Howard Reich

A sizable chunk of jazz history left us last week, with the deaths of two irreplaceable nonagenarians: groundbreaking singer Jon Hendricks and pioneering record executive George Avakian. For each not...

More than two decades ago, singer Linda Eder made her Chicago debut before an inauspiciously tiny audience at Park West. After that spectacular 1994 performance, however, she didn’t play to...

Can the North Shore support a music room devoted to jazz, blues, country and other eclectic offerings? That question is being posed in Highwood, its historic dining scene on and...

No wonder the Auditorium Theatre was packed on Friday night. Several of Chicago’s best singers and a sumptuous jazz orchestra were paying tribute to two singers known worldwide by their...

This year’s centennials of jazz giants Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Ella Fitzgerald have been celebrated around the world. But one centenarian of legendary stature has been unjustly overlooked: Lena...

Pianist Vijay Iyer stands as a composer of many facets, and two of them were apparent Monday evening at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. Presented by the Chicago...

What could an American jazz vocalist and an Irish pop singer possibly have in common? Quite a bit in the case of Cassandra Wilson and Liam O Maonlai, both of...