How fitting that the first night of Chicago Jazz Festival week would illuminate the early history of the music, with treasured scores by Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines, James P. Johnson and Fats Wal… ...

Jimmy McPartland, a brilliant cornetist and a critical link to the birth of Chicago jazz in the Roaring `20s, died early Wednesday, two days short of his 84th birthday. Mr. McPartland, who made ...

In 1920s jazz, two related kinds of music get labeled "Chicago style." The first was the updated music New Orleans pioneers such as King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton, played after they moved north.

Album Review Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris. by Mike Jurkovic February 8, 2023. Recorded live in Paris in February 2020, The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris. presents ...

At a time when city-sponsored festivals are getting cut, the Hyde Park Jazz Fest expanded from one day to two and boasted more than 25,000 visitors. Not a bad time for Dumbleton to jump on board.

The Chicago jazz sound amounts to a sum of the city’s Black histories: In it you can usually hear something of the snowy, clamoring traffic in Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” from 1940; the ...

The Randolph Street Market is a mecca for vintage shoppers. This May, things kick-off with their season opener. November-April, markets are held inside at Plumber's Hall in the West Loop.

Art Pepper: Jazz Showcase, Chicago album review by C. Michael Bailey, published on November 3, 2010. ... This 1977 Chicago Art Pepper performance was bootlegged in Spain. As it was stolen to begin ...

The massive one-day markets Libby Alexander and Katherine Raz throw at the Congress Theatre are a riotous good time, but organizing 70-plus vintage vendors, food stalls, photo booths, and DJs ...

One graphic designer had the idea to mash up classic Blue Note Records cover art with Wu-Tang albums. That inspired a new mixtape, out soon. Here are two examples of the rap icons meeting vintage ...

“Jazz is a very democratic art, its founded on a group and teamwork and those kind of principles which would be great if they were more celebrated,” he said. Broom has just released his 14th ...