Update: This show has been cancelled due to the strike by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s unit of the Chicago Federation of Musicians. For nearly two decades, the Bad Plus has been an anomaly in jazz, achieving a degree of crossover appeal that’s only been matched in recent years by fusion groups such as BadBadNotGood and […]
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The Reader’s comprehensive guide to the 2016 Chicago Jazz Festival
This year’s Chicago Jazz Festival captures the music’s proliferating diversity, with the Bad Plus, Anat Cohen, Erwin Helfer, Tarbaby, JD Allen, the Liberation Music Orchestra, and much more.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 9/7: Windy City Wine Festival, Dave King, and Superchunk
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, September 7
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Earl Sweatshirt’s humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews
Earl Sweatshirt’s humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews
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BadBadNotGood: Odd Future collaborations do not equal groundbreaking jazz
Young Toronto trio BadBadNotGood draws a crowd with Odd Future collaborations, ruffles feathers with ignorant jabs at the jazz world
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Never Mind the Critics
Here’s what local musicians (and other tastemakers) were listening to in 2009.
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Happy 100th, Lester Young
Lester Young Today is the 100th anniversary of Lester Young‘s birth. I’m not going to take up your time telling you who he was or why you should care—chances are you already know and already do, or else there’s no persuading you. What I am going to tell you to do is look at this […]