Howard Reich

Here are the most promising jazz performances of the coming season: Miguel Zenon and Spektral Quartet. Puerto Rican saxophonist and MacArthur Fellow Zenon celebrates the release of “Yo Soy La...

When composer and University of Chicago professor Augusta Read Thomas launched the well-titled Ear Taxi Festival here, in 2016, she appeared to have reached a personal high point. For during...

A busy season ahead in classical music. Among the highlights: “Considering Matthew Shepard.” Composer-conductor Craig Hella Johnson directs Conspirare and Windy City Performing Arts in the Chicago-area premiere of Johnson’s...

The Labor Day weekend just ended, but the fall season has wasted no time getting started. Among the musical highlights of this weekend: Orbert Davis Quintet. Because Chicago trumpeter Davis...

Tony Bennett turned 92 last month, so when he takes the stage of the Ravinia Festival on Saturday evening, he’ll be breaking a lot of records. Oldest jazz vocalist still...

The 40th annual Chicago Jazz Festival reaches its finale this weekend with performances at the Pritzker Pavilion and adjacent stages in Millennium Park, at Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue. Following...

Unless you’ve been paying very close attention, you may not have noticed that a formidable jazz pianist moved to the Chicago area last year. Richard D. Johnson — who early...

In April, jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis left his Chicago home to play a concert in St. Louis and figured he’d reached the breaking point. After more than half a century...

At last, the Chicago Jazz Festival is stretching out. For the first time in four decades, an event that has been sequestered downtown will push out into the South and...

The Chicago Jazz Festival stretches out this year, in more ways than one. For starters, several free shows — underwritten by the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...