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Kitt Lyles – Bassist, Composer, Arranger, Educator & Bandleader A graduate of Northwestern University (BM Jazz Studies, 2013), Kitt Lyles is an active performer, composer and educator in the Chicago jazz community. His performing career has brought him to play renowned jazz clubs around North America, Latin America and Asia, as well as major festivals such as the Chicago Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL), Festival Espontáneo (Chiapas, MX) and the Billy Strayhorn Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL). In 2015, Lyles released his debut album, “Real Talk”, featuring all original compositions; “it’s success rests as much on his skills as a writer as his serving as a beacon for the sextet's able rhythm section…his colourful themes… are by and large bright and engaging” (Jack Bowers, All About Jazz)

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Joyful Foundation

By Roy McGrath

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ride; Probability; Fleeting Magic; Fue Nuestro; Joyful Foundation; Several Clear Moments; Remembrance; Valley of 1000 Devils.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Entre Amigos Pays Homage To Two Contemporary Composers on Magpie and Joyful Foundation

by Hrayr Attarian
August 3, 2026

The Chicago-based Entre Amigos is a dynamic collaborative quartet that performs refreshingly original music of contemporary artists. After their eponymous debut, which showcased the members' works, the ensemble released two albums, each spotlighting an inventive trumpeter's compositions. The 2025 Magpie consists entirely of pieces penned by Chicagoan Joe Clark. In comparison, the 2026 Joyful Foundation is ...

Article: Album Review

Entre Amigos: Joyful Foundation

Read "Joyful Foundation" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 15, 2026

Joyful Foundation is a near-perfect name for the third album by Entre Amigos, wherein the Chicago-based quartet welcomes aboard one of the jazz world's rising stars, trumpeter Justin Copeland, to play--naturally--The Music of Justin Copeland on an album whose upbeat posture and sunny disposition help make it utterly charming and highly listenable. There is, ...

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Above, Beyond, Within

By Juanjo López

Label: Desafio Candente
Released: 2025
Track listing: Grace (Above); Retorno (Above; Retreat (Beyond); Inner Realm (Beyond); Dwell (Within); La Nueva JerusaléN (Within).

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Magpie: The Music of Joe Clark

By "Jazz Entre Amigos" Cuarteto

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Bernard; Magpie; The Parliament; Heaven On Seven; Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker; Potato.

Article: Album Review

Juanjo López: Above, Beyond, Within

Read "Above, Beyond, Within" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
August 24, 2025

In our troubling national moment of intensified nativism and ethnic fearmongering, it can be edifying to encounter the stories of people whose lives are directly affected by the current climate. One of them is Juanjo López, a guitarist now well-established in the Chicago scene but who came years ago to the United States with his family ...

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Live in Chicago

By Gustavo Cortiñas

Label: Desafio Candente Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Disc 1: Overture; Hanaki; Wish I Could Be There Now; La Balada del León; Arete. Disc 2: Dialectics of Freedom; Timing Is Everything; The Man of Flesh and Bone; La Ruta de Regreso a Guinea está en el Arcoiris; Pax Britannica.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Naylor, Funnell, Stryker, Eaton And More

by Bob Osborne
December 19, 2024

This time we have a mixed bag of new releases features a variety of line-ups and includes some newly discovered live music from Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, and Henry Grimes. In this playlist there is jazz in the conventional sense alongside some fascinating new approaches to the music.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Patrick ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 2, 2024

This broadcast includes Grammy nominations, new releases from the Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser plus a single from säje, with birthday shoutouts to Michelle Ann May and Jazz Master Sheila Jordan. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to ...