I have a brother. That’s not all I came here to tell you about today, but he and his lovely family live in Milwaukee. Milwaukee is a great town despite being in Wisconsin (relax Wisconsiners, I am in Illinois, we cannot resist picking on you). It is just close enough to Chicago […]
Its another freezing cold day here in Chicago and the entire city is waiting to awaken encased in ice by tomorrow morning. That means it was tough to drag my sorry flabby behind to the computer to write tonight. You know what that means, right? Yes, it means taking the easy way out and going […]
For all of you who are not in Chicago, I apologize. I love this town. You really should visit. If you happen to love jazz, then you really need to visit. There is an entire vacation you can have all related to jazz if you come up here, I am quite sure. You just have […]
It has been a while since I wrote about things going on in the Chicago area as far as jazz is concerned. Thankfully, there is a cool radio station in town that has a bunch of jazz events listed and scheduled. In case you haven’t seen any of my previous posts about this, you should […]
I was planning on writing another article about another classic jazz artist, but I have had a bunch of things come up, so I need to write about something else instead. So, as such, I am going to tell you about a local jazz concert by a famous jazz person and that is all for […]
The tough bloggers just steal stuff from other websites. OK, I am actually starting a new job today. However, I still feel dedicated enough to want to keep posting about the exciting jazz and blues activities here in Chicago. What is a person to do?
Well, thankfully, we have radio station WDCB which does jazz here […]
I thought I would close out my week dedicated to jazz events in and around Chicago with a quick list of some of the events at some of the key places around town. Needless to say, this is but a small sampling. There are so many places if you include the suburbs, a complete list […]
In the city of Chicago, your broadcasting options for good jazz is very limited. The NPR station, WBEZ, that used to broadcast classic jazz during the overnight hours, has since closed up shop.
There is WNUA, which is a Smooth Jazz station. However, I have never been as big a fan of Smooth Jazz as I […]
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