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Contemporary Chicago jazz
To me, the essence of the Chicago jazz and improvised-music community is live performance. More than records made in many other jazz cities, records made in Chicago are documents of what a band does onstage—and that’d be a fair description of almost everything on my list. An aesthetic shaped by onstage performance tends to make […]
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Chicago Reed Quartet’s posthumous debut reminds us of what we’re missing
Ensemble member Dave Rempis releases Western Automatic, recorded last year at the Hungry Brain.