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The Chicago Jazz Festival is an admission-free, four-day annual jazz festival in Chicago's Millennium Park.It is run by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and programmed with the assistance of Jazz Institute of Chicago during Labor Day weekend, integrating international and local artists playing many forms of jazz music.
Chicago jazz may refer to: Chicago Jazz (synchronized skating team), a junior-level synchronized skating team; Chicago jazz, Chicago-style Dixieland jazz; See also
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
Pages in category "Jazz musicians from Chicago" The following 131 pages are in this category, out of 131 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Joe Daley (July 30, 1918 – March 5, 1994) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and music teacher. Daley was part of the Chicago jazz scene for 40 years. Musicians who studied with Daley include Grammy winners David Sanborn and Paul Winter, Emmy winner James DiPasquale, Richard Corpolongo, Chuck Domanico, and John Kl
Jazz drummer Born in Chicago Kanye West: Jun 8, 1977: Rapper and producer Grew up in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago Verdine White: Jul 25, 1951: Bassist and Founding member for Earth Wind & Fire: Born in Chicago Pharez Whitted: Aug 26, 1960: Jazz trumpeter, composer, educator Wesley Willis: May 31, 1963: Aug 21, 2003: Singer born in ...
He was based in Chicago for most of the 1920s, and played with such jazz notables as Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, and Frank Teschemacher. He and Red McKenzie formed the Chicago Rhythm Kings in 1925. [3] While in Chicago, Condon and other white musicians would go to Lincoln Gardens to watch and learn from King Oliver and his band. [4]
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in the late 1960s. [1] The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and various forms of percussion.