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Ensemble delivers more than sum of Austin's vocals
Tribune criticPatti Austin was the star, but the band made the music. Everything the Chicago Jazz Ensemble played Friday night at the Harris Theater—including its accompaniments to Austin's overwrought singing—outshone the featured guest. By far. The... -
Saving the Jazz Fest
If you love the Chicago Jazz Festival, the news that City Hall plans to shorten the event to three days from four might seem unfortunate. But if you consider the fest a dubiously produced, semipro affair sorely in need of reinvention—as I do—...Tags: Popular Music, Budgets and Budgeting, Music, Sonny Rollins, Lincoln Center
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Live: B.B. King and Bono at the Kodak Theatre
Invite Bono and the Edge to a night celebrating B.B. King, and odds are pretty good there will be some "Rattle and Hum" in the air.
Lucky music fans who attended the Thelonious Monk Institute's annual benefit show at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday watched...Tags: Thelonious Monk, Popular Music, Joe Louis, Bono, Awards and Prizes
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Praise for the Chicago Jazz Festival
The 30th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival, programmed by the Jazz Institute of Chicago, presented the two greatest living jazz saxophonists (Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman), four premieres of newly commissioned compositions and appearances by such major...Tags: Sonny Rollins, Chicago Jazz Fest, Millennium Park, Ornette Coleman, Festive Event
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A SAMPLING OF FESTIVALS
29TH ANNUAL MONTREAL JAZZ FESTIVAL Through July 6: Leonard Cohen, Woody Allen, James Taylor, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Aretha Franklin, Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke and more over 10 outdoor stages and 10 concert halls in...Tags: Chuck Berry, Music, Texas, Wyoming, Wilco
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Music festivals take on the role of destinations
Special to the Chicago TribuneUntil recently, outdoor rock festivals have been associated with mud: muddied bodies, muddied sound systems and muddied minds, soft from baking under a blazing sun for four days in a row. That was then. Today, destination festivals define the summer...Tags: Paul Simon, Music, Jack Johnson, AEG AG, Glenn Miller
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Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl
Special to The TimesMusic at the Playboy Jazz Festival always has been inextricably connected to the sun, the wine and the partying, and this year was no exception. But what was particularly interesting about the 30th anniversary event at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday and...Tags: New York, Music, Bill Cosby, Music Industry, Moody's Corporation
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Amy. Kanye. Herbie?
Tribune critic"Unbelievable," said presenter Quincy Jones. No kidding. On a night dominated by a bicontinental catfight between two drama queens, Kanye West and Amy Winehouse, it was a veteran jazz artist who stole the show Sunday at the nationally televised 50th...Tags: Beyonce, Chris Brown, Ike Turner, Chicago Sun-Times, Music
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Upcoming events
ONGOING AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS EXHIBIT // The exhibit "The Afro-American Newspapers: Celebrating 115 Years of Breaking News, Capturing History, Preserving Legacy" runs through Feb. 29 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library, 400 Cathedral St....Tags: History, Music, Spike Lee, Morgan State University, Movies
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Fall Arts Preview: Pop music calendar
Critic's Picks
Bob Dylan (Nov. 13 at Nassau Coliseum, Nov. 16 at Continental Airlines Arena). Dylan's Never Ending Tour gets an injection of new material this fall as more of Dylan's impressive new "Modern Times" (Columbia) album comes into his set of...Tags: Music Theater, Freddy Cole, Central Park, Nokia Theater, Glenn Miller
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THE BEST OF 2005 MUSIC
STAFF WRITER; Rafer Guzman; Gene SeymourFrom Mariah Carey (sizzling again) to 50 Cent (cooling off), it's a what've-you-done-lately pop world. Few things are more fickle than the here-today, gone-by-lunch life cycles of the music industry's seasonal pop and hip-hop stars. Yet, in 2005, the...Tags: Crimes, Sonny Rollins, Drug Trafficking, Billie Holiday, Jazz Music
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List of Grammy Award nominees
Baltimoresun.com StaffComplete list of nominees in 108 categories announced Thursday for the 48th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles: 1. Record of the Year "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey "Feel Good Inc.," Gorillaz featuring De La Soul "Boulevard...Tags: Beyonce, Sarah McLachlan, Music Theater, Mos Def, Amy Grant
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