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Guitarist Henry Johnson will step into a richly deserved spotlight this weekend at Winter's Jazz Club.

From bebop to baroque, a lively musical weekend

May 8, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

Three buoyant nights in Chicago music: Henry Johnson. Chicago guitarist Johnson has spent decades bringing swing exuberance to other artists’ work, among them singer Joe Williams, pianist Ramsey Lewis, organist...

Kyle Dickson, shown in the Chicago Composers Orchestra last year, was violin soloist with the Chicago Sinfonietta in Orchestra Hall on Monday evening.

Chicago Sinfonietta review: An inspiring tribute to Dr. King

May 8, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

The words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rang out in Orchestra Hall on Monday evening, a fitting finale to the national holiday marking his legacy. But this time Dr....

‘Who Will Write Our History’: Untold story of the Warsaw ghetto

May 8, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

Resistance comes in many forms: Guns, knives and fists, for sure, but also pens. With nearly half a million Jews packed into the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust, a group...

John Wojciechowski, on sax, leads a quartet during a performance at Jazz Showcase Friday. (Kristen Norman/ for the baiduhai)

Jazz Showcase review: John Wojciechowski extends Chicago tenor traditions

May 8, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

The music students at St. Charles North High School can consider themselves lucky: Their teacher not only knows music but performs it exceptionally well. Saxophonist John Wojciechowski reaffirmed the point...

Harmonica whiz Howard Levy will spotlight two bands and two recordings this weekend at the Green Mill.

Harmonica master Howard Levy revives two historic bands

May 8, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

The art of Howard Levy has many facets, and several will come into a richly deserved spotlight this weekend at the Green Mill Jazz Club. Everyone in jazz knows that...

Orbert Davis leads the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic and a guest musicians in the world premiere of "Chicago Immigrant Stories" last June in Millennium Park.

Chicago Jazz Philharmonic doubles down on ‘Immigrant Stories’

May 8, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning refugees from predominantly Muslim countries, in 2017, Chicago trumpeter-bandleader Orbert Davis went to work. His Facebook protest quickly drew robust responses...

Joseph Jarman at the Chicago Jazz Festival in Chicago in 2005.

Chicago’s Greg Ward leads a brilliant Rogue Parade art Green Mill; a farewell to Joseph Jarman

May 8, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

Chicago saxophonist Greg Ward says he got the name for his newest band – Rogue Parade – from a podcast he heard. Whatever the source, the title seemed just right...

Thomas Hampson performs with conductor Bramwell Lovey and members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center Thursday.

CSO review: Thomas Hampson illuminates American song

May 8, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

For its last subscription concerts before launching an Asian tour, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave hometown listeners an evening of music quite unlike what audiences in Taiwan, China and Japan...

Saxophonist Greg Ward will bring his new music and latest band to the Green Mill Jazz Club this weekend.

Ace Chicago sax man Greg Ward celebrates his Rogue Parade

May 8, 2019 at 10:45 a.m.

When the irrepressibly creative Chicago saxophonist Greg Ward moved back here in 2015, after several years in New York, he knew what he was looking for. Or, to put it...

"Whenever you go on tour to a place that's not home, one's desire is always to bring something to the public, to express something that touches them in a specific way," says Robert Chen, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster.

CSO road trip: Concertmaster Robert Chen and friends are heading to Asia

May 8, 2019 at 10:45 a.m.

When Chicago Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Robert Chen played his hometown – Taipei, Taiwan – in 2013, the stakes were rather high. Music director Riccardo Muti abruptly had bowed out of...

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