Jazz & Blues Lounge

Well, it is now time for the various jazz festivals and other music festivals to start popping up around the Chicago area.  The great thing about Chicago is that there are jazz festival everywhere.  Not everyone wants to get downtown or even knows how to get downtown.  Paying to park down there is a lot of money and can be a huge pain the butt.  Thanks to WDCB I now know about at least one festival for your folks in the far-western suburbs.
JAZZ FEST OF GLEN ELLYN
When:  Saturday, July 12; 3 to 9 p.m.
How much:  This one is free, folks…gotta …read more

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Just doing some surfing around this thing they call the World Wide Web and I found a couple of websites about jazz that I thought I would share with you.  The strange thing is, well, that they are a bit strange.  The first one is “Classic Jazz Stories” which is written and maintained by a guy named Jim Cullum, Jr. 
It is here that you can find the following tales:

Jack Teagarden, The Flood, and The Riverwalk

How the Bullet Hole Got In The Landing Bar

The Jazz Disease

The Saga of the Bass Saxophone

O’Neil Ford, San Antonio Architect

Earliest Memories and the Hollywood Club

Jim …read more

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There’s nothing like listening to and finding the up and coming talents in an area of music.  I remember attending concerts during my senior year at Webster University and hearing some great musicians playing their hearts out for their senior recitals and performances.  You just knew these people were going to go places, and were playing because they loved the music.
Well, Chicago is a great city to come across some great talent too.  There are a lot of colleges and schools in the area and they have lots of up and comers.  Thanks to WDCB radio for keeping me in …read more

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Well, I guess with the problems trying to get back to Chicago this week coupled with the issues the server was having with the various b5media blogs, I kind of missed a key performer in my chosen beat here in Chicago.  That would be, of course, the legendary B. B. King who is playing tonight in the northern suburb of Waukegan at the relatively new Genesee Theater.
Sadly, had I been more aware of this, I could have warned you well ahead of time and you might have been able to get tickets and great seats.  As of right now, though, …read more

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