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- Music, Music Review Jan 22, 2021
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Crazy Doberman take us on unwieldy free-improvised journeys with Two Tales of Lost Witness Marks
- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Jan 20, 2021
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HotHouse meets Havana on the gig poster of the week
The venerable local arts presenter celebrates 34 years by streaming a fabulous lineup of jazz masters from Cuba and Chicago.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 20, 2021
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Finding ways to play through the pandemic
Chicago improvisers Tim Daisy and Matt Piet have responded to the challenges of COVID by learning new ways to record alone.
- Music, Music Review Dec 22, 2020
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The Best of the Miyumi Project celebrates 20 years of Tatsu Aoki’s culture-combining ensemble
- Music, Music Review Dec 9, 2020
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Chicago squares off against New York City on the fourth volume of Mars Williams’s Ayler Xmas project
- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Dec 9, 2020
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Parked on a snow route on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was created by Nashville graphic designer Terri Morris.
- Music, Music Review Nov 30, 2020
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Papo Vázquez leads his Mighty Pirate Troubadours through an uplifting blend of jazz and Caribbean rhythms
- Music, Music Review Nov 25, 2020
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Rob Mazurek’s latest with his Exploding Star Orchestra finds hope in the cosmos
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Nov 19, 2020
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Nearly a century ago, Dave Tough helped define Chicago jazz drumming
He died young, only barely outliving the big-band era, but his influence lives on.
- Music, Music Review Nov 17, 2020
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Veteran pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn releases her first album as a bandleader
- Music, Music Feature Nov 10, 2020
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‘Everybody has to be included for us to truly be free’
Vibraphonist Thaddeus Tukes and the Chicago Freedom Ensemble lend their marching music—and the community they’ve built with it—to the fight for Black lives.
- Music, Music Review Nov 9, 2020
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Brooklyn saxophonist James Brandon Lewis finds inspiration in DNA on Molecular
- Music, Music Review Oct 27, 2020
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Trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes demonstrate their powerful synchronicity
- Music, Chicagoans of Note Oct 15, 2020
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Jumaane Taylor, tap dancer
“I’ve been on this journey to be able to present within the jazz community. . . . To be a union of creative beauty.”
- Music, Music Review Oct 9, 2020
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The improvising trio of Jim Baker, Keefe Jackson, and Julian Kirshner specializes in surprise
- Music, Music Review Oct 7, 2020
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Saxophonist Dayna Stephens’s new double disc shows his knack for reinvention
- Music, Music Review Oct 2, 2020
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Bless the Mad pay homage to Black music history—and to Chicago—on their self-titled debut
- Music, Music Review Oct 1, 2020
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Pianist Matthew Shipp breaks down the essentials of his trio’s sound on The Unidentifiable
- Music, Music Review Sep 22, 2020
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This collective trio gives jazz school a good name
- Music, Music Review Sep 11, 2020
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Eclectic Chicago-based jazz unit the JuJu Exchange contemplate grief on The Eternal Boombox
- Music, Music Feature Sep 10, 2020
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Jazz musicians turn an Old Town porch into a stage
When the pandemic shuttered Chicago’s music venues, pianist Danny Bauer improvised a solution—a nightly concert series right in front of his home.
- Music, Music Review Aug 28, 2020
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The Fire Still Burns as veteran jazz saxophonist Alan Braufman builds on his comeback
- Music, Music Feature Aug 20, 2020
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Remembering Chicago jazz anchor Joe Segal
It's not such a bad thing to be set in your ways when your ways are worth saving.
- Music, Music Review Aug 14, 2020
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Exotic Sin take spiritual jazz and minimalism into the 21st century
- Music, Music Review Aug 11, 2020
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Thumbscrew helps Anthony Braxton celebrate 75 years by recording some of his lesser-known compositions
