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City Winery founder and CEO Michael Dorf spoke during an online town hall about his plans for bringing music back to the venue.

City Winery CEO Michael Dorf discusses reopening plans: ‘We want to err on the side of caution’

June 16, 2020 at 10:12 a.m.

The jury is still out on when City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph St., will reopen for performances and indoor dining. But when it does, the place will look and feel...

Celisse Henderson’s ‘Freedom’ video confronts today’s turbulence

June 16, 2020 at 9:06 a.m.

The video I can't stop watching, the video that addresses this turbulent moment in American history more succinctly than most, feels as if it were produced in the last 24...

Amandla Stenberg, left, and Andre Holland in a scene from "The Eddy." The musical drama series is a collaboration between "La La Land" director Damien Chazelle and six-time Grammy Award winner Glen Ballard.

Commentary: Why Damien Chazelle’s Netflix series ‘The Eddy’ atones for the sins of ‘Whiplash’

June 15, 2020 at 8:22 a.m.

Jazz doesn't usually fare well in dramatizations, as any number of Hollywood films attest. Bebop genius Charlie Parker emerged as a drugged-out buffoon in Clint Eastwood's demeaning biopic "Bird" (1988);...

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing solo at the Pritzker Pavilion in 2019.

Yo-Yo Ma’s ‘Goat Rodeo’ Millennium Park concert canceled

June 12, 2020 at 11:59 a.m.

A concert that was to have featured cellist Yo-Yo Ma and colleagues at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park has been canceled. "This cancellation was...

Grant Park Music Festival artistic director and principal conductor Carlos Kalmar has curated Festival Remixed.

Grant Park Music Festival re-emerges online and on the air

June 9, 2020 at 7:16 a.m.

Summer without the Grant Park Music Festival is like downtown Chicago without the skyline – unimaginable. But with the entire 2020 season canceled due to the coronavirus, it seemed as...

Art Hoyle of Mike Reed's People, Places and Things Octet performing at the Millennium Park Concert Program 2008 during their Monday evening performance at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Monday August 25, 2008.

Remembering trumpeter Art Hoyle: A Chicago jazz master

June 8, 2020 at 11:10 a.m.

If you've gone out to hear jazz in the past 65 years or so, chances are you've heard Art Hoyle – even if you didn't know it. The exceptional trumpeter...

Spektral Quartet, from left, violinist Maeve Feinberg, cellist Russell Rolen, violinist Clara Lyon and violist Doyle Armbrust, performs with soprano Kiera Duffy at Fulton Recital Hall Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018, at the University of Chicago.

The Spektral Quartet takes philosophies online, rather than placing their performances there

June 2, 2020 at 12:15 p.m.

What happens when one of Chicago's most innovative contemporary music ensembles can't rehearse or perform? In the case of the Spektral Quartet, the musicians apparently go through several stages of...

CHARLIE PARKER --
Charlie Parker took jazz music — and its innovative upbeat bebop genre — to new heights in the 1940s. Using his saxophone, creativity and songwriting skills, he wrote music that he played at Harlem after-hours clubs, and collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and others.
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In this May 8, 1949 file photo, Charlie Parker performs in Paris.

From Charlie Parker to Eddie Johnson, remembering jazz centenarians during a pandemic

June 2, 2020 at 11:22 a.m.

This was going to be a year of great jazz centennials. For 1920 marked the birth of several jazz musicians who either changed the course of the music or deeply...

Jim Hirsch, executive director of Chicago Sinfonietta, at his office in Chicago on Tuesday, July 14, 2009.

Jim Hirsch, Chicago Sinfonietta’s longtime CEO, reflects on his tenure as he prepares to step down

May 27, 2020 at 4:22 a.m.

Last July, Chicago Sinfonietta CEO Jim Hirsch thought he knew exactly how his exit from the organization would proceed: This month, he would stand onstage at Orchestra Hall for the...

Davenport's owners Donna Kirchman (left) and Sue Berry inside their club: The music will return, they say.

Davenport’s cabaret looks optimistically to the future

May 26, 2020 at 10:35 a.m.

When it comes to cabaret in Chicago, one uncommonly intimate venue serves as ground zero for the art form: Davenport's, at 1383 N. Milwaukee Ave. Which means that since music...

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