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Music, Concert Preview Feb 28, 2020
Recommended
Celebrated guitarist Jeff Parker builds electrifying jazz songs out of experimental demos on Suite for Max Brown
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Jeff Parker, The New Breed, Suite for Max Brown, jazz, Tortoise, Rodan, Los Angeles, International Anthem, Korg, synthesizer, Ruby Parker, Makaya McCraven, Paul Bryan, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 18, 2020
Video
Drummer Jeremy Cunningham releases a dense but delicate jazz record to honor his late brother

Plus: The Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew rocks the Vaginal Davis exhibit at the Art Institute, and Chicago songwriter Wyatt Waddell plays Behind the Scene at Schubas.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Jeremy Cunningham, Resavoir, The Weather Up There, Jeff Parker, Paul Bryan, Josh Johnson, Northern Spy, Constellation, Mykele Deville, Akenya Seymour, Will Miller, Vaginal Davis, SAIC, School of the Art Institute, Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew, BIPOC, Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room, Blacker Face, Breathing Light, Mermaid N.V., Uhuruverse, YGSLRHSTFUT, Wyatt Waddell, Schubas, Behind the Scene, Cyber Eyes, Video

Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2016
The ten best jazz records of 2016

The cream of this year’s crop includes a large-ensemble concept album about conspiracy theories, a tug-of-war between loops and live-band grooves, and an amazing hybrid of jazz and hip-hop.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, jazz, best, top ten, 2016, albums, Mary Halvorson Octet, Away With You, Firehouse 12, JD Allen Trio, Americana, Savant, Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables, Pi, Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs, Jeff Parker, The New Breed, International Anthem, Jim Black Trio, The Constant, Intakt, Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone, Anna Högberg Attack, Omlott, Tim Stine Trio, Astral Spirits, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Real Enemies, New Amsterdam, Darcy James Argue, Secret Society, Ensemble Double Up, Henry Threadgill, Meltframe, Susan Alcorn, Gregg August, Rudy Royston, Jason Moran, David Virelles, Curtis MacDonald, Roman Filiu, Jose Davila, Christopher Hoffman, Craig Weinrib, Butch Morris, Zooid, Cory Smythe, Chris Tordini, Fung Chern Hwei, Kyle Armbrust, Rubin Kodheli, Jamire Williams, Paul Bryan, Josh Johnson, Thomas Morgan, Elias Stemeseder, Damion Reid, Carlos Homs, Maciek Lasserre, HPrizm, Gaston Bandimic, Malin Wättring, Elin Larsson, Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Anna Lund, Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly

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