When the word “academic” is applied to jazz, it’s not necessarily a compliment. But these three players, all of whom teach at universities, make music that could keep you at school till the sun comes up. The success of General Semantics, the debut album by Northern Illinois University’s Geof Bradfield (tenor and soprano saxophones, bass […]
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New York’s Slavic Soul Party! reimagine Duke Ellington’s Far East Suite
Wild Balkan brass band Slavic Soul Party! add their distinctive flavor to Ellington’s late-60s Eastern-inspired masterpiece.
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Jim Dorling of the Pillowhammer on a kinder, gentler sort of earworm
Current musical obsessions of the Reader’s Peter Margasak, the Pillowhammer’s Jim Dorling, and the Father Costume’s Sam Wagster
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Your comprehensive guide to the 37th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Previews of every act in Millennium Park and beyond, including Fred Hersch in his overdue festival debut and AACM cofounder Muhal Richard Abrams leading a historic reunion of the Experimental Band
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Saturday: Terell Stafford plays Billy Strayhorn
Trumpeter Terell Stafford and his quintet highlight a weekend celebrating the music of Bill Strayhorn