Alto saxist Boyce Brown, aka Brother Matthew, won a Down Beat readers’ poll in 1940, but because he recorded so rarely he’s all but forgotten today.
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Saxophonist Joe Daley helped pioneer free jazz in the late 50s
Joe Daley cut a live trio album at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963 that became an early entry in the free-jazz canon.
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Saxophonist John Gilmore played with Sun Ra for 40 years
If John Gilmore hadn’t been so committed to the spaceways, he might’ve influenced avant-garde jazz as profoundly as Coltrane.
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Saxophonist Greg Ward returns to Chicago on Mingus wings
A multidisciplinary project inspired by Mingus’s The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady helped lure Chicago saxophonist Greg Ward back from New York—and it could make for his biggest album yet.
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Blues saxophonist Eddie Shaw still leads the band he assembled for Howlin’ Wolf
Horn players don’t tend to be front men in the blues, but Eddie Shaw has led his own groups for 50 years.
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Listen to Jonah Parzen-Johnson’s solo saxophone and synthesizer fantasias
The Chicago native plays a solo concert Thursday at Elastic.
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Andy’s Music announces lineup for its metamorphosis event
The all-day show will help usher in the shop’s new era.
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Jason Moran builds a bigger bandwagon
Theaster Gates and Ken Vandermark join pianist Jason Moran in an oral history of their evolving Chicago collaboration Looks of a Lot.
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Ryan Hemsworth’s cleaned-up, poppy Guilt Trips and 15 more record reviews
Nine Reader writers tackle 16 albums, including the Dismemberment Plan, Omar Souleyman, and more.
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Best Fallout From a Breakup
No matter what these weirdos get up to, it’s worth your time.
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Caroline Davis, a saxophonist 20 years in the making
Caroline Davis, a spectacular saxophonist 20 years in the making
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Legendary tenor saxophonist Von Freeman dead at 88
Chicago loses an internationally renowned pillar of its jazz community
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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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774th Street Quartet
Chicago isn’t hurting for saxophonists, yet I can’t think of a single jazz sax quartet that’s active in town. The 774th Street Quartet doesn’t quite count–bass saxophonist Thomas Mejer lives in Switzerland and altoist Aram Shelton is now based in Oakland–but it’s not a bad start. The group came together early last year and soon […]
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Alessandro Bosetti
Italian saxophonist and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti vigorously explores the possibilities of his instrument. Last year’s Zona (Grob) is a stunning representation of his extended technique as well as an expression of his interest in electronics: he recorded the piece using six microphones positioned at various distances, then digitally sewed the tracks together. Shifting from […]