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JC's got a brand-new bag
Ten minutes to showtime. And there was no showman. "Where is he?" asked Ben Taylor, bassist of the Chicago soul revue JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, pacing beside a golf cart ready to whisk him and his band mates to the stage. JC Brooks, their magnetic...
Tags: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (movie), Uptown, Lollapalooza, Chicago Mayor, Festive Events
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34th Jazz Festival closes with victories and defeats
Some of the best music of the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival played during its finale on Sunday night. But so did some of the worst. Several performances at the Petrillo Music Shell projected quite clearly from the acoustically challenged venue. But...
Tags: Weather Reports, Chicago Jazz Fest, Culture, Festive Events, Entertainment
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Scoreboard | Wednesday, August 22
Chicago Tribune reporterBoys golf Andrew 160, Richards 164 Medalist: Bobby Peterson, Andrew, 35 Carmel 148, Libertyville 163 Medalist: Tommy Schofield, Carmel, 35 Cary-Grove 156, Prairie Ridge 162 Medalist: Jarrett Kinney, Cary-Grove, 36 Illiana Christian 163, Shepard 180...Tags: Soccer, Sports
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Highs, lows and turbulent turns at the Chicago Jazz Festival
The Chicago Jazz Festival really ought to be marketed as a roller-coaster ride, its thrilling musical highs counterbalanced by its sudden, plummeting lows. The 34th annual event, which ends Sunday night in Grant Park, careened freely between the two...
Tags: Dizzy Gillespie, Theater, Chicago Jazz Fest, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Music Industry
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Jazz Fest launches with a warm tribute to Ella Fitzgerald
The pleasant, populist program that opened the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival on Thursday night certainly had a great deal going for it. Three top Chicago vocalists. The splendid Chicago Jazz Orchestra. And the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park,...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Allen Toussaint, Chicago Jazz Fest, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Festive Events
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How to awaken a sleeping jazz festival
Two months ago, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival made a bold move, presenting performances for the first time on the South Side of Chicago, in Ellis Park. Throngs turned out. Next month, the World Music Festival will take a bold step, for the first time...
Tags: Finance, Allen Toussaint, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Jazz Fest, New Music Mondays Millenium Park
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'World-class park' to honor Maggie Daley, 'a world-class lady'
Tribune reporterA nearly 20-acre park at the north end of Grant Park that is being redesigned and rebuilt will be named after Maggie Daley, Chicago's late first lady, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today. The redesign was approved earlier this month after several...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Maggie Daley, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Cultural Center
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Interview: Joan Cusack sauntering for a cause she holds dear
It remains to be seen if Charlie Sheen will in fact participate in Saturday’s Dash for Detection 5K Walk/Run for Pancreatic Cancer Research in Grant Park. The controversial actor tweeted earlier this month that he would take part, but his status was...
Tags: Two and a Half Men (tv program), Celebrities, Joan Cusack, Pancreatic Cancer, John Cusack
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What to hear at the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Now that the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival is fully underway – having kicked off Thursday night at Millennium Park – Chicagoans can focus on figuring out what to catch this weekend. Following is an annotated guide to some of the most...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Science and Technology, Chicago Jazz Fest, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Culture
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'Genius grant' winner Ken Vandermark gets nod from Chicago Jazz Festival
The most intriguing work at this year's Chicago Jazz Festival, running Thursday through Sunday, may come from the horn of MacArthur "genius grant" winner Ken Vandermark. As this year's artist-in-residence, the hyperinventive Chicago reedist-bandleader-...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Chicago Jazz Fest, Music, Music Industry, Entertainment Events
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Nonstop week of music surrounds Chicago Jazz Festival
Though the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival surely has its flaws, it generates tremendous energy and interest for America's greatest gift to the arts: jazz. The festival proper features major shows at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Aug. 31 at Pritzker...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Chicago Jazz Fest, Theater, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Chicago Cultural Center
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Message to symphony orchestras in troubled times: Think positive
Fifty years ago, a group of 30 musicians from a dozen different orchestras in the U.S. and Canada met at Roosevelt University here to discuss how they could save their beleaguered profession. It was a terrible time for symphony players. In 1962, most...
Tags: Battles (music group), Interior Policy, Ridge, Politics, Chicago Mayor
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