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Tribute To F-R-E-D
It’s a hot summer evening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Inside, patrons enjoy a new exhibit featuring the work of Alexander Calder. Outside, on the museum’s terrace, it’s Tuesday, so that means a packed house to hear live jazz. More…
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Dizzy Gillespie
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie emerged in the middle 1940s as essentially the last in a series of symbolic progressions of virtuosity in jazz that culminated in the consolidation of bebop.
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Tenor saxophonist Kevin Nabors pays tribute to the late Fred Anderson with bassist Junius Paul and drummer Isaiah Spencer. (Photo: Frank Alkyer)