On Monday, August 1, jazz trombonist Jeb Bishop will move back to Chicago after a ten-year absence. Bishop and his wife headed to North Carolina in spring 2012 (Carrboro and later Durham) and then in early 2016 to Boston. While living in Boston, Bishop built a new creative community that included at least one old […]
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Finding ways to play through the pandemic
Chicago improvisers Tim Daisy and Matt Piet have responded to the challenges of COVID by learning new ways to record alone.
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Jazz bassist Jason Roebke brings together unexpected sounds in his edgy quartet, Combination
On the sonic confusion of the ubiquitous bassist and his quartet
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Sunday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers
Robert Glasper Quartet and others close out Jazz Fest’s final day.
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Saturday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers
Jason Moran and Gregory Porter highlight a jam-packed third day of Jazz Fest.
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Best shows to see: Azita, Jeb Bishop, Six Organs of Admittance, Foxygen
This weekend’s best concerts include Azita, Jeb Bishop, Six Organs of Admittance, Foxygen, High on Fire, and the last Country Calendar show
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Tim Daisy’s Relay Recordings
Relay Recordings, a label founded by drummer Tim Daisy, steps up with a new Vox Arcana album
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Mike Reed, the improviser
The People Issue: Mike Reed, jazz drummer and music festival impresario
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Free jazz from Poland at the Hideout on Wednesday
The Polish duo Mikrokolektyw finish up their Chicago visit with a performance at the Hideout on Wednesday.
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Aram Shelton returns for a tour of Chicago
Plus: A Chicago label releases a comp of Mauritanian guitar, the core of CoCoComa becomes the Marble Vanity
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Post-Rock and the Amazon
Ken Vandermark performs Saturday 4/2 at a free screening of the Amazon river documentary “Roads of Water,” which he scored. Also showing clips from “Roads” director Augusto Contento’s in-progress post-rock-doc “Parallax Sounds.”
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Celebrating Fred Anderson
Four collaborators of Fred Anderson pay homage to the master Wednesday night at the Hideout.
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The List: April 15-21, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Best Coast, Finntroll, Hot Chip, the Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh Quartet, and more