The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is one of the best-programmed events of its kind anywhere, thanks to the resilient and resourceful people, many of them volunteers, who organize and coordinate it.
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By James Porter, contributing writer
All-day Saturday, everything from free jazz improvisers to large ensembles took to stages on the Midway Plaisance and in various buildings across the surrounding University of Chicago.
Read MoreBy Hannah Edgar
Welcome to the Hyde Park Jazz Fest, where Bird, Billie and Blakey inspire more ardor than the Boss. The festival punches in the same weight class as the Chicago Jazz Fest when it comes to megastar billings but arguably covers a wider spread in half the time.
Read MoreBy Lloyd Sachs
It takes more than a gathering of great musicians to make a great jazz festival. For Kate Dumbleton, the much-admired executive and artistic director of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, it takes a vision.
Read MoreThe Hyde Park Jazz Festival, a nonprofit working to support the development of jazz in Chicago, has programmed more than a dozen free performances through its Artist Corps Fellowship and Back Alley Jazz music series, as well as a fall festival to cap off the season.
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