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Chi-Town Jazz Fest lineup out
Trumpeter Bobby Lewis, singer Tammy McCann, saxophonist Eric Schneider and guitarist John Moulder will headline the Fourth Annual Chi-Town Jazz Festival, running March 12-22. As always, the event will support hunger relief in Chicago, with musicians and...
Tags: Lake Forest College, Festive Events, Roman Catholicism, Arts and Culture, Michigan Avenue
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Joan Curto celebrates the genius of Cole Porter
Cole Porter died nearly half a century ago – in 1964 at age 73 – yet his songs remain as ubiquitous today as they were then. Which helps explain why one of Chicago's top cabaret singers, Joan Curto, this week is launching an evening-length...
Tags: Howard Reich, Harold Arlen, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Irving Berlin
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Corky Siegel still building bridges with his Chamber Blues
Twenty-five years ago, Chicago bluesman Corky Siegel unveiled a project that continues to obsess him. He called it Chamber Blues, and since its Midwest premiere in 1988 at the Paramount Arts Centre in Aurora, the project has blossomed into an ongoing...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Plymouth, Grant Park
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Patricia Barber delivers a most delicate 'Smash'
Very few musicians can bring the rambunctious Green Mill Jazz Club to a near hush, but Patricia Barber did it through most of her first set Friday night. Granted, the overflow audience clearly knew the significance of the occasion: Barber's debut...
Tags: Poetry, Music Industry, Entertainment, Music
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Guitarist Bobby Broom turns a page in life and music
The past year was a momentous one for the widely admired Chicago guitarist Bobby Broom. His first album made up entirely of original compositions, "Upper West Side Story" (Origin Records), won richly deserved critical accolades and considerable airplay,...
Tags: Upper West Side, Music Industry, Entertainment, Sonny Rollins, North Park
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Patricia Barber: A reluctant star
At exactly two minutes before show time, Patricia Barber whisks into the Green Mill Jazz Club, says a quick hello to the guys on the bandstand, stretches the joints in her hands, places her iPad inside the grand piano, noodles on the keyboard for a...
Tags: Entertainment, Breast Cancer, Travel, Concerts, Tourism and Leisure
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Fat Babies rekindle the Jazz Age in Chicago
Out on the dance floor, young couples are throwing off dance steps right out of the Roaring Twenties: the Charleston, the fox trot, the shimmy. Just inches away, up on the bandstand, youthful musicians you'd sooner expect to find covering Radiohead or...
Tags: Coldplay (music group), Howard Reich, Radiohead (music group), Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Arts and Culture
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Frank Catalano going strong
When it comes to playing through pain, Chicago tenor saxophonist Frank Catalano has more experience than most of his colleagues. Eighteen years ago, he severed the middle finger of his right hand while fixing his car, enduring surgery to reattach it and...
Tags: Howard Reich, Pumpkin, Scott Williams, Entertainment, Smashing Pumpkins (music group)
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An interplanetary journey with Rob Mazurek's Pulsar Quartet
The Chicago cornetist Rob Mazurek has been producing unconventional, conceptually arresting work for years, most notably in his aptly named Exploding Star Orchestra. Amid all of this, however, the music of his Pulsar Quartet stands out for a fragile...
Tags: Entertainment, Music
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Winter jazz preview: From Dianne Reeves to Sonny Rollins, a hot lineup
A buoyant winter season ahead includes: "Shadowgraph: Octets by Franz Schubert and George Lewis": The innovative thinkers at the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) perform major works by masters from two centuries and genres. The repertoire...
Tags: Culture, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Arts and Culture, Plymouth, Vocal Music (genre)
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Jazz roaring ahead for the New Year
The New Year has just begun, but the jazz scene never settles down. Among the weekend's highlights: Rob Mazurek: The enterprising Chicago cornetist has produced remarkable work with his aptly named Exploding Star Orchestra, which conjures a...
Tags: Howard Reich, Entertainment, Plymouth, Jim Ryan, Tony Bennett
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Singer Frank D'Rone hits a high note late in his career
As his old friend Frank Sinatra might have put it, it was a very good year for Chicago singer Frank D'Rone. In April, D'Rone turned 80, and in June he overcame a series of health challenges to play a triumphant comeback engagement at the Jazz Showcase....
Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Frank Sinatra, Chicago Jazz Fest, Jazz (genre)
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