Headliners Robyn, Haim, and the Isley Brothers are joined on the bill by the likes of Pusha T, Stereolab, and Mavis Staples.
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Wadada Leo Smith returns to Chicago to conduct the AACM Great Black Music Ensemble
Four years after its golden anniversary, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians asserts a contemporary presence that extends its legacy. The organization first convened on Chicago’s south side as a collective, community-rooted effort to create possibilities for African-American musicians of all ages and experience levels to present their own music. In 2018 the […]
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Three Beats: Cellist Tomeka Reid steps out with Hear in Now
Tomeka Reid and Hear in Now, Super Minotaur’s first LP, and Lord Mantis’s vile Pervertor
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Fred Anderson Feted in Millennium Park on Thursday
On Thursday night Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion hosts a free celebration of great Chicago tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson. The legendary proprietor of the Velvet Lounge won’t actually be playing, but the focus of the show—part of a series of events marking his 80th birthday—will be on Anderson’s tunes, which are inextricably linked to his singular […]