Howard Reich

Winter's Jazz Club owner Scott Stegman is hoping to reopen the room in spring.

Winter’s Jazz Club owner hopes to reopen in spring as he recovers from health problems

September 28, 2020 at 2:45 p.m.

On the evening of March 13, Winter's Jazz Club owner Scott Stegman stepped onstage to announce what he hoped would be a brief pause. "We thank you for being with...

Review: Hyde Park Jazz Festival makes a mighty impact online

September 27, 2020 at 4:09 p.m.

No, it wasn't quite the same as spending a day running around Hyde Park catching jazz sets in concert halls, courtyards, churches and whatnot. But the folks who stage the...

Kedrick Armstrong looks up after conducting the Adrian Dunn Singers and members of the Chicago Sinfonietta in a performance of "Seven Last Words of the Unarmed" during the MLK Tribute Concert at the Chicago Symphony Center on Jan. 20, 2020.

How the Chicago Sinfonietta put inclusion in its DNA

September 25, 2020 at 8:00 a.m.

Major American orchestras – which are among the country's most tradition-bound and least diverse cultural institutions – are wrestling with how to catch up to the current moment. How to...

Lyric Opera announces conductor Enrique Mazzola as new music director, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019.

A drive-through opera among Lyric Opera’s next offerings

September 24, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.

A drive-through opera, online master classes and a virtual concert will be among Lyric Opera's upcoming presentations, tailored to the pandemic era. The most ambitious will be "Twilight: Gods," which...

Ira Sullivan, shown in 2012, re-establishes his Chicago roots each year in late summer to take up residence for two weeks at the Jazz Showcase.

Chicago jazz great Ira Sullivan dies at 89

September 23, 2020 at 8:32 p.m.

Sometimes it seemed as if Ira Sullivan could play anything that had a mouthpiece. Tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, trumpet, fluegelhorn, flute, alto flute – the man applied his comprehensive virtuosity...

Kate Dumbleton, executive director of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble.

Hyde Park Jazz Festival reinvents itself amid pandemic

September 21, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

Normally at this time of year, music lovers would be getting ready to flock to dozens of performances – indoors and out – at the 14th annual Hyde Park Jazz...

Chicago Opera Theater review: ‘Jane Doe’ a virtual success with an intense story of ambition

September 16, 2020 at 2:25 p.m.

Until Tuesday evening, Chicago Opera Theater never had staged a digital opera. But extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, so the company presented a virtual concert reading of composer Stacy...

Chicago singer Tammy McCann has curated the Cabin Fever Jazz Series at the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Live jazz: Major events on the South Side of Chicago

September 15, 2020 at 9:08 p.m.

Even amid the pandemic, live jazz is back on the South Side, albeit in limited form. Perhaps because jazz musicians are adept at improvising, two of Chicago's leading musicians have...

Lyric Opera review: ‘For the Love of Lyric,’ with Renee Fleming and more, celebrates singing, virtually

September 13, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

The music world long ago established walls separating opera and pop, musicals and art songs, hymns and blues and every other genre imaginable. Thankfully, many of those barriers have been...

Vibraphonist Thaddeus Tukes will be among the performers at this year's Hyde Park Jazz Festival.

Fall preview: The jazz beat goes on – streaming and in-person

September 11, 2020 at 1:18 p.m.

Jazz will be onstage and on our screens this fall. Among the highlights: Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sept. 26-27. This year's event will be a mix of streamed and pop-up...

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