The Shadows and the Light, the new album from Chicago drummer Quin Kirchner, is an eclectic collection of freewheeling studio performances with a diverse range of sounds. On its second track, “Batá Chop,” the album features influences of West African batá drum and traces of Afro-Cuban drumming (which Kirchner learned as a teenager while studying […]
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Getting ‘Graphic!’ at the Chicago Humanities Festival
A preview of four talks this weekend
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The first black leader of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, Heather Ireland Robinson, talks segregation and infrastructure
Robinson embarks on her 20th year in Chicago arts administration by taking the reins of the Jazz Institute.
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Mahogany L. Browne describes the making of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 2: Black Girl Magic
“Anything that doesn’t celebrate a black woman is only a distraction.”