We did it! The 20th anniversary Hyde Park Jazz Festival was September 26-27, 2026. thank you to the musicians and the community for making it an extra special celebration!

To purchase a 2026 HPJF Tshirt, use this link.

save the dates september 25-26, 2027! See you next year!

The Festival is a free event, although we welcome a $10 donation. We look forward to seeing you!

click here to view the 2026 HPJF artist line-up and for links to download program for phone or desktop
click here to view the 2026 HPJF artist line-up and for links to download program for phone or desktop

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Review: At 20, Hyde Park Jazz Festival is as essential as ever
Review: At 20, Hyde Park Jazz Festival is as essential as ever

Joshua Redman plays a solo performance at Rockefeller Chapel during the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Sept. 26, 2026, in Chicago. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the Chicago Tribune)

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Jazz Fest hits all the right notes
Jazz Fest hits all the right notes

The Ari Brown Quintet performs on the Midway during the 20th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sept. 27, 2026.

Spencer Bibbs

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Press
Review: At 20, Hyde Park Jazz Festival is as essential as ever
Review: At 20, Hyde Park Jazz Festival is as essential as ever

Joshua Redman plays a solo performance at Rockefeller Chapel during the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Sept. 26, 2026, in Chicago. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the Chicago Tribune)

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Jazz Fest hits all the right notes
Jazz Fest hits all the right notes

The Ari Brown Quintet performs on the Midway during the 20th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sept. 27, 2026.

Spencer Bibbs

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Hyde Park Jazz Fest on Chicago’s South Side to Present 20th Edition
Hyde Park Jazz Fest on Chicago’s South Side to Present 20th Edition

A solo concert by saxophonist Joshua Redman will close the first night of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Sept. 26.

(Photo: Courtesy of Joshua Redman)

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Hyde Park Jazz Festival draws record crowds
Hyde Park Jazz Festival draws record crowds

Hyde Park Herald

By James Porter

Photo By Spencer Bibbs

If the Hyde Park Jazz Festival was ever a secret, the word has gotten around by now. 

While no attendance records have been revealed, established jazz veterans were almost drawing rock star numbers on Saturday, which was centered on the Midway Plaisance, but spread across 12 venues throughout the neighborhood. The gospel-infused sounds of the Soul Message Trio, featuring Chris Foreman on organ, packed them in at the Augustana Lutheran Church on 55th Street. The Paul Giallorenzo Trio played a set at the Logan Center Penthouse that was literally standing room only. This may or may not have been one of the last warm weekends of the year, but if we must say farewell to summer, this was a grand way to do it.

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Hyde Park Jazz Festival conquers federal funding cuts with historic attendance
Hyde Park Jazz Festival conquers federal funding cuts with historic attendance

Chicago Tribune

By Hannah Edgar

Photo By Anastasia Busby

Horrible as it was, Kate Dumbleton saw it coming.Like so many arts administrators, the executive director of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival kept a watchful eye on the news after President Trump announced his intent to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. A glimmer of hope arrived in January, when the agency reaffirmed that the $30,000 promised to the festival would, indeed, be coming through.

It turned out to be false hope. A second letter, in May, announced that the festival’s offer letter had been withdrawn. By now already booked, the festival was left to figure out the shortfall on its own.

“It was a gut punch,” says Dumbleton.

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