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Jazz musician Charlie Parker poses for a portrait in the studio in 1945 in New York.

Charlie Parker at 100: Like Mozart, he transformed an art form and his music has never stopped

August 10, 2020 at 2:06 p.m.

There may not be many causes for celebration these days, but surely one is this year's Charlie Parker centennial. In his too short, too fast, too hard, too brilliant 34...

Soprano Renee Fleming will lead a virtual concert from the Lyric Opera House.

Lyric Opera plans eclectic virtual concert for fall

August 4, 2020 at 10:39 a.m.

Soprano Renee Fleming will headline "For the Love of Lyric," a virtual concert from the Lyric Opera House stage at 6 p.m. Sept. 13. Fleming, Lyric's special projects adviser, will...

Saxophonist-clarinetist Eric Schneider, one of the busiest reedists in Chicago, plays the Green Mill this weekend.

The Jazz Showcase presses ahead with Charlie Parker Month

August 4, 2020 at 8:44 a.m.

Amid our coronavirus distress, it's comforting to know that at least some cultural traditions endure – such as the annual Charlie Parker Month festivities at the Jazz Showcase. The famous...

Saxophonist Sharel Cassity outside her home as she prepares for an important engagement at the Jazz Showcase.

Chicago saxophonist Sharel Cassity marks comeback from tough illness

August 13, 2020 at 5:39 p.m.

Sharel Cassity's engagement has been postponed to Aug. 20-23; the Jazz Showcase has closed until those dates "because of the curfew restrictions downtown," said owner Wayne Segal. If you listen...

Music of Baroque announces revamped 50th season

August 2, 2020 at 8:05 p.m.

Music of the Baroque has reconfigured its 50th anniversary season to begin in January 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the original programs will be preserved. Two large...

Saxophonist Blue Lou Marini celebrates 40th anniversary of ‘The Blues Brothers’

July 28, 2020 at 3:00 a.m.

It's one of the most thrilling musical scenes in a film packed with them: Aretha Franklin sings and struts around her tiny Maxwell Street diner, imploring her musician boyfriend to...

Owner Mike Reed at his club Constellation Monday, May 4, 2020, in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

Constellation returns with online music – live concerts coming soon

July 30, 2020 at 10:58 a.m.

For anyone who values innovative jazz and other forms of creative improvised music, mark July 31 on your calendars. That's when Constellation will get back into the business of presenting...

Virtual concerts: CSO and Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center excel online

July 27, 2020 at 3:03 p.m.

Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra took to cyberspace over the weekend, to mostly vivid effect. Though watching an online presentation cannot compete with witnessing an opulent...

A combination photo of a pedestrian walks by Symphony Hall, Art Institute lion and Sue the T. Rex skeleton at the Field Museum.

As the Art Institute, CSO, others work to find a way through the financial struggle, their locked away piggy banks remain mostly off limits

July 23, 2020 at 3:23 p.m.

As cultural organizations across the city have laid off workers and otherwise tightened their belts in anticipation of dismal revenues at least through 2020 and likely beyond, a question keeps...

Saxophonist Greg Ward will plays the Water Colors jazz series at Navy Pier this weekend.

Water Colors series brings live jazz back to Navy Pier

July 21, 2020 at 12:08 p.m.

By any measure, it's one of the city's most visually alluring spots for hearing music. As the musicians play on the bandstand, boats glide slowly behind them, suggesting a tableau...

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