.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 22, 2016
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Drummer and bandleader Allison Miller writes and plays with the patience of parenthood
Allison Miller composed the music on Otis Was a Polar Bear, the new album from her band Boom Tic Boom, following the birth of her daughter.
- Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2015
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Monday's MusicNow concert salutes John Zorn and Evanston native Myra Melford
The program features compositions by the two jazz-bred composers, with the latter performing on her works.
- Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: "When a Long Blast Is Sounded," the pensive chamber jazz of Steven Lugerner
The ambitious reedist and composer Steven Lugerner uses the Torah as a compositional tool on his strong new album For We Have Heard.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2009
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Nicole Mitchell performs suites dedicated to Octavia Butler and Alice Coltrane
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2007
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Get in on Nicole Mitchell's next recording
An update on flutist Nicole Mitchell.
