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Chicago Live Jazz Music (December 3 - December 10, 2010) Schedule

December 7, 2010

Here is what's happening with the live music Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates December 3rd thru December 10th, 2010... (photo of Chicago Jazz Vocalist Solitaire Miles by: Jennifer Girard) Andy's Jazz Club 11 East Hubbard St. Chicago, IL 60611 312.642.6805 ANDY'S WEEKENDS FRIDAY & SATURDAY HEADLINERS! $10 Admission until 8:30 pm; $15 Admission after 8:30 ...

One Track Mind: Bob Dylan, "Not Dark yet" (1997)

December 7, 2010

By Nick DeRiso For me, “Not Dark Yet" is the best thing Bob Dylan has done in ages, this perfect enigma from a guy who's made a career of such sleights of hand. An edgy post-modern lament downshifted into quiet Civil War balladry, “Not Dark Yet," remains a riddle—and maybe that's the very definition of good ...

Why People Aren't Coming to Your Shows

December 7, 2010

There are several factors that may influence a poor turn out to your performances. It may be a wide range of happenings, or it may “only take ONE ... to keep you from packing the house." In the latest issue of Indie Connect Magazine, there's an article by founder and CEO Vinny Ribas called “50 Reasons ...

Interview II: Mario Pavone

December 7, 2010

Last week, Ars Nova Workshop shared the first half of our conversation with Mario Pavone, who will be in Philadelphia on December 12 with Orange Double Tenor. For the second part of our interview, we asked Mario to tell us more about the suite his sextet will perform, Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po. Here’s what he had ...

Leaksport: Why Your Music Just Ain't Safe Anymore...

December 7, 2010

The leak used to be a one-dimensional concept. You finished your music, and then it leaked ahead of street date. And everyone was stressing out. Then, things got really complicated. Not only were songs leaking, they also started leaking half-baked. Unfinished, raw, released by nefarious insiders. And totally and completely against the wishes of the artist. ...

Brubeck at 90--It's Time In

December 8, 2010

Like many jazz fans who are now of a certain age, I cut my music teeth early on listening to Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck. Peterson's gone but Brubeck seems indefatigable. Today is his 90th birthday. And tonight, he'll celebrate with family by watching a new Bruce Ricker/Clint Eastwood documentary, Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet ...

Peter Martin to Play Solo Concert Thursday, February 10 at the Sheldon

December 8, 2010

Did Folk Music Kill Jazz?

December 8, 2010

Over the past few weeks, jazz writers and researchers once again have been burning up the web with a Hatfield v. McCoy perennial: Is jazz dead or dying? Those who argue that jazz is on the ropes point out that album sales and audience knowledge and interest have been steadily declining. They also point out that ...

Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology

December 8, 2010

INCLUDES 111 TRACKS, 200 PAGE BOOK OF ESSAYS, TRACK ANNOTATIONS AND HISTORICAL PHOTOS Seven years in the making, JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology will be released by Smithsonian Folkways on March 29, 2011. The six-CD box set traces the turning points of this 20th-century tale through its legendary innovators and exemplary exponents: Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Parker, Gillespie, ...

Jambase Questionnaire: Brian Haas

December 8, 2010

Welcome back to JamBase's baker's dozen to the bright lights of the music world. Last time we heard from The New Up. Odysseys are a tricky business. By nature, they are circuitous and fraught with sirens calling one towards the rocks and angry, jealous gods tossing stones in one's pathway. The long, winding road of Jacob ...