By Howard Reich
Chicago's best jazz festival energized a city neighborhood over the weekend, drawing large crowds to an ancestral home of the music: the South Side.
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By Peter Margasak
The annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival takes another leap in quality this year, offering the strongest program of its nearly decade-long history.
Read MoreBy Howard Reich
The best jazz festivals offer more great performances than you could possibly attend in their entirety, presented in environments well-matched to the music at hand.
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By Nuria Sheehan
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival began as an experiment. Nine years ago, some passionate jazz fans in the Hyde Park community created and rallied behind the idea of a jazz festival to be presented in different settings across the neighborhood.
Read MoreThere aren’t a lot of cells in jazz. But then again, there aren’t a lot of musicians like Tomeka Reid.
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By Allison Matyus
The hype for the 9th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival is starting to settle in the community, but you haven’t seen anything yet.
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By Sam Rappaport
The last weekend of September will see thousands of jazz fans flocking to Hyde Park for the ninth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival. Chicago’s finest jazz musicians will decorate the stages of various Hyde Park venues over the course of the free, two-day event. Perhaps the most anticipated concert of the festival, however, comes from a musician who has been a staple of the Hyde Park community since 1958—Willie Pickens.
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September 14, 2015
Please tune into WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago this evening at 8 PM CST to hear jazz host John Litweiler conduct a live interview with Mr. Henry Threadgill.
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By Jacky Runice
The Hyde Park Jazz Fest features nearly 40 performances at 14 venues throughout the historic South Side neighborhood. Local artists Tomeka Reid and Mikel Patrick Avery have composed original pieces for the fest, and Avery will lead a full-scale parade down the Festival Midway. Ambrose Akinmusire's project, banyan, is a 60-minute composition with an original video installation. Other standout acts include Regina Carter, Xavier Davis, Henry Threadgill and David Virelles, among others.
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By Jacqueline Runice
The Obama family’s old stomping grounds play host to more than 35 bands playing on 14 stages. That's over 18 hours of moving grooves, melancholy meditations and improvised glee during the 9th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, September 26-27.
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By Howard Reich
Several major attractions have been added to the ninth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, running Sept. 26 and 27 in several locations.
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By Howard Reich
What will the ninth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival bring to the city’s stages?
Rare duos featuring visionary Henry Threadgill with rising young pianist David Virelles and MacArthur Fellowship winner Regina Carter with pianist Xavier Davis.
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By Michael Jackson
Perfect fall weather further sugared the already sweet experience of the 8th annual HydePark Jazz Festival on Chicago’s South Side on Sept. 27–28. Under the creative leadership of artistic director Kate Dumbleton, the event has consistently presented choice collaborations and original concepts from local musicians and those from further afield.
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By Howard Reich
A single neighborhood became the jazz nexus of the city over the weekend, as the eighth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival swung into churches, galleries, the Midway Plaisance and more.
Read MoreDownBeat
Co-produced with the Hyde Park Jazz Society, the festival grows more ambitious each year, earning recognition as a major jazz presenter in Chicago.
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By Neil Tesser
The weather forecast is picture-perfect for this year’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival (Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 27-28) – terrific news for a festival that spreads its performances over a couple of square miles.
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By Howard Reich
It’s the most magical weekend of the year, venues large and small, familiar and novel lighting up a single Chicago neighborhood.
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