Jazz & Blues Lounge

The Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program is a collaboration between the Chicago Park District and the Jazz Institute of Chicago.  This collaboration began in 1997 and continues through this day.  The series of summer concerts the program puts together is known as “

Jazz
City.”  This year
Jazz
City is putting on the Latin Jazz Festival at the

Humboldt
Park open-air Boathouse.
 
This puts the festival right in the heart of
Chicago’s Puerto Rican community. Three bands will be taking the stage and they are: Richie Pillot’s
Havana, Conjunto and Evolution Trio.  Each of them performs a form of Latin Jazz, with slight variations.
 
The festival will start …read more

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WBEZ, the public radio station in
Chicago, and one of  the last of the major broadcasting stations with jazz content, has bowed to the pressure of the internet and iPod and ceased its jazz broadcasting.  The station used to broadcast jazz in the evening and overnight hours during the week and into the weekend.  The station has now moved to a 24-hour news and public affairs format.
 
Many loyal listeners have been very disappointed with this decision by the public broadcasting outlet.  Some have expressed dismay and concern that they have been “abandoned.”
 
The list of classic jazz stations in the
Chicago …read more

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