Chicago Jazz Festival

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The Chicago Jazz Festival is a year the week before and on Labor Day -Weekend (first Monday in September) in Chicago Jazz every festival. It mainly took place at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park in downtown Chicago until 2013 .

Chicago Jazz Festival 2007

The concerts in the park are free and many listeners have a picnic (alcohol, tents, pets and barbecues are forbidden). However, there are other venues in the city (such as the Chicago Cultural Center ), and in 2013 it is slated to move entirely to Millennium Park (main stage Pritzker Pavilion). The city organizers ( Mayor's Office of Special Events ) work closely with the Jazz Institute of Chicago .

The festival was created in 1979 from the amalgamation of three previous jazz festivals on the initiative of the city of Chicago. There was once the tribute concert for Duke Ellington , which took place shortly after his death in 1974, the tribute concert for John Coltrane , which attracted 30,000 spectators to the park in 1978, and the festival planned by the Jazz Institute of Chicago in 1979 for the end of August. Accordingly, tributes to jazz musicians will continue to take place at the festival.

The festival is broadcast nationwide on radio and highlights are broadcast on television.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the festival was banned by the city of Chicago in 2020.

In addition to local musicians from Chicago, international stars also perform. Here played among other Miles Davis , Benny Carter , Ella Fitzgerald , Anthony Braxton , Betty Carter , Lionel Hampton , Chico O'Farrill , Jimmy Dawkins , Von Freeman , Johnny Frigo , Slide Hampton , Roy Haynes , Sarah Vaughan , Carmen McRae , BB King , Count Basie , Sun Ra , Stan Getz , Jimmy Smith , Dexter Gordon , Dizzy Gillespie , Kenny Burrell, and Ornette Coleman . In 2013 Hamid Drake is artist in residence at the festival.

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Web links

Commons : Chicago Jazz Festival  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Alicia Lee, Lollapalooza and other big summer events canceled in Chicago due to , CNN of June 9, 2020.
  2. ^ Veteran percussionist Hamid Drake's Plans for the Chicago Jazz Festival
  3. Pictures 2008