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The Chicago Jazz Festival is an admission-free, four-day annual jazz festival in Chicago 's Millennium Park. It is run by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and programmed with the assistance of Jazz Institute of Chicago during Labor Day weekend, integrating international and local artists playing many forms of jazz music.
Sunset Cafe. Coordinates: 41.8309°N 87.6186°W. 1923 advertisement. The Sunset Cafe, also known as The Grand Terrace Cafe or simply Grand Terrace, [1] was a jazz club in Chicago, Illinois operating during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was one of the most important jazz clubs in America, especially during the period between 1917 and 1928 when ...
HotHouse (jazz club) The HotHouse is a cultural center last located in the South Loop, Chicago, United States, and known for its program of jazz and world music concerts and as a central meeting place for a variety of community groups. The club on Balbo Avenue closed in July 2007 and the current board organizes programming around the region ...
Joe Segal (April 24, 1926 – August 10, 2020) founded the Jazz Showcase in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois and was the club's owner until his death in 2020. Born April 24, 1926 in Philadelphia, he grew up listening to Louis Armstrong , Sidney Bechet and Fats Waller on the radio.
This is a timeline documenting jazz events in the year 2016.. Kamasi Washington performing at the 2016 Coachella event GoGo Penguin performing at a concert in Vienna, Austria Abdullah Ibrahim at the Oslo Jazzfestival Tord Gustavsen with Simin Tander 2016 at Cosmopolite, Oslo, Norway Tomasz Stanko 2016 at Cosmopolite, Oslo, Norway Allan Harris 2016 at Cosmopolite, Oslo, Norway Knut Reiersrud ...
Bob Koester. Robert Gregg Koester (October 30, 1932 – May 12, 2021) was an American record producer and businessman who was the founder and owner of Delmark Records, a jazz and blues independent record label. [1] He also operated the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, which he billed as the "World's Largest Jazz and Blues Specialty Store", [2] and ...
The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (English: Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts ...
Andy's Jazz Club. Coordinates: 41.8899°N 87.6274°W. Andy's Jazz Club, located several blocks north of the Chicago Loop, was founded as "Andy's 11 E. Lounge" in 1951 by Andy Rizzuto. A group of investors bought the property in 1975, changing its name to "Andy's". [1] The club is one of the city's most popular jazz venues.