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Pianist Vijay Iyer, shown playing with his sextet in May at the Logan Center, will perform with Wadada Leo Smith in a CSO MusicNOW concert Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, at the Harris Theater.

Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith: ‘Cosmic’ collaboration

May 8, 2019 at 10:40 a.m.

Vijay Iyer, a restlessly inventive pianist and MacArthur Fellow, never will forget first encountering the art of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, an early member of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement...

Nine Chicago arts groups receive MacArthur grants

May 8, 2019 at 10:40 a.m.

Nine Chicago cultural organizations will receive $50,000 each from the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation via its International Connections Fund. The grants will allow the Chicago institutions...

Scott Stegman on building Winter's Jazz Club: "I'm proud that we've done it."

How Winter’s Jazz Club survived its first year

May 8, 2019 at 10:39 a.m.

For fully a decade, Scott Stegman fantasized about opening his own jazz club. Judging by what aspiring impresarios have told me through the years, that’s a dream many hold but...

Bassist Matt Ulery leads his big band Loom Large at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Nov. 3, 2017.

Matt Ulery’s Loom Large flexes its muscles

May 8, 2019 at 10:40 a.m.

Bassist-bandleader Matt Ulery stands as a distinctive voice in Chicago jazz, and he proved it again Friday night on an epic scale, leading his big band Loom Large. Imagine the...

Lizz Wright sang music from her new album, "Grace," on Wednesday night at City Winery.

The radiant sounds of singer Lizz Wright

May 8, 2019 at 10:39 a.m.

Fifteen years ago, an emerging singer from Georgia stepped onto the stage of Orchestra Hall in Symphony Center and caught many listeners by surprise. Though the evening featured no less...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Jason Adasiewicz creates a glistening film score

May 8, 2019 at 10:39 a.m.

Typically, movie directors film their story, then bring in a composer to craft the music. But Chicagoan Rob Christopher has flipped the order, enlisting Chicago vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz to create...

Muhal Richard Abrams leads the Experimental Band from the piano at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2015.

Muhal Richard Abrams, jazz champion and innovator, dies at 87

December 17, 2018 at 11:38 a.m.

In 1965, Chicago pianist Muhal Richard Abrams and colleagues formed an organization that would change the course of jazz and much more. The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians...

The mystical allure of the duo Wayfaring

May 8, 2019 at 10:39 a.m.

One of the most austerely beautiful recordings of the year sounds very much like a balm for troubled times. Not that Chicago bassist-vocalist Katie Ernst and former Chicago woodwinds master...

Dave Liebman ignites a storm of sound at Green Mill

May 8, 2019 at 10:39 a.m.

The torrents of sound that shook the Green Mill Jazz Club on Friday night could have issued from the horn of only one man: Dave Liebman. For though other jazz...

Trumpeter Tom Harrell, shown at the Jazz Showcase in 2012: Supremely elegant playing.

The ultra-elegant art of trumpeter Tom Harrell

May 8, 2019 at 10:39 a.m.

The consistently elegant music that trumpeter Tom Harrell played Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase summed up why listeners revere his work. For regardless of tempo, texture or tone, Harrell...

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