HYDE PARK — The 14th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival kicks off this weekend with a mix of virtual concerts and small, in-person performances spread throughout the neighborhood.
Read MoreNormally at this time of year, music lovers would be getting ready to flock to dozens of performances – indoors and out – at the 14th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Read MoreBy Bill Meyer
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which in recent years has become a world-class event in its own right, hasn't been flat-out canceled, but COVID-19 and its accompanying economic punishment have forced its organizers to radically reimagine its programming. They've also had to adopt a white-knuckled, wait-and-see approach to deciding what they'll actually do on the ground—an enervating state of irresolution that will be familiar to the parents, teachers, and administrators who've just spent the summer wondering where and how the kids will get their schooling.
Read MoreChicago residents strolled along tree-lined streets in the South Shore community Saturday to listen to short pop-up concerts as part of the third annual Back Alley Jazz. From noon to 5 p.m., eight performances took place in 30-minute increments in driveways, front lawns and other outdoor spaces.
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Saxophonist Greg Ward and bass player Christian Dillingham perform a “jazz postcard” on Bynum Island in Washington Park, on Saturday afternoon.
Read MoreBy Aaron Gettinger, staff writer
Current plans call for the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, last of the neighborhood's warm weather cultural events, to be the only one with in-person events. Alongside a big virtual concert on Sept. 26, artists are slated to perform at mobile stages across Hyde Park on Sept. 27.
Read MoreBy Howard Reich
A few months ago, Kate Dumbleton had the 14th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival pretty much mapped out.
As always, the event would feature September performances in venues across the historic neighborhood, concerts in the University of Chicago’s Logan Center, commissioned work and more.
Read MoreBy James Porter
A strong community feeling permeated The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which ran Sept. 28-29 across twelve different locations on Chicago’s South Side.
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By Philip Montoro and Michael Jackson
This past weekend the 13th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival brought 36 performances by local, national, and international artists to more than a dozen venues and stages in and around Hyde Park.
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By Aaron Cohen
As Angel Bat Dawid conducted her newly commissioned orchestral “Requiem For Jazz,” on Saturday at the Logan Center Performance Hall, she ended with the declaration, “Everyone on this stage is the promise.” She was referring to the musicians in her ensemble and for their assurance that they will keep the music’s legacy alive. One could say the same thing about the entire Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
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By Jeff Cebulski
While the South Side festival continues its two-day format, a significant majority of its acts will play on Saturday, Sept. 28, in fourteen different venues scattered near and within the University of Chicago area.
Read MoreBy Howard Reich
This city overflows with music festivals, from the raucous to the serene.
But none feels quite like the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, an event that embraces and celebrates its singular neighborhood.
Read MoreBy Britt Julious
Like her music, composer, clarinetist and singer Angel Elmore (who performs as Angel Bat Dawid) is passionate, intelligent, and forthright. But more importantly, she is on a mission. Period.
“I’m not a politician. I don’t really like weapons. I don’t really like going to marches and stuff like that,” Elmore said. “But I am a musician, and I believe in the power of sound, and I really do believe that if I put this intention out sonically, it really will change stuff. I really do.”
Read MoreWith a new record in the wings – and concerts around the world – one of Chicago’s hidden musical talents is increasingly becoming not so hidden. He recently turned 21 years old – but musically, Isaiah Collier is an old soul.
Read MoreHYDE PARK — The two-day Hyde Park Jazz Festival returns for its 13th edition this weekend, getting local, national and international jazz artists acquainted with the South Side’s rich musical history.
Read MoreBy Mark Guarino
In just a few years, Angel Bat Dawid has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in Chicago’s free jazz scene. The clarinetist–composer has performed in ensembles led by Ben LaMar Gay, Damon Locks, and Roscoe Mitchell, and founded a collective called the Participatory Music Coalition. Earlier this year, the Chicago label International Anthem released her acclaimed debut The Oracle.
Read MoreBy Bill Meyer
The happy paradox of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival is that while it was instituted to celebrate the jazz legacy of Chicago’s south side, its programming puts it on par with great jazz festivals around the globe. It commissions new projects from rising local musicians.
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The Polish festival Jazztopad, which turns 16 in November, is extending its reach into the United States, marking its fifth year of events in New York and its first in Chicago, where the Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar will present a new chamber-music piece, Ahwaal (the title translates roughly as “states of consciousness”), on Sept. 28 as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Read MoreBy Pat Nabong
South Shore residents and people from around Chicago gathered for Back Alley Jazz Festival, which is reviving a tradition that started in the ‘60s.
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