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Cecilia String Quartet engagingly launches NU fest
Northwestern University's welcome Winter Chamber Music Festival began Friday night at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall with a generous and at times...
Get the full story >>Trumpeter Tito Carrillo makes a powerful 'Opening Statement'
Friday was a big night for trumpeter Tito Carrillo.
Get the full story >>Elder, CSO bring insights to Berlioz, Byron and the Bard
Mark Elder's ability to connect with audiences on both musical and verbal levels, also his knack for enlivening outwardly standard symphonic...
Get the full story >>Trumpeter Bobby Lewis sweetly swings in the New Year
The art of Chicago trumpeter Bobby Lewis never grows old.
Get the full story >>Tiger Bones is small-time, happy — and done
In many ways, Tiger Bones is your archetypal, small-time, local rock band. It is four friends doing what they do just for fun, motivated...
Get the full story >>Tomorrow Never Knows: Baby band today, big band tomorrow
Taking advantage of the otherwise idle post-holiday season, the long-running Tomorrow Never Knows festival kicks off Wednesday and...
Get the full story >>Guitarist Eric Johnson actually makes music
There is an immense, veritable pig pile of reasons to love guitar wizard Eric Johnson. Tinnitus is but one.
Get the full story >>Mason kept Lyric Opera on even keel as economic storms raged
On Saturday night, Lyric Opera of Chicago will pay tribute to its former general director, William Mason, with a "subscriber appreciation...
Get the full story >>High hopes for Chicago jazz in 2012
In the spirit of the New Year – and with unfettered optimism – here's a round of resolutions for Chicago jazz:
Get the full story >>Swinging in the New Year with jazz
Jazz listeners will not lack for options as 2011 becomes 2012. Among the highlights:
Get the full story >>Winter jazz preview: Quick start to a lively season
Chicago's jazz season gets off to a brisk beginning:
Get the full story >>New Year's weekend full of music to get you moving, benefit others
The holidays are here, and you finally have a few days off. As tempting as it may be to fashion a yurt out of blankets in your living room...
Get the full story >>Big Head Todd feeling sentimental
For weeks last year, Todd Park Mohr rode on a bus with David "Honeyboy" Edwards and Hubert Sumlin, blues guitarists who had grown up in...
Get the full story >>Nachtmystium's black metal music demands to be heard
Do you believe in happenstance? How else to explain being on hold for more than 10 minutes, Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" blaring...
Get the full story >>Stoking Chicago jazz, behind the scenes
Chances are you've never heard of Alyce Claerbaut.
Get the full story >>What 2011 in rock teaches us about the future
The year has brought music-lovers some fascinating shifts in what they listen to — and how — and also set off some flares...
Get the full story >>Roy Hargrove hits hard at the Jazz Showcase
Trumpeter Roy Hargrove's end-of-year residency at the Jazz Showcase has become something of a tradition in Chicago, with a turn-away...
Get the full story >>Black Joe Lewis isn't doing soul revival thing
The members may be the spiritual descendants of James Brown, but Austin, Texas-based garage funk band Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears...
Get the full story >>Is this the twilight of blues music?
They buried Hubert Sumlin two weeks ago at Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery in Homewood, laying to rest the man whose ferocious guitar...
Get the full story >>MCA interactive sound garden illuminates Andrew Bird's music
Andrew Bird is no stranger to experimentation. Wednesday, the local multi-instrumentalist/vocalist embarked on one of his boldest projects...
Get the full story >>Classical: Mark George Building a model for nation's community music schools
Mark George's passion for music, not to mention his unshakeable belief in the power of music to sustain and nourish the human spirit, came...
Get the full story >>Decoding Christmas carol lyrics' history
We have a love/hate relationship with Christmas carols. By the time Thanksgiving has rolled past, the limp versions favored by malls and...
Get the full story >>Musical thrill-rides from different eras share exciting CSO program under Salonen's direction
The Christmas wreaths and other holiday decorations hung over the Orchestra Hall stage were just the trappings of festivity. The true...
Get the full story >>A prancing Morrissey plays leading man with style at Congress
Hollywood's leading men should consider themselves lucky Morrissey doesn't appear in films. Saturday at a sold-out Congress, playing a...
Get the full story >>Maurice Brown brings his new tunes back home to Chicago
During the past several years, former Chicagoan Maurice Brown has been building a reputation as a fast-rising young trumpeter.
Get the full story >>The best jazz shows of 2011
The year was rich in great jazz performances in Chicago.
Get the full story >>Flat Five take sunny trip down memory lane at the Hideout
As seasonal standards go, Trip Shakespeare's "Snow Days" isn't in most people's top 40, but for the Flat Five and their fans, the season...
Get the full story >>In Chicago recital debut, French pianist's brilliance sometimes held back
Like last week's Orchestra Hall debut of American pianist Jeremy Denk, that of French pianist David Fray was long in coming.
Get the full story >>MusicNow, Hubbard create exciting evening at Harris
Everything worked to excite at Monday night's MusicNOW concert, treating an especially large audience at the Harris Theater for Music and...
Get the full story >>An inspired Tori Amos plays up the drama at the Chicago Theatre
Tori Amos played the classics during her Chicago Theatre performance Saturday night: Franz Schubert and Stevie Nicks, The Cure and Felix...
Get the full story >>Old Town School rolls out historic song archive
The Old Town School of Folk Music has had a lot of legendary and influential artists pass through its doors during its 55 years, and many of...
Get the full story >>Joy Formidable returns with intensity intact
Hitting a city numerous times in one year could deplete a band's intensity, but The Joy Formidable were relatively no worse from wear at...
Get the full story >>At 86, Roy Haynes brings Fountain of Youth to Chicago
No wonder he calls it the Fountain of Youth band. The name surely refers not to the ages of its sidemen but the spirit of its leader, the...
Get the full story >>Guitarist Hubert Sumlin energized Howlin' Wolf's hits
When Howlin' Wolf romped through "Wang Dang Doodle" or thundered in "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy," the snarling guitar that accompanied...
Get the full story >>It's beginning to swing a lot like Christmas
It's a Christmas miracle: Holiday music that's actually worth hearing.
Get the full story >>An older, wiser Ryan Adams plays loose, heartfelt set
A kindler, gentler and happier version of the normally temperamental Ryan Adams emerged Sunday at a sold-out Cadillac Palace Theatre....
Get the full story >>CJO swings hard, but singer struggles
There's nothing quite like hearing a big band in small club, and few ensembles make the point as forcefully as the Chicago Jazz Orchestra.
Get the full story >>New Chicago Opera Theater chief Andreas Mitisek outlines bold vision
Chicago Opera Theater has turned to another European-bred impresario with similar tastes in repertory and production style to succeed...
Get the full story >>Strong singing in key roles lifts Lyric's well-worn 'Magic Flute'
Chicago ballet troupes have their dancing sugarplums, choral groups have their "Hallelujah" choruses. Lyric Opera has its "Magic Flute."
Get the full story >>Saxophonist Benny Golson warms up the night
Saxophonist Benny Golson commands an honored place in jazz history, due largely to his deep well of admired compositions.
Get the full story >>Nick Lowe interview: Pop music for grown-ups
As a singer, songwriter and producer, Nick Lowe was one of the key figures in the rise of the pub-rock, punk and new-wave scenes in the U.K....
Get the full story >>Remembering Ella: Three top singers pay homage to Fitzgerald
Fifteen years after her death, Ella Fitzgerald still towers over the art of jazz singing. No one has yet matched the brilliance of her...
Get the full story >>Drawn to holiday music's golden age
We all have our holiday traditions and almost all are accompanied by music.
Get the full story >>Thomas, CSO bring ebullient spirit to Austro-German novelties
This is the season when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony get cozy.
Get the full story >>From bananas to bandannas, Joe's now Nashville North
As you peer at the likes of Martina McBride or Eric Church on the stage in the bar's warehouselike back room, you realize it is entirely too...
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