Artist on Artist: Buke & Gase talk shop with Ian Schneller of Specimen Products.
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Artist on Artist: Kool & the Gang’s Robert ‘Kool’ Bell talks to the Eternals’ Wayne Montana
Kool & the Gang’s Robert ‘Kool’ Bell talks to the Eternals’ Wayne Montana
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Waiting for the fish to bite in the Jackson Park Lagoon
Some people wouldn’t eat anything pulled out of Lake Michigan or other area waterways. Sterling Bledsoe and Ted Marcus are not among them. “Bass is my favorite,” Bledsoe said one afternoon last week as he watched a bobber in the lagoon behind the Museum of Science and Industry. “You have it with eggs and rice […]
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Tatsu Aoki and Jonathan Chen perform live accompaniment to Aoki’s films, Friday 3/18 at Chicago Filmmakers.
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Jason Roebke Alone
Bassist Jason Roebke celebrates the release of his first solo recording on Wednesday night at the Hideout; the Extraordinary Popular Delusions begin a new free weekly gig at the Beat Kitchen on Monday, September 20.
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Abdullah Ibrahim
In 1962 pianist Abdullah Ibrahim left South Africa for Switzerland, where he was discovered the next year by Duke Ellington, who produced his northern-hemisphere recording debut. His jabbing bass notes, well-placed chords, and authoritative attack declare his kinship with Ellington, and also with Thelonious Monk, whose tunes Ibrahim covers from time to time. But those […]
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Abdullah Ibrahim Trio
When they film “The Dollar Brand Story,” they won’t have to dress up the plot. The facts will do just fine–from his birth (1934) and childhood in South Africa to his self-exile in Europe and then America to his mentoring by no less than Duke Ellington in the 60s to his conversion to Islam (and […]