Thank you to everyone who came out for the 2024 Hyde Park Jazz Festival! We loved seeing you and sharing so much music and community!

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Oct 9, 2024

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival faces down uncertainty with defiant artistry

Oct 9, 2024

Chicago Reader

By Michael Jackson

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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, one of the most astutely curated and organized arts events on the Chicago cultural calendar, reached its 18th year the last weekend in September. Except for one brief shower, the rain in the forecast stayed away, and though the Hyde Park Herald had just published a story on the financial headwinds faced by the festival—even suggesting that this could be its final year—neither that news nor the thick gray clouds could dampen the mood. The fest’s usual broadly diverse audience—one of the best features of this south-side jewel—showed up and remained attentive and engaged for all the music on the program, no matter where it landed on the Venn diagram of “challenging,” “educational,” and “fun.”

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Oct 9, 2024

Sep 25, 2024

Hyde Park Jazz Festival is back, packed with primo music — but facing its biggest challenges ever

Sep 25, 2024

Chicago Tribune

By Hannah Edgar

Photo By Chris Sweda

Every great music festival has a few of those moments.

If you’re a music lover, you know them well. You desperately want to catch two — maybe even three or four — spectacular billings at the same time, on different stages. But since humans haven’t yet cracked on-the-spot mitosis, one has to make tough decisions about whom to catch, when, and for how long.

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Sep 25, 2024

Sep 18, 2024

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival returns with a compelling mix of local and out-of-town talent

Sep 18, 2024

Chicago Reader

By Bill Meyer

Photo By Michael Wilson

The programming for this year’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival once again defies the implicit parochialism of the festival’s name: this is a weekend of music that any major city on Earth would be proud to call its own. The two-day fest balances accessible local acts that go well with picnicking on the Midway Plaisance with representatives of Chicago’s cutting-edge improvised-music community, then tops off the bill with excellent out-of-town performers.