Jazz & Blues Lounge

Yes, this is just an easy way to get out of writing another long and involved blog article.  However, tonight, I am turning things over to you.  Tonight, I am really tired, sitting here staring at a blank blog entry and wondering what the folks who stop by this blog are listening to right now.  What jazz or blues music is on your iPod or frequenting the CD player in your car or at home?
So, I am turning this blog over to you.  Some of you will have to wait for your comments to get approved, but I promise to …read more

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I don’t have too much to talk about tonight.  I just wanted to take a brief moment to thank, again, the people who read this blog and have taken the time to comment.  Without Chip making regular comments, well, I don’t think this blog would be half as interesting as I hope it is.
I have a vision for this blog.  I imagine it being a place where those who love jazz and blues (but mostly jazz, as you may have noticed) can come and find out what’s going on in the music world that we all enjoy.  But I do …read more

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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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