The Hyde Park Jazz Festival may be the newest addition to an excellent list of Chicago music festivals, but in a neighborhood once famous for its jazz and blues, this event’s roots go back further ...

For jazz musician Chieli Minucci, Special EFX All-Stars is simply his next musical act in an already impressive career. The group, made up of Minucci and other elite musicians, will be performing ...

In bomb shelters, makeshift clubs, and even occasionally on the front lines, Ukrainian jazz artists are keeping the flame of the music alive. The story of jazz in Ukraine is long and winding, ...

Reedman Paul Cosentino knows his audience and has made a living bringing joy to thousands in the global swing and blues dancing community. As leader of the Boilermaker Jazz Band, Cosentino performs ...

Unlike many of their peers, you can’t listen to Intronaut and ignore the fact that they have one of the most original bass talents in the genre today. Joe Lester, the band’s bearded purveyor of pulse, ...

Da Capo Press, 448 pages, $27.50. In the early 1960s, Newport Jazz Festival promoter George Wein tried to become Duke Ellington’s manager. Ellington rebuffed him with trademark grace: Wein, he said, ...

Lucy’s 51 is a classic Toluca Lake spot, one still haunted by the gently jiving spirits of high times and late nights long since past. This room on Riverside Drive has a formidable history: Its ...