Howard Reich

The Grant Park Music Festival will stretch out this summer with a range of innovative offerings, including master classes and recitals, four commissioned world premieres and experimentation with the Pritzker...

When an overflow audience is thick with musicians, you know something significant is about to commence. “This guy hasn’t been here since 1979,” Green Mill owner Dave Jemilo told the...

If the trumpet stands as a symbol of New Orleans jazz — thanks partly to the larger-than-life persona of Louis Armstrong — there’s little doubt as to which instrument signifies...

The most intriguing events in classical music this winter: Thomas Hampson with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Hampson, one of the more regal and charismatic baritones of our time, will dig...

The most promising jazz events of the winter season: Alyssa Allgood. When Allgood played her first extended run at the Jazz Showcase, in summer of 2017, she made a lasting...

For several years, one of the greatest weeks in Chicago jazz would arrive at the end of the year, when trumpeter Roy Hargrove would take up residence at the Jazz...

For anyone who values Leonard Bernstein’s towering musical achievements, the Ravinia Festival was ground zero this summer. Massive concerts and intimate recitals, highbrow performances and chatty soirees all celebrated the...

He’s not a box-office star or a maker of hit recordings or a jazz celebrity (if there still is such a thing). But in 2018, saxophonist Ari Brown nobly upheld...

To gather the best classical concerts of 2018, I asked John von Rhein, the Tribune’s recently retired classical music critic, to excerpt reviews of five performances he covered through June....

The most memorable jazz performances of 2018: Amir ElSaffar, Orchestra Hall, Feb. 9. Musical languages intertwined when former Chicago trumpeter and bandleader ElSaffar led his Rivers of Sound Orchestra in...