Chicago Jazz Festival offers performances at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington) and on three stages in Grant Park: the Jazz and Heritage Family Stage (Columbus and Harrison), the Jazz on Jackson Stage (Jackson and Lake Shore Drive), and the Petrillo Music Shell (Columbus and Jackson). For information call 312-744-3370.
Thursday, AUGUST 29
CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
12:15 Roscoe Mitchell with Kelan Phil Cohran, George Lewis & Jeff Parker
4:30 Uri Caine
Petrillo Music Shell
6:00 David Sanchez Quintet
7:10 Patricia Barber
:20 Chico Hamilton & Euphoria with Arthur Blythe & Larry Coryell
Friday, AUGUST 30
CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
12:15 Scott Rosenberg Chicago Big Band Project
Petrillo Music Shell
6:00 Chicago Jazz Ensemble
7:10 Ray Anderson’s Pocket Brass Band
:20 Ahmad Jamal with George Coleman
Saturday, AUGUST 31
JAZZ & HERITAGE FAMILY Stage
12:30 Children’s Dance Theater of Chicago
1:45 David Hernandez & Street Sounds
3:00 Yoko Noge’s Jazz Me Blues
4:15 Dushun Mosley
JAZZ ON JACKSON STAGE
NOON Grazyna Auguscik
1:05 Butch Thompson
2:10 Ron Perrillo Trio
3:25 Ken Chaney, Harrison Bankhead, Kobe Watkins, Eric Schneider, Ari Brown, Mwata Bowden & Duke Payne
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 Oliver Lake & Mal Waldron
6:00 Jimmy Heath with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra
7:10 Carla Cook Quintet
:20 Wayne Shorter Quartet
Sunday, SEPTEMBER 1
JAZZ & HERITAGE FAMILY Stage
12:30 Danilo Perez
1:45 Jodie Christian
3:00 Najib Bahri & El Amal
4:15 Langston Hughes’s Weary Blues with Quraysh Ali Lansana & the T.S. Galloway Septet
JAZZ ON JACKSON STAGE
NOON Windy City All-Stars with Franz Jackson
1:05 John McLean Quintet
2:10 Chuchito Valdes
3:25 Maggie Brown
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 Von Freeman Quartet with Eddie Johnson
6:00 George Lewis & the Now Orchestra with Fred Anderson, Bill Brimfield & Roscoe Mitchell
7:10 Eric Reed Trio, Russell Gunn, Steve Davis, Claire Daly, Seamus Blake & Jim Gailloreto
:20 Sphere with Phil Woods