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Posted inFilm

Movie Tuesday: Jazz on film

by Ben Sachs October 15, 2019August 18, 2021

Both highly collaborative art forms often play on improvisation and the music of chance.

Posted inMusic

David Dann on his new biography of blues-rock guitarist Michael Bloomfield

by Jack Riedy October 11, 2019August 18, 2021

From Glencoe to Monterey Pop to oblivion: Michael Bloomfield’s huge talent and unique style changed rock guitar forever, but while Clapton and Hendrix entered the canon, he faded away.

Posted inMusic

Jamila Woods builds on legacies that shook the world

by Tiffany Walden May 1, 2019August 18, 2021

On the new Legacy! Legacy!, Chicago singer and poet Jamila Woods lovingly details how art can learn from the past as it shapes the future.

Posted inBlogs

Two recent Tim Buckley releases from the vaults capture the singer’s improvisational genius

by Peter Margasak February 7, 2018August 18, 2021

Taped during a 1969 Los Angeles engagement, Tim Buckley’s Venice Mating Call and Greetings From West Hollywood showcase his gift for spontaneous experimentation.

Posted inBlogs

A lost 1976 album from Brazilian musical polymath Hermeto Pascoal finally surfaces

by Peter Margasak November 28, 2017August 18, 2021

Hermeto Pascoal’s idea-packed Viajando Com o Som: The Lost ’76 Vice-Versa Studio Session represents a major addition to his discography.

Posted inMusic

Phil Cohran shaped the Black Arts Movement with his vision and discipline

by Steve Krakow July 18, 2017January 5, 2022

Secret History pays tribute to its first subject, the late Phil Cohran, who cofounded the AACM, formed the Artistic Heritage Ensemble, and launched the Affro-Arts Theater.

Posted inFilm

Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival

by Reader staff April 13, 2016August 18, 2021

More than five-dozen music-related dramas and documentaries screen at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival.

Posted inBlogs

Percussionist Dan Weiss builds sonic sculptures from snippets of jazz drums on his new album

by Peter Margasak March 18, 2016August 18, 2021

On Sixteen: Drummers Suite, Dan Weiss uses terse passages from the playing of legendary drummers to build rigorous, complex large-ensemble pieces.

Posted inArts & Culture

Louis Armstrong takes a complex solo in Court Theatre’s Satchmo at the Waldorf

by Tony Adler January 21, 2016August 18, 2021

Louis Armstrong takes a complex solo in Court Theatre’s Satchmo at the Waldorf

Posted inMusic

Ono cofounder P. Michael on soul singer Billy Stewart

by Luca Cimarusti February 23, 2015August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Ono cofounder P. Michael and Lamont “Bim” Thomas of Obnox

Posted inMusic

Guitarist Ryley Walker on the saxophone quartet that rearranged his brain jelly

by Luca Cimarusti December 17, 2014August 18, 2021

Plus: Bike lawyer Colin Cameron on a song that sounds like Einstürzende Neubauten covering Leonard Cohen, the Reader‘s Luca Cimarusti on everything you could ever want to know about prog rock, and more

Posted inMusic

You have no excuse to give anyone a holiday album

by Peter Margasak November 25, 2014August 18, 2021

Especially now that you know about these ten amazing box sets from the likes of Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Pierre Boulez, Captain Beefheart, and Wilco

Posted inBlogs

Listen to ‘Conference of the Birds,’ go see Dave Holland’s Prism on Saturday

by Tal Rosenberg August 26, 2014August 18, 2021

Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is the title track off of the bassist’s 1973 album—he plays the Chicago Jazz Festival Saturday night.

Posted inMusic

The Secret History of Chicago Music: Booker Little

by Chicago Reader June 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Brilliant Chicago-schooled trumpeter Booker Little recorded dozens of albums—including several with Max Roach and Eric Dolphy—before his death at 23.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Sat 5/31: CAKE, the Dance Mile, and Corey Wilkes Quintet

by Taylor Tolbert May 31, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, May 31

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