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Bebop Over To Chicago's Jazz Fest on September 4
People grudgingly celebrate the end of summer when Labor Day comes around, but the Windy City says goodbye to the season with its annual Chicago Jazz Fest. The free 30-year-old fest, the city's longest-running lakefront music festival, swings into Grant Park Sept. 4 to 6, setting up three stages where you can see Chicago and international jazz players jam on their axes. And for the first time this year, one performance stage will be dedicated to the up-and-coming generations of jazz-heads in high school and college.
The three-day event has a considerable line-up of musicians. Among the headliners is bandleader Muhal Richard Abrams, who will lead a trio Sept. 4 at the Petrillo Music Shell and the Arthur Hoyle Orchestra on Sept. 6. Abrams, a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, was commissioned to create a composition for the fest.
His work, titled "Spiralview," will be dedicated to hometown boy President Barack Obama and feature three soloist sections. The first section showcases George Lewis playing trombone, the next section pairs Ari Brown on sax and Harrison Bankhead on bass in a duet, and the last has Roscoe Mitchell on the saxophone.
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New Orleans and Expedia Kick Off Summer with Jazz Fest
Nothing would make us happier right now than to shake out a picnic blanket under a hot sun and settle in for a weekend of funnel cakes and al fresco jazz. For anyone heading to New Orleans during the weekends of April 24-26 and April 30-May 3, this warm weather fantasy is about to become a reality during the Big Easy's Jazz Fest.
With single-day tickets from $40, the NO Jazz & Heritage Festival draws the most passionate fans (some who pony up from $850 for a VIP package) as well as worth-it headlining acts such as James Taylor, Bon Jovi, Neil Young, Etta James and Dave Matthews Band. Since we'd so much rather see the real Etta James than settle for Beyonce's impression of her, we'd happily choose the Jazz Fest as our kick-off concert of summer.
